'No kings on Presidents Day' rings out from protests against Trump and Musk
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Protesters against President Donald Trump and his policies organized demonstrations in all 50 states for the second time in two weeks.
  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    13·
    2 months ago

    We had 250+ in Pittsburgh braving the cold today! I doubt we’ll see any results from these protests, but it’s nice to see a public display of our displeasure regardless.

    • gramie@lemmy.ca
      4·
      2 months ago

      Why would you expect a demonstration of 250 people, in a city of 300,000, to have a measurable effect? Or 1,000 out of 650,000?

      I hope that’s not too discouraging, I am certainly on your side (cheering from Canada) and would love to see the US people rise up en masse, but it is going to take a sustained effort to sway a large population.

      • Synapse@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        This is a very small number of people mobilizing to defend their rights.

        In France when we had the demonstration against the change of retirement age, the mobilization lasted over 4 months and every protest accounted from 300k up to 1.2M participants across the country (official numbers, multiply by 3 if you want the Union’s number).

        The situation is several orders of magnitude more serious in the USA at the moment. I find it very strange, concerning and sad, that people over there seems to just accept their fate, just watch their 300 yo democracy collapse into totalitarianism in a few days.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      2 months ago

      In a free, fair, safe (last?) election

      They legally cheated in a lot of states and some of his minions probably cheated with the voting machines in the swing states. Let’s not blame the minorities for his reelection. Of course, the people who stayed home, feel free to blame.

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    3·
    2 months ago

    Over a 1000… Wow…

    Herr is a Question: Where are the other MILLIONS?

    Is really nobody noticing or caring about what’s going on?

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      While it is far less than we need, collectively across the country, there were more: https://slrpnk.net/post/18532969

      This lead up to this protest wasn’t super well known either, from what I can gather. I only learned of it a day before it happened. Considering how grassroots and impromptu it was, perhaps that wasn’t the worst turnout.