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SpokenTruth said:
irstupid said:

The point was that he made a crack about Trump inflating numbers.

THe EVENT that I posted planned for 500,000, stated in a tweet that 800,000 people showed up. Media reports ran that story, yet multiple experts and analysts put the number between 180,000-210,000.

The point of the kids/adult ratio was because the event is touted as "the American youth standing up and we need to listen to them"

10% of the people being under 18 probably isn't that much of a difference between any of the other random rally's/protest's that have happened since trump took office. So it comes off as just more of the same people protesting and not something new.

It was me that made the crack about Trump inauguration numbers. 

The DC numbers thing ignores the fact that rallies were held in over 700 cities in the US and in 37 countries around the world

The 10% under 18 figure is almost expected.  The US population between age 12-18 is....9.8%.

But this is some serious whataboutism anyway.  Joke....but what about?

DC numbers does not ignore it was held in other cities. Otherwise how would there be a 1.2-2.0 million estimate when 800,000 was for DC. If it ignored others, the total estimate would be just 800,000, since that was DC.

Thus brings back my point. How can we even remotely trust the 1.2-2.0 million estimate when in the biggest march, the estimate is inflated by 4x? Let alone 1.2-2.0 million is a HUGE gap. What ever happened to a small margin of error. The margin of error is huge.

The 10% point is to point out how this march was supposed to be about kids standing up. That would be like saying million man march should have only been comprised of 16% blacks, since that is the breakout population wise. Or the Womens march should have comprised of only 50% females.

The point of those marches were for blacks and women, and thus the people marching comprised of them. This march was touted as kids across America standing up for gun laws. We then find out that whatever the number of marchers, only 10% were kids.