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by shagie 1290 days ago
Hypothetically, if Acme had 100 people and one person donated $100 to a Democrat while another person donated $1 to a Republican would it be correct to say that 99% of Acme donated to Democratic causes?

If not, would you please restate "98.47% of Twitter contributions to Dems" to be more representative of what the numbers say.

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"98.47% of Twitter contributions" is a totally valid statement. The percentage of the dollars contributed is 98.47%.

Your argument is totally dishonest. It's infuriating. What are you saying? That because it's possible 14,137 Twitter employees donated $1 each to the republicans and 1 person donated the other 900K, we can ignore this 98.47% figure entirely?

Second of all, the dollar measurement is not a useless one. It is a measure of wealth, influence, and conviction in the cause. Those Republicans donating $1 probably aren't in charge of censorship. The guy who donated $900K though...

Third, this is Twitter we're talking about. They are headquartered in San Francisco, a very blue city in a very blue state. Their employees are young educated techies. I have friends who work there and have visited their office several times.

Point is, you're not fooling anybody but yourself. Enjoy your motivated reasoning.