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150,000 is 0.8% of the population of the Netherlands, and isolated to a single location. The American protests were far bigger, so I don't know what you want them to learn from this.
For an issue that doesn't effect the Dutch. And yet they still showed up in solidarity, because they have principles, and understand that to live in a democratic country means taking responsibility for its politics and not just voting every 4-5 years.
Americans are being kidnapped, assassinated, and having entire departments shut down, and their turnout isn't much better than the Dutch outraged at what's happening another continent away.
I want them to learn that if they want change they need to do something, instead of giving every excuse under the sun as to why they couldn't show up as has been done in other threads.
This is a good start I guess, but it hasn't done anything to stop Trump and co yet. They need to pump those numbers up.
4-6 million isn't much better than 150,000? If we go by percentages of the population, it's more than 3 times higher. If we go by numbers of attendees, it's something like 30x higher. Also, remember that American college campuses have been protesting this since it began, often resulting in students getting expelled or deported. Sorry that's not good enough for you.
1.18 - 1.76% of Americans showed up to protest fascism in their own country.
0.82 - 1.09% of Dutch showed up to protest genocide thousands of miles away.
If you can't understand how there's a difference here, between standing up for yourself and standing up for others, I don't know what else to say.
Or just shut the fuck up because you're adding absolutely nothing of value and would find some other useless bullshit to complain about even if it was 20% of the country
There's the American spirit!
Emotion and bravado instead of rationality and decorum.
Now go outside and show Trump that same attitude.
If it was 20% we wouldn't be watching the country with the largest nuclear arsenal and the most military bases around the world descend into fascism.
This affects the world but only Americans can do something about it, the rest of us have to convince you to get off your arses and do it.