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In my oppinion, this is one of the areas where Vexler is at his very best. He excels in this type of analysis and does help us to navigate this chalenging political environment and our own prejudice when making our own choices.
The perception of "a bureaucratically alienating discourse" really needs to be changed to a perception of a well informed discourse. Unless young voters are taught to identify and discuss root problems in a nuanced way, entailing stringently defined vocabulary, democracy will lose its very justification.
@@Prometheus-Unbound I considered suggesting a "Vlad's kitchen table channel", where Vlad could try to formulate his views without resorting to his usual vocabulary or just using philosophically alienating synonyms, which I think would be an impossible task. Economists have a vocabulary that is useful for discussing the economy, doctors have a medical vocabulary, statisticians have a useful vocabulary for describing several phenomena, such as immigration and health care outcomes. Acquainting young (future) voters with mainstream views from professionals on the likely workings and outcomes of proposed policies seems like an obvious task for educational systems and media. That would mean that teachers and editors get to define the vocabulary, but hopefully not in a vacuum.
I don't think it is possible to relegitimize bureaucratic discourse of policy. That way of talking about policy has never really worked in democracy in the sense that regular people probably never understood it and never used it to inform their voting actions. They have semi-rightfully gotten sick of it and will probably never accept it again. The solution I think may lie in the fact that constructive discourse about policy needs not necessarily be super technical or bureuacratic. Example: While the topic of tariffs and their effects is a complex one, it is not too difficult to explain in very short and understandable ways why they are bad for workers and the economy. You could just mention who they are actually paid by (domestic companies) and how they will lead to more inflation (by companies passing that cost onto the consumer).
This is the Habermasian view. Starting from the viewpoint that modern society progresses along a line of continual complexification and differentiation, in which specialists have to employ increasingly complicated concepts to understand this at the root level. The everyday person is essentially cut off from the expert’s discourse. But Habermas argues that the gap between specialists and everyday citizens can be bridged vis the ‘meaning’ institutions - arts, media, universities - which are like the cognitive glue linking the two worlds together and thus significantly reducing the friction between the two worlds (the world of experts and the world of common citizenry). It’s a kind of idealistic view that liberal society can reproduce a certain baseline commonality, an interpretive mapping making communication possible, even though the subject matters can be very difficult and dynamic and requiring of complex divisions of labor. But I would argue, this interpretive glue is precisely what has begun coming undone.
A wonderfully clear and engaging presentation today Vlad. I'm in the UK and I am uncomfortable with Badenoch. Today helped me define why. Best wishes to you.
The Kemi Badenoch being "the politician of the future" resonates a lot. In Germany, Europe's former powerhouse, now in the process of complete political, economical and social disintegration, we have with Sarah Wagenknecht a similar figure rising. I guess, we will see even more of these all over the continent and beyond. El Salvador's Bukele and Argentina's Milei might be worthwhile examples to study, even though both are more political (openly authoritarian) than the mostly self serving specimens in the old world.
Whenever I listen to this channel it’s never 5 minutes before I’m hit with a nutrition dense passage that I need to listen to again at least once, then repeat in another 5 mins or so😂
Thanks Vlad for the list of questions by which to assess the politician. It's really a useful tool for a comprehensive but critical view of what's on offer.
Thank you, Vlad, for this instructive and very useful analysis. I do hope, your health will stabilize soon. Please take good care of yourself. Lots of love to you and the Beautiful Community. 🤗
My only disagreement is that "hyper-identity politics" is not that different from its right-wing populist equivalent in terms of being fundamentally an affront to liberal/enlightenment/democratic values (i.e. post-truth), it's just that the Putin-Trump axis of this phenomenon is the more proximal concern right now. I guess, for me, post-truth-ism is *the* threat, which is why I respect this channel as much as I do. Great discourse
I strongly disagree. We wouldn't even have Trump if left wing racist anti-liberal hyper-identity politics hadn't broken out of pseudo Academia. The growth of the populist Right is people reacting to this affront to western liberalism (real liberalism, not the American misnomer). The vast bulk of those voting that way are not the "racist or white supremacists" the anti-liberal identitarians need to reassure themselves their opponents are. They are a loose coalition of conservatives, non-political, moderates, independents, libertarians, disaffected left leaning liberals, even old school class based socialists, who believe in the values of "colour blindness" and have not been remotely convinced that the CRT/DEI identitarian alternative is functionally, ethically or morally better.
Hello Vlad! Thanks for sharing your thoughts - something else for me to think through! Go easy dear chap - you’re still on your recovery journey. The ‘down’ times will get shorter & the gaps between will get longer a bit at a time. Keep smiling - you bring such joy to this old lady! Hugs & love xx 🎉
Looks can be deceiving, but when I see you in your regular video shirt, and in your regular video spot (albeit not sitting, but semi laying down as you say) I like to tell myself that your health has improved compared to past few weeks. I hope that that is actually the case. And wish you health.
Thx for presenting how you tend to think about categorizing right wing politicians. Certainly something I might take a piece of and integrate into my own thinking about politics.
Nice to hear a little about some politicians that I am not too familiar with on just don't know at all. I often wonder about your politics in the UK and I think I learned a bit. Thank you.
@@DJWESG1 And yet he's brought more attention to the plight and needs of farmers not just in the UK but around the world than anyone else has ever done. Using one's powers for good. That's heroic. Dismissing that as "just a BBC presenter"... well.. that's another sad human emotion entirely.
@ferrariguy8278 the plight of the farmers?? Austerity and Brexit voting farmers?? You Sir are an absolute disgrace to all that is reasonable. Half a million ppl were killed with austerity bub, all our lives made harder and more expensive due to austerity, and it all came from the Chiltern set, or rather from the mad minds of Tory landlords and land owners. Pls kindly do one.
I find Badenoch, my dads local MP, quite worrying. She is a really personable lady, and is/was good with constituents. It is the recklessness that worries as she is so untried. Also, for some reason, I keep waving at the TV screen at the end of each of your videos. I think the stress has finally got tto me! I hope you get stronger,, Vlad. Thank you for your words.
One of those days Vlad is telling us that "by a modern medicine miracle..." he is actually dead, but it looks like he is living, and now he is presenting us with another interesting topic... Vlad is full of surprises!
Vlad I get the suggestions of your main channel. I am just normally more interested in the casual talks than your academic musings, which I often find too abstract or I just don't appreciate.
I quite like that she pointed to John haidts excellent work in "the righteous mind" in a recent interview, saying it was a huge influence on her perspective on politics. It is indeed a great book imo.
Vlad, I’m hoping in the centrist politician video you look into the Teal movement in Australia. I have some hope that a teal style movement that propagates itself around the democratic world might just offer a steadying influence if it can be adapted to play a meaningful role in the different systems of democracy around the globe.
@@radicallyrethinkingrailwaysinaYeah, they’re not exactly centrist. More traditional conservative. The sort of ideology that the current right wing parties only use as a disguise. But I’d be more than happy with a genuine conservative in power. Badenoch or whassisname, Voldemort in Oz are definitely part of the problem. The other side may not be the solution but they’re mostly not making things worse.
As a Lib Dem member, I splutter with protest at the idea that we've given up on national politics. Focussing on target seats (mostly Tory "blue wall" seats in the south) we managed to get ten times more seats in Parliament than Reform got with a share ofnthr popular vote several percentage points higher than ours, ut we campaign nationally on national issues, not just the new rubbish incinerator being opened up near Acacia Avenue or a planning application for 200 new houses to be built somewhere the locals don't want them. The Tories remain the second largestkparty with ~120 seats, but its not /entirely/ delulu* to imagine scenarios where we become the official opposition. *sorry, I couldnt help myself. PS I've been out doing a spot of light doorstep canvassing activity lately (ahead of next May's local elections) and it reminded me what a great experience it is, and that I encourage anyone of any (sane) political persuasion to give it a go.
I already listened to that Vivek interview with Ezra Klein and I guess I was more or less doing what you prescribe here. I was surprised by how reasonable and intellectually consistent Vivek sounded in the interview. Everything else I've seen of him has been in service of destructive MAGA clownery and I once saw him talk to a christian MAGA person and he was making it sound like his strand of hinduism is basically Christianity and Jesus is god. I conclude he's a very smart, knowledgable and eminently adaptable self-serving political entrepreneur.
Vlad, so glad you are feeling better and able to give us your insights. I understand your pejorative language around Kemi, but calling Starmer 'decent' 'smart'? 'Legalistic' absolutely. Post budget I think people have woken up to how legalistically amoral, politically ineffective and hypocritical he is.
I worry about Badenoch's seeming incapability to moderate her tone and language. At its works it strays into stressing parliamentary procedure to breaking point. Not sure that's what is needed after the constitutional damage done under the recent past conservative government.
As much as i get depressed of politics here in the uk i feel worse for our friends across the pond in America. They’ve gotten into some real bad trouble unfortunately
@ unfortunately the maga politics are about neighbours hating each other and fear and ignorance to control the weary. I’m more of a centrist politically but even I can see that western democracy is being slowly undermined by all this division. It’s an unfortunate fact about democracy. All opinions are allowed, even misguided or outright false ones
That's so typical of Brits, make yourself feel better by thinking someone else has it worse. The irony is that America is a much healthier place than Europe in general.
I had completely clocked out of the Tory leadership race as my own feeling and thinking on them has been something like: 1. They are now publicly shamed from their last election defeat that no one is taking them seriously 2. They are amalgamating with the political sentiment that's fuelled Reform 3. As they are, they are an ineffective opposition (not based on much evidence, this one, I must admit). However, their position as the official Opposition may lead to situations where they can do some real damage and just like how Stammer helped shoot down any attempts at a good relationship with the EU post Brexit, they can do the same for some of the needed changes we require. But at the same time, with this sentiment that the Tories are done comes a possibility for them to workshop ideas that may work. No scrutiny, plenty of playtime. Now that they have a leader, however, they may actually reform into a new state that is yet again dangerous or effective. With how wibbly wobbly Stammer is, and how his power base is weak and his coalition within the internal Labour party looking like a combination of incompetence and Tory Lite... who is to say. I have a sense that Stammer will not last a full parliament, or that Labour will so discredit themselves that they will destroy the chances for any real change for a generation. There was a poll going around that suggested that British public judge the Tories on something like: "cheap prices, increasing house prices". But they judge Labour's success on something like: "extremely efficient public services". The floor for Labour is much higher than for the Tories, and I don't think they are in the space to reach the heights they need to be perceived as succesful. On the point about the Greens becoming a workshop. As a Green Party Member, I wholeheartedly agree. And one such workshop could potentially be Wales in the coming Senedd Election in 2026. Reform came second in a many seats in Wales, and the Tories have basically clocked out of national Welsh politics and exist solely as a culture war machine to keep Andrew RT Davies in post. We have a much more wide left in Plaid Cymru and the Greens, with Plaid doing very well ini Westminster Elections just past. The workshopping here is that often times Plaid and the Greens form coalitions (Common Ground in Cardiff Council Elections). Plaid has been effective in collaboration with Welsh Labour to form a front against the Conservative/UKIP sentiment, but will that remain after Vaughan Gethings's corruption? Can the Greens coming second in the Cardiff South and Penarth (Gething's seat) prove that the Green vote and space to push Labour further to radical transformation of society? Thank you, Vlad. Your words are nutritious to the mind and soul.
With regard to the Conservative party in the United Kingdom, they are neither right enough to satisfy that vocal proponent of their support base, nor centre enough to satisfy traditional proponents of conservative values. They have competition at each end of the spectrum - and that competition is more effective at talking to people whom the Conservative Party consider its support demographic. The current Conservative Party also lack any kind of unity or discipline and as such I think we will see the party undermining its new leader and vocal elements within it advocating for a new leadership contest in days rather than months or years resulting in the sense that this party is eating itself and be considered interesting for the internal drama but irrelevant as a voting option for anyone currently under the age of 55.
Populism is a game we play, a kind of theater, to engage people in politics that're intellectually not mature enough to accept that politics is complex and can't be fucked to live anywhere but in lalaland. In the 90s these voters would just complain amongst themselves and skip the ballot box, but move on with their lives. Today, they find strength in numbers online and are engaged in an endless discourse of conspiracy, self-victimisation and resentment, in which they are the heroes and the educated urban elite are the villains. I think you're right Vlad that this genie is hard to get back into the bottle. But I wonder if the permanent dumbing down of political discourse and the endless placating of (what on a political level can be characterized as) children is really a long-term sustainable solution. Can we even conceive of a functional political system that can be fully understood by these people, to the point that they find it comprehensible and unintimidating?
Harder to mentally apply/picture questions, viewed from USA and much less aquainted with British politicians in spite of viewing quite a but of British programs.
Badenoch made a dreadful start at PM's Questions today by rubbing the government's noses in it over Lammy's old negative comments about Trump. Playing dirty political games with national security. A shameful spectacle.
Excellent and one of the most useful things you could be doing right now- it only makes sense to start here because it's the general leaning of a lot of your audience so it's most prescient for them. I'll be interested to see what you have to say about leftist politicians but alas apart from Bernie you haven't made Americans to study, there. And all our corporate-owned press (and the GoP) has made excellent use of that; there are generations of Americans for whom the word "leftist" is mythic and otherworldly and imbued with all the fears of one's culture and psyche. Bernie is like Will Smith in "I Am Legend"....
This is the transformation we need to adjust to and be able to interpret correctly, taking us forward without losing democracy. Possible? Probably not as the world is experiencing a breakup of the old order, climate change and then we have social media.
A concerned non-US guy here, you said before that US democracy though broken it's very robust (probably not with these exact words), so the polls still being very close, what do you think will happen to US democracy if the orange guy wins? Everybody talks about what will happen if he or she wins, would you like to make such a video? Your pov is very appreciated even though sometimes you don't give very clear-cut answers, but that's just life.
The polls are a form of voter supression propaganda always have been. I hope Trump wins for the sake of the west, democracy and civilization in general.
It's a sobering (or terrifying?) thought that Kemi Badenoch is the future of politicians. I wonder what sort of politician we need to counter her sort.
Hey Vlad It's nice to see you semi upright today. If I recall correctly, you characterized Desantis as a right wing authoritarian, I think implying that he is anti democratic, without providing any evidence at all of why you think he meets that criteria. You confidently make these kinds of assertions about most of the notable people you talk about. Would you consider doing a presentation sometime on how you make these judgements, and what evidence you use? Love ya!
If one had to justify/validate/source every assertion, on absolutely everything one said, It would take a debilitating, almost Entish length of time. Especially when they have another course already set..
I'd also say that it's rarely pleasant to hear a perspective that contrasts with our own. But its more enriching and emboldening. Not speaking down to you. These are things I have to remind myself about....often! Peace, human
@@Bill-Hicks-ashtray No problem with any of that, however, I'd say when one calls someone else an anti democratic, right wing authoritarian without any justification... that's pretty much the equivalent of the phrases "sleepy Joe" or "crooked Hillary". Really doesn't make any difference that the label is couched in scholarly language, in a well modulated voice.
@paulfay357 but Biden is sleepy and Hilary bends round the corner! And I'm a leftie 😂 Moving away from spaces that only paint the 'other's' wrongs, is easily the best move iv made.
@@paulfay357 tribalism rarely promotes intellectual humility.. Iv as many stones for left wing idiocy, as I have the right... I didn't always.. I saw only 'their' transgressions. It's solipsistic imo, no offence.
Around 8.50 onwards. What would be good sources to look at for the 10% that you think are "non-disastrous" reactions to "unconstructed excess of identity politics"?
Who she chooses for cabinet will be key to her success or demise. For me there are too many self service actors in tory clothing with anything but public service aspiration or credentials wandering the corridors of westminster, and she will be nought but a vessel for their continuity.
I was gonna vote Green in the last election but the flyer they posted had Gaza as one of their top five priorities. Now, I don’t know what to think about Gaza apart from loathing Netanyahu and the militant settlers on the West Bank and in Golan but I sure as hell know the Greens have no business making pronouncements. First of all, even if they were put in control, the UK is a diminished, receding power with nearly insurmountable internal problems and trying to throw its non-weight around is pathetic. It’s borderline supremacist and even has a touch of racism (poor brown people still need the Anglos to protect them). But the Greens are never gonna be in power in the UK. This incident is possibly one reason why. I usually vote for them because Ms Lucas has been a wonderful MP and I like her successor. But Gaza has nothing to do with a Green agenda in the current political landscape. I’m just glad I don’t have children. I’m tired of arguing and I’m exhausted with the democratic backsliding. I naively thought we’d won so many battles in the 80s I see being lost in this century. I’m not giving up and I cannot morally stop support for Ukraine and I know giving up is what ‘they’ want. But the selfishness, fear and stupidity I’ve seen growing in the last ten years, like it’s the 1940s only without the excuse of brutal post-war PTSD or a massive depression making people nasty, makes me feel the human race is a genocide junkie. No matter how long we consider ourselves clean, we relapse like Jordan Peterson and Valium. Maybe we deserve what looks like is coming to us? Not as individuals, although Russian behaviour in Ukriane has made me gain a savage satisfaction at the destruction of Russians,- a feeling I never expected to feel. But as a species, we create more misery than happiness or contentment. Sure, that’s how we’re wired but we’re supposed to be better than pure instinct. As long as it holds together for another ten, preferably twenty years. I’ll keep voting and even making an occasional argument for what is right. But I don’t expect what is right to win. Colonel Vindman was wrong - ‘right’ doesn’t matter. Not any more.
Looking from the US, the UK form of government is perplexing. The majority party picks the prime minister who remains a member of parliament. The cabinet ministers rule without consent from parliament. Very seldom is the current government successfully challenged on policy or rules. Looking from the US it seems that being a subject is very ingrained in the UK.
The government requires the ongoing consent, not of Parliament as such but of the House of Commons (since Parliament is the Commons, Lords and the crown all together). The House of Commons is where the elected MPs sit, and if the Commons don't consent to the current government, a vote of no confidence (simple majority of MPs, no weird supermajority rules or anything here, it's just another vote) will ensure that they are immediately not the government anymore!
The USA was intended to have that. The president position was supposed to be more ceremonial with the majority leader in the lower house as the real leader. However with a written constitution presidents wanted to exercise that authority themselves rather than wait for the advice of a leading congressman. Imagine if that had worked - no budget shut-downs- people sensibly voting for HoR rather than continuous protest voting especially in the off year congress elections l.
@@radicallyrethinkingrailwaysina Yeah, you can almost think of it as the exact opposite way round in terms of executive power! Here, the executive power nominally lies in the sovereignty of the legal fiction of "the crown" (as distinct from the physical person of the monarch). The government wields that executive power because the monarch, de jure, 'lends' that sovereign power of the crown to Parliament at the opening of Parliament. While de jure we have a monarchy, in reality the people that de facto wield executive power come from, and are ultimately subservient to, the elected legislature. In the US system, the executive power is inherent in the executive itself, and kept for itself. If you wanted, you could categorise it as much more of an actual monarchical system (the US 'monarch' being elected but with real, independent, executive power, rather than our monarch who is hereditary but consitutionally ornamental).
@@zak3744 The taxes on cars just went up in the UK by order of a minister. In the US there are no changes in the tax code without it passing both houses of Congress. Yeah, no.
Looking from the UK, the US form of government is equally perplexing. The Electoral College picks the President, who is entirely separate from congress... etc etc. Looking from the UK it seems that being a traitorous rebel is very ingrained in the US. That would go some way to explaining your current democratic paroxysms. Perhaps the French could help - like last time...
Thank you for this talk. I worry about her temper which she undoubtedly does not control very well. Will it run away with her when she does not strike sparks off of rather more staid Keir Starmer. I just wish there were more politicians that just wanted to govern and not seek fame.
Thanks , thats i interesting dont really have anything to say. I miss our old communities....sort of saw the last of that , saw it go down. The survivors became wealthy , invluding me i suppose but whole self governing interelated communities with strong ties disappeared. I romanticize i suppose , miss it. And sometimes i see the ghosts of those vsnished communities , see the South Saskatchewan Regiment marching to war and victory for Canada and King George...and all there is niw is this vast empry prairie.
Her surname looks like bad Enoch. If anyone remembers Enoch Powell, they will know the significance of that. Fascinating that the party that claimed to be tough on immigration, had record numbers of net migration and have now elected another person with immigrant parents as their leader. I feel the only hope for the Tories is if they can move back to the middle ground, if she keeps them further to the right, Reform are going to wipe the floor with them. I guess things can change a lot in 5 years, but the Tories habit of frequently changing their leader, is likely to be hard to kick, so maybe her biggest battle is just making it to the next election?
There's another characteristic that I think is notable about Badenoch, which is maybe somewhat in opposition to her flirtations with certain populist policy areas? And that is that communication-wise, she seems to be very relaxed about being unpopular on individual issues. She appears willing to say: "This is what I think, and if you don't like it, that's your prerogative. But I don't much care." Now, it coud be that regardless of individual issues, she thinks that in the long-run such a steadfast, strident persona will be respected and thus popular, or it could simply be her surety in (or even intransigence of) principles into which she's bought. But I think it perhaps marks her out, for good or ill, from most other recent leaders (Corbyn, maybe Farage as notable exceptions?).
@@DJWESG1 So when exactly did you come to realise that you represent 'the vast majority of the British public' then?, that must have been quite an epiphany!
11:00 Should there be immigration to obtain a workforce, though? Is that really necessary? I suspect that beneath the surface part of the drive towards less immigration (at least in the NLs) lies in an attempt of the current workforce to force themselves to be reprioritised. (to borrow a connotation towards one of vlads four emotions vs democracy). After all, to be in demand is to be able to make demands, even if you are not on the top of the economic piramid. Should we be giving this talking point the 'being taken seriously' that it is trending towards getting? I'm sorry for being brash, but the aftermath of the black death was a breakthrough for the height of wages, because of a lack of labour force.
It's like what you might say casually among friends without really thinking about the repercussions or whether you are being fair, constructive, responsible etc.
Here in germany the cultural translation wouldprobably be "Stammtisch". Mates that meet regurlarly in the local pub to drink and talk football and politics in a very relaxed way.
@@3991-m6u I think you hit it right on the head with this definition. It is not just "off the cuff" talk, but one where you do not care about the repercussion of your words, which may poison the well in some capacity.
If the centre has collapsed is it too simplistic to say this is directly and even exclusively due to social media promoting the most extreme positions, simplifying political discourse and people into 1s and 0s? Not sure I can give up UA-cam
@@HermitHorologist The Latinization of his name was a mistranslation of the original Persian 'Al-Kwarizmi' into a false cognate 'Algoritmi', the Greek root of which is derived from the word for pain or suffering, 'algos'.
Can we call them out on their eagerness to throw (eg.) trans people under the bus (for fearmongering purposes) or is having that argument counterproductive (for trans people, and/or for any other centrist or progressive)?
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In my oppinion, this is one of the areas where Vexler is at his very best. He excels in this type of analysis and does help us to navigate this chalenging political environment and our own prejudice when making our own choices.
Happy to listen to this, thank you.
Good to see you bright and innovating with your clever ergonomics, Vlad!❤
This seems very important to me. Thank you. Also that youll do this for centrists and leftwingers too!
The perception of "a bureaucratically alienating discourse" really needs to be changed to a perception of a well informed discourse. Unless young voters are taught to identify and discuss root problems in a nuanced way, entailing stringently defined vocabulary, democracy will lose its very justification.
Interesting view - who defines the vocabulary? It's a poor knife that doesn't cut both ways.
@@Prometheus-Unbound I considered suggesting a "Vlad's kitchen table channel", where Vlad could try to formulate his views without resorting to his usual vocabulary or just using philosophically alienating synonyms, which I think would be an impossible task. Economists have a vocabulary that is useful for discussing the economy, doctors have a medical vocabulary, statisticians have a useful vocabulary for describing several phenomena, such as immigration and health care outcomes. Acquainting young (future) voters with mainstream views from professionals on the likely workings and outcomes of proposed policies seems like an obvious task for educational systems and media. That would mean that teachers and editors get to define the vocabulary, but hopefully not in a vacuum.
I don't think it is possible to relegitimize bureaucratic discourse of policy. That way of talking about policy has never really worked in democracy in the sense that regular people probably never understood it and never used it to inform their voting actions. They have semi-rightfully gotten sick of it and will probably never accept it again. The solution I think may lie in the fact that constructive discourse about policy needs not necessarily be super technical or bureuacratic. Example: While the topic of tariffs and their effects is a complex one, it is not too difficult to explain in very short and understandable ways why they are bad for workers and the economy. You could just mention who they are actually paid by (domestic companies) and how they will lead to more inflation (by companies passing that cost onto the consumer).
This is the Habermasian view. Starting from the viewpoint that modern society progresses along a line of continual complexification and differentiation, in which specialists have to employ increasingly complicated concepts to understand this at the root level. The everyday person is essentially cut off from the expert’s discourse. But Habermas argues that the gap between specialists and everyday citizens can be bridged vis the ‘meaning’ institutions - arts, media, universities - which are like the cognitive glue linking the two worlds together and thus significantly reducing the friction between the two worlds (the world of experts and the world of common citizenry).
It’s a kind of idealistic view that liberal society can reproduce a certain baseline commonality, an interpretive mapping making communication possible, even though the subject matters can be very difficult and dynamic and requiring of complex divisions of labor.
But I would argue, this interpretive glue is precisely what has begun coming undone.
A wonderfully clear and engaging presentation today Vlad. I'm in the UK and I am uncomfortable with Badenoch. Today helped me define why.
Best wishes to you.
So glad, dear Vlad, that you are able to do this! Thank you!
I've watched this video several times as i find the topic deeply important, and oh my, it is depressing. All those dystopian novels come to my mind
This is really outstanding Vlad. Thanks for it.
The Kemi Badenoch being "the politician of the future" resonates a lot. In Germany, Europe's former powerhouse, now in the process of complete political, economical and social disintegration, we have with Sarah Wagenknecht a similar figure rising. I guess, we will see even more of these all over the continent and beyond.
El Salvador's Bukele and Argentina's Milei might be worthwhile examples to study, even though both are more political (openly authoritarian) than the mostly self serving specimens in the old world.
Milei is a libertarian
Ik our country isn't as relevant, but u could cover how Petro in Colombia is one of the rare instances of a post truth left wing populist.
Rare? After Oct 7th they've come out in droves. They swallow the same propaganda against Ukraine in a differently colored tap but it's the same!
@falconeshield That's part of what I mean, yes.
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6:42 is the timestamp for you to enjoy Vlad's trumping. 😂
I was thinking of the other meaning of trumping. They do both involve a lot of hot air😂
Whenever I listen to this channel it’s never 5 minutes before I’m hit with a nutrition dense passage that I need to listen to again at least once, then repeat in another 5 mins or so😂
Thanks Vlad for the list of questions by which to assess the politician. It's really a useful tool for a comprehensive but critical view of what's on offer.
Thank you, Vlad, for this instructive and very useful analysis. I do hope, your health will stabilize soon. Please take good care of yourself. Lots of love to you and the Beautiful Community. 🤗
Scary times.. when dictators link arms
My only disagreement is that "hyper-identity politics" is not that different from its right-wing populist equivalent in terms of being fundamentally an affront to liberal/enlightenment/democratic values (i.e. post-truth), it's just that the Putin-Trump axis of this phenomenon is the more proximal concern right now. I guess, for me, post-truth-ism is *the* threat, which is why I respect this channel as much as I do. Great discourse
@@davidjairala69 thank you so much for being with me!
Identity politics is a rw product. It's newer "hyper" form is also a product of the Tory agenda.. a hypernorlamised, post truth version.
I strongly disagree. We wouldn't even have Trump if left wing racist anti-liberal hyper-identity politics hadn't broken out of pseudo Academia.
The growth of the populist Right is people reacting to this affront to western liberalism (real liberalism, not the American misnomer).
The vast bulk of those voting that way are not the "racist or white supremacists" the anti-liberal identitarians need to reassure themselves their opponents are.
They are a loose coalition of conservatives, non-political, moderates, independents, libertarians, disaffected left leaning liberals, even old school class based socialists, who believe in the values of "colour blindness" and have not been remotely convinced that the CRT/DEI identitarian alternative is functionally, ethically or morally better.
Hello Vlad! Thanks for sharing your thoughts - something else for me to think through! Go easy dear chap - you’re still on your recovery journey. The ‘down’ times will get shorter & the gaps between will get longer a bit at a time. Keep smiling - you bring such joy to this old lady! Hugs & love xx 🎉
So you are horizontaly upright. Good to see you back on the mic
Looks can be deceiving, but when I see you in your regular video shirt, and in your regular video spot (albeit not sitting, but semi laying down as you say) I like to tell myself that your health has improved compared to past few weeks. I hope that that is actually the case. And wish you health.
Thx for presenting how you tend to think about categorizing right wing politicians. Certainly something I might take a piece of and integrate into my own thinking about politics.
A comment to boost the algorithm. Thank you for your work. Lots of love
It's always a pleasure listening to people who know what their talking about
And people who actually do THINK
Glad to see you doing better
Great to see you halfway upright!
Nice to hear a little about some politicians that I am not too familiar with on just don't know at all. I often wonder about your politics in the UK and I think I learned a bit. Thank you.
Whatever you are drinking Vlad, it's clearly working 💪
You might get Jeremey Clarkson actually giving it a go given how destructive policies are and have been headed for UK farming.
He's not a farmer, he's a BBC presenter , part responsible for things like Brexit and poverty porn.
@@DJWESG1 He hasn't been a BBC presenter for years.
@@DJWESG1 And yet he's brought more attention to the plight and needs of farmers not just in the UK but around the world than anyone else has ever done. Using one's powers for good. That's heroic. Dismissing that as "just a BBC presenter"... well.. that's another sad human emotion entirely.
@ferrariguy8278 the plight of the farmers?? Austerity and Brexit voting farmers?? You Sir are an absolute disgrace to all that is reasonable.
Half a million ppl were killed with austerity bub, all our lives made harder and more expensive due to austerity, and it all came from the Chiltern set, or rather from the mad minds of Tory landlords and land owners.
Pls kindly do one.
@sharpvidtube all his past work should be deleted then, and only "farmer" Clarkson material should be available.
"Feisty" is polite. "Would start a fight in an empty room" might be fairer!
I find Badenoch, my dads local MP, quite worrying. She is a really personable lady, and is/was good with constituents. It is the recklessness that worries as she is so untried.
Also, for some reason, I keep waving at the TV screen at the end of each of your videos. I think the stress has finally got tto me! I hope you get stronger,, Vlad. Thank you for your words.
Vlad, I like the recent short videos. I think you are on to something there or maybe I have some kind of ADHD. Nice to see you looking a bit better.😊
Happy to see you with immense vigour !
One of those days Vlad is telling us that "by a modern medicine miracle..." he is actually dead, but it looks like he is living, and now he is presenting us with another interesting topic...
Vlad is full of surprises!
Vlad I get the suggestions of your main channel. I am just normally more interested in the casual talks than your academic musings, which I often find too abstract or I just don't appreciate.
I want to get back to this, but I have to go now. Looking at the quality of politicians is important.
I quite like that she pointed to John haidts excellent work in "the righteous mind" in a recent interview, saying it was a huge influence on her perspective on politics. It is indeed a great book imo.
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Can you talk about politicians in Eastern Europe like Orban? Nobody explains what is happening in countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Austria.
Vlad, I’m hoping in the centrist politician video you look into the Teal movement in Australia. I have some hope that a teal style movement that propagates itself around the democratic world might just offer a steadying influence if it can be adapted to play a meaningful role in the different systems of democracy around the globe.
@@angus987 Rory Stewart seemed pleased with the teals.
@@radicallyrethinkingrailwaysinaYeah, they’re not exactly centrist. More traditional conservative. The sort of ideology that the current right wing parties only use as a disguise.
But I’d be more than happy with a genuine conservative in power. Badenoch or whassisname, Voldemort in Oz are definitely part of the problem. The other side may not be the solution but they’re mostly not making things worse.
As a Lib Dem member, I splutter with protest at the idea that we've given up on national politics. Focussing on target seats (mostly Tory "blue wall" seats in the south) we managed to get ten times more seats in Parliament than Reform got with a share ofnthr popular vote several percentage points higher than ours, ut we campaign nationally on national issues, not just the new rubbish incinerator being opened up near Acacia Avenue or a planning application for 200 new houses to be built somewhere the locals don't want them. The Tories remain the second largestkparty with ~120 seats, but its not /entirely/ delulu* to imagine scenarios where we become the official opposition.
*sorry, I couldnt help myself.
PS I've been out doing a spot of light doorstep canvassing activity lately (ahead of next May's local elections) and it reminded me what a great experience it is, and that I encourage anyone of any (sane) political persuasion to give it a go.
Vlad, can you post a video about the reasons of the democratic decline? Unless you have it already and I am not aware of
The Pied Piper of Hamelin comes to mind when I hearing about populism.
Is “populism” not just a term for “democracy with outcomes that the bien pensant doesn’t like”?
Always love Vlads post-truth impression!
I already listened to that Vivek interview with Ezra Klein and I guess I was more or less doing what you prescribe here. I was surprised by how reasonable and intellectually consistent Vivek sounded in the interview. Everything else I've seen of him has been in service of destructive MAGA clownery and I once saw him talk to a christian MAGA person and he was making it sound like his strand of hinduism is basically Christianity and Jesus is god. I conclude he's a very smart, knowledgable and eminently adaptable self-serving political entrepreneur.
I like Vlad explaining distinctions to discriminate various ways of acting politically as in this vid.
Here's to anyone who needs to constantly innovate to manage health issues 🍻
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Vlad, so glad you are feeling better and able to give us your insights. I understand your pejorative language around Kemi, but calling Starmer 'decent' 'smart'? 'Legalistic' absolutely. Post budget I think people have woken up to how legalistically amoral, politically ineffective and hypocritical he is.
I worry about Badenoch's seeming incapability to moderate her tone and language. At its works it strays into stressing parliamentary procedure to breaking point. Not sure that's what is needed after the constitutional damage done under the recent past conservative government.
As much as i get depressed of politics here in the uk i feel worse for our friends across the pond in America. They’ve gotten into some real bad trouble unfortunately
We really have, and sorry for what it is doing to people in Ukraine and elsewhere, too.
@ unfortunately the maga politics are about neighbours hating each other and fear and ignorance to control the weary. I’m more of a centrist politically but even I can see that western democracy is being slowly undermined by all this division. It’s an unfortunate fact about democracy. All opinions are allowed, even misguided or outright false ones
That's so typical of Brits, make yourself feel better by thinking someone else has it worse. The irony is that America is a much healthier place than Europe in general.
@ Trust me I know my girlfriend is Ukrainian with family back in Ukraine so you can imagine. I’m very aware of it all
It is honestly a living nightmare. I'm so sorry we're dragging the rest of the world through it.
Sortition Democracy is the only possible solution imo. Just can't see how it can be implemented fast enough.
Hypernormalization morphs into hyper confusion
So great and thought clarifying - thank you so much Vlad
Tugenhat seems the responsible type. Shame but a sign of the times he didn’t make it
I had completely clocked out of the Tory leadership race as my own feeling and thinking on them has been something like:
1. They are now publicly shamed from their last election defeat that no one is taking them seriously
2. They are amalgamating with the political sentiment that's fuelled Reform
3. As they are, they are an ineffective opposition (not based on much evidence, this one, I must admit). However, their position as the official Opposition may lead to situations where they can do some real damage and just like how Stammer helped shoot down any attempts at a good relationship with the EU post Brexit, they can do the same for some of the needed changes we require.
But at the same time, with this sentiment that the Tories are done comes a possibility for them to workshop ideas that may work. No scrutiny, plenty of playtime. Now that they have a leader, however, they may actually reform into a new state that is yet again dangerous or effective. With how wibbly wobbly Stammer is, and how his power base is weak and his coalition within the internal Labour party looking like a combination of incompetence and Tory Lite... who is to say. I have a sense that Stammer will not last a full parliament, or that Labour will so discredit themselves that they will destroy the chances for any real change for a generation. There was a poll going around that suggested that British public judge the Tories on something like: "cheap prices, increasing house prices". But they judge Labour's success on something like: "extremely efficient public services". The floor for Labour is much higher than for the Tories, and I don't think they are in the space to reach the heights they need to be perceived as succesful.
On the point about the Greens becoming a workshop. As a Green Party Member, I wholeheartedly agree. And one such workshop could potentially be Wales in the coming Senedd Election in 2026. Reform came second in a many seats in Wales, and the Tories have basically clocked out of national Welsh politics and exist solely as a culture war machine to keep Andrew RT Davies in post. We have a much more wide left in Plaid Cymru and the Greens, with Plaid doing very well ini Westminster Elections just past. The workshopping here is that often times Plaid and the Greens form coalitions (Common Ground in Cardiff Council Elections). Plaid has been effective in collaboration with Welsh Labour to form a front against the Conservative/UKIP sentiment, but will that remain after Vaughan Gethings's corruption? Can the Greens coming second in the Cardiff South and Penarth (Gething's seat) prove that the Green vote and space to push Labour further to radical transformation of society?
Thank you, Vlad. Your words are nutritious to the mind and soul.
With regard to the Conservative party in the United Kingdom, they are neither right enough to satisfy that vocal proponent of their support base, nor centre enough to satisfy traditional proponents of conservative values. They have competition at each end of the spectrum - and that competition is more effective at talking to people whom the Conservative Party consider its support demographic. The current Conservative Party also lack any kind of unity or discipline and as such I think we will see the party undermining its new leader and vocal elements within it advocating for a new leadership contest in days rather than months or years resulting in the sense that this party is eating itself and be considered interesting for the internal drama but irrelevant as a voting option for anyone currently under the age of 55.
Populism is a game we play, a kind of theater, to engage people in politics that're intellectually not mature enough to accept that politics is complex and can't be fucked to live anywhere but in lalaland. In the 90s these voters would just complain amongst themselves and skip the ballot box, but move on with their lives. Today, they find strength in numbers online and are engaged in an endless discourse of conspiracy, self-victimisation and resentment, in which they are the heroes and the educated urban elite are the villains.
I think you're right Vlad that this genie is hard to get back into the bottle. But I wonder if the permanent dumbing down of political discourse and the endless placating of (what on a political level can be characterized as) children is really a long-term sustainable solution. Can we even conceive of a functional political system that can be fully understood by these people, to the point that they find it comprehensible and unintimidating?
Your thoughts on JD Vance on Rogan?
Haven’t yet seen
Harder to mentally apply/picture questions, viewed from USA and much less aquainted with British politicians in spite of viewing quite a but of British programs.
Badenoch made a dreadful start at PM's Questions today by rubbing the government's noses in it over Lammy's old negative comments about Trump. Playing dirty political games with national security. A shameful spectacle.
Serious politicians need to find a way to be centrist without sounding like an uncanny public relations AI.
Excellent and one of the most useful things you could be doing right now- it only makes sense to start here because it's the general leaning of a lot of your audience so it's most prescient for them. I'll be interested to see what you have to say about leftist politicians but alas apart from Bernie you haven't made Americans to study, there. And all our corporate-owned press (and the GoP) has made excellent use of that; there are generations of Americans for whom the word "leftist" is mythic and otherworldly and imbued with all the fears of one's culture and psyche. Bernie is like Will Smith in "I Am Legend"....
This is the transformation we need to adjust to and be able to interpret correctly, taking us forward without losing democracy. Possible? Probably not as the world is experiencing a breakup of the old order, climate change and then we have social media.
A concerned non-US guy here, you said before that US democracy though broken it's very robust (probably not with these exact words), so the polls still being very close, what do you think will happen to US democracy if the orange guy wins? Everybody talks about what will happen if he or she wins, would you like to make such a video? Your pov is very appreciated even though sometimes you don't give very clear-cut answers, but that's just life.
The polls are a form of voter supression propaganda always have been.
I hope Trump wins for the sake of the west, democracy and civilization in general.
Is 'political entrepreneur' a diplomatic way of saying grifter
Will Badenoch be able to compete with Farage? Renewal of the centre right is vital
Mind over matter.
It's a sobering (or terrifying?) thought that Kemi Badenoch is the future of politicians. I wonder what sort of politician we need to counter her sort.
Hey Vlad
It's nice to see you semi upright today. If I recall correctly, you characterized Desantis as a right wing authoritarian, I think implying that he is anti democratic, without providing any evidence at all of why you think he meets that criteria. You confidently make these kinds of assertions about most of the notable people you talk about. Would you consider doing a presentation sometime on how you make these judgements, and what evidence you use?
Love ya!
If one had to justify/validate/source every assertion, on absolutely everything one said,
It would take a debilitating, almost Entish length of time. Especially when they have another course already set..
I'd also say that it's rarely pleasant to hear a perspective that contrasts with our own. But its more enriching and emboldening. Not speaking down to you. These are things I have to remind myself about....often! Peace, human
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No problem with any of that, however, I'd say when one calls someone else an anti democratic, right wing authoritarian without any justification... that's pretty much the equivalent of the phrases "sleepy Joe" or "crooked Hillary". Really doesn't make any difference that the label is couched in scholarly language, in a well modulated voice.
@paulfay357 but Biden is sleepy and Hilary bends round the corner! And I'm a leftie 😂
Moving away from spaces that only paint the 'other's' wrongs, is easily the best move iv made.
@@paulfay357 tribalism rarely promotes intellectual humility.. Iv as many stones for left wing idiocy, as I have the right... I didn't always.. I saw only 'their' transgressions. It's solipsistic imo, no offence.
Around 8.50 onwards. What would be good sources to look at for the 10% that you think are "non-disastrous" reactions to "unconstructed excess of identity politics"?
Who she chooses for cabinet will be key to her success or demise. For me there are too many self service actors in tory clothing with anything but public service aspiration or credentials wandering the corridors of westminster, and she will be nought but a vessel for their continuity.
I was gonna vote Green in the last election but the flyer they posted had Gaza as one of their top five priorities. Now, I don’t know what to think about Gaza apart from loathing Netanyahu and the militant settlers on the West Bank and in Golan but I sure as hell know the Greens have no business making pronouncements.
First of all, even if they were put in control, the UK is a diminished, receding power with nearly insurmountable internal problems and trying to throw its non-weight around is pathetic. It’s borderline supremacist and even has a touch of racism (poor brown people still need the Anglos to protect them). But the Greens are never gonna be in power in the UK. This incident is possibly one reason why. I usually vote for them because Ms Lucas has been a wonderful MP and I like her successor. But Gaza has nothing to do with a Green agenda in the current political landscape.
I’m just glad I don’t have children. I’m tired of arguing and I’m exhausted with the democratic backsliding. I naively thought we’d won so many battles in the 80s I see being lost in this century.
I’m not giving up and I cannot morally stop support for Ukraine and I know giving up is what ‘they’ want. But the selfishness, fear and stupidity I’ve seen growing in the last ten years, like it’s the 1940s only without the excuse of brutal post-war PTSD or a massive depression making people nasty, makes me feel the human race is a genocide junkie. No matter how long we consider ourselves clean, we relapse like Jordan Peterson and Valium.
Maybe we deserve what looks like is coming to us? Not as individuals, although Russian behaviour in Ukriane has made me gain a savage satisfaction at the destruction of Russians,- a feeling I never expected to feel. But as a species, we create more misery than happiness or contentment. Sure, that’s how we’re wired but we’re supposed to be better than pure instinct.
As long as it holds together for another ten, preferably twenty years. I’ll keep voting and even making an occasional argument for what is right. But I don’t expect what is right to win. Colonel Vindman was wrong - ‘right’ doesn’t matter. Not any more.
Looking from the US, the UK form of government is perplexing. The majority party picks the prime minister who remains a member of parliament. The cabinet ministers rule without consent from parliament. Very seldom is the current government successfully challenged on policy or rules. Looking from the US it seems that being a subject is very ingrained in the UK.
The government requires the ongoing consent, not of Parliament as such but of the House of Commons (since Parliament is the Commons, Lords and the crown all together). The House of Commons is where the elected MPs sit, and if the Commons don't consent to the current government, a vote of no confidence (simple majority of MPs, no weird supermajority rules or anything here, it's just another vote) will ensure that they are immediately not the government anymore!
The USA was intended to have that. The president position was supposed to be more ceremonial with the majority leader in the lower house as the real leader. However with a written constitution presidents wanted to exercise that authority themselves rather than wait for the advice of a leading congressman.
Imagine if that had worked - no budget shut-downs- people sensibly voting for HoR rather than continuous protest voting especially in the off year congress elections l.
@@radicallyrethinkingrailwaysina Yeah, you can almost think of it as the exact opposite way round in terms of executive power!
Here, the executive power nominally lies in the sovereignty of the legal fiction of "the crown" (as distinct from the physical person of the monarch). The government wields that executive power because the monarch, de jure, 'lends' that sovereign power of the crown to Parliament at the opening of Parliament.
While de jure we have a monarchy, in reality the people that de facto wield executive power come from, and are ultimately subservient to, the elected legislature.
In the US system, the executive power is inherent in the executive itself, and kept for itself. If you wanted, you could categorise it as much more of an actual monarchical system (the US 'monarch' being elected but with real, independent, executive power, rather than our monarch who is hereditary but consitutionally ornamental).
@@zak3744 The taxes on cars just went up in the UK by order of a minister. In the US there are no changes in the tax code without it passing both houses of Congress. Yeah, no.
Looking from the UK, the US form of government is equally perplexing. The Electoral College picks the President, who is entirely separate from congress... etc etc. Looking from the UK it seems that being a traitorous rebel is very ingrained in the US. That would go some way to explaining your current democratic paroxysms. Perhaps the French could help - like last time...
Thank you for this talk. I worry about her temper which she undoubtedly does not control very well. Will it run away with her when she does not strike sparks off of rather more staid Keir Starmer. I just wish there were more politicians that just wanted to govern and not seek fame.
No way on Earth can you call the Tory party right wing
Beepbop deepdop. I wish my comments didn't disappear on YT. Especially when writing long stuff. :c
Thanks , thats i interesting dont really have anything to say. I miss our old communities....sort of saw the last of that , saw it go down. The survivors became wealthy , invluding me i suppose but whole self governing interelated communities with strong ties disappeared. I romanticize i suppose , miss it. And sometimes i see the ghosts of those vsnished communities , see the South Saskatchewan Regiment marching to war and victory for Canada and King George...and all there is niw is this vast empry prairie.
Her surname looks like bad Enoch. If anyone remembers Enoch Powell, they will know the significance of that. Fascinating that the party that claimed to be tough on immigration, had record numbers of net migration and have now elected another person with immigrant parents as their leader. I feel the only hope for the Tories is if they can move back to the middle ground, if she keeps them further to the right, Reform are going to wipe the floor with them. I guess things can change a lot in 5 years, but the Tories habit of frequently changing their leader, is likely to be hard to kick, so maybe her biggest battle is just making it to the next election?
Thanks Vlad. Where is she in terms of Ukraine?
Downvote for gaslighting
Africa should be proud of her.
Hi Vlad hope your health is improving.
This is very translatable, sadly.
There's another characteristic that I think is notable about Badenoch, which is maybe somewhat in opposition to her flirtations with certain populist policy areas? And that is that communication-wise, she seems to be very relaxed about being unpopular on individual issues. She appears willing to say: "This is what I think, and if you don't like it, that's your prerogative. But I don't much care."
Now, it coud be that regardless of individual issues, she thinks that in the long-run such a steadfast, strident persona will be respected and thus popular, or it could simply be her surety in (or even intransigence of) principles into which she's bought. But I think it perhaps marks her out, for good or ill, from most other recent leaders (Corbyn, maybe Farage as notable exceptions?).
As long as she knows that we (the vast majority of the British public) doesn't give two hoots what she thinks or feels.
@@DJWESG1 So when exactly did you come to realise that you represent 'the vast majority of the British public' then?, that must have been quite an epiphany!
Will you do a similar one for leftist politicians? Would do your credibility to good.
Not sure what it/she is. At least she does not care about any form other of decency or normal behavior
11:00 Should there be immigration to obtain a workforce, though? Is that really necessary?
I suspect that beneath the surface part of the drive towards less immigration (at least in the NLs) lies in an attempt of the current workforce to force themselves to be reprioritised. (to borrow a connotation towards one of vlads four emotions vs democracy).
After all, to be in demand is to be able to make demands, even if you are not on the top of the economic piramid.
Should we be giving this talking point the 'being taken seriously' that it is trending towards getting?
I'm sorry for being brash, but the aftermath of the black death was a breakthrough for the height of wages, because of a lack of labour force.
I don't understand what "kitchen table talk" means.
Then you aren't trying. It us clear to the rest of us.
It's like what you might say casually among friends without really thinking about the repercussions or whether you are being fair, constructive, responsible etc.
Here in germany the cultural translation wouldprobably be "Stammtisch". Mates that meet regurlarly in the local pub to drink and talk football and politics in a very relaxed way.
@@3991-m6u I think you hit it right on the head with this definition. It is not just "off the cuff" talk, but one where you do not care about the repercussion of your words, which may poison the well in some capacity.
If the centre has collapsed is it too simplistic to say this is directly and even exclusively due to social media promoting the most extreme positions, simplifying political discourse and people into 1s and 0s? Not sure I can give up UA-cam
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Interestingly, the root of that word is the Greek: algos, or 'suffering'.
@kentalanlee It's irrelevant...
@@kentalanleeSure? I always thought it was the name of a Persian? Arabic? mathematican?
@@Julia-Richter Yes Muhammad ibn Mūsa al-Khwarizmī
@@HermitHorologist The Latinization of his name was a mistranslation of the original Persian 'Al-Kwarizmi' into a false cognate 'Algoritmi', the Greek root of which is derived from the word for pain or suffering, 'algos'.
Does the end justify the means???
Is Ms Badenoch British? Does this matter?
Can we call them out on their eagerness to throw (eg.) trans people under the bus (for fearmongering purposes) or is having that argument counterproductive (for trans people, and/or for any other centrist or progressive)?
Hmmm...
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I dont think anyone cares. Theyre history especially under her.
Hopefully the tories can finally become history.