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      Welll… It’s honestly not that big. The entire turnout across the States was not that big. The two anti Brexit protests in London had about 1.5 million participants and Britain has a much smaller population. Most Americans don’t seem to care.

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        London population: 8.8 million

        Twin cities combined population: 3.6 million

        London public transport: pretty damn good, connections everywhere, not an insane price

        Twin cities public transport: almost non-existant, insane parking prices

        London police: sometimes reasonable and lightly armed

        Twin cities police: notoriously corrupt, heavily armed, use constant excessive force on civilians

        Mystery solved.

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        Do you think the photo you’re seeing is the entirity of this protest? I think you don’t actually grasp the size of the US.

        This is a small turnout, relatively speaking (this one was “cancelled” so I imagine it would have even had more). I went to one in a pretty centrist-right leaning town (Much much smaller than Minneapolis… Like hundreds of times smaller), and our turnout was about the same as this photo.

        Go look at the turnout for Philadelphia.

        I haven’t seen any nationwide estimates yet, but I can pretty much guarantee that it was at least more than 1 million people. at least

        Assuming you actually give a shit and aren’t just here to sow division.

        Edit: I’m now seeing figures of around 4-6 million people total, with some places estimating as many as 12 million.

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        There’s a little bit of a difference in the police response to protests between the two