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by TeeMassive 1249 days 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.

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If the head of the TED Talks organization claimed he had infiltrated world governments, I'd take it equivalently seriously.
The head of TED doesn't invite government officials around the world every year to make official agreements on policy.
Citation needed.

Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does. That's not a compliment to Yglesias.

> Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does

Citation needed.