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flashman13

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30. I just got home from a march in a purple town in a red state. The crowd was suprisingly large.

Sat Apr 5, 2025, 04:35 PM

Apr 5

One of the organizers said they expected 600 people. I was in the group outside the court house and across the street in front of a school was an even larger crowd. I'm a numbers guy so I did some counting and some quick calculations and came up with 1,000 plus across from me, so I think the whole crowd was at least 2,000. I find that very impressive and encouraging. The signs were very imaginative. Americans are very creative by nature, especially when they are pissed off. There was a great deal of support from cars driving by. I took 20 small Ukrainian flags to pass out. They were gone in minutes. There were a lot of other Ukrainian flags of all sizes. Slava Ukraine!

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