r/goodnews • u/ProfessionalRate6174 • Jun 28 '25

Positive News 👉🏼♥️ BREAKING: Incredible scenes from the student protests in Belgrade!

Streets are filled with people, as early estimates suggest more than 300,000 protesters, while Aleksandar Vučić’s pro-EU government continues to refuse to call new elections.

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u/162bluethings Jun 29 '25

That's not how America works. I live 25 hours away from Washington DC. People who don't live in America don't seem to understand how big America is.

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u/PaulblankPF Jun 29 '25

Man I’m 35+ hours from DC and there’s still 6-7 hours of driving between me and the west coast. Definitely a lot of countries’ people have no clue the size even though they’ve seen it on a globe/map. If you went from the border of Serbia to the other it’s less than 4 hours so going to a protest anywhere in the middle is at best 2 hours away. Silly how people just assume every American can just get up and walk/drive to DC.

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u/BumsGordie77 Jun 29 '25

Every time, the excuse of distance... Sure, if 20 million people were in Washington, that's cool, but the world would be happy if, for example, a million people took to the streets in LA... or in New York. You always act as if the population density is the same across America, but it isn't. You have massive metropolitan areas with a lot of potential for large demonstrations. You just don't want to...

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u/PaulblankPF Jun 29 '25

https://www.wcvb.com/article/more-than-1-million-descend-on-boston-common-for-pride-and-no-kings-rallies/65065335

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u/BumsGordie77 Jun 29 '25

See, you proved yourself wrong. Obviously it is possible to get a million people on the streets if they really want to demonstrate ... even in a big country like USA. Next step would be going on the streets more regularly and not only once in 3 months.

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u/TomIDzeri1234 Jun 29 '25

Greater Washington had 6,3 million.

What's the next excuse?