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Originally Posted By u/No-Youth-6679 At 2025-06-17 11:11:58 AM | Source


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[โ€“] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 37 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

this is overstated, it is currently placed as the third largest protest in America (in wikipedia at least, I've heard anywhere from 3-11M so numbers can vary), the two largest could easily be spun as political (George Floyd and Earth Day) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size

not dragging the accomplishment btw, we've now had two new entries in the top 5 since Trump took office, I don't think we're done setting records either, get your friends and neighbors to go to the next one

[โ€“] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 23 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Floyd protests are generally not included as those numbers are not single day protest, FWIW. Earth Day however, is weird to exclude. That was absolutely a single day political protest from a time when most everyone understood we share the planet and a vested interest in avoiding it becoming uninhabitable.