Wikipedia page "List of protests and demonstrations in the United States by size" says the Hands off protests were the third largest protest in US history
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u/Northwest_ThrillsAt2025-04-07 01:34:57 PM| Source
I'm so glad the George Floyd protests solved police brutality!
This is why protesting should only be treated as the initial rallying cry to garner support. Without the millions protesting willing to engage in direct action — like general strikes, permanent boycotts, etc — there will never be meaningful change.
honestly my state saw a lot of meaningful change out of it
Honestly actually thanks for this - doom scrolling late at night and feeling 0/10 hopeless.
Shit's bleak, but if there's legitimately nothing we can do about it we might as well lay on the railroad tracks, eh?
hey hey hey. we got 3 million people out to the protests last weekend. the republican house is getting stymied and criticism is rallying from all directions. trump's already running out of steam and we've barely begun fighting him
5 million is the official tally! 😁
there are no functional railroads near me. I'm going to have to fly to get to them. fml.
The George Floyd protests were absolutely the reason that Chauvin got convicted and sent to prison. It's fucked up that that's what it took, but they at least got a concrete result. Which is more than I can say for any of these other protests. Not that I don't support them-- in fact I drove 2 hours to DC to participate on Saturday. It was cool to see so many people out, but to make changes, you have to force power to recognize you as a force to be reckoned with.
15 - 26 million people to get one person convicted for an act they clearly did.
America is so fucked.
I remember when Biden mocked the Defund the Police movement in his first SOTU, and then went on to accelerate the militarization of police. Now, we have cop cities.
At the end of the day, none of these people are going to vote differently than they have for decades, so nothing is going to change.
Coupling his Defund response with his backing of a far right wing genocide, and his absolute bed-defecation in the dem campaign for president, Biden is easily the worst dem president of my lifetime. And I'm not young. I hope history remembers him accurately.
but what about his brace leadership during the pandemic where he filled our hearts with hope by
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i guess we got a stimulus check?
I did. I watched. I listened. I learned.
I changed. Others will. Yet more can.
Musk wanted to create a bigger protest by recommending a pardon for his murderer police officer.