Patreon request for Rocky in the shape of a dragon. I was happy to oblige. Originally, I posted it for Patrons in color, but I think I prefer it in more of a monotone like this.
I hate _% of people statistics being used like “oh it’s such a small number” cause 1% is a small number but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. That’s more than the population of the UK, France or Italy.
6% of the US is 19 million, as stated above. There are only 3 states that have over 19 million people in them. 19 million is the population of the entire state of New York. That’s more than half the population of California.
Taking populations and turning them into percentages is okay until you try to say “oh that’s not a lot of people” but the reality is… That’s millions. That’s enough to be its own country. That’s fucking scary.
Like don’t get me wrong, that’s nicer than the idea that Americans are split pretty 50/50 on such issues…. but that’s still 3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 6% is a nice, softened way of saying “over 1 in 20 people”.
3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.
3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.
3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.
Let that sink in. Then think about how your Jewish friends and neighbors feel right now, and have been feeling all this time.
And that’s only the people who “Identify”
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“Can this be happiness, this terrifying freedom?”
— Albert Camus, Caligula (via philosophybits)
“England and America owe their liberty to commerce, which created a new species of power to undermine the feudal system. But let them beware of the consequences: the tyranny of wealth is still more galling and debasing than that of rank.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden
