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I don't think you understand.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/6/16/no_kings
just pointing out, Scotland only has 5.5 million people living in it.
that would mean for Scotland to "do a better job at protesting this fuck than the US." every single man, woman, child and elder would have to be in your streets right now.
how shit is that, you can't even organize 5 million people for a simple protest.
update: I'm not even going to wait on this because the numbers are abysmal. Edinburgh is calling in "hundreds" of protestors and I'll give the benefit of the doubt to Scotland and say there's 1000 protestors nationwide.
many of you twats argued it should be measured by per capita, so let's do that.
Scotland
in comparison to the US.
but hey, it's not a competition, I just don't like it when someone denigrates the efforts of people to make themselves feel better. I know what you're thinking, "aren't you being a little hypocritical?" no I'm not, because I'm simply calling out bullshit with facts.
those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
don't like it? tough shit. next time don't talk shit and there won't be shit.
Yes Scotland has a population of approx 5.5M so in order to have a higher percentage of the population protesting they'd need to have 80K people take to the streets just like Greenland would need 760 people to outperform the states.
yes, per capita. do you know why protests aren't measured by per capita, right?
please tell me you understand why per capita is a bad metric to distinguish protests...
Protests are measured in raw numbers because if you said 1.4% of the population of the usa gave enough of a fuck to turn up, it would show just how little you people care about What's happening in your country. And if you compare that to the protests Georgians had about the Russification of their government, they had raw numbers of around 169000 at the low end, but that's over 4% of their population. So yeah if you want your passive population to seem politically engaged, by all means use the raw numbers, but nobody's impressed when the survival of your country is on the line and only 1.4% can be bothered showing up.
just an update for you since it's so important that you're goal posts are moved. multiple sources claim hundreds of protestors showed up in Edinburgh. I'll (generously) top it out at 1000 protestors nationwide.
Scotland
in comparison to the US.
but hey, it's not a competition.
You realise that Donald kiddie fiddler Trump isn't the president of Scotland right? He's objectively your fucking problem. You ought to be grateful for any foreign countries who want to help out. I never said there were proportionally more people protesting in Scotland.
If you look back at the comments, I've only ever argued with your position that any country that doesn't field 5M protesters isn't outperforming the states. Which, by the way, is still some grade A stupidity. I've no fucking idea how many people showed up, but as previously mentioned trump is definitely more of a problem for the USA than anyone else so I genuinely wouldn't expect that many to show up.
However if the first minister of Scotland did even half the shit trump's done, Edinburgh would fucking burn with the riots.
Stop fucking doing that, moderator! Silencing opinions is literally what fascists do, how the fuck do you expect to change shit when you refuse people to even speak their minds?
The guy's obviously a doofus, by silencing them you are effectively protecting them from making assholes of themselves, while turning this shithole into another echo chamber.
You might as well be /r/conservatism, or /r/pyongyang, that's what they do to dissenting opinion!
Of course numbers per capita make more sense. That's been my point the whole time. I'm not trying to gaslight anyone. And you know sometimes the USA needs to be reminded that they aren't "all that", because apparently American exceptionalism extends to arguing about protest turn out with random people online.