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@homewall744
April 2, 2024 at 4:04 pm
Try liberty. Try live and let live. Try not to use your tribe to force all to do the bidding of your tribe. Voluntary society. Charity. Entrepreneurship. Stop pretending you know or rulers will magically know how to control all people to some better world that’s just never happened ever, outside of liberty.
@mikejettusa
April 2, 2024 at 4:05 pm
Excellent ❤
@reneejohnson4882
April 2, 2024 at 4:05 pm
Awesome to see you here, Jordan ❤
@jenniferwilliams9612
April 2, 2024 at 4:29 pm
I think that they should make Jordan the second host of the Daily Show Tuesdays thru Thursday and keep the man, the myth, the legend, the great Jon Stewart on Mondays for as long as they can! Jordan is a special voice in our modern culture!
@ibrahimswiss8714
April 2, 2024 at 4:31 pm
Democracy has become a boring word, with little or no meaning. We need to get the message across and make it exciting to know what freedom means, really means not just the dictionary definition of democracy. It’s important to teach the next generation that they are free, even if you commit a crime you have rights, and that should mean something. Show them how lucky they are to have this kind of lifestyle, yes they need to know and value freedom as a lifestyle. Then and only then they will appreciate the real meaning of democracy.
@MrLoobu
April 2, 2024 at 4:36 pm
No practice.
@mr.zardoz3344
April 2, 2024 at 4:48 pm
The elites own tech propaganda corps. Gotta love it, or else.
@webcreator9093
April 2, 2024 at 5:24 pm
Jordan Klepper has bigger balls than most of us. Here’s a hero who, using satire, was bold and brave enough to challenge MAGA crowds – it wasn’t that funny around the time Trump ruled and especially after Jan 6th. This type of satire at times becomes a true heroism. We salute you, Jordan.
@rezadaneshi
April 2, 2024 at 5:31 pm
Perhaps because capitalism thrives in dispute and capital owned media is designed to push conflicts. And it’s where misinformation disheartens communication and breaks trust. It’s one way street and we can only joke about it.
@Plantandpeoplecarer
April 2, 2024 at 6:11 pm
We talk too much, it’s turns into lies and bullshit and everything gets lost in translation
@raheimgreen8550
April 2, 2024 at 6:46 pm
You’re right. And we do more talking then listening
@raheimgreen8550
April 2, 2024 at 6:48 pm
But don’t give up. I’m a great listener and I can’t be alone, statistically speaking
@flyingfig12
April 2, 2024 at 6:31 pm
Not only do some think chocolate milk comes from brown cows.. most still think they need to drink milk from another species once they’ve been weaned from their own mum.
@jeffmilligan
April 2, 2024 at 6:42 pm
Ironically, it is faux-vulnerability that is destroying democracy.
@robvallee
April 2, 2024 at 6:48 pm
Hey! I was born in Akron! 😂
@andrewwalton6646
April 2, 2024 at 6:56 pm
7:35 Why would TED support a talk advocating people to use false humility to get opponents to expose their own vulnerabilities so they can be smashed as “fools”?
@patricia4595
April 2, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Amen❤. Believe Science
@BlakeElliott35
April 2, 2024 at 7:04 pm
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@artandcard
April 2, 2024 at 7:09 pm
1. Read a long book.
2. Travel.
3. Concede something. Accept when you don’t know something.
@learnedempowerment
April 2, 2024 at 7:19 pm
“I could be wrong” brilliant way to end it.
If we all could have that openness and curiosity I think that is what would go the furthest to solving the divide.
Certainty is the enemy of curiosity.
@1goldinga
April 2, 2024 at 7:21 pm
Democracy is not a good system. I live around a mass of grown children and NPC’s. These people who have never looked into anything. Stop learning after highschool or university. Constantly repeating their favourite talking points. Should not get to decide my fate because they outnumber me…..gtfo of here. Its better than Com and Soc. But a constitutional republic is a much better place to start than this majority rules whether right or wrong BS. Look what democracy almost forced everyone to do over the past few years. Luckily we arnt all so easily enticed by donuts, concerts and sports games.
@PearlOfTheQuarter23
April 2, 2024 at 7:37 pm
For a brief moment in time we were making progress towards being an inclusive planet, it may never return.
@PerspectiveEngineer
April 2, 2024 at 7:50 pm
Thanks Jordan
@remyllebeau77
April 2, 2024 at 8:02 pm
Ending babies in the womb is not up for debate or concession, neither is giving up the precious human rights of free speech and self-defense. Don’t whine to me if I say biden isn’t really the president when democrats spent 4 years saying worse things about Trump. We actually have evidence and reason to back our claims.
@carolhedberg2341
April 2, 2024 at 8:03 pm
I just love hearing your insights.
@ethandemo
April 2, 2024 at 8:10 pm
It’s harder to distinguish a Ted talk from standup comedy nowadays. I thought we come here for profound takeaway and a meaningful lesson. If I was looking for entertainment, I would just watch standup comedy. The attempt for punchline really backfires and makes me uncomfortable
@kraekennedy
April 2, 2024 at 8:57 pm
YES, Jordan Klepper is on TED Ed. Brilliant!
@akinyio.t6312
April 3, 2024 at 10:24 am
Well done 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
@DrakeStardragon
April 3, 2024 at 10:40 am
It would take over 600 years for someone to learn all the knowledge mankind has acquired. Which means that the smartest person in the world know, maybe 10% off all human knowledge. That mean we ALL are ignorant of at least 90% of the knowledge we have acquired. Ignorance is not a bad thing, it’s just a fact. Get over it.
Capitalism, by its shear nature, puts everyone in a competition against others. It puts us all in an us vs them mindset. This is an absolutely terrible way to run a society. Not to mention that the end game of Capitalism is one or very few owning everything. That is just stupid!!
@ingeatle90
April 3, 2024 at 10:46 am
Really enjoyed this talk. Tks !!!
@aparajitasuman9727
April 3, 2024 at 11:01 am
Treating politics as sport has ruined both.
@anastaciochapa5198
April 3, 2024 at 11:55 am
I knew a lot of people who didn’t really pay that much attention to politics, but after tRUMP, now I’m the enemy, now I’m a demon-rat, because I won’t join the cult. They are taught to hate anyone outside their cult. Difficult to near impossible to have a conversation with these people now.
@thomassby7139
April 3, 2024 at 12:43 pm
Short long outbursts? HE’S RIGHT!!
@wulfssoul
April 3, 2024 at 1:22 pm
Jordan is the man!!!
@markk3453
April 3, 2024 at 2:03 pm
Is their a long version of this? He has some very good points
@alexanderw.5200
April 3, 2024 at 2:11 pm
Jordan Klepper is a gentleman and a scholar. Great guy.
@KeithNagel
April 3, 2024 at 2:28 pm
The problem is that people do not argue in good faith. The point of rhetoric is not to find truth but to win. There’s a reason the ancient Greeks sent their youth to the Rhetoricians and relegated the philosophers seeking truth to the forests dressed in their bedsheets. That’s democracy, and it always has been. To quote Churchill “Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…”
@charleshewitt6180
April 3, 2024 at 2:34 pm
Thanks Jordan.
@PrinceEdwardIII
April 3, 2024 at 2:45 pm
the trouble with these conversations is that the people who need to hear them the most simply wont listen, and the people who want to listen dont need them.
there is no motivation, no instant reward for someone to change their world view. in contrast, there is LOTS of instant gratification in screaming into the echo chamber of your choice.
The trouble with America is that we’ve convinced our citizens that their opinions are interchangeable with fact, and any dissenting opinions are an attack on their character.
You cannot educate those that view education as an offense on their beliefs.
what we need is more debate clubs in elementary school.
There are universal “rules” when it comes to debate, and nobody follows them any more.
example:
If you are challenging commonly accepted facts (the sky is blue), the burden on proof is on the challenger, not the defender.
@eyewonder6448
April 3, 2024 at 3:07 pm
I love his work on the daily show but I would qualify him as a social economic philosophical comedian….
@user-qz3yw2eh4g
April 3, 2024 at 3:33 pm
I believe that in the long run social media was going to create a solid common ground between everybody… and then RWNJ’s who, need that common ground to go away, got it’s hands on it.
@user-qz3yw2eh4g
April 3, 2024 at 3:36 pm
40% chance of rain = 20% of the reporting area has a 20% chance of seeing rain.
@suehowie152
April 3, 2024 at 4:28 pm
👏👏👏👏 Bravo Jordan.
@jerrylives2278
April 3, 2024 at 4:28 pm
Portland does suck! But we still love it..
@StopWhining491
April 3, 2024 at 4:46 pm
If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not doing anything. If you think you know everything, your world must be very boring.
@TTheHooligan
April 3, 2024 at 5:17 pm
Call upon the Helldivers to defend DEMOCRACY
@laidbackbeau
April 3, 2024 at 6:06 pm
Ohio has Cedar Point! Greatest amusement park for thrill rides in the US. That’s at least one good thing.
@ChildishRambino
April 3, 2024 at 6:19 pm
As a fellow Michigander, my big concession regarding Ohio is “at least they have Cedar Point.”
@billkenney422
April 3, 2024 at 6:56 pm
We have no trouble talking to each other, it’s the listening to each other that needs work. We have two ears and only one mouth, and the mouth closes the ears don’t. Just sayin’.
@rickybigelow8364
April 3, 2024 at 8:15 pm
Great job Jordan! And BTW I literally just conceded TODAY to a conservative friend that “maybe Portland Sucks” lol… I am a resident and we really need to step up our game. But your advice is good and we need to keep having the discussions with our friends, family, and community. Our love and effort will win the day in the end
@jehanr
April 3, 2024 at 8:18 pm
These TED talk audiences are getting smalll.. I think? I could be wrong though….
@Yourmission9
April 3, 2024 at 9:25 pm
Klepper is awesome, quick witted, normal, cool, and if you don’t agree with me I concede
@holgerlubotzki3469
April 4, 2024 at 8:41 am
Sure.. but the people who are certain that the 2020 election was stolen will never concede or change their minds.
@albertoserrano67
April 4, 2024 at 9:50 am
Jordan Klepper
@JesseStarrPhoto
April 4, 2024 at 10:14 am
Wow, this audience has zero sense of humor.
@mustafaghadyali4352
April 4, 2024 at 10:35 am
Jordan is brilliant 😊
@ohotnitza
April 4, 2024 at 10:41 am
WHY A DIG AT PORTLAND 😭😭😭
@vishwayoga3.14
April 4, 2024 at 10:51 am
So humbly approached and yet one of the best most timely ted talks I’ve ever heard.
@Becky_Cal
April 4, 2024 at 11:04 am
I think it’s crucial for Americans to travel within our own country because it’s so large, diverse and different depending on where people live. Where we are from in the U.S. heavily influences our beliefs, our biases, our politics, our values and how we relate to others. Only by actually mixing with people from different parts of the country can we at least have an “understanding” of people who think differently. Doesn’t mean we’re going to agree with people’s views…I’ll never agree with a racist, a small-minded person who refuses to believe “facts” nor a person who thinks they’re superior simply bc they’re white… I’m a Latina, a woman, speak four languages, have traveled all other the world and was born/raised in L.A., one of the most cosmopolitan, diverse, intense, and complex cities in the world (I’ve lived in four countries). I will never fully see eye to eye with a person who grew up in rural Minnesota (I’ve worked with them and we are like oil/water) but I can understand why they value certain things or why they fear certain things. The problem is, it takes two and THEY have to also be willing to understand me; understand where I come from; and respect my life experiences (as I do theirs). 🤷🏻♀️ The onus is really on the person with the limited life experience, the more narrow view of the world and someone who grew up isolated or sheltered. A person who has extensive and varied experience is typically more flexible bc they have a lot of experience to pull from, they’ve seen a lot, and they don’t operate from a place of fear.
@rickemmet1104
April 4, 2024 at 11:24 am
Good points Jordan! Speaking about failure, Paul Theroux once wrote, “Though America in its greatness is singular, it resembles the rest of the world in its failures.” I love the line, “Every person who has ever loved me, has told me how much of a looser I am.” LOL!
@daniel51020
April 4, 2024 at 11:26 am
Spot on!
Thank you.
Wise words.
Let’s make it OK for everyone from kids to Presidents to not know something and to be open about it, rather than bashing them into the ground.
@GaidenBalki
April 4, 2024 at 11:34 am
Klepper’s quickly becoming Jon Stewart Jr. The fact he took the time to do these CNN interviews and TED talks about the state of democracy has really made him a folcrum of American politics. Much like Stewart. He keeps his eye on the right parts of democracy, always in the right corner, watching everyones back.
One of the greatest comedic writer’s I’ve ever met told me, “Read a fuckin’ book.” It’s amazing what knowledge can do to your relation of the zeitgeist.
@KingFriday274
April 4, 2024 at 12:08 pm
I’m a liberal from Portland and I concede. We did f*** this city up.
@rachelrobinson3746
April 4, 2024 at 12:21 pm
I always love Jordan Klepper’s direct honesty and compassion. We get better at talking to each other by getting better at really listening to each other and making the other person feel heard. It so just so darn hard, though. Especially when the other person is repeating crazy things they heard on right wing media and are not willing to be mentally flexible. I am practicing keeping my mouth shut and it is very difficult, but the reason I am working on being quiet is because most people are generally not willing to be influenced and they are going to think what they think no matter what facts or data I present to them. Nurturing relationships is my goal even when the other person is off base because I feel that is all I really can do.
@davidg4026
April 4, 2024 at 12:34 pm
Jordan, only Americans call Canadian police “Mounties.”
@Spiral.Dynamics
April 4, 2024 at 12:34 pm
Before 2016 I enjoyed arguments online with both conservatives and libertarians. I can’t talk to either one these days because they believe deranged things.
@Primo_extracts
April 4, 2024 at 12:57 pm
💯👍🔉 i’ve always liked Jordan Klepper, now I like him even more. And I’m from Portland.😂😂😂
@MegaSnail1
April 4, 2024 at 12:59 pm
Luv you Jordan. All great points. I have one more. Listen the way you always do in your work with the Daily Show. For me I have dear friends on all sides of the political spectrum and when a controversial topic comes up like abortion I always listen first. Once folks have spoken their truth I simply share that I agree that no women should ever have to endure an abortion in a perfect world, however let’s face it this is not a perfect world. Be well and thank you for all your great shows!
@surlyboomergaming2517
April 4, 2024 at 1:14 pm
Not sure why this is a question. The answer is simple. One side believes in science, and the other side believes in “jewish space lasers” and “alternate facts.” Forget the cult even. When you have this disparity, there will be no agreements. Good luck ordering family style dinner 🙂
@bast713
April 4, 2024 at 1:47 pm
Jordan is fantastic!
@SouthAfricanAmerica
April 4, 2024 at 2:33 pm
Step one: consider your political opponents to be more than caricatures to ridicule for years, and maybe that they might have some humanity to them outside of riled up rallies.
@revwillyg6450
April 4, 2024 at 2:44 pm
I get your point, but have you seen a trump rally crowd? They make it really hard to see the humanity
@soonny002
April 4, 2024 at 3:14 pm
The video is 8 minutes long, I browsed through the comment section in 10 seconds, read the gist of the video, wrote this piece of crap, and moved on. Progress!!
@chloemanske1144
April 4, 2024 at 3:22 pm
This just in on Klepper’s rendition of Late Night w/ Seth Meyers’ “Back in My Day”
@kengol2382
April 4, 2024 at 5:54 pm
Language is living.. Like a plant 🌿 that works best when used before the expression date
@abramisme
April 4, 2024 at 6:16 pm
I don’t know about this 😅
@irockluculent961
April 4, 2024 at 8:06 pm
Well done.
@ndrew239
April 4, 2024 at 8:09 pm
Ironic name for the talk given Klepper has often been a stereotype of why progressives can’t talk to conservatives. Patronising, mocking, bad faith.
@kathryn1304
April 6, 2024 at 9:39 am
6:45
@RTKdarling
April 6, 2024 at 9:50 am
Why do so many of us assume we’re right all the time? What is this life experience that everyone has had that’s convinced us that we know what we’re doing?
When I take an objective look at my life, it’s obvious that I’ve been wrong a lot. It’s obvious that what I don’t know vastly outweighs what I do know. We need to come to the negotiation table knowing that we MUST be wrong about something.
@TerreHauteRemoteGoat
April 6, 2024 at 10:02 am
All good advice, except when you are dealing with someone whose mind is completely closed. They perceive conceding as a sign of weakness and it works like an Overton window to shift everything to the right.
@Misses-Hippy
April 6, 2024 at 10:26 am
So well presented!
@pittycrepido
April 6, 2024 at 10:54 am
I really thought I heard @MatPat at the last line, ” but what do I know… It’s just a theory”
@andrewcarlson5254
April 6, 2024 at 11:23 am
Thank you Jason, this is the way we were imagining automotive storytelling could/would be when we were young. Well don sir!!
@thebreakofdawnzinaz2898
April 6, 2024 at 11:26 am
Love you Jordan! (and I am from Ohio). ❤
@kassiapencek6185
April 6, 2024 at 11:29 am
I was wondering what the accumulated insight was from all of his interactions with the brain washed population. So pay people to read, donate to a program that hosts people to travel, and invite them over for dinner within 5 seconds when they concede to the smallest thing.
@doublecomplex4741
April 6, 2024 at 12:08 pm
Would have loved to see the extended (3x length) version! ❤
@YourNameHere1000
April 6, 2024 at 12:09 pm
40% chance of rain, means that 40% of the area we are talking about will receive rain.
@ceougin20
April 6, 2024 at 12:13 pm
It’s ALWAYS gonna rain. That’s a given 100%. That 40% chance of rain means it’ll rain on YOU.
@SometimestheY
April 6, 2024 at 12:30 pm
This also pinpoints maybe the main problem that has gotten us mired in this situation in the first place: the appeal of Trump, for so much of his base, is this “Man’s Man” ethos of refusing to do any of these things. And his whole party has taken up that mantle. There is no concession, no humility, no willingness to be wrong or be vulnerable or try to work towards compromise. You have to be “strong” and certain and always right. You always have to win. And when those things aren’t true, you have to just keep telling yourself and everyone else that they are, no matter how much evidence is stacked against you. So there’s no way to have a discussion, to have civility. It’s so hard to see where we can go from here, when one side isn’t willing to give so much as an inch.
@CoverBydAn
April 6, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Jordan klepper is a national treasure. Sorry, i mean global treasure
@curtisholsinger6023
April 6, 2024 at 2:26 pm
“The cultural conversations we have are dictated by the forums we have them in.” Just wanted to isolate and highlight this pure gem.
@mellow5123
April 6, 2024 at 2:35 pm
He should stick to the on the road stuff.
@hendrickziegler8487
April 6, 2024 at 3:56 pm
while these are all valid points, he mentioned the main problem of American politics just once: That it is a two-party-system that rewards polarizing voters. Get rid of the electoral college and winner-takes-all mechanics and polarisation becomes way less attractive for political actors. Being less polarised as a society should be agreeable to both sides of the isle. Except for one side knowing that they wouldn’t be anywhere near as powerful in a more balanced political landscape and a billionaire donors that keep giving to that side not for idealistic reasons but because they can buy anti-regulatory politics.
@seankerr9158
April 6, 2024 at 4:26 pm
Would totally watch 11 more minutes
@er...
April 6, 2024 at 4:41 pm
Why would my post inquiring about the date of this event be deleted????????????? What is wrong with youtube??????????????
@10sassafras
April 6, 2024 at 5:05 pm
Bigotry isn’t new. Closed minds are not new. Maximising the number of people voting is the key to democracy doing well.
@sasha2345
April 6, 2024 at 5:15 pm
Jordan is awesome.
@NWPaul72
April 6, 2024 at 5:43 pm
In the game of retail, sometime you start with a loss leader.
@michaelelder3945
April 6, 2024 at 6:49 pm
This appears to be the antidote to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Admitting that you don’t know something creates the space you need to learn it. Like the Zen Story “A cup of Tea”, how can you learn something new if you think you already know it? A wise man can learn from a fool, but a fool learns from no one.
@ericseanbrotto
April 6, 2024 at 7:00 pm
Anger is the weapon of the right, comedy is the weapon of the left. I consider myself a progressive person, but one thing that American liberals should stop doing is alienating the right by constantly mocking them. Making fun of people you disagree with is ineffective and polarising.
@dbknittel
April 6, 2024 at 7:53 pm
Wow, a comedian is saying what a presidential candidate must say in today’s landscape to change this country for the better. Everyone needs to hear this so this political competition can end and our people and their government can get back to compromising for the greater good.
@r3p3ntiv3
April 6, 2024 at 8:15 pm
In other words… lay off the dunning-kruger people.