popjamNo Kings Protest, Minnesota
WytchThis is incredible.
“small protest, one of the smallest. My speeches are bigger, much biggly”
-turnip
starlingukWelll… It’s honestly not that big. The entire turnout across the States was not that big. The two anti Brexit protests in London had about 1.5 million participants and Britain has a much smaller population. Most Americans don’t seem to care.
JustEnoughDucksLondon population: 8.8 million
Twin cities population: 3.6 million
London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere
Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant
London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed
Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians
Mystery solved.
The count’s are coming in but I’m seeing more than 11million people protested throughout the usa.
Do you think the photo you’re seeing is the entirity of this protest? I think you don’t actually grasp the size of the US.
This is a small turnout. I went to one in a pretty centrist-right leaning town (Much much smaller than Minneapolis… Like hundreds of times smaller), and our turnout was about the same.
Go look at the turnout for Philadelphia.
I haven’t seen any nationwide estimates yet, but I can pretty much guarantee that it was at least more than 1 million people.
It’s the biggest protest I’ve seen in America in my lifetime. Glad to be a part of it.
There’s a little bit of a difference in the police response to protests between the two