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Without even knowing what he spoke about yet, which I don't, I can respect the conviction of a person who uses their platform to speak when they have rare access to that platform and there's plenty to talk about.
Plenty of us are going on marathon posting sessions on social media and it's to a much smaller audience. I have to empathize a little bit with anybody who feels exhausted or overwhelmed by the absurdity of everything but then gets up to speak for a whole damn day on one of the largest stages in the world
Even if the room is empty the audience is global. It may be grandstanding, but that's part of the job. Getting attention to things you care about is part of the job. People put you there to bring attention to things that they hope that you care about.
If government's going to work at all people have to give a shit about it and whatever this dude was talking about it's clear he gives a shit about it.
I didn't think of that either...
People acknowledgeing how little this did, have to acknowledge they're also not really "fighting the power" themselves.
Good point.
Some will show up and do things only because they feel the support is out there to act and be seen.
I might make different efforts were I them, but they are at least paddling in the same direction I want to go. I just don't have the energy to resent how they choose to spend their outrage.
I think a better analogy is that they are paddling in the direction that we all want to go but are denying that the ship they are paddling is sinking. We need them to be directing people to life boats and fighting back against the fascist boarding our ship. But they seem to just want to paddle forward when the water is already above their chest. There is no honor in "going down with the ship" if all you did that whole time was useless. Captains "go down with the ship" to make sure they did everything in their power to save people. That is not what the Democrats are doing at all.
If your house is burning down, your kids and dog are trapped inside...
You barely make it out alive, but you know your family is in there...
Firefighters show up, a wave of relief washes over....
Then they sit down and pray to Jesus that someone comes to put out the fire.
If you got upset the people paid to put out fires aren't using the equipment or putting any real effort into saving your family who are actively burning to death, and you yell at the firefighters:
How would you react to someone telling you the firefighters are doing all they can?
Dude. We're not elected policians. You really need to have a higher standard for your representatives than people posting on Twitter.
It really was not a good point AT ALL. I swear liberals are so use to not expecting any material change from their party that all they do is hold them to the same standard as a social media poster. That's actually pathetic.
I am...
I'm saying if those people admit the politicians aren't doing anything productive, then it obviously means funny signs won't do anything, even if you have a frog costume....