i gather that Y.V., seen speaking in this video, is not a favourite figure in this sub.
to expabd beyond echo chambers and raise cognitive flexibility it is important to engage critically with every side, especially since we’re all european in this sub and are entering world-wide war. so i wanna read some critique on Yanis Varoufakir from here, if you who read this would find it in your interest to share reflections from hearing this video
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I don’t waste my time anymore to listen to this pseudo-intellectual. There is much to criticize about this person, but the most obvious comes from withing his own organization. In 2022, soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, the Polish left-wing party Razem had left Varoufakis’ so-called Progressive International and ‘Democracy in Europe 2025 Movement’ (DIEM25), the reason being very revealing:
In the absence of an unequivocal declaration recognising Ukraine’s sovereignty and an absolute condemnation of Russian imperialism by the Progressive International and the Democracy in Europe 2025 Movement, Lewica Razem ends its cooperation with these organizations.
This person has nothing to do with democracy or anything like that. His organizations are just cultivating a personality cult around Yanis and some others that appeal to specific anti-democratic groups of which some are also here on Lemmy.
Another empty rant by an anti-European propagandist who has been parroting always the same narratives. It can be safely ignored.
I used to respect his opinion…now he’s just another blathering head who is always “right about everything” in hindsight.
Looks like a radical extremist astroturf. They claim the EU is undemocratic and deeply flawed and must be overthrown.
EDIT: A closer look revealed they haven’t really done anything shifty and that they promote a lot of good stuff, including opposing Brexit. Not sure why they’ve had no success in any elections.
What’s wrong with YV, in general? I’m not extremely familiar but he seems intelligent
He has some good takes, but also keeps quite bad company in an misguided attempt at left-unity. This video, clearly directed at what is left of DIEM25 supporters is one of those.
I’ve seen portions of these videos. My conclusion was that it was an AI reading a script. It was badly edited with intonation, pauses and sentence breaks all over the place. So who knows who’s content or agenda it is. Doubtful it is Y. V.
The same video is linked on the official DIEM25 website. I agree that the editing makes it look and sound a bit odd, but this still seems to be a legit video and not some AI slop.
From what little I’ve seen, DiEM25 aren’t a very legitimate movement to start with, it being on their website means nothing for its credibility.
It definitely is a legitimate movement. And why would their official channels contain an AI video of Yanis, when he is the founder of DiEM25 and could just as well speak in person, as he has done countless times before?
Varoufakis is a founding member of DIEM25 🤷
and?
It is a video posted on the official DIEM25 YT channel, shared on the official DIEM25 website, depicting a well known founding member of DIEM25 addressing DIEM25 supporters. This video is not AI slop by some random person 🤷
I feel like you failed to parse my first reply in this thread. Go back and try again.
And you fail basic reading comprehension on what my original reply was about. Go troll someone else.
