• eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      14 days ago

      i can see why, they were able to handle them all unlike the police departments in the south who were overwhelmed by the 6,000+ arrestees during civil rights protests in birmingham and selma during the 1960’s.

      900 is depressingly low and even more depressing that this is a metric that help you identify the popularity of a movement; we’re fucked.