Are they living too far away? Too poor to go there? Bots? Laziness? Are they not interested in military parades despite liking to denounce protesters?
What’s the big reason?
Bots can’t attend a parade in person
Astroturfing doesn’t translate well IRL.
youtube is one of the wrost offenders for botted comment sections, especially around political posts. maybe 1 in 20 are actually human. and most of those human comments are them remarking on the bot comments.
illusions are powerful until you know how they work.
Bots!
People can post from anywhere, but need to be physically present to show up to a parade. And it’s easy for a single person to post multiple times. FWIW apparently the weather sucked too.
Weirdly, I haven’t seen news outlets provide estimates of the number of attendees. The closest I’ve seen is
attendance appeared to fall far short of early predictions that as many as 200,000 people would attend
from CBC. It sounds like it was low turnout, but I’m not clear how low.
Assuming the photos are legit, the No Kings protests clearly got a lot of people out.
A lot of those people are from rural areas and are afraid of cities like DC. Lmao. Source: I am From DC and now live in a rural area and my yokel coworkers thinks anything past the 66/81 interchange is a hellscape
Because ‘fuck those guys who are inconveniencing me, let me rant on youtube for free and maybe make some money’ is a lot more accessible than ‘yay that guy, let me spend a bunch of money to show up at his thing’.
Bots and people like asmongold who have no actual human connection and stay in their basement all day don’t typically go to parades.
The AI bots wanted to attend but the tech to give them robot bodies isn’t ready yet. It’s okay though, they were there in spirit.
Because Elon’s no longer in Trump’s entourage to pay people to show up.
The gravy seals are the ultimate keyboard warriors.
Heavy propaganda
