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Why are there so many people on youtube cheering on Trump's national garde and denouncing the protesters, but so few showing up on his military parade? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by folaht@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Are they living too far away? Too poor to go there? Bots? Laziness? Are they not interested in military parades despite liking to denounce protesters?

What's the big reason?

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it's easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.

Weirdly, I haven't seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I've seen is

attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend

from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I'm not clear how low.

Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 days ago

It seems they intentionally avoided having cameras on where the crowds would be. This shot of the bleachers is pretty telling though.