• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    yes, per capita. do you know why protests aren’t measured by per capita, right?

    please tell me you understand why per capita is a bad metric to distinguish protests…

    • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Protests are measured in raw numbers because if you said 1.4% of the population of the usa gave enough of a fuck to turn up, it would show just how little you people care about What’s happening in your country. And if you compare that to the protests Georgians had about the Russification of their government, they had raw numbers of around 169000 at the low end, but that’s over 4% of their population. So yeah if you want your passive population to seem politically engaged, by all means use the raw numbers, but nobody’s impressed when the survival of your country is on the line and only 1.4% can be bothered showing up.

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        9 days ago

        just an update for you since it’s so important that you’re goal posts are moved. multiple sources claim hundreds of protestors showed up in Edinburgh. I’ll (generously) top it out at 1000 protestors nationwide.

        Scotland

        • population 5,500,000
        • trump golf protest 1000
        • per capita 0.00018

        in comparison to the US.

        • population 347,411,739
        • no kings 5,000,000
        • per capita 0.014

        but hey, it’s not a competition.

        • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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          9 days ago

          You realise that Donald kiddie fiddler Trump isn’t the president of Scotland right? He’s objectively your fucking problem. You ought to be grateful for any foreign countries who want to help out. I never said there were proportionally more people protesting in Scotland.

          If you look back at the comments, I’ve only ever argued with your position that any country that doesn’t field 5M protesters isn’t outperforming the states. Which, by the way, is still some grade A stupidity. I’ve no fucking idea how many people showed up, but as previously mentioned trump is definitely more of a problem for the USA than anyone else so I genuinely wouldn’t expect that many to show up.

          However if the first minister of Scotland did even half the shit trump’s done, Edinburgh would fucking burn with the riots.

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              9 days ago

              Stop fucking doing that, moderator! Silencing opinions is literally what fascists do, how the fuck do you expect to change shit when you refuse people to even speak their minds?

              The guy’s obviously a doofus, by silencing them you are effectively protecting them from making assholes of themselves, while turning this shithole into another echo chamber.

              You might as well be /r/conservatism, or /r/pyongyang, that’s what they do to dissenting opinion!

            • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world
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              9 days ago

              Of course numbers per capita make more sense. That’s been my point the whole time. I’m not trying to gaslight anyone. And you know sometimes the USA needs to be reminded that they aren’t “all that”, because apparently American exceptionalism extends to arguing about protest turn out with random people online.