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		_mqpu on July 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Student group leader arrested on suspicion of inci... You believe that 3 million 'petition signatures' is even remotely equivalent to 2 million actual protesters marching the street?

mjayhn on July 29, 2020 [–]

I'm really curious how exponential the amount of signatures you'd get for a protest that brought 2 million people together would be. I'd bet it'd be 30m+ easy but I'm doing completely baseless twitter retweet math.

edit: I worded this strangely and tried to recover it, hopefully it makes sense.

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