barkingspiders

These rallies/protests/whatever are exactly how you build momentum for a general strike.

A general strike is useless without a significant percentage of the population joining. As these protests keep happening the attendees trust that the networks that are drawing them together will step with them into more drastic action, like a general strike. We are building a small amount of trust and cooperation between literally millions of people. It's not going to happen overnight.

this is overstated, it is currently placed as the third largest protest in America (in wikipedia at least, I've heard anywhere from 3-11M so numbers can vary), the two largest could easily be spun as political (George Floyd and Earth Day) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_protests_and_demonstrations_in_the_United_States_by_size

not dragging the accomplishment btw, we've now had two new entries in the top 5 since Trump took office, I don't think we're done setting records either, get your friends and neighbors to go to the next one

Seriously, there will be more, I don't think we've seen the biggest ones yet either.

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.

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

Where the hell did that 11M number come from?

Cheers y'all, hope the next year is even better

Lol, I appreciate you giving a more thoughtful eye than I did.

I feel like that sometimes too :(

I think a lot of awfulness is just the result of a poor internal model of the world. Intentionally spreading a poor model of the world is an effective propaganda strategy and often done. However it is difficult to tell apart people who have been lied to and people who have been unintentionally misled.

I think a great many people, myself included, have been misled about a great many things. Mostly not even out of maliciousness, but because reality is not as obvious as it could be. Our perspectives are often so limited. My takeaway from all this is to try and broaden my perspective, and when possible, give people the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they just need some new information, or the removal of a malign influence.

Alabama talking shit about Cali is hilarious, ranked the 5th worse state here for good reasons https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings?region=AL%2CCA

that's gotta be a nice moment, I am still eagerly awaiting the day my kid can make his own sandwich