Mee@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-220 hours agoWhat did Cory Booker 25-Hour speech actually achieve in terms of change?message-squaremessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1102arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up191arrow-down1message-squareWhat did Cory Booker 25-Hour speech actually achieve in terms of change?Mee@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-220 hours agomessage-square54fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefloo@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down4·20 hours agoIt was a great show for what it was, but did it achieve anything? Not really. Which is, in and of itself, pretty sad.
minus-squarePunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down6·20 hours agoPerformances like that are meant to inspire acts of political courage among the people.
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·19 hours agoWould be cooler if it inspired acts of courage for the Dems on the Hill.
minus-squareinfinitevalence@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·20 hours agoIf they want to inspire then get out and march from the front. I’m not sticking my neck out until they do.
minus-squarefloo@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down14·20 hours agoYet your performance has inspired nothing but antipathy
It was a great show for what it was, but did it achieve anything? Not really. Which is, in and of itself, pretty sad.
Performances like that are meant to inspire acts of political courage among the people.
Would be cooler if it inspired acts of courage for the Dems on the Hill.
If they want to inspire then get out and march from the front. I’m not sticking my neck out until they do.
Yet your performance has inspired nothing but antipathy