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    1. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 6 Jun 2020

      Thomas Sugrue Retweeted NBC10 Philadelphia

      As a historian of social movements in the U.S., I am hard pressed to think of any time in the past when we have had two straight weeks of large-scale protests in hundreds of places, from suburbs to big cities. The breadth and scale of #Floyd protests is staggering.https://twitter.com/NBCPhiladelphia/status/1269330816741650433 …

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      Thousands of people in Philadelphia continue to protest racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd. Crowds in Center City stretched from the steps of the Art Museum and past the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. http://on.nbc10.com/83ticTL  pic.twitter.com/6YJT2DvCW7
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 6 Jun 2020
      Replying to @TomSugrue

      I saw a chart on @BrankoMilan indicating that the size of the protests bigger than 1960s (and the size of riots smaller)

      2:41 PM - 6 Jun 2020
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        2. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @TomSugrue @BrankoMilan

          That was number of protests, not number of ppl participating in them.

          1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes
        3. LEMON PARTY CITY‏ @Carpe_DMT 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @JamesSurowiecki @HeerJeet and

          Yeah will if there's possibly ten thousand seperate protests (not an exaggeration) and some of them are quite small it doesn't make the movement any smaller than when there was 4 protests and a third of the country was at them.

          0 replies 1 retweet 4 likes
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        2. ℱrank ℬennett‏ @fgbjr 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @TomSugrue @BrankoMilan

          This is why I don't understand how the The President and his inner clique could possibly have thought "dominance" and threat of military force was viable, quite apart from civil rights issues and concerns. There aren't enough police man-hours. There isn't enough teargas.

          1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
        3. Terri Glass  😷 💉 🇺🇸‏ @grizeldatee1 7 Jun 2020
          Replying to @fgbjr

          It worked for Nixon in the 60s. There were supposed to be frightened white people flocking to Trump for protection, but society has changed a lot since then.

          0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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        2. Branko Milanovic‏ @BrankoMilan 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @TomSugrue

          The chart is from @Peter_Turchin blog. http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/the_2020/ …

          3 replies 42 retweets 164 likes
        3. Cats‏ @FLAsun22 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @BrankoMilan @HeerJeet and

          Thanks for posting this. It is a very interesting blog posting

          0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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        2. Thomas Sugrue‏Verified account @TomSugrue 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @BrankoMilan

          Sounds exactly right to me.

          2 replies 8 retweets 401 likes
        3. Lcompan‏ @ManceRander 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @TomSugrue @HeerJeet @BrankoMilan

          Is this in terms of just numbers or is this normalized for increased population size as well? Because that would seem relevant to judging how significant this could be.

          0 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
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        2. sun rises‏ @sunriseseachday 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @TomSugrue @BrankoMilan

          There are some scholarly studies on the percentage of a population needed to maintain mass demonstrations to dislodge a tyrannical leader. My recollection is 10% but I need to dig the studies back up.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        3. sun rises‏ @sunriseseachday 6 Jun 2020
          Replying to @sunriseseachday @HeerJeet and

          I was wrong! It is only 3.5 % of the population needed. https://rationalinsurgent.com/2013/11/04/my-talk-at-tedxboulder-civil-resistance-and-the-3-5-rule/ …

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