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> it's something closer to the TED Talks This is blatantly not true. TED doesn't make official agreements with governments: https://www.canada.ca/en/news/ar

> it's something closer to the TED Talks This is blatantly not true. TED doesn't make official agreements with governments: https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/01/canada-joins-wef-as-founding-partner-global-challenge-food-security-agriculture.html https://www.canada.ca/en/news/archive/2015/01/canada-joins-w... https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2021/vol3/ds6/index-eng.html https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2021/vol3/ds6/i... https://ktdi.org/ https://ktdi.org/ > It's random executives networking and trying to make themselves seem more important than they are. And government officials. Schwab bragged about "infiltrating" governments around the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhHmy9AQLBA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhHmy9AQLBA And when the government officials are asked about it they do not want to answer: https://summit.news/2022/02/21/video-canadian-mps-audio-feed-cut-when-he-asks-why-klaus-schwab-brags-about-having-infiltrated-parliament/ https://summit.news/2022/02/21/video-canadian-mps-audio-feed... > Fun fact: companies that participate in the WEF underperform the S&P That's irrelevant. What is worrying is that they are among the biggest and involved in all critical industries and have a quasi monopoly on their industries and as a whole. By collaborating together over political goals they form a plutocratic autocracy.

tptacek 4y ago
The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff. Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.
- TeeMassive 4y ago
  > The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks The links I've posted are not talks... Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy. > Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. My source is the head of the WEF. > Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event This doesn't make sense, important people do not need networking events, the are already public figures. > Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster. You're making a straw man argument, I didn't say that.
  - tptacek 4y ago
    If the head of the TED Talks organization claimed he had infiltrated world governments, I'd take it equivalently seriously.
    - TeeMassive 4y ago
      The head of TED doesn't invite government officials around the world every year to make official agreements on policy.
      - tptacek 4y ago
        Citation needed. Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does. That's not a compliment to Yglesias.
        TeeMassive 4y ago
        > Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does Citation needed.

tptacek 4y ago

The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff. Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.

TeeMassive 4y ago
> The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks The links I've posted are not talks... Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy. > Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. My source is the head of the WEF. > Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event This doesn't make sense, important people do not need networking events, the are already public figures. > Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster. You're making a straw man argument, I didn't say that.
- tptacek 4y ago
  If the head of the TED Talks organization claimed he had infiltrated world governments, I'd take it equivalently seriously.
  - TeeMassive 4y ago
    The head of TED doesn't invite government officials around the world every year to make official agreements on policy.
    - tptacek 4y ago
      Citation needed. Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does. That's not a compliment to Yglesias.
      - TeeMassive 4y ago
        > Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does Citation needed.