You got ratio'ed!

On Twitter, there is a phenomenon called “the ratio,” and depending on the balance of that ratio, any given tweet can be mathematically judged as an overwhelming success or a crashing failure. For example, if rapper Meek Mill tweets that he is “taking over” BET on the weekend of the BET Awards and he gets 4,000 likes, 1,100 retweets and 165 responses, that is a healthy freaking ratio.

On the flip side, Republican National Committee chair Ronna Romney McDaniel tweets that “Anyone that does not embrace the @realDonaldTrump agenda of making America great again will be making a mistake.” For McDaniel’s promise of pogroms for Democrats, she gets 6,600 likes; 2,100 retweets; and a whopping 28,000 responses. Why is that ratio bad? Because Twitter only responds en masse to a tweet when it is pissed off beyond all semblance of composure.

During the week of June 10, Oklahoma Sen. Ervin Yen, R-Oklahoma City, discovered what it’s like to join the Bad Ratio Society.

Yen, a cardiac anesthesiologist, authored Senate Bill 1120, a bill that put tight restrictions on the licensure of medical marijuana, winnowing down the potential recipients to those suffering neuropathic pain, muscle spasms due to multiple sclerosis or paralysis, chemotherapy-linked nausea, loss of appetite due to cancer or AIDS or the terminally ill who will die within one year.

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