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• OscarCunningham 10y ago
  The are 320 million people in the US. Therefore there were many instances of violence against supporters of any candidate by supporters of any other candidate. But statistically the was almost no political violence of any kind.
  • zamalek 10y ago
    There were absolutely no instances of this[1] type of violence after our (South African) elections. To me, that's violence. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ierwcw4pQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Ierwcw4pQ
    • OscarCunningham 10y ago
      What I mean is that even if only 0.0001% of the population commits an act of violence there will still be enough violence for the media to report about it non-stop. But it's still valid to say that the violence is virtually non-existent, in the same way that you might say that coins don't land on their edges, even though they do 0.0001% of the time. Also, looking at the news it seems like there was quite a bit of violence in South Africa in the run-up to the elections, so I don't think that's really a counterexample.