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Can we bring back random people giving soapbox speeches on the street? (lemmygrad.ml)
submitted 4 days ago by borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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Imagine how cool it would be to see some person yelling about Lenin and Marx, waving their arms around like crazy, newspaper in hand. Wearing one of those old caps, like the one Lenin had.

I know we kind of have a version of it online, but it's much more atomising and lame. Yelling on internet forums will never compare.

The only people who do soapboxing these days are ultra religious nutters, screaming about the apocalypse or whatever. How the great have fallen, truly.

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[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

today's version of that demo are either posting here (and its right wing equivalents) or dead

when I was 9 my family visited London and we went to Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park. most people were gathered around a guy standing on a box talking about how women are to blame for all sexual assaults

i think we're better off this way

[–] hexbee@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean it is London you're talking about. I don't think it should be used as an example of what human society is capable of...

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 5 points 4 days ago

within each american is a particle of england