• TipRing@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Alt National Park Service is not credible, they are basically a left-targeting qanon. The organizers of the protest say they had 5 million people in attendance.

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        22 hours ago

        No argument. I can’t speak to the veracity of the account. I was answering where the big numbers came from.

        I’m not sure the tally is knowable. The pictures from NYC and Chicago were very impressive, but I wouldn’t know 1 million people from 100,000 just by looking to be honest.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Thanks. I was hoping for more than the Alt National Parks Service posts. So, as I see it, the numbers are somewhere between 4 million (the lowest estimate I’ve seen) which I don’t find credible, and 11 million from this post, which I have to admit I doubt. This account is, by necessity, anonymous. I cannot put a tremendous amount of faith in the numbers here, but I suspect they are closer to reality than the 4 million. I guess the truth is that the numbers will never likely be known with any accuracy.

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        22 hours ago

        I don’t know who might have credible numbers. Obviously not the government. Altnps has a narrative and I expect they want everyone who came out to feel validated. That doesn’t mean they are lying, but they would have motive and no transparency.

        At the end of the day, it was a lot of people and one can simply visually compare the turnout in a single large city to Trump’s parade and see which way the wind is blowing.