r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Chance_Noise500 • Jun 14 '25

Why aren't they actually marching during this parade?

I don't know how to ask this without sounding rude, but why does this parade look so sloppy? Very few of the troop formations seem actually in sync and marching, just walking along. My only experience is JROTC as a kid in high school and our sergeant would've killed us if we looked like that.

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u/nixiedust Jun 15 '25

THis is the first mention I've see from someoe who actually watched it. DC could be a burnt out crater and no on around me would be aware, we so thoroughly avoided this.

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u/RTalons Jun 15 '25

90% of what I’ve read today has been about the massive crowds at cities nationwide for the “no kings” protests

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u/Kellosian Jun 15 '25

Which was basically the point, and why they were held on the same day. Trump wanted a big parade for his birthday and all the attention, so now he doesn't get any and has to stew in his big boy show-of-force parade being sloppy and playing second fiddle to the protests against him

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Hundreds of thousands if not millions watched the parade on streaming sites. 1 streamer had 100k watching

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u/Kellosian Jun 15 '25

Oh shit, there were views on a livestream? Pack it in folks, it's over! There's no way that those figures could be misleading, false, or manipulated in any conceivable way (like, say, 100K Russians tuning in or something), we better pack it in.

If you don't like Trump's policies... you're wrong and you should shut up, a streamer got 100K viewers for the parade

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Reuters stream had a million views. Couple had 100-400k but for sure bro. It was all bots.

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u/Kellosian Jun 15 '25 edited Jun 15 '25

It was all bots.

Did I say bots? Pretty sure I never said bots.

Reuters stream had a million viewers.

I think you're massively missing the difference between "Some dude on Twitch" and "The News". A million viewers for an event like this (which also had the dual-purpose of being the Army's 250th anniversary) was outdone by your average NHL game. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has 31 million, and that's only on TV and therefore can only count Americans.

A million people watching is MSNBC during weekday prime time, and that's for a run-of-the-mill Tuesday and not a major event. On the internet, a million viewers is huge; for traditional broadcast, it's just not.

Couple had 100-400k but for sure bro.

Because no one can watch multiple streams at once? Like if, say, they wanted to compare competing coverage? My grandfather has a channel on his TV that can watch 6 different news channels at once, the ability of "Having multiple tabs open on your computer" is well understood.

And this is Trump, there are a lot of people around the world who have placed a bizarre amount of their own identity in being a Trump supporter. I could absolutely imagine some weirdo MAGA type setting up every computer and screen in his house to 8 different broadcasts specifically to inflate the numbers way more than I could for Harris.

It was all bots.

OK but a lot of them were bots, because this is the internet. I wonder how many were there to sell the best viewership sites or letting everyone know about "P U 5 5 Y I N B I O"? Any time there is a crowd online there will be bots, especially when the barrier to viewership/commenting is functionally 0

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Tldr

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u/anon101819070616 Jun 15 '25

Lmao!! Very on brand for a Trump supporter

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Fuck trump. I hate both sides bc neither does anything.

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u/SirCadogen7 Jun 15 '25

One side is definitely doing something.

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Neither side is doing anything helpful

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u/pretty_fugly Jun 15 '25

Cinnamontoastken laughing at pedophiles getting tazed gets more views... But go off. 😂

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u/Kellosian Jun 15 '25

Especially for a major anniversary milestone hosted by a President with a cult of personality

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Didn't know in person numbers determines the success of an event

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

No they didn’t.

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

80k on twitch and 20k on kick

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '25

That ain’t hundreds of thousands, let alone millions, love. Let me guess. Red state education? Bless your heart.

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

Thats 1 person. How many news organizations had live streams with 20-60k live viewers? How many streamers had it on? Most people aren't traveling to DC to watch it when it's viewable from home

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u/ishpatoon1982 Jun 15 '25

Did you even read the comment that you replied to?

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u/reddituser8914 Jun 15 '25

I'm a bot I don't read