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.

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (11 children)

A better use of protest time would be a general strike. Protesting does little more than slow these assholes down in traffic.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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    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.

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