So I somehow managed to slog through 3 hours of speeches, need to start at the beginning to watch the final hour. They started to blend in with a lot of decent stuff of "stop funding the Ukraine war and use the money to help the people" "No war with Russia and China" lots of "war is a racket, and funded by wall street". I think there was like 3 that had anti-vax bits out of everyone so a it was a very surprising minority. Some highlights that stuck out in my mind: the lady from the grayzone complaining about the online left looking down their nose at the event to which I screamed :logout: and focus on the even you're at. One of the dudes that said he almost got smoked by an American 155 mm shell in his hotel when he went to interview people in Donbass, Hinkle gave a sort of fratboy's third speech, very shouty, the one guy that talked about Smedley Butler and how this racket has been an inter-generational one, the one crotchety old fucker that riffed on the ghouls, Ron Paul saying he learned what AIs are and proceeded to say Congress is filled with bots then giving a long-winded rambling speech about something-something volunteerism something-something-abolish the Fed holy shit he sucks at speaking. Lots of riffs about blowing up pipelines and balloons. Oh yeah I think Gabbard's gunning for another bid for the whitehouse who wants to take bets on whether she's gonna run on a red ticket or a blue ticket? Oh yeah there's actually a guy with the nickname of "pasta" :fidel-wut: also he's that guy that talked about Smedley Butler since I had to check. There was also a guy that said being anti war isn't enough you also gotta be anti war propaganda aka if the CIA says a country's evil you don't do their work for them by not manufacturing consent for the MIC to inch the US closer to war. Also someone said essentially Ohio got nuked, like actually saying that lmao. Someone also brought up Collin Powell lying to cause the massacre of millions of Iraqis, then went on to say the bits like Saddam ripping babies from incubaters, Qadaffii handing out viagra, Assad gassing his own people, and Putin losing badly but about to march on Berlin and saying all (our) wars are lies. Dennis Kucinich kinda looks like a knock-off Christopher Walker, also gave a long fucking speech. I actually thought he was a libertarian until I looked him up. Also a few riffs along the lines of 'we can argue about pronouns or whether teenage girls can be safe in bathrooms with biologically born boys but we gotta put aside the culture war stuff to fight against nuclear war' had me go :cringe: why would you bring that specifically up if not to needle on the point also :fidel-bat:

My favorite highlight hands down was the very end where Roger Waters delivered a video speech. It was a very 'Nam reminiscent speech that finishes on Lennon's "Give Peace A Chance"

All in all, general judgement :shrug-outta-hecks: I was hoping for more hog slop but I'm left with an empty bowl.

Edit: the extra hour is a lie, I actually managed to accidentally jump to the start of the event with the first speech given by glenn greenwald, whom I didn't actually understand a word he said because the audio was shit. the only bit I got was him quoting the queen of hearts saying we should metaphorically chop off the heads of the war mongers. Also I learned Larouche had a wife who's German and is still alive from a sign mentioning her name and saying america should join hands with Russia, China, and India, to forge a new multi-polar world, also she is in a spat with her husband's yankee followers to which I say lol.