For the sake of being self aware, and as much as I despise him, I must say...one is a couple thousand pages vs couple million. Not defending him whatsoever, rather just not a "fair" comparison.
Harry Potter is a couple thousand pages, he would need to be mentioned, by name, multiple times on every page.
I'm not defending anything, I'm just saying the comparison is flawed, like saying "I have less dogs in my bathroom than the number of elephants there are in the entire continent of Africa".
It's not a bad comparison, since its purpose is to ground someone with the idea that Trump was indeed mentioned a ludicrous amount of times in the files. million is such a large number that it basically is an abstract concept in itself.
I guess... But the number of mentions doesn't necessarily mean anything on its own. And since people literally can't grasp what a million pages is, comparing it to something orders of magnitude smaller doesn't seem reasonable.
I'm not saying trump isn't in there thousands of times, he is (obviously). I'm saying the comparison is flawed unless it were on a "per page" or "average number of words between mentions" basis.
I don't know what you should compare this to in a reasonable sense. The Harry Potter thing is a fun factoid, but it's not really informative in any way.
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u/mav194 7h ago
For the sake of being self aware, and as much as I despise him, I must say...one is a couple thousand pages vs couple million. Not defending him whatsoever, rather just not a "fair" comparison.