phreekno@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · edit-28 months agoThe Life and Death of Aaron Bushnell: Friend Says Self-Immolation Was a Demand for Justicewww.democracynow.orgexternal-linkmessage-square54fedilinkarrow-up1316arrow-down118
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minus-squareDaveFuckinMorgan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down43·8 months agoIt was for nothing.
minus-squareLinkerbaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29arrow-down6·8 months agoAaron Bushnell got CNN to say the word Genocide on live TV. Even when talking about marches with 1 million people CNN called it war.
minus-squareZipitydew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down6·8 months agoAnd it will be right back out of the news cycle next week.
minus-squareLinkerbaan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down4·edit-28 months agoThe Buddhist monk didn’t keep staying in the news for 20 years either. The world moves on. They want new stuff every day. Global attention for a cause for (more than) a day achieved by a single person absolutely extraordinary.
minus-squareZipitydew@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down3·edit-28 months agoOh you mean the monk who set himself on fire in 1963? And totally stopped the Vietnam war by 1973.
minus-squareMastengwe@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down20·edit-28 months agoI could make CNN say “babaabooey” if I put it in a manifesto prior to setting myself on fire. They’ve said “genocide” before. This did nothing but silence one voice.
minus-squareDaveFuckinMorgan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down24·8 months agoWOW!!! CNN said “genocide”??? Holy fuck pack it up boys, the work is done.
minus-squareUsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down2·8 months agoI mean it made you make a comment. Regardless of your opinion, it still did something.
It was for nothing.
Aaron Bushnell got CNN to say the word Genocide on live TV. Even when talking about marches with 1 million people CNN called it war.
And it will be right back out of the news cycle next week.
The Buddhist monk didn’t keep staying in the news for 20 years either. The world moves on. They want new stuff every day.
Global attention for a cause for (more than) a day achieved by a single person absolutely extraordinary.
Oh you mean the monk who set himself on fire in 1963? And totally stopped the Vietnam war by 1973.
I could make CNN say “babaabooey” if I put it in a manifesto prior to setting myself on fire.
They’ve said “genocide” before. This did nothing but silence one voice.
WOW!!! CNN said “genocide”??? Holy fuck pack it up boys, the work is done.
I mean it made you make a comment. Regardless of your opinion, it still did something.