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I was just reading the Guardian reporting on the ongoing anti-ICE protests across the US, and the word 'hundreds' kept coming up. Isn't that very very few people? In Spain you get a few hundred people protesting over niche local issues and it doesn't make the news.

What's it looking like where people are?

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[–] ghosts@hexbear.net 32 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Another thing to remember is that the media turns "tens of thousands" into hundreds for anti-state protests and turns hundreds into "tens of thousands" for color revolutions and Trump rallies

[–] stink@lemmygrad.ml 11 points 3 days ago

There was an estimated 150k at the DC Palestine protest, they said "a few thousand" lol

[–] miz@hexbear.net 12 points 3 days ago

thinking about the 2016 primary when Hillary couldn't fill a school gymnasium and Bernie was packing stadiums, and the lying bourgeois media liars would show tight-cropped shots to pretend Hillary had a crowd and never show the instances of a hundred thousand people roaring at Bernie rallies