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
arrow-up1298arrow-down1external-linkThe Life and Death of Aaron Bushnell: Friend Says Self-Immolation Was a Demand for Justicewww.democracynow.orgphreekno@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · edit-28 months agomessage-square54fedilink
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.
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.