• Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      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.

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        8 months ago

        And it will be right back out of the news cycle next week.

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          8 months ago

          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.

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            8 months ago

            Oh you mean the monk who set himself on fire in 1963? And totally stopped the Vietnam war by 1973.