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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Big kudos to the No Kings protestors. The parade for Krasnov received what is deserved, it was fucking lame.

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago

Now that's a beautiful protest. Very nice, MN!

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 16 points 8 hours ago

I do see people's point about America just being such a passive or incredibly violent country. But, when I went out to the protest, I did notice that you had anarchist, grannies and liberals in the same setting. So we gotta watch and see what happens over time. But I mean, I think collective suffering is going to push people to the edge. Which eventually will awaken something, I hope. In the meantime, I have my eyes set on Europe. At least the cheeseburger kings bday party was an absolute flop. You can see it in his face. Trump is such a little baby bitch.

[–] Wilco@lemm.ee 19 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Republicans should be terrified at this point. The protests are peaceful ... for now.

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 6 points 10 hours ago

...nah man, they're just itching for an excuse to roll out deadly force and mass voter suppression...

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 26 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That looks like a bigger crowd than trump's birthday war parade.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 11 hours ago

Might be a bigger crowd than Trump's inauguration too

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 16 hours ago

And this is after they "cancelled" it.

[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (4 children)

As someone now living in Europe, I find the US protests mild and small. When Europeans protest, they protest. I mean, my native Greece saw a massive protest in Feb, well over a million went out, in a country of ~9 million. This is how you do it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm3vEKMnA-8

[–] Surp@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (3 children)

What you're failing to understand is the USA is so gigantic that you can't really get people that don't have a lot of money in one spot easily. It's costly to fly/drive to one place. Greece is tiny in comparison. We had people protesting in the millions throughout the USA this weekend but not all together in the same place as I said it's just too damn expensive.

Are you going to help pay to organize that sort of thing or just not think about the logistics of it all and say random things on the internet because you possibly dislike the USA or something and just felt like taking a little internet jab? USA citizens have had enough and were trying to organize everywhere we can. Greece isn't even bigger than Texas which is just 1 of the 50 states to put it into perspective for you.

Anyways keep it up USA I'm rooting for you guys to pull through "I have friends everywhere"

Also here's a tidbit of the protests this weekend https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.gifv

Also fact check as of this post it was the third most attended protest in USA history https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago

Damn, that's huge. I didn't even know there were any.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 5 hours ago

I don't think that was the point. The point was that one ninth of the population was on the street. That's over 11%.
To be at the same scale the US being a country of ~340 millions should have a protest of almost 38 millions people.

In smaller country people may be able to protest together more easily but usually they manifest locally, in their own town or the closest city.

[–] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Yep, people dont think about that. Greece is the size of Alabama lol.

USA = 9.8 million kilometers

Greece = 132,000 kilometers

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

The problem, the Americans work too much. If they had the vacation days like the Europeans, these protests would turn French. The demonstrations in Germany are weak compared to the French too.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

You're basically watching a whole country (re)learn how to do this. Most of us have had it good for a long time, up until very recently. You're seeing a lot of first-timers in every one of these protests, as the movement grows. Give it time.

[–] phantomwise@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 hours ago

...and in France we get maimed by tear gas grenades and rubber bullets for it. Yay.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 32 points 18 hours ago

Can I get this side by side with trump’s inaugurations please

[–] andybytes@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

No one showed up to the cheeseburger kings birthday party.

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