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minus-square@nilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglish6•4 days agoI think you may have misread the Wikipedia page. There were 300-400,000 in NYC alone. I was in Boston and there were 10s of thousands, even though it was February and sleeting, SF had another 150-200k. I think there was a sizable group in DC too.
minus-square@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•4 days agoThat’s what I thought but those are the “official” estimates, which do strangely focus on NYC. I guess we’re talking about a fascist-oligarch-owned MSM who profit from war and chaos so they had a vested interest to suppress the real opposition.
I think you may have misread the Wikipedia page. There were 300-400,000 in NYC alone.
I was in Boston and there were 10s of thousands, even though it was February and sleeting, SF had another 150-200k.
I think there was a sizable group in DC too.
That’s what I thought but those are the “official” estimates, which do strangely focus on NYC.
I guess we’re talking about a fascist-oligarch-owned MSM who profit from war and chaos so they had a vested interest to suppress the real opposition.