The November 4 Alexanderplatz demonstration in East Berlin right before the Berlin Wall fell was somewhere between 500K & 1 million people (i.e., 3-6% of the population). 2.5% is an <enormous> amount of Americans in the streets.

www.dw.com/en/how-east-germans-peacefully-brought-the-gdr-regime-down/a-50743302

March 30, 2026 - 20:36 UTC

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Tbh, no one cares what you think
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Agree - in a densely populated country, 3.5 might be the number, but in a diversely populated, spread-out country like U.S.A, our numbers are amazing!
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Cut the 342M in half- most did not bring their children and elderly, disabled didn't attend. 8M out of 171M- 4.6%. Much better
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...how many children, disabled, and elderly people do you think live in the US?
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My first thought. Pretty weird to come on here complaining about those slacker babies and nursing home residents not having taken to the streets
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Look, just because people didn’t break into the capital and assault someone doesn’t mean it wasn’t effective. 8 million nonviolent protesters IS a big deal.
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If it was easy to get 3% of the population in the streets, when did it happen before?

And if it's not impressive, why was the media very impressed by the much smaller numbers of the Tea Baggers
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Should be pushing a graph to show trend line that projects into future that also includes data on changes to the political landscape in between intervals.
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Would it help if we were all in one place?
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You'd never get the turnout - too far, too expensive and difficult to travel to a central location for a majority of people. People don't realize just how big the U.S. is until you drive across it (which I've done many times and am inspired every time!).
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Saturday’s No King’s was about 3% of the adult +18 yrs old population of the United States!
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frothing at the mouth for such a demonstration in DC.
I don't understand why it hasn't been organized like the women's march but bigger and broader. Is the park service refusing to provide permits?
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