• Ephera
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    421 month ago

    Man, can you imagine, the meaningless platitudes that are normally said at these ceremonies, but it’s not even a human speaker, but rather an overengineered loudspeaker.

    • @OpenStars
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      131 month ago

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    • @delirious_owl
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      21 month ago

      Meaningless? I’ve listened to some excellent graduation speaches. Chris Hedges comes to mind

      • Ephera
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        71 month ago

        Yeah, I think, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I know, I’m on the extreme side with never having liked such a ceremony. I think, it’s because I simply stop feeling represented with the kind of generic speech you get when addressing more than a dozen people, because I guess, I’m just too special of a snowflake…

        • @delirious_owl
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          -31 month ago

          So we should all shut up and stop calling for an end to genocide because its “generic speech”?

          • Ephera
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            21 month ago

            No, that’s not a generic speech to me. In that case, you’re motivating a specific political issue and trying to convince anyone who’s still on the fence. Contentious political issues have always been excluded from the ceremony speeches I attended.

            • @delirious_owl
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              -11 month ago

              Why? That’s kinda their responsibility. Especially now, during a genocide.

              Anyone who was speaking at a graduation now and didn’t call for action against the war is failing miserablely