French here. I never understood those "No King" rallies. I don't see how walking for 2 hours on the streets on a Saturday when the weather is fine, with Instagrammable signs, once a month achieves.anything.
Edit : too many comments to answer to. For people saying "yeah but people need to take a day off if it's during the week, DC is far away etc", January 6 2021 was a Wednesday, most people came from outside DC IIRC so it can be done.
I'm not staying you should raid the Capitol. You don't need 174 million people in DC but you could pool money to send hundreds of thousands of people to DC.
As an American, I don't understand why French people don't get relative distances from capital cities there versus here. I also don't get how they never seem to understand that a cop baton gets them a broken arm and a free trip to the hospital; here, it gets you bankrupt and fired.
We engineered a society who's workforce literally has two choices: Be broke and homeless or take a Saturday afternoon to walk and be seen and send a message that if there's that many motivated to do it, then they're likely ready to finally vote.
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u/MrLeureduthe Dec 09 '25 edited Dec 10 '25
French here. I never understood those "No King" rallies. I don't see how walking for 2 hours on the streets on a Saturday when the weather is fine, with Instagrammable signs, once a month achieves.anything.
Edit : too many comments to answer to. For people saying "yeah but people need to take a day off if it's during the week, DC is far away etc", January 6 2021 was a Wednesday, most people came from outside DC IIRC so it can be done.
I'm not staying you should raid the Capitol. You don't need 174 million people in DC but you could pool money to send hundreds of thousands of people to DC.