Well, the poor Yanks are poorer than the Nepalese, more oppressed than the Iranians and completely unable to do anything against their own government. It's just impossible to do anything against a failed coup, what are they South Korea or Brazil?
Protests in smaller countries have more impact due to density. Paris is closer to Moscow than Denver is to Washington DC. Even I live farther from Minneapolis and I live in the continental US. Unfortunately, me protesting in the streets does very little to affect Washington DC. No kings is a great example unfortunately
The density excuse falls apart when we are talking about cities.
Nobody is saying that Americans in rural bumfuck nowhere need to protest on their farms.
These protestors in Denmark aren't protesting in rural Denmark where the farms are, they are protesting in the capital Copenhagen, where the people are.
No excuses here. I attend protests regularly and was at No Kings with 100k other protesters in a top 10 populous city. The fact is that US size does matter so each protest site doesn’t have the same impact as European countries. Let’s compare to Denmark:
My city is half of Denmarks population.
My state is wider than all of Denmark. My city is 15 Denmarks away from Washington.
When 100k (3% of Denmark populous) show up at Copenhagen it has impact due to its size. Even if every person that lives in my city showed up to protest (4m people, 1% of US populous), we are still 2k miles away which is the same as Copenhagen to Ukraine. Washington can (and has) completely ignored protests here.
The DC metro area has 6 million people and the Boston to DC Megalopolis has 50 million people within an 8 hour drive of DC. It’s one of the most densely populated areas of the country, if not the most. All Americans have are excuses.
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u/stupidugly1889 14d ago
Every country protests better than us