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.
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Wow. The resistance is getting some likes!!! REEESSSSIIIIISSSSSTTTTT!!! \s
Don’t libs want to ban TikTok? lol.
That’s because of the genocide
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.
I kinda feel like you missed the point.
The takeaway i got from somebody not preventing the fascist coup in a meaningful way was that some dems want to do something but are too stupid or complicit to have a material impact on the changes happening.
I suppose his speech could be seen as a shot across the bow of DNC leadership, but I’m not really that optimistic. Even if that’s what it is, waaay too little and waaay too late.
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
And did anything of importance happen (or not happen) in those 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”
All kids do these days is twerk, eat hot chips, be bisexual and like TikToks.
That’s utterly disgusting. How can they like hot chips?
/S
And I respect the hell out of that.
me too actually
sounds like kids are evolving into their final form, woke beyblades
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.
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.
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.
That seems a little disappointing. I don’t use TikTok so not overly familiar with anything about it, but 2000 seems a bit excessive. Like I could maybe see a max of 3. 2 for something you really like and then 3 for something amazing or something you love.
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.
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.
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.
Storm Thurman? Zero likes on his TikTok. That’s the real stat.
To be fair, Storm wasn’t a real person.
Strom got ratioed
I mean… even 1 like would be the same ratio.
Excuse me, I want 10 digit precision on this measurement
Strom Thurmond has been infinitely ratioed by a black man
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
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