‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst
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For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States.

The “No Kings” protests in every state may have been the biggest day of demonstrations in American history, a data analyst has suggested.

“Based on hundreds of crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don’t have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6m people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday,” independent data journalist G Elliott posted to X Sunday.

For reference, that’d mean Saturday’s demonstrations featured 1-2% of the total population of 340 million taking to the streets in more than 2,000 cities to voice their opposition to the increasingly authoritarian, far-right policies the president has pursued since assuming office for the second time.

    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
      4·
      2 months ago

      i wonder, what do you, personally, think of slashing ice’s car’s tires? Do you think it’s too violent, or is it just right?

      the idea behind it is to “not let them get away with it”.

      I.e., when ice shows up in a place to disappear citizens, instead of driving away with these people, they get stuck because they can’t drive away. This way, they don’t get away with it.

      • Banana@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 months ago

        Destroying property, as long as it’s not somebody’s home, is not violence in my opinion. Government vehicle? Fucking go for it.

      • distantsounds@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        What ice is doing is not legal. Unidentified masked kidnappers should be met with resistance. Resistance is not the same as slashing random car tires.