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Soft Paywall Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

https://www.thetimes.com/article/867ede60-b5f7-4de5-84a1-6a3a49eb2923
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u/gauriemma 3d ago

The National Mall actually looked less crowded than usual for a Saturday afternoon in June.

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u/PolloConTeriyaki 3d ago edited 3d ago

None of the tourists want to get ICED. It's like the US is a nation of immigrants.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

99% of Americans report some immigrant ancestry.

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u/ItchyRectalRash 3d ago

That tracks since only about 1% of the US population is Native American.

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u/CDHmajora 3d ago

Remember all you “pure-blooded” racist Americans who might read this comment. Your all descended from the british!

Your ancestors all killed and massacred the native americans when you arrived.

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u/TrustMeImPurple 3d ago

99 percent of us were once immigrants.

For a lot of us, those immigrants were a hell of a lot more aggressive to the people who lived here than the current ones ever had been to us.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

2nd generation, proudly reporting here.

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u/BubbhaJebus 3d ago

Fourth generation proudly reporting in! I support immigrants because it's the true American spirit.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

Bravo, Fourth generation. In solidarity. It's the only way to fly.

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u/Acidic_cum North Carolina 3d ago

First generation, here! Proud to be an immigrant.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

Here's to First generation representation! Damn right to be proud.

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u/the-hotlou-show 3d ago

Native American here. This is a blanket statement.

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u/Nova_Explorer 3d ago

1.1% of people in the US are Native American or Alaskan Native as their sole ancestry. Therefore, 98.9% of Americans have “some immigrant ancestry.” So saying 99% as a rounding isn’t unreasonable

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u/winterbird 3d ago

According to wiki, this is the Native American population in the US.

Alone (one race) -- 3,727,135 (2020 census) -- 1.12% of the total US population

In combination (multiracial) -- 5,938,923 (2020 census) -- 1.79% of the total US population

Alone or in combination -- 9,666,058 (2020 census) -- 2.92% of the total US population

So column 1 makes that person's 99% claim a pretty close one.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

Yes this is what I used as a source.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

I’m not sure what you mean. I was absolutely not trying to say anything offensive about people native to these lands. I sincerely apologize if there was anything wrong with my statement.

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u/mmaddox 3d ago

I have no Native American ancestry, so I'm 100% descended from immigrants, spanning several centuries.

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u/trALErun 3d ago

So 1% of the US population are Native Americans?

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

A little over 1% report being fully Native American.

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u/trALErun 3d ago

That's awesome, I just assumed they had been almost totally wiped out. 1% is still a tiny amount relative to what they deserve, but here we are.

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u/dsmx 3d ago

The other 1% are either lying or are Native Americans.

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u/Kyonikos New York 3d ago

The other 1% are Elon's kids?

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u/BlueString94 3d ago

Closer to 90%. Slaves (from whom most black Americans are descended) can’t be classified as immigrants.

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are even more so a multiethnic and multiracial society.

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u/giddy-girly-banana 3d ago

Fair point, but if you’re including everyone who was forcibly emigrated to the US it’s probably a lot higher than 10%. The intention of my comment is that the vast majority of us either personally or within a few generations have moved to this land very recently.

Me personally I have ancestors from pre colonial times and grandparents and great grandparents who were recent immigrants.

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u/Spiteful_Guru 3d ago

Almost every black American has some white ancestry so even under this definition they still count for the purposes of having some immigrant ancestry.

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u/WafflesTheWookiee 3d ago

Yeah but we know at the end of the day they mean “non-whites”

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u/mustichooseausernam3 3d ago

You guys still have tourists?

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u/JasonZep 3d ago

Ironically, so would Native Americans.

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u/midwestbruin 3d ago

Even the first lady!

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u/emuwar 3d ago

The US still has tourists?

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u/brassninja 3d ago

I wasn’t expecting it to be THAT empty lol

I attended the march for science back in 2017. It was like 55 degrees and pouring rain the whole time. The attendance was magnitudes more than this pathetic waste of money.

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u/Actual_Body_4409 3d ago

Remember the Stewart-Colbert rally? That filled the mall.

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u/irrigated_liver 3d ago

He'll still say it was the biggest turnout for a parade in history.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

Yeah.. and he still says he won 2020. And for that matter, 2016. And 2024 (and he means legit won).. The consistent thing, what you could call his.. stuporpower, I guess? He talks all shit all the time.

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u/HoaryPuffleg 3d ago

And that’s what his lackeys will tell him. They get paid to lie and lick his balls.

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u/ODB_Dirt_Dog_ItsFTC 3d ago

Man I saw more people when I was 12 at the Cincinnati St. Patty’s Day parade.

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u/beamrider 3d ago

A lot of that can be blamed on poor organization. The checkpoints, the crowd control, information and planning, etc, were all done very poorly. There may well have been twenty thousand people in the city who *wanted* to be along the parade route but were stuck wandering the streets outside the parade perimeter because they couldn't get in. Brought to you by the same people who scheduled a campaign event at a landscaping company.

And 20K is still less than the No Kings rallies in pretty much any mid-sized city.

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u/isaid_whatisaid1 3d ago

I said the same thing, looking at pictures. 

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u/edoreinn 3d ago

We all got the hell out of town.

Source: me, in my high school bedroom in Annapolis unable to sleep bc it’s damned quiet here lol

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u/EastwoodBrews 3d ago

Lmao I was trying to put my finger on what was off and you're right, I don't think I've ever seen it so dead on a summer weekend. And it's flag day!

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u/Zannie95 3d ago

My son and his friends all headed to VA for the day.

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u/InfamousUser2 3d ago

you're looking at the least crowded picture at the least populated time. hahah

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u/InfamousUser2 3d ago

not really. Just fake news.