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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38146161

[features eyewitness reports from various cities by participants]

from World-Outlook Oct. 20, 2025

More than 7 million people turned out for the No Kings protests in about 2,700 cities and towns in all 50 U.S. states on October 18, 2025. These numbers are based on reports from the organizers and media across the country.

The main sponsors included the liberal group Indivisible, the American Civil Liberties Union, and hundreds of other national and local organizations.

Some of the largest actions took place in Chicago (250,000), Washington, D.C. (200,000), New York City (where estimates ranged between 100,000 and more than 300,000), and Boston (125,000). Thousands marched in many cities in the South, including Dallas and Houston, Texas; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yeah dude no worries I’ll just go grab a gun and head out to the Capitol, they won’t send ICE to dissapear my family while I get my corpse paraded around and my name smeared across all news media as they continue to fearfully proclaim there is no war in Ba Sing Se

EU commenters love to play couch macho for their smug superiority dopamine while forgetting they’ve deployed the most well funded army and most technologically advanced monitoring in the world. Even the cops carry guns here dude, and all that bacon has been frying until crisp; they’re fucking ITCHING to kill their countrymen because they basically grew up being told there were basically literal zombies, people who don’t believe in this country and are evil, no good, others. These guys were programmed since childhood to be super predators. They are under a spell of false patriotism and blind nationalism. If you don’t agree with them, you’re a fucking NPC and you’re ripe for the picking, the rotten, ungodly fruit, decaying the beautiful homeland our ancestors fought and died for.

we’re gonna do all the right things in the right order before we risk ending our own lives and our children’s lives and getting nothing for it. You have no idea what we are up against so shut the fuck up.

[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Probably the main reason why US is in such dissaray is that Americans immediately default to thinking about guns no matter the problem, and are staying on that topic forever.
When presented with the obvious uselessness of your inaction, your first and only though was about a gun, and then you remembered that your gun isn't the biggest gun, and your though process stopped.
When you stop being angry at me for pointing it out, I really want you to reflect on it.

[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

7/12/2178

So that no one alive will have to deal with your bullshit.

[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Now you're violating the deal, I gave you a date, save your complaints until then. I look forward to hearing from you again in 153 years,

[–] whiwake@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago