‘No Kings’ Was Biggest Protest in U.S. History: Data Analyst
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For reference, that’s between 1 and 2 percent of the total population of the United States.

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.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    312·
    18 days ago

    If you think that protests have never been productive, you need to read up on history.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        17 days ago

        In United States history which protests do you feel had a forever change on The United States. Not just culturally but legally.

        So, are you of the opinion that if a protest doesn’t yield permanent irreversible change, then it isn’t worthwhile? I think this person would disagree with you…

        Nothing is sustainable long term. Every time we get something good, the bad people try to take it away. It will be a continuous fight against insane humans who love fascism for some fucking reason. I think that worrying about martyring someone it’s not a really good reason to not martyr them