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A billion chinese people can't be wrong.

— David • The Lost Boys

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An editorial interpretation.

The speaker argues that a huge number of believers guarantees correctness, treating sheer headcount as proof. The line trades on the familiar fallacy that widespread belief settles a question, delivered with breezy confidence rather than any actual evidence for the claim itself.

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