TFF Peace Pulse # 2: We need an all-European debate about Europe's future
Bring good ideas about the post-NATO and post-US Empire Europe. We can change Europe - but von der Leyen, Kallas, Merz, Starmer, Frederiksen cannot...
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Europe is in its deepest crisis since 1945, on all fronts. Leaders have no visions, so let's start a broad citizens' debate on the Europe we want in the future.
Only the first few Peace Pulses will contain the introduction - like this one - about what this new series is all about. In the future, there will only be the theme video.
You will not find them on YouTube and Vimeo because both platforms have blocked TFF and me; you know, peace is dangerous these days.
Later, you will find them, along with many other TFF-created videos, on Rumble. More info as I get that established.
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Hej Jan
As much as I support and wish for peace to continue in my immediate vicinity, and while I think your efforts are commendable...
The idea of some huge Talkfest about a common European future leaves me exhausted before beginning.
Furthermore, my previous experience of getting involved with democracy initiatives and politics has shown me that these kinds of activities are mostly designed to sideline and leave the project participants quagmired in the self contradictory paradigms of rallying for collective self determination.
Additionally, the path to political maturity in terms of legitimacy of power and the organization principles requiring actualisation have already been mapped out but, like the UN, the full governance structure has never been completed. Hence. The blueprint exists and the problem lies in execution, or lack thereof.
Lastly, the new vibe coding capabilities might just slap the together the apps required to facilitate a citizens digital social contract to audit the performance of government and feed policy ideas that have constituency support to wannabe politicians.
Lastly, I tried doing this previously and was sanctioned for fifteen years as a reward and deterrent against getting above my station. Something you have also discovered...
So...!??!?
The power of the web has been its distributed nature. And empowering citizens - I believe - requires using the web in that way, and wrestling back use and focus of the web, to the people, rather than the platforms.
I understand you want to be where the people are, and currently they are captured on these platforms.
These megaplatorms are generally owned by billionaires that encourage and profit from warmongering and who ultimately cannot be relived on. Youtube we all already know - but actually Rumble was brought to you by such warmongers as Peter Thiel, JD Vance, and Howard Lutnick:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2025/01/06/why-the-founder-of-the-right-wing-video-platform-rumble-is-now-a-billionaire/
https://fortune.com/2025/06/05/anduril-palmer-luckey-funding-30-billion-valuation-founders-fund/
It is ownly a matter of time before the mask comes off there - these people who are both financially and even ideoogically behind Palantir, Anduril etc - they ain't for the cause of peace. If you build too much the weight of your organization and movement on these platforms, they will shut you down the moment you are on the cusp of actually achieving it.
But IMO, if the goal is to further citizenry and democracy, my recommendation would be
- ultimately any use of platforms should be intended to be temporary
- use of platforms should be more "guerilla" like dedicated to move people to your urls that you own
- lean as little as possible on the infrastructure of the megaplatforms - such as video, which is really overkill for listening to a conversation. Video streaming consumes a lot of energy, it produces like 10x the emissions of audio streaming, and is expensive to host and manage - the focus on video ends up actually driving the grown of megaplatforms.
- do the most you can with the lowest and most democratically controlled forms of media tech ie text and audio