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Bernie Sanders 8.5 hour filibuster Lo-Fi (youtu.be)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 93 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The best part of this is he literally could've talked about any subject, or just read the dictionary. But Bernie never goes off topic, the man WILL lecture you for 8.5 hours, and that's just his warmup. Absolute legend.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago

Of all the politicians he is the realest of the real. Never stops fighting for the PEOPLE

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

There is a well-timed musical change just after 3:13:44 when Mary Landrieu is describing her surprise at learning about the severe racial disparities in US households' net worth:

screeshot of youtube transcript with text:3:13:44average median net worth not income net worth of households is3:13:5067,000 so that's very interesting I thought it would be higher than that I mean that's taking everything that you3:13:57own minus everything you owe and the difference is your net worth I thought people might have more than that I mean3:14:03in terms of equity in their homes you know couple hundred th000 67,000 it was3:14:08concerning to me say said do you have that broken down by Race by any chance oh yes ma'am we have that so would you3:14:15share it they did and I'm going to share it with you because I have not recovered from what I3:14:22heard the gentleman says to me well for white families in3:14:28America the average median not average median which is 50% more 50% less the3:14:34median the White household Senator is 87,0003:14:4187,000 for Hispanic families it is3:14:498,000 and for African-American families it is3:14:565,000 I want to repeat that again 50% of all families in America who are

edit: fwiw the numbers she cites are substantially lower (though the disparities are similar) than what Pew Research reported for that timeframe.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

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3:13:44

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Wait what happened?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"THIS IS AMAZING" -- Lord Shaxx

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

RIP

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

This is fantastic, and it looks like that whole channel is a goldmine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

This is also available as a book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Speech_(Sanders_book)

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