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To preface this question, I just want to clarify I’m not trying to be a troll or stir the shitpot, I genuinely think I’ve missed something here. That being said, I’m confused about why people are so excited about this 25 hour speech. He talked for a little over a day. I thought the main issue we have with democrats is that talking is all they seem to do. I mean, he wasn’t even filibustering anything.
What was it about this particular spell of talking that’s making people appreciative versus all the other hot air from democrats? What did this accomplish?
There'a a reason there was a 24 hour record to be broken in the first place. Standing and delivering a speech for 25 hours straight is a genuinely incredible physical and mental feat.
The talking is to hold up the Senate, give voices to seniors worried about losing social security, and to draw more attention to the absolutely broken state of our government.
It's an ideological war. Most of it will look like talking until the talking pushes people to start acting. You can't just skip ahead to the revolution and push the "riot" button, you have to convince people to act.
So is eating 73 hot dogs in 10 minutes. What does it accomplish?
Everybody paying attention is already aware of these things. What does repeating them accomplish?
Our representatives are the ones who are supposed to be acting. Again, what did this speech accomplish?
I mean, we're all talking about it, aren't we? His actions might spur others into taking action.
MLK didn't really do a ton of direct action, but his speeches were still very influential.