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.

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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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      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