RandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 24 hours agoTIL No Kings Protests were the 3rd Largest in US Historyen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square139fedilinkarrow-up1904arrow-down17
arrow-up1897arrow-down1external-linkTIL No Kings Protests were the 3rd Largest in US Historyen.wikipedia.orgRandAlThor@lemmy.ca to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.ca · 24 hours agomessage-square139fedilink
minus-squarenilloc@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·17 hours agoI think you may have misread the Wikipedia page. There were 300-400,000 in NYC alone. I was in Boston and there were 10s of thousands, even though it was February and sleeting, SF had another 150-200k. I think there was a sizable group in DC too.
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 hours agoThat’s what I thought but those are the “official” estimates, which do strangely focus on NYC. I guess we’re talking about a fascist-oligarch-owned MSM who profit from war and chaos so they had a vested interest to suppress the real opposition.
I think you may have misread the Wikipedia page. There were 300-400,000 in NYC alone.
I was in Boston and there were 10s of thousands, even though it was February and sleeting, SF had another 150-200k.
I think there was a sizable group in DC too.
That’s what I thought but those are the “official” estimates, which do strangely focus on NYC.
I guess we’re talking about a fascist-oligarch-owned MSM who profit from war and chaos so they had a vested interest to suppress the real opposition.