Protests this weekend all over the USA.
Maybe they do nothing.
Let’s find out.
Hope to get out to something here, probably plenty of choices. I know there have been people picketing out in front of the Tesla dealership pretty much every day for months now.
I might have considered going to one around here, wherever the closest one will be, but my back is so not happy right now and 2 trips to the chiropractor haven’t brought it in line yet.
Looks like a lot of paper, no rocks for you Ted.
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Early pics show a lot of people out there unhappy with the state of things.
They got mentioned in NYT and WSJ. I think that’s the first time during this administration.
Video of Fifth Avenue in NYC available here: https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1jsaib0/huge_turnout/
Looks like it was a large turnout in DC, although the photos I’m seeing include a large number of printed signs, as well as a large pro-Palestine contingent (both of which I’m sure will be focused on by Fox News, et. al.)
Was busy yesterday at the the times, but I did see a trucks-and-flags rally on an overpass, so my wife and I gave them a chance to bird-watch.
impressive looking turnout in MN (st paul location at least)
International Media: Protests in the US are the lead story.
US Media: Yeah, there were protests. Anyways, let’s focus on something else.
Printed newspaper front pages? How…quaint.
The protests did, at least briefly, get higher billing on a few news outlet websites. I wouldn’t be surprised if the newspapers were aware of the biases of the folks who still buy dead tree papers, and tweaked the layouts so as to minimize offense to them.
It’s telling that in a local subreddit this morning, I saw someone asking if the Hartford Courant still printed paper editions, and if so where could they find one. (They want to commemorate the UConn ladies’ win yesterday).
I’ve noticed an interesting new trend online - discounting the protests as “just old people”, especially old liberal white women.
This is just a small sample, but it seems like the new talking point is “only old women are getting upset, not Real Americans”.
I’ve also seen the invocation of Soros-funded paid attendees.
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I would have skipped a wife’s cousin-twice-removed’s baptism if I could get paid.
Wife says a crowd roughly 10% of our town’s population was at the local protest. Emphasis on the “roughly” as I’m guessing an expert crowd estimator was not present and no peer review was employed.
From List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size - Wikipedia
…but the objectivity of the source of the 3m figure could be challenged.
A linked CNN article stops at “hundreds of thousands”.
I’m confused about the “ranking.” Innumeracy thread, possibly?
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