In pictures: The nationwide ‘No Kings’ protests

[christiefan915]

Only the lower right picture is measurable. That's Liberty Plaza by the Georgia state capitol and measures about 300 x 200 feet. There are roughly 5000 to 7000 people present.

Checking that I found the organizers say the plaza's capacity is 5000 and it was reached (I see gaps in the crowd, but it is mostly full). Another 2 to 3 thousand were estimated outside of it. That makes my claim of 5 to 7,000 just about correct.

https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/06/14/thousands-of-anti-trump-protestors-pack-no-kings-protest-outside-georgias-capitol/

'No Kings' Day rallies in protest of Trump taking place across metro Atlanta

Protests labeled "No Kings" rallies are taking place across metro Atlanta as part of a national day of action against the Trump administration.

www.fox5atlanta.com

It's curious how hard you're working to try to disprove the number of people who protested. There were protests in all 50 states plus 20 foreign countries. Since you didn't vote for trump, tell me why this matters so much to you.

There were many thousands of people in downtown Pittsburgh but it's hard to show because of the streets layouts and the number of buildings. For instance, this pic show one block only, and doesn't include the area where the march started and the people still walking into town. And there were also protests in the northern, southern, eastern and western suburbs.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

For fun. It doesn't post often enough to "drive people away" or to constitute and "attack" on the forum.

Isn't the purpose of a bot like a windup toy? Crank it up and turn it loose? Either the programmer is a fucking moron or it's a human moron.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24063/internet-bot

By definition, an Internet bot – an abbreviation of robot – is a specific kind of software technology that interfaces with the Internet to provide different kinds of automation.

Like the Internet itself, Internet bots have been evolving through the years. Some of the most basic types of are very common. Many of them accomplish simple tasks, and some are named after what they do – for example, “web scrapers“.

Companies utilize them to automatically collect and send data or perform other routine tasks. Some of the more sophisticated Internet bots, such as spambots, are let loose to post spam comments all over various WordPress blogs, social media networks, and other websites, causing consternation for webmasters in general.

The concept also applies to cybersecurity, as some Internet bot software can be used in cyberattacks.

A recent report by Akamai found that bots compose 42% of overall web traffic, and 65% of those bots are malicious.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

It's curious how hard you're working to try to disprove the number of people who protested. There were protests in all 50 states plus 20 foreign countries. Since you didn't vote for trump, tell me why this matters so much to you.

There were many thousands of people in downtown Pittsburgh but it's hard to show because of the streets layouts and the number of buildings. For instance, this pic show one block only, and doesn't include the area where the march started and the people still walking into town. And there were also protests in the northern, southern, eastern and western suburbs.

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Diehard MAGAts will do or say anything to protect their Orange Jesus.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

It's curious how hard you're working to try to disprove the number of people who protested. There were protests in all 50 states plus 20 foreign countries. Since you didn't vote for trump, tell me why this matters so much to you.

Well, I did vote for Trump because the alternative was insanely horrific. I also don't give a shit what other nations think of Trump or our leaders so long as they produce for us.

There were many thousands of people in downtown Pittsburgh but it's hard to show because of the streets layouts and the number of buildings. For instance, this pic show one block only, and doesn't include the area where the march started and the people still walking into town. And there were also protests in the northern, southern, eastern and western suburbs.

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A tough photo to estimate from. Few of the protests reached 10,000. Certainly not 100+ necessary to get past a million participants. Most were a few thousand, and many just a few hundred. The one estimate cited I've seen has the person doing it using a median based on the larger protests.

I think it has far more kurtosis than that and resembles an inverse square function more closely. In rough terms, I'd say something like protests exceeding 10,000 were in the 10's, ones in the thousands were in the hundreds, and ones that were less than a thousand were in the thousands.

Thus, the overall figure comes out at less than a million.

Why is this important. There are two reasons:

The first is that the organizers are using an appeal to popularity fallacy to draw support. That's bad. Worse, and second, it's a bandwagon propaganda ploy on their part. They want to gain support they don't have and won't get if they're honest.

 

[Nordberg]

Well, I did vote for Trump because the alternative was insanely horrific. I also don't give a shit what other nations think of Trump or our leaders so long as they produce for us.


A tough photo to estimate from. Few of the protests reached 10,000. Certainly not 100+ necessary to get past a million participants. Most were a few thousand, and many just a few hundred. The one estimate cited I've seen has the person doing it using a median based on the larger protests.

I think it has far more kurtosis than that and resembles an inverse square function more closely. In rough terms, I'd say something like protests exceeding 10,000 were in the 10's, ones in the thousands were in the hundreds, and ones that were less than a thousand were in the thousands.

Thus, the overall figure comes out at less than a million.

Why is this important. There are two reasons:

The first is that the organizers are using an appeal to popularity fallacy to draw support. That's bad. Worse, and second, it's a bandwagon propaganda ploy on their part. They want to gain support they don't have and won't get if they're honest.

If you were honest, you would admit the turnout was far, far bigger than you Trumpys thought was possible. Over 2000 marches in 50 states. That is impressive. It is important to understand that most fair news reports over 5 million were out. People are fundamentally lazy. So that turnout tells you multiples of that number are fed up with the fat man who would be king.

 

[Damocles]

Isn't the purpose of a bot like a windup toy? Crank it up and turn it loose? Either the programmer is a fucking moron or it's a human moron.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/24063/internet-bot

By definition, an Internet bot – an abbreviation of robot – is a specific kind of software technology that interfaces with the Internet to provide different kinds of automation.

Like the Internet itself, Internet bots have been evolving through the years. Some of the most basic types of are very common. Many of them accomplish simple tasks, and some are named after what they do – for example, “web scrapers“.

Companies utilize them to automatically collect and send data or perform other routine tasks. Some of the more sophisticated Internet bots, such as spambots, are let loose to post spam comments all over various WordPress blogs, social media networks, and other websites, causing consternation for webmasters in general.

The concept also applies to cybersecurity, as some Internet bot software can be used in cyberattacks.

A recent report by Akamai found that bots compose 42% of overall web traffic, and 65% of those bots are malicious.

So, your argument is it isn't a bot then?

Anyway, it can also be AI..

You could prompt a GPT-style model with something like:

“Mimic the tone and style of angry political posts from justplainpolitics.com combining Christian nationalism, conspiracy theories, and edgy satire. Keep it disjointed, offensive, and chaotic.”

This would get you something that was about like that.

So, a person takes some text, tells ChatGPT or Grok or something to make a disjointed post based on an aggregate of words used on justplainpolitics.com... and viola... you have dancindave.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

If you were honest, you would admit the turnout was far, far bigger than you Trumpys thought was possible. Over 2000 marches in 50 states. That is impressive. It is important to understand that most fair news reports over 5 million were out. People are fundamentally lazy. So that turnout tells you multiples of that number are fed up with the fat man who would be king.

Most of the "marches," probably more than half, were just some people standing on a street corner in some forgotten little town. The big marches numbered in the dozens and all occurred in large, deep blue, urban cities.

No, most "fair news" reports are just parroting the organizers and a couple of people who estimated the crowd size. As I pointed out, one estimator used a median value for crowd size that almost certainly grossly overestimated that. For example, in Arizona, there were like a dozen of these protests statewide. Of those, the biggest was at the capitol at about 4 to 6 thousand. There were several more (3 or 4) that numbered in the hundreds to maybe over a thousand in one or two cases. Beyond that, they numbered in the tens to hundreds.

That suggests, along with more samples, that the turnout was on an inverse exponential.

That is, it looked like that graph. There were a relative handful of 10,000 + protests, several hundred that numbered in the thousands, and over half had a thousand or less attending.

Your conclusion is the one the Left always makes. They assume that their view of things is society as a whole's view too. That's why Trump is in office. That's why the Democrat party is polling in the teens. NOBODY likes the Left outside of the Left. The radical Right can be tolerated as a small bunch of morons and self-effacing tards and dismissed. But the Left is usually in your face and people--normal people--don't like that one iota.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

So, your argument is it isn't a bot then?

Anyway, it can also be AI..

You could prompt a GPT-style model with something like:



This would get you something that was about like that.

So, a person takes some text, tells ChatGPT or Grok or something to make a disjointed post based on an aggregate of words used on justplainpolitics.com... and viola... you have dancindave.

Correct.

Wouldn't that still require a human to ask the question each time and post it?

 

[Damocles]

Correct.

Wouldn't that still require a human to ask the question each time and post it?

Yes. Hence me not being sure it is a bot.

Now we've gone full circle. Do you have more suggestions that are better than "look at the IP"?

BTW, it logs in with one IP most often, however not every time. It isn't a VPN, can still be a bot that someone logs in every once in a while, could also be a guy using AI to generate nonsense. One doesn't break the rules, the other... well I don't think I have a rule about bots.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Yes. Hence me not being sure it is a bot.

Now we've gone full circle. Do you have more suggestions that are better than "look at the IP"?

BTW, it logs in with one IP most often, however not every time. It isn't a VPN, can still be a bot that someone logs in every once in a while, could also be a guy using AI to generate nonsense. One doesn't break the rules, the other... well I don't think I have a rule about bots.

Comparative analysis with other members. My favorite time for hunting socks is Friday and Saturday evenings since that's the most common time people drink resulting in the most common time for them to make mistakes and lose inhibitions.

I don't know how your software operates nor how difficult it would be to compare IP addresses of members, but those would be the best nights to compare over the past year, IMO.

As for rules, not only is it your forum, but some of your rules leave a lot to discretion:

13. No Self-Moderation of the Board. Definition: making a thread unreadable through using extra large fonts or other means to block usage of a thread/forum. Rules will be enforced by the Administration or by Staff Members... Let's be adult here....

14. The treatment of Incendiary Troll accounts. Definition: Posting solely for reaction, to harass, or stalk. Whether single or secondary, those accounts posting solely for reaction and/or harassment and not contributing to the discussion in any way post at the sole discretion of the JPP Admin Team and may be removed at any moment.

 

[Nordberg]

Most of the "marches," probably more than half, were just some people standing on a street corner in some forgotten little town. The big marches numbered in the dozens and all occurred in large, deep blue, urban cities.

No, most "fair news" reports are just parroting the organizers and a couple of people who estimated the crowd size. As I pointed out, one estimator used a median value for crowd size that almost certainly grossly overestimated that. For example, in Arizona, there were like a dozen of these protests statewide. Of those, the biggest was at the capitol at about 4 to 6 thousand. There were several more (3 or 4) that numbered in the hundreds to maybe over a thousand in one or two cases. Beyond that, they numbered in the tens to hundreds.

That suggests, along with more samples, that the turnout was on an inverse exponential.

That is, it looked like that graph. There were a relative handful of 10,000 + protests, several hundred that numbered in the thousands, and over half had a thousand or less attending.

Your conclusion is the one the Left always makes. They assume that their view of things is society as a whole's view too. That's why Trump is in office. That's why the Democrat party is polling in the teens. NOBODY likes the Left outside of the Left. The radical Right can be tolerated as a small bunch of morons and self-effacing tards and dismissed. But the Left is usually in your face and people--normal people--don't like that one iota.

Most? Did you survey? Of course not You say anything to back up a premise, truth is not required. You are making shit up or passing along what right wingrs say. The truth is you have no idea how many showed up. Nobody really does. I read some who said likely over 10 million. Five million is common.

 

[Dutch Uncle]

Most? Did you survey? Of course not You say anything to back up a premise, truth is not required. You are making shit up or passing along what right wingrs say. The truth is you have no idea how many showed up. Nobody really does. I read some who said likely over 10 million. Five million is common.

One thing even poor demented Terry can't deny; a lot more people showed up for protests than for his Birthday Parade. LOL

 

[Lionfish]

 

[Lionfish]

 

[Phantasmal]

If you were honest, you would admit the turnout was far, far bigger than you Trumpys thought was possible. Over 2000 marches in 50 states. That is impressive. It is important to understand that most fair news reports over 5 million were out. People are fundamentally lazy. So that turnout tells you multiples of that number are fed up with the fat man who would be king.

They are planning another next month.
The Resistance isn’t giving up!

 

[Dutch Uncle]

 

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[Dutch Uncle]