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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Willravel
We did it to demonstrate a united voice against the war, but the fact is that media outlets underestimated the numbers of protesters by leaps and bounds. I was in San Francisco, and there had to be something like 350,000 protesters on the street. Most media outlets said there were 50,000. There were over a million people on the streets in NYC, and the newspapers and media said something like 250,000. If people knew just how big the protests were, the odds of them taking the movement seriously might have had a bigger affect. All in all there were likely 10s of millions of people around the planet and several million in the US protesting that day, trying desperately to change the course we were on.
It did nothing.
There's no reason? What about free speech zones?
Fighting smart means no more bullshit protests that don't stand a chance of success. Fighting smart means employing methods that have succeeded in the past and stand a reasonable chance of succeeding now.
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The total amount of people you see, are probably not what you'd think. Look at a full stadium of people, that's a shit load of people.
Rose Bowl 91,136
Candlestick Park 69,843
Dodger Stadium 56,000
Houston Astrodome 54,816
Rarely on New Years Eve does NYC get filled up with 1 Million people on the street in one area.
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Originally Posted by Willravel
FYI, I'm a raging liberal and I was just considering the consequences of an armed rebellion over this. I don't know how much more worked up you think we can get. Let's not be disingenuous.
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how would you be armed if we repeal the 2nd amendment?
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