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Trump team claims 250,000 watched military parade. ‘No Kings’ events drew 4 million
(www.independent.co.uk)
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For context:
5% of the Italian population protested the Iraq war.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests
That's 25% of the population.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way
3.3% of the Phillipines population protested in 1986 whilst under a dictatorship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution
Edit:
37.5% of the US population watched the Super Bowl in 2025 but less than 2% protested a fascist takeover of the country. Shows your priorities. The downvotes also really tell that your feels are hurt more than caring about the reals of the situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings
Edit 2: 200k just marched in The Netherlands against genocide. That's 1.09% of their population marching for an issue that doesn't even personally affect them, because they have principles. But y'all can't even get double that for an issue that will personally effect the rest of your lives. Shame.
https://lemmy.world/post/31485267
GTFO. They're waking up. Get over yourself.
4 years of the alarm ringing, a 4 year snooze, and then 6 months of the alarm ringing again is an awfully long time to take to wake up. All whilst living in the "richest" country in the world, with the freedom to carry guns, and say what you want. That's... Even more pathetic than I first thought.
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing the pictures and videos of thousands, millions, of people marching, but you can do better.
You’re comparing one day protests to weeks or months long protests.
Was No Kings truly a one day protest when there's been anti-Trump protests dotted around for weeks? It's one part of a larger group of protests.
All of the numbers I took were for one day turnouts. They're comparable.
"3.3% is pathetic considering what they were protesting" 🙄 that's how you sound.
Then you've not engaged your brain.
How easy was communication in 1986 compared to now?
How easy was mobilisation, in an island nation, under a dictatorship?
Americans still have most of their freedoms, use them before you lose them.
Fuck off.
Rude.
Yeah, because you were rude to me. Hope this helps!
It only helps if you're willing to go onto the street and tell Trump and his fascist buddies the same message.
Because otherwise, they'll do far worse than a nerd on the internet telling you to think.
Donald loves the poorly uneducated. Funny how they’re against LGBT, but wouldn’t mind licking his asshole or suck his dick.