Booker’s speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live
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Summary
Senator Cory Booker’s speech on TikTok live surpassed 350 million likes as he stood for over 25 hours speaking in the Senate chamber.
Booker broke Strom Thurmond’s record for the longest Senate speech, which lasted 24 hours and 18 minutes in 1957 to block civil rights legislation.
Hopefully dems start doing this strategy to block actual policies from being passed.
It's really really important to understand that this was 100% performance, no legislation has been delayed or stopped as a result of this.
We SHOULD encourage our reps to waste yhe legislature's time, but ONLY when it actually impacts something.
The true news story will be when there are no follow up filibusters
It will not be reported. Instead, soundbites about how "nothing could be done to stop this" will be reported ad-nauseam.
I wish people would quit saying this. It delayed the appointment of Matthew Whitaker as the ambassador of NATO for 25 hours
25 hours of "we must resist this fascist takeover" only to immediately have multiple Democrats roll over and help confirm said fascist's appointment nominee... Really kinda cuts out the knees from any hope that speech may have inspired.
"You need to resist, because we won't"
And did anything of importance happen (or not happen) in those 25 hours?
All kids do these days is twerk, eat hot chips, be bisexual and like TikToks.
And I respect the hell out of that.
me too actually
sounds like kids are evolving into their final form, woke beyblades
That's utterly disgusting. How can they like hot chips?
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Wait, TikTok users had more than 4 seconds of engagement with a 25-hour speech that wasn’t set to “oh no no no” (slowed + reverb NITECORE REMIX)
Yes, TikTok users are far more than just boomer/lib memes. They don't actually need to be attacked and banned.
I'm not trying to take away from the accomplishment, but how does this get 350 million likes? The entire population of the U.S. is less than 342 million. Yes, tiktok is worldwide, but are there really that many people paying attention to this?
I live in America, so my apologies if I seem a little biased.
I got the feeling that a large portion of the world is interested and paying attention to what appears to be the downfall and collapse of the largest "super power" on the planet. I imagine many people outside the country would be interested in attempts to combat/slow/reverse what for all intents and purposes is the biggest economic and military nation in the world going full fascist, even if it's just symbolic.
I just saw a comment on a reddit thread saying that on tiktok live you can repeatedly press the like button, and it caps at 2000 likes.
As a european, I follow the us shitshow partly because it influences our politics and lives and partly because I feel sympathy for all the people suffering because of it. Mostly however, I follow it because it is ~70% of the content on lemmy. If I had tiktok I would have liked the speech there.
On tiktok a single person can give more than one like.
I dunno why this simple and obvious answer has no upvotes compared to the wacky theories.
I guess people are more used to trading conspiracies about TikTok than actually using it.
Wow. The resistance is getting some likes!!! REEESSSSIIIIISSSSSTTTTT!!!! \s
Don't libs want to ban TikTok? lol.
That's because of the genocide
that's more likes than there were americans last year, really glad to broke that asshole's record
What the hell even is this?
TikTok is a video platform that allows people to watch prerecorded and live videos. Video content includes pets, crafts, boobs, dank memes, tradwifes, and even politics.