A large rally in opposition to the government has value in and of itself. There's ample literature on this: signaling, agenda-setting, preference falsification. Historical examples abound; '63 march on DC and '68 protests in France were dismissed by many at the time as counterproductive farces.
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A primal scream that fades into a whimper best describes the NYT, WSJ and Wapo
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@nytimes.com will eat its words in a few months! Let’s keep going!
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As @chenoweth.bsky.social & @mariajstephan.bsky.social showed, after looking at a whopping 323 mass movements from 1900 to 2006, nonviolent campaigns succeeded 53% of the time, and movements that mobilized ≥3.5% of the population were uniformly successful.

So, yes, No Kings matters. A lot.

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yeah please don't try and liberalize the 3%ers. I am just fine never referencing any stat nazi groups get tattoos of.
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If half of these socalled protesters had voted, you wouldn't need this assembly. That's just one of the ongoing problems in the USA.
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This is the paper that fawns over gas station / diner mouthbreathers as the heartbeat of a nation. Yet sees no power in mass protests all while same washing headlines so much that North Korean media blushes. Give me a break.
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Okay but the only worthy audience of liberal protests are Trump supporting retirees in a rust belt diner and we sent 300,000 reporters to talk to them and they still love Trump so the protests are worthless
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New study suggests that social signals help spread support for authoritarian regimes - the corollary is that social signals can help spread opposition, too. That’s why it’s so important that we show up in numbers today, & also why corporate media will minimize coverage of these nationwide protests.
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Everything matters, E V E R Y T H I N G, and over 3000 unique events in one day is monumental in American protest history. Every single moment of successful resistance and offense this past year, from the election swings to Minneapolis to Congress, have been fueled by the NO KINGS protests.
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Our "free" press is no longer.
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I prefer the “Romanian Solution!”
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YES!!!
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Based on the 2024 election results, with a difference of roughly 2 million votes between the two candidates, 9 million people seems like a BFD. But then again I am not a pundit so…🤷‍♂️
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Imagine their coverage if they were Trump supporters.
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we know how they cover a couple of Trump supporters in a rural diner!
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