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Far more impressive than the military parade.
No Kings Protest, USA, 2025
Submitted 5 weeks ago by popjam@lemmy.world to publicfreakout@lemmy.world
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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 5 weeks ago
My backyard barbeque had a bigger crowd than that parade
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I was at my local protest. I’d guess there were around 3,000-5,000 people and it was literally just a bunch of hippies chanting. The protest was so lawful that people were even obeying walk signals at the intersection where it occurred.
Our governor had a state of emergency in place for this.
regedit@feddit.online 5 weeks ago
So peaceful that when the permit said 1pm, people started walking back to where they were supposed to go. The only scuffle was caused by a raised-truck tRump supporter and they were booed to all hell before driving away like the coward they are.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The fact that you need a permit is already a violation of the right of assembly IMHO.
fluxion@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
These are the true kings of this country
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
If you right click on the imgur link and then click “copy video link”, you can make the link more direct. You can use that to embed the video in the body text with
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popjam@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Thanks, didn’t know that
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
pdqcp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Firefox? Clearing cookies usually solve it for me, or try opening on a private tab
lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
Good job, USA…
When I think about protest in the USA, it’s usually a single person at the side of the road holding up some text written on paper…
But this… This is awesome.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
It’s a good first step.
fishy@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
Absolutely. It shows just how many people are awake and ready to do something. If that many people participated in a general strike the country would buckle to demands real fast.
madjo@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
This is giving me an ounce of hope, y’all. From across the pond, keep this up and vote common sense
D_C@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I’ve been giving you yanks some grief about not doing anything about the treasonous tangerine but I’ve got to say watching that video was quite heartening. Keep it up everyone!!
regedit@feddit.online 5 weeks ago
And those were just the biggest cities with the biggest turnout. There were A LOT of large turnouts in even remote or usually smaller communities. It was extremely neat to be a part of and I look forward to the next one. I'll be bringing anyone who wants to join me the next time!
Hux@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Woulda been nice if they all voted.
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Who is this comment for exactly?
155M people voted and 75M voted for Harris. 11M is being tossed around so far for the protest numbers. I’ll let you deduce those numbers from there.
arrow74@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Assuming they are all from Illinois, it wouldn’t have mattered. That state already voted blue. Gotta live the electoral college
regedit@feddit.online 5 weeks ago
It always matters. Even in IL. As a downstate Illinois resident, you wouldn't believe how many tRump signs I saw. This weekend proved to me that they're outliers. Lots of support at the protest. Lots of support from all the honking and cars driving by during it. Cheers galore for the support. A couple of louder boos for the couple of turds that tried to antagonize. It was worth it to see, if nothing else, to feel you're not alone when all hope seems grim.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Had fun at our local march. Should’ve brought earplugs, though. Neat to see so many people acting in solidarity, and I hope we can keep up this energy.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
HitlerPig is obsessed by ratings, polls, popularity, etc., so seeing these kinds of crowds demonstrating against him, when his own birthday party, in only one city, had empty seats, has got to be making him crazy.
I’ll give $100 to the first journalist who asks, on camera in a White House press conference “Mr. President, what do you think of all the enormous demonstrations against you, when nobody came to your birthday party?”
I just want to see him cry.
Clbull@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m more surprised at how heavily everyone in Boise and Dallas showed up.
markovs_gun@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Why? Those cities are Democratic strongholds in otherwise red states
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Dallas area feels pretty conservative. People keep voting against the public transit system, one of the suburbs where a lot of businesses are is leading an effort to cut public transit funding across the entirety of Texas, horrible cycling infrastructure even downtown, and one of the first recent Democratic candidates to be publicly anti-trans was from Texas. A lot of the businesses here are financial or military contractors, and not a lot of grassrootsy stuff, feels more corporate.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
I was on public transit and it was the most packed I have ever seen it
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Good, now you know how big the support is it’s time to turn it into action. I don’t mean violence, but turning up on a summer’s day to go for a walk and hear some people speak is not enough.
I’m not going to tell you what to do next (it’s not my country) but one day is easily ignored. I know from other fights around the world that these things need persistence and sacrifice.
underwire212@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Small steps, friend. Progress is progress.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The thing is, part of the idea of this particular summer day was to distract from the Trump parade.
But then, just one fascist extremist with a gun posing as a cop was able to distract from the efforts of 5 million protestors.
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
11 million apparently
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As a Canadian watching in horror, is this going to change anything?
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
I can’t imagine it doing much. I guess people felt good that they aren’t alone, but Republicans will continue to ignore the Constitution, and the apathetic majority will probably continue to not vote.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Only if it’s a springboard for more.
If they all go home and do nothing more the country is sunk.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Just look at all the people acting like the problem’s already solved. No problem this serious, caused by such greedy and hateful people, EVER gets solved without great violence. Even if it’ll be largely self defense from us.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Probably not. It makes the Americans feel good though.
aeroplayne@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
We Canadians have a king. We don’t have the issues these losers have. Not having a king isn’t the issue here.
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Neh fuck the monarchy!
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 weeks ago
Americans don’t understand what a King is, or how monarchy fits into a modern democracy. What they mean is “No Dictators”.
Zenith@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
At the San Diego airport watching this trying not to tear up in public
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
What is the source?
humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Americans
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Imma bump this. I want this to be the size of the protests, but unless I have a reliable source for it, in this day and age, you almost have to assume everything you see could be fake.
not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
not a source for the video but this guardian article quotes numbers that make these videos appear believable imo. after the first million it gets hard to keep track of how many there are exactly.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
Go away.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
What is your motivation?
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Maybe I do love this country.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Kinda makes you wonder how he was elected in the first place.
barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
He wasn’t.
theotherbelow@lemmynsfw.com 5 weeks ago
Feels good man.
altphoto@lemmy.today 5 weeks ago
I love the time lapse. They should do one every time there’s a March.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
True beauty
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I’m very much out of the loop. Can someone give me a tl;dr of what this is? How it got started, its goals, etc. I heard nothing about this until today.
greedytacothief@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
USA is a country without kings, we don’t want any.
We’re protesting trump, but also his stupid military parade. We’re trying to reclaim what it means to be an American.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This is a planned mass protest in the United States against the trump administration and his policies specifically concerning his stance on immigration.
Honestly this is somewhat of a milestone for my country. I’ve never seen anything like this.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
This many people could easily just physically remove the criminals from office. Why gather this many people to just stand around for complaining? You’re already there. Just fix the problem.
regedit@feddit.online 5 weeks ago
tRump and his regime wanted a scuffle. They wanted violence. They wanted an excuse. DC was intentionally avoided for this reason. That city was a ghost town, as expected, and I think it sent a bigger message than a bunch of people storming the capital...again.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
‘Disobedience is what they want! We must obey, or they win!!’
chunes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That only works if the citizens understand it’s up vs. down. Trust me when I say this country is very much divided and still believes it’s left vs. right.
Psythik@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Whenever a countrywide event happens in the US, Phoenix is always excluded, despite being the 5th largest city in the country. I’m disappointed in them, but the again it’s probably difficult to protest when it’s 45°C/113°F outside.
Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
So fucking rad man. Hard to believe with that many people that he won the election…
anistorian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I don’t think he did. It seems fishy.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Gerrymandering and the electoral college do a lot of heavy lifting
Wazowski@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
The republican traitor filth must be held to account.
Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Isn’t that the 4th of July?
potoo22@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Kinda wish people were this angry before the election. Please remember to vote in the midterms so we can at least drop the Republican majorities in congress.
Clbull@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
If you think the midterms are going to be democratic in nature, you’ve still got another 17 months of Trump’s current bullshit to consider.
By the time he’s done, those elections are going to be about as “fair and balanced” as a Fox News broadcast.
quetzaldilla@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Even if the Republicans are corrupt and do not respect the law, we must still uphold it, because they want us to give up on the rule of law.
Trump keeps losing court cases and Kilmar is back in US soil. They fear and hate the rule of law.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They were angry. At Democrats. (And rightfully so.)
And I have no faith the Democrats will do anything meaningful when they get Congress back in 2026. (And they will.) They just kicked David Hogg out of the DNC and they’re doing everything they can to silence their most effective voices, who just happen to be filling football stadiums in red states across the country.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
NYC Democrats are already introducing legislation targeting the protestors