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Was No Kings truly a one day protest when there's been anti-Trump protests dotted around for weeks? It's one part of a larger group of protests.

All of the numbers I took were for one day turnouts. They're comparable.

Then you've not engaged your brain.

How easy was communication in 1986 compared to now?

How easy was mobilisation, in an island nation, under a dictatorship?

Americans still have most of their freedoms, use them before you lose them.

4 years of the alarm ringing, a 4 year snooze, and then 6 months of the alarm ringing again is an awfully long time to take to wake up. All whilst living in the "richest" country in the world, with the freedom to carry guns, and say what you want. That's... Even more pathetic than I first thought.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed seeing the pictures and videos of thousands, millions, of people marching, but you can do better.

For context:

5% of the Italian population protested the Iraq war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_protests

Approximately two million people joined their hands to form a human chain spanning 690 kilometres (430 mi) across the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which at the time were occupied and annexed by the USSR and had a combined population of approximately eight million.[2]

That's 25% of the population.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way

3.3% of the Phillipines population protested in 1986 whilst under a dictatorship.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_Power_Revolution

Edit:

37.5% of the US population watched the Super Bowl in 2025 but less than 2% protested a fascist takeover of the country. Shows your priorities. The downvotes also really tell that your feels are hurt more than caring about the reals of the situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings

Edit 2: 200k just marched in The Netherlands against genocide. That's 1.09% of their population marching for an issue that doesn't even personally affect them, because they have principles. But y'all can't even get double that for an issue that will personally effect the rest of your lives. Shame.

https://lemmy.world/post/31485267

With a U.S. population of 340.11 million (Wikipedia number) that's 1.18 - 1.76%. That's... pretty pathetic considering what was being protested.

1 - 2 people out of every 100 in America stand against fascism, the rest... who knows?

Edit: at this rate more Americans will have downvoted my comments than bothered to say they're opposed to fascism. No wonder you elected a reality TV star with mush for brains as your leader. Well done, you took to the streets, but not enough of you, not while you're still free to do so. Get good or suffer the consequences. You've seen what's coming, do something about it. If only 1-2 out of 100 of you can be arsed to say no, then the jackboots will take that as a green light to do what they want. After that, getting more numbers to show up will become increasingly difficult. Now is your chance, seize it while you still can. Don't just clap yourself on the back, say "well done, we showed them" and go back to your day job as if life is back to normal. Do as the French do, keep protesting until your demands are met.