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'No Kings!' 8 Million Rally Against Trump in Largest Single-Day Protest in US History | Common Dreams
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3% of 320 million is like 9.6 million. I guess they needed another 1.6 million people before the world changes for them.
I've been using 3.5% of 335,000,000 million, which is 11,725,000. Figure 12,000,000.
This No Kings was about 8 million, which was bigger than last time. There are also millions of people at home that are committed to the end of MAGA, but won't go to a protest.
We hit that 3.5% of committed resistance long ago.
I could be wrong but I think the 3.5% protest observations assumes but doesn't count non-participatory support. So the 3.5% is meant as the number in the streets with some much higher percentage of 'quiet' support.
Valid. I'm sure they want that 3.5% in the streets so they can unequivocally claim a Tipping Point (although a Tipping Point is NEVER guaranteed, just possible). No Kings participants want to play down the non-patricipants as not being committed enough, but for many, it simply isn't possible, due to age, physical limitations, distance, anxiety, etc.
But that doesn't mean they aren't just as outraged, and just as committed, and those silent voices of outrage fuel the fire BETWEEN No Kings Rallies. And when the No Kings Rallies are happening, it's important to acknowledge that the number is much, much higher, meaning those in the streets have an enormous block of silent power behind them. We need to make MAGA understand that as big as those growing crowds are, they are dwarfed by the angry Citizens at home. We need to make them very, very frightened of us.
Check out this dork. No use trying to explain anything to a virtuosically ignorant MAGA troll. Anyone who is still on board is just a corrupt, treasonous, racist, ignorant, incompetent, pedophile, completely locked into the concept of "Don't bother me with facts, my mind is made up."
Not to take anything away from your primary point, but I'd like a moment to appreciate the phrase
This is descriptive perfection.
The guy deleted his comment, so I officially won. I find that not engaging their idiotic assertions, and just talking about their stupidity right in front of them is the best response. I just talk to the audience ABOUT them.
I've had them keep responding with increasing anger, and I never address them, I just keep making fun of them to the general audience. One guy deleted his entire account.
Bullying MAGA is the only acceptable form of bullying. Pedophile Traitors don't deserve respect.
In the rare moment I mock a person directly, I usually just do it to their faces; it literally never occurred to me to do the near-miss. Good plan -- and I agree, traitors don't deserve respect.