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[–] Jaberw0cky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

That is such a lot of people, such a lot of people sufficiently motivated to spend their day protesting. What I struggle to get my head around is what they achieve. I admire them being vocal and taking action at potential risk to themselves but what I take away is that you could have a million people at a protest and it still wouldn’t magically make a government or a president stand down. Does a protest need to be part of a larger strategy to cause paralysis to the state, to cause economic pain or to orchestrate violence. Simply getting mega amounts of people to turn out seems like a massive achievement but it isn’t actually working..

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

What are they protesting in Italy? Ferrari's shit strategy in the AUS GP? (jk)

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 2 points 44 minutes ago (1 children)

Lewis really should've tried the k1 button

[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 1 points 26 minutes ago

For real, I'm pretty sure there's a saying about the K1... If you think your race is done, press the K1

[–] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But also seriously what are they protesting, haven't heard shit about this in the UK and everyone assuming I already know is not helping.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The main thing I've heard online is that it's a pro-europe movement, particularly in support or rearming the EU, particularly in response to current US actions.

I was speaking to an Italian guy at the pub on the weekend and he said that's totally wrong and it's just protesting general government corruption. I don't know if he's more credible than the internet, being Italian is a big plus but being a man at the pub means it's likely wrong. Maybe there are protests for both.

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[–] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 21 hours ago

It might be shit, but at least they did it with both cars. Wait...

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The estimates for the Belgrade protest go as far as 800k participants.

Serbia has a population of 6.6 million.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

800k participants.

A little background info on number of the 1st picture: According to the comments of the Serbian Pic I stole:

-The initial numbers of participants were extremely underrereported (100 K) by Reuters.

-The whole city seemed packed according to witnesses. so all the streets and parks were full with people ( as seen on drone images), he reckoned to add the cities population of 1.5 M to the tally.

-Others said that the other ( smaller) cities & towns seemed empty.

-Therefore, he guesstimated: 1.6 M and counting..

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

he reckoned to add the cities population of 1.5 M to the tally.

That would mean 90% of Belgrade was in the streets that day. As intense the popular support of the protests is, that number is surely a strech. 800k is already quite mind-boggling by the standards of the country... actually, by the standards of any country.

Edit: "The number of protesters present in Belgrade at the protest is disputed: the official government figure provided by MUP was 107,000, an analysis by the Archive of Public Meetings found there were between 275,000 and 325,000 present "with the possibility that the number was even higher,"[499] and Božo Prelević [sr], the former MUP minister, estimated there were at least half a million protesters.[500]" (Wikipedia)

The Reuters number was simply taken from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), which obviously preferred to keep the number low.

[–] HowRu68@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Agreed.

It's at least a very creative stretch from his part to account for his numbers, I could appreciate that. Therefore I found it necessary to shed some light on it, after I saw your input.

And whatever the exact turnout was, it was an incredible inspirational event. Feel bad for the ppl though. About the horrible acts of violence by the Gvment and the use of Sonic booms and such.

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[–] FIbynight@lemm.ee 16 points 1 day ago

Adding this in case it’s helpful:

Defending against LRAD:
https://youtu.be/CXKTBQBugIA

Defending against microwave: https://youtu.be/Lg_aUOSLuRo

[–] MemmingenFan923@feddit.org 25 points 1 day ago

I am proud of my European brothers and sisters. 💪

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