@malte @randahl @benroyce the US population is distributed differently than Europe, and resulting infrastructure is both different and less easy to shut down en mass. If a protest closed downtown Chicago, the vast majority of the metro population would barely notice except for media reports (social or otherwise). Protests do sometimes shut down a highway, but other than causing some slowdowns the traffic reroutes onto other highways. Could infra get shut down? Sure, but harder/different.

@randahl @benroyce population density makes it harder for enough people to mobilize