Mee@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 month agoWhat did Cory Booker 25-Hour speech actually achieve in terms of change?message-squaremessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhat did Cory Booker 25-Hour speech actually achieve in terms of change?Mee@reddthat.com to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · edit-21 month agomessage-square53fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefloo@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month 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-up0·1 month agoPerformances like that are meant to inspire acts of political courage among the people.
minus-squarefloo@retrolemmy.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoYet your performance has inspired nothing but antipathy
minus-squareinfinitevalence@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 month agoIf they want to inspire then get out and march from the front. I’m not sticking my neck out until they do.
minus-squareMaeve@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 month agoWould be cooler if it inspired acts of courage for the Dems on the Hill.
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.
Yet your performance has inspired nothing but antipathy
If they want to inspire then get out and march from the front. I’m not sticking my neck out until they do.
Would be cooler if it inspired acts of courage for the Dems on the Hill.