TIL No Kings Protests were the 3rd Largest in US History

Wikipedia is weird. In an article that lists the largest protests that have occurred in the United States, they still feel the need to tell you that each one of these protests, that are on a list of protests that occurred in the United States, in fact occurred in the United States.

When multiple biggest protests are against your presidency, then you seriously fucked up.

Ok but it's crazy that the George Floyd protests were 5x bigger than this, even with COVID in full swing.

Oh, nuh-uh! FOX News said it was a lightly attended failure. Who am I gonna believe, FOX:News or every local news sorce, that actually was there, in the country?

We clearly have the numbers against traitorous conservatives.

Would be really cool if we could use those numbers before allowing them to destroy our society.

Good... now repeat it but as a General Strike

Yeah!

Now knock off all that fascism - or we WILL go back out there and do another lap!

Match the energy during election day ballot yeah?? Thanks

That's great news. The other 9 of the 10 biggest protests were were extremely successful at affecting change.

Since we made such massive progress on all the others, this is clearly a harbinger of social and political progress.

Behead those who say No Kings is violent

You guys think that merely walking around in your own time holding up a board and shouting a bit, all focused on the mango puppet instead of the puppet masters, is going to change anything given that there is no single Historical event in the US ever of the lower classes rebelling against and deposit the upper classes (even the Revolution was literally the American plebs led by the American upper class fighting against the English plebs controlled by the English upper class)?!

The murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare had more impact, if only temporary because it wasn't followed by more similar murders.

Even millions of people marching and shouting a bit (and so polite that they do it in their own time) will cause no fear for the elites because that's in no way a warning that the heads of the elites will soon start getting separated from their shoulders if nothing changes.

You need at the very least a General Strike and/or targetting the economic and propaganda interests of the elites (trashing the TV studios of certain channels or certain newspapers would send a powerful message).

I mean, just notice the impact on police violence of the greatest demonstrations in the US - the George Floyd protests: nothing or even worse than nothing as the pigs have never been this violent.

not to rain on the parade or nothing, but a protest that hasn't the implicit threat of "...or else" is just a hang

Literally all of these except number 23 and 31 are left wing protests.

Let that sink in 32/34 that’s over 94% of the biggest protests in the US were left wing.

We are the majority. Stop believing in the Reagenesque “silent majority” BS.

The majority of people, dont want oligarchs and conservative bigotry.

And didn’t accomplish shit, by design. These types of protests are intended to channel frustration of the masses into feeling like they’ve done something, when really they’ve accomplished nothing.

That was more than enough people to overthrow the parasitic ruling class. Just do it already.

Ok. I'm too chicken shit to actually show up in person to one of these protests.

What's the next best thing I can do to meaningfully help?

1 George Floyd protests 500,000[5] 15,000,000–26,000,000 2020

2 Earth Day 20,000,000[6] 1970

3 No Kings protests 5,000,000 2025

4 Hands Across America (poverty) 5,000,000 1986

5 2017 Women's March 3,300,000–4,600,000

great job everyone!

3rd largest so far.

It feels good to know that lots of other Americans care about what's going on. I don't know if we're going to make it but I felt like part of a country out there and I hope we figure it out.

I was about to say the list was incomplete as several million attended the Iraq war protests, but it turns out that was global and only a few hundred k Americans bothered to protest the invasion of Iraq based on manufactured propaganda.

The post 9/11 bloodthirsty hysteria, "you're either with us or against us" dissonance, religious nationalism, and ignorant patriotism is what made me believe the US would become an authoritarian dictatorship in my lifetime. Great job teenage me. I hate it.

This makes me really hopeful.

7 out of top 10 during Trump's presidential terms. My take is that civil duty to protest is stronger than voting for non-Republicans, maybe if elections were on saturdays instead of tuesdays...

Cool. I just hope your leaders take the hint. Maybe now that they're getting directly threatened they'll show their true colours. Either they stand up for themselves as they see their colleagues start to get attacked (at events or in their own homes), or they cower and come to heel. (Sadly, I have little faith most politicians in most countries these days will do much if it's not their own hides at risk.)

Incidentally, something weird is going on with that list. I'm not sure how the ordering works but much more important, it says only "500,000" for the protests over George Floyd even though one of the references says 15-26 million over the entire course of that movement.

"no king's" implies you think of him as a king. So not really an insult

Earth Day needs to keep happening too.

The posters username is ironic, given the content.

I don't get the rankings. Seems like only earth day had more people.

Finally found something Trump was good at.