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.

  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    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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      1 day ago

      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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        1 day ago

        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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        23 hours ago

        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