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Originally Posted By u/VociferousVal At 2025-04-06 06:25:02 AM | Source


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[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Protests attract more people to your side, and each demonstration gets bigger. Politicians, especially conservative politicians, are cowards. They will start to get scared, and will react, positive and negative, but it will only hurt them, no matter what they do. More people will shift sides, or at least fall away from the dark side.

Experts say that it only takes about 3.5% of the population to hit a "tipping point," and become a trend that changes society. The high estimates for these demonstrations was about 5 million. 3.5% of our population of 335 million is about 12 million, so we are well on the way of reaching a tipping point.

Wait until the tariffed products from China hit the stores, and prices literally double in Walmart, Amazon, Best Buy, etc. He was elected to bring Biden's prices down, not double them. Protest numbers will grow enormously over this summer.

At some point, Luigi's trial will happen, and add another vector for protest.

Large protests like this have been going on forever, all over the world, for one reason - they work.