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EDIT: Also worth noting that the next nationwide protest date for 50501 is May 1st
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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This kind of shows that maybe protests aren't working. If 100,000 people coming out isn't noteworthy that's because it's easily dismissed as a small vocal minority. If less than 1% of the population come out to the streets on a sunny weekend that's just a party. Obviously it's not, but that's a very easy dismissal of a protest that didn't even disrupt a work day to try and make a point.
This reaction by this reporter is manufactured obviously but there's truth in it. If there's a protest every month that doesn't rock the boat and doesn't agitate for anything then it will just fade into the background.
Protests take time to work. If you think that one day of protest is going to change it all, look to other movements. You can succeeded; it just takes much longer than people think they take. They want you thinking it's hopeless so when you don't get immediate results, they're happy to call them failures
Estimates are far higher than 100,000 people. Not just a small number. It was ~4 million on April 19th and ~3-5 million on April 5th depending on the estimates you look at
They are claiming it's "thousands" across the limited US media coverage, but you can find photos online of those kinds of numbers in various smaller cities alone
Just remind people that there were months of peaceful protests that went unheard when they start complaining about public disruptions