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"small protest, one of the smallest. My speeches are bigger, much biggly"
-turnip
Welll... It's honestly not that big. The entire turnout across the States was not that big. The two anti Brexit protests in London had about 1.5 million participants and Britain has a much smaller population. Most Americans don't seem to care.
London population: 8.8 million
Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million
London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price
Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices
London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed
Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians
Mystery solved.
The count's are coming in but I'm seeing more than 11million people protested throughout the usa.
Do you think the photo you're seeing is the entirity of this protest? I think you don't actually grasp the size of the US.
This is a small turnout, relatively speaking (this one was "cancelled" so I imagine it would have even had more). I went to one in a pretty centrist-right leaning town (Much much smaller than Minneapolis... Like hundreds of times smaller), and our turnout was about the same as this photo.
Go look at the turnout for Philadelphia.
I haven't seen any nationwide estimates yet, but I can pretty much guarantee that it was at least more than 1 million people. at least
Assuming you actually give a shit and aren't just here to sow division.
Edit: I'm now seeing figures of around 4-6 million people total, with some places estimating as many as 12 million.
It's the biggest protest I've seen in America in my lifetime. Glad to be a part of it.
There's a little bit of a difference in the police response to protests between the two