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[–] barkingspiders@infosec.pub 37 points 13 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

[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 23 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 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.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 11 points 13 hours ago

5M is an undercount

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 hours ago

Damn, Soros is going to bankrupt himself.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Largest political protest yet!

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 0 points 12 hours ago

This is going to STOP Republicans from Arresting and Assassinating Democrats!

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world -2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Great achievement, but it should have been three times bigger.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Invite more friends next time, we'll keep building

Also, appropriate comment for your username

[+] IceFoxX@lemmy.world -21 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Wuhu but all peacfull protest are the same.... 100% useless

[–] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Peaceful protests are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones

https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviolent-civil-resistance/

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820

[–] lerba@sopuli.xyz 6 points 13 hours ago

Sorry to hear you feel this way

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Be the change you want to see in the world?

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yep, be that violence you want to see in the world. Are we repeating ourselves?

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[+] IceFoxX@lemmy.world -8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

You just don't get it. You are helping fascism with your useless protests. That will bring more violence and deaths in the long run... But apparently you love the history of the Nazis and their rise, so you want to experience it for yourselves. The main thing is that you can later hypocritically claim that you supposedly tried to do something about it.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

You just don’t get it.

You don't read: I literally urged you to be that violence you advocate. Nothing beats doing it yourself. See how that works for you.

You've likely seen the post on research that shows nonviolent protest is more successful, so if reason & research don't work for you, then your next logical move is direct experience.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world -2 points 10 hours ago

Let's talk about it as soon as fascism is firmly established. Your freedom of speech, freedom of opinion etc. are dismantled and you have reached the status of Russia China North Korea....

/r/50501 Mirror