Report: “not even a fucking microblog”
This is honestly the first time I’ve seen a screenshot of Lemmy posted here. While technically not a blog, it does federate with blogs, so unless I’m told otherwise…
As far as I know, both numbers aren't confirmed. We're hearing 2k to 20k at Trump's birthday party, and anywhere from 5m to 11m on protests. They're still trying to tally and I only saw a 2m temporary number. That said, with Boston having like 1m apparently, it'll probably be pretty big (they combined pride parade with it so it's a like unclear how you'd count that)
A more fun way to look at it is, the army parade had most of it's route at 1 row of viewers. That's... really really bad attendance. Lol
the army parade had most of it’s route at 1 row of viewers.
That's really sad. The small town of a few thousand I live in manages better attendance to it's annual parade made up of tractors and classic cars and fire trucks, and one year even included the snow plows!
If we can get a good thousand people (nearly a quarter of the town's population) to attend a Saturday parade on a budget of whoever actually shows up, the president of the United Fucking States should be capable of getting Macy's day parade sized spectacle at least
That was my thought, too. I attended a small town parade once in Solvang, CA, mostly by accident and even that had at least two rows of people. Granted, thunderstorms probably contributed but like you said, Macy's Day parade is often huge and that's sometimes bone chillingly cold so it's not a great excuse lol
Where the hell did that 11M number come from?
Somehow that number started to spread on social media, but no proper news outlet is reporting that.
That said, the major cities all had crowds that dwarfed Trump’s General Aladeen themed birthday party.
no proper news outlet is reporting that.
And they probably won't. The best we'll get is watered-down slop or misreporting that frames the movement as small and unimportant.
It's not in the interests of corporate media to accurately report on protests against the Trump administration. It might make some ad money in the short term, but it's antithetical to the goals of both the owners and the corporations to piss off Trump:
- Republicans benefit the wealthy and corporations and they don't bite the hand that feeds.
- The Trump administration has proven itself happy to retaliate against reporters and news agencies by banning them from press events.
- The billionaires who own them don't want to anger the guy they're buying favors from.
Edit:
The AP certainly didn't choose to publish many photos that show off the actual scale of the protests: https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/no-kings-protest-trump-us-b5de52994b7c592034fb19b7d3e9d577
This is what they should be showing: https://i.imgur.com/vR41TqH.mp4
Alt National Park Service's estimate:
We’re honored to report that over 11 million showed up for today’s No Kings protest, and totals are still coming in. Just… wow. WOW 😮! There’s nothing more to say.
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lrmce3muts2c
EDIT: also organizers within 50501 estimate at >11 million (50501 is one of the groups involved in the No Kings protests) https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3lrmozcmqx223
It’s probably made up. But I can see it as probable.
I first saw it from the Alt National Parks Service Facebook account.
Do you have a source of the numbers and not just the post where there's also no source?
Edit: just a heads up, OP of the screenshoted post corrected from 500K to 50K so your screenshot now wrong and potentially spreading misinformation!
"Nobody brings together the country better than me. Everybody knows it."
Everyone hates me, no one wants to be my friend, you are all under arrest! 🫲🍊🫱
I got him socks. What did you guys get for his bday?
Protests
A noose.
A voucher for a free dessert from the prison cafeteria.
5 anti-racist children's books at the Pre-K reading level, one is cloth in case he chews on it one of his attendants can wash it.
Here's a source that says 5-6mil at the protests and links to the spreadsheet people are using to try and tally it https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/no-kings-day-protests-turn-out-millions
I thought most people weren't protesting in DC?
They weren't protesting at the parade, the no kings protest was huge there
