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When USians Condemn French Protestors
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2026
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About the same percentage of Americans protested against Trump in March as French protested over the weekend.
But with 1/10 the population density, the US protests appeared smaller.
edit: numbers were wrong - about 1/4 the population density. And the US had about 0.9% of its population participate in the March No Kings protest as opposed to France's 0.7%. So the US appears to be more active than France in protests, but they can't concentrate the majority of their protests in a single city like France can.
The US protests are not nearly as sustained or as regulaly occurring as the French protests.
I also take umbrage with the notion that 0.9% of the population standing in a field or walking down a street would be as "active" as 0.7% of the population getting in street fights with cops and burning buildings down, even if both happened for the same amount of time.
~~so they protested at a shocking 1/10 per capita. significantly lower~~
edit: I can't read?
No, they protested at the similar rate per capita. Just fewer people per square kilometer.
France is nearly 550,000 square kilometers in size. The US is nearly 10 million square kilometers in size.
France has about 125 people per square kilometer. The US has 34.
idk how I read that completely wrong. my mind entirely swapped "percentage" for "number"
Not how density works.