• digitalFatteh
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    So are the people. Anywhere else by now would have had National shutdowns until all of these Trump enablers were out of office or under the guillotine. But the people are not rising up Nationally.

    Few dissenters here and there and some state protests but nationally the people are fine with how this administration is handling things otherwise it would of come to a complete halt a loooong time before this current shitshow.

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      It may be possible if americans acted during the vietnam war, or the afghanistan war or the iraq war

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        I feel protests during the Vietnam war bought about more change than what’s happening at the moment. Guess the body counts too low for that though.

        This is just another ripple in the cesspool that is the United States of America. It’s going to take one hell of a conscience to sweep all this under the rug of history.

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          protests during the Vietnam war

          The “No Kings” protests so far have been somewhat larger per capita than the largest Vietnam war-era protests.

          • Vietnam Moratorium (Oct 1969): 2.5 million of 202 million ≈ 1.2% of population.​
          • No Kings October 2025: 5.75 million of ~336 million ≈ 1.7% of population
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            Now that I am surprised at. Must of had more morals back then on knowing when to step down.

            Not kidding when they say “absolute power corrupts absolutely”.

            • Or maybe all converge on Washington monument.

            • So more people but spread out on smaller groups?

            So many questions on why nothings being effective…