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.
A better use of protest time would be a general strike. Protesting does little more than slow these assholes down in traffic.
These rallies/protests/whatever are exactly how you build momentum for a general strike.
A general strike is useless without a significant percentage of the population joining. As these protests keep happening the attendees trust that the networks that are drawing them together will step with them into more drastic action, like a general strike. We are building a small amount of trust and cooperation between literally millions of people. It’s not going to happen overnight.
Implying these protestors have jobs to strike from.
Hi.
I went to the protest. I’ve been continuously employed for the last 15 years.
Your perception of the typical protestor could not be more wrong.
I can show up to a protest, but I cannot afford to participate in a general strike. 🤷 I think you would see dramatically different numbers with a general strike.
You won’t be able to afford anything once we start feeling the effects of the Great Depression 2. Part of the point of protests is to connect, collaborate, and support each other. Plenty of strikes involve crowdfunded support for those that need it.
So you want them what, starve to death now?
Yeah when it comes to actually sacrificing anything Americans can’t be fucked.
They would rather throw away their entire country to the fascists than face any hardship.
Right? November 6th, every American leftist should have immediately started gunning down Trump voters in the streets, that would have solved everything