• @Boingboing
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    4010 months ago

    Marched against the Iraq war. We were a million there too in London. Got the coach down from my home town to go. They went to war anyway. Industrial war machine doesnt care about people or their voice. Just the money it can make from more war.

    • @Doorbook
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      1210 months ago

      It doesn’t matter, it is a statement of individual humanity.

    • @riodoro1
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      110 months ago

      Why would they care if all of those people will shut up in two days and go back to consuming as normal? We let our politicians get away with fraud and theft everyday, why would they change if they go unpunished?

  • @[email protected]
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    2610 months ago

    Almost one million people (combined)

    Searching for the DC protest, it just mentions “thousands” which, unless London really carried this, seems like a far cry from the “almost one million”.

    And for London I just found similar claims of “thousands”.

    The claim sounds like bullshit to me…

    • @EnderMB
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      1410 months ago

      In London, at least, it varies wildly on who is reporting the statistics. The BBC will usually shill for the government, whereas you might have more luck with The Guardian for something a bit less biased - as long as you’re not looking at their opinion pieces.

      It’s a regular battle in the UK. We’ve had several huge protests that have likely reached hundreds of thousands, where getting out of the area is ten times worse than getting out of Wembley Stadium, yet the BBC have reported “several thousand”, or have shown images where it’s a small subset of the people there.

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        I didn’t really see any reports stating anything other than “thousands”. I checked The Guardian and it’s the same there. If London and DC were to reach a million or even close to it, you’d expect one or more likely both of them to be in hundreds of thousands.

    • @Donkter
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      210 months ago

      Probably bad reporter math and it was in the 10s of thousands which the reporter thought was almost 1 million instead of 100,000

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        I guess I could see if someone really messed up their numbers. From thousands to tens of thousands and rounding that (lol) to hundred thousand and then mistaking that for a million.

        It’s like pyramid scheme accounting

  • @istoff
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    610 months ago

    Expect to see nothing on mainstream TV.

  • @xc2215x
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    411 months ago

    A giant number for sure.

  • @foggianism
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    110 months ago

    I see no mention of this on TikTok or Instagram. Am I being fed a false reality by the algorithm?

  • Norgur
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    -1611 months ago

    So those who are ordering troops to kill and die will think twice about a ceasefire now! Can’t have Londoners and Washingtonians be angry at you!

  • The Barto
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    Ceasfire for who? Like there’s shitloads of wars going on around the world right now, not just the 2 hip ones.

    • @Skipcast
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      3111 months ago

      Oh no, there’s way more than a million people. They’re not in this image though

    • balderdash
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      Frankly, instead of a ceasefire, Israel needs to give greater consideration for civilian casualties. But HAMAS has got to go and a ceasefire will only drag things out.

      • @[email protected]
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        1811 months ago

        Maybe they should be having a serious conversation with the Qatari government. You know, where the Hamas leadership actually is.

            • @[email protected]
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              210 months ago

              Thanks for the reply, I’m reading it right now. I deleted my original comment because within 5 minutes of writing it as I got a weirdly threatening DM about being an antisemite. I probably shouldn’t have though, this is exactly what these internet weirdos want.

              For anyone that can’t see my original comment, I asked @[email protected] for some neutral reading material as all the information outlets around this topic are wildly biased and skewing towards anti-Semitism or anti-Palestine/Islamophobic rhetoric depending on where in the world they’re located.

        • @Blackmist
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          110 months ago

          Israel only has one type of “serious conversation” and it usually involves explosives.

          Honestly surprised things haven’t started going boom in Qatar. They weren’t shy about doing it in Beirut.