not dragging the accomplishment btw, we've now had two new entries in the top 5 since Trump took office, I don't think we're done setting records either, get your friends and neighbors to go to the next one
Floyd protests are generally not included as those numbers are not single day protest, FWIW. Earth Day however, is weird to exclude. That was absolutely a single day political protest from a time when most everyone understood we share the planet and a vested interest in avoiding it becoming uninhabitable.
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this is overstated, it is currently placed as the third largest protest in America (in wikipedia at least, I've heard anywhere from 3-11M so numbers can vary), the two largest could easily be spun as political (George Floyd and Earth Day) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size
not dragging the accomplishment btw, we've now had two new entries in the top 5 since Trump took office, I don't think we're done setting records either, get your friends and neighbors to go to the next one
Floyd protests are generally not included as those numbers are not single day protest, FWIW. Earth Day however, is weird to exclude. That was absolutely a single day political protest from a time when most everyone understood we share the planet and a vested interest in avoiding it becoming uninhabitable.
Damn, Soros is going to bankrupt himself.
5M is an undercount
Largest political protest yet!
This is going to STOP Republicans from Arresting and Assassinating Democrats!
Great achievement, but it should have been three times bigger.
Invite more friends next time, we'll keep building
Also, appropriate comment for your username
Peaceful protests are twice as likely to succeed as violent ones
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/success-nonviolent-civil-resistance/
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/why-civil-resistance-works/9780231156820
Sorry to hear you feel this way
Be the change you want to see in the world?
Yep, be that violence you want to see in the world. Are we repeating ourselves?
Also,
You don't read: I literally urged you to be that violence you advocate. Nothing beats doing it yourself. See how that works for you.
You've likely seen the post on research that shows nonviolent protest is more successful, so if reason & research don't work for you, then your next logical move is direct experience.