The exact quote is, “What happened on October 7 when over 1,000 people were massacred in one fell swoop, that’s equivalent to about 40,000 people Americans massacred…

Here is a link to a video of this person saying the above during an interview.

  • Greg Clarke@lemmy.ca
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    Israel has a population of about 10 million (7.5~ Jewish), the US has a population of 340 million. It was an equivalent based on number of deaths per the general population. Israel is an apartheid regime but this post is either a miss understanding or a bad faith argument.

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      21 hours ago

      In that case, each Gazan life is worth about 200 US lives, and Israel has killed the equivalent of 14 million Americans (the majority of which being women, children and elderly).

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      Why not both? https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/news-punch/

      Founded in 2014, The People’s Voice, formerly known as NewsPunch, is a Los Angeles-based clickbait news website that promotes extreme right-wing conspiracy theories and pseudoscience misinformation. The website was founded and formerly edited by Sean Adl-Tabatabai, founder of YourNewsWire. In fact, The People’s Voice is actually YourNewsWire redirected under a new domain name with a clean, attractive website. All previous fake YourNewsWire stories have been ported over to this website/domain. Not much has changed.

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      Thank you, i had a feeling the title was misleading so i looked it up before seeing your reply. 9.6 million Israelis times 40 is 384,000,000. The population of US 348,000,000. Swear to fuck I couldnt make up better stats to mislead with lol

      I mean initially it was a gut feeling based on rough knowledge of US pop totals and the geographic size of Isreal but I about spit my tit out when put the actual numbers together lol.

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        I appreciate the sources for the numbers, but was it really necessary to provide a screenshot of a calculator to convince us that 9.6mil x 40 = 384mil?

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          I loled. There is a metaphor somewhere in there, about trust on the internet and what fake news have done to us.

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          It certainly was necessary, how else can you convince people? For example, I bet you didn’t know about this mathematical relationship between these very common meme numbers:

          a screenshot of a calculator showing 67 times 69 to equal 420