• winterayars@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Yeah people talked about how “there’s a billion Muslims!” all the time, as if all of them were personally dedicated to serving as soldiers to invade the US. That’s not hyperbole btw, that’s literally what people believed.

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      1 year ago

      Last time I looked into it, it was around 1.5 billion worldwide.

      I just checked again; estimates in 2020 were around 1.9 billion.

      And yeah, it’s silly to believe that that many people would be a monolith.