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April 5th 'Hands Off!' Protest Crowd Size Mega Thread! 👫👭 🏛️👬🧑‍🤝‍🧑 (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 week ago by ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net to c/inperson@slrpnk.net

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/20427098

Drone shot of the crowd around Boston City Hall Plaza:

Cincinnati Ohio:

Washington Monument (Potential crowd size, 10k people):

York Pennsylvania:

Baltimore, Maryland:

Durham City Hall, NC:

Albany, NY:

Boston, MA:

Downtown Pittsburgh:

Pittsboro, NC:

Worcester, MA

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[–] u_die_for_elmer@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Madison, WI

My photo won't upload. Probably 10 - 15 thousand people

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago

Sounds like it was bustling! Awesome!

[–] KickMeElmo@sopuli.xyz 13 points 1 week ago

Didn't get a picture myself, but Carson City, NV apparently pulled 7000.

[–] The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

.... nothing to see here

....just paid actors

....antifa

....violent Mexican gangs

...fired fed workers who probably deserved it because they look like clowns

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 1 week ago

For anyone that isn't aware, clowns is a dogwhistle for "Jew" in certain circles. Not everyone who says it means it that way, obviously, and there are plenty of people who just didn't hear it in the first place but saw it trending as an insult, but if someone is spamming it out or says something like "they look like clowns" you should consider the context. Eg "the federal workers were part of (((their))) conspiracy aka the Deep State aka The Lizards"

You especially saw this popularized with r/ClownWorld and the Twitter version of the same community.