Today's News: Ratioed

To begin, I need to give a definition of "ratioed" - Merriam-Webster defines it as "A quantitative measure of how little they like your take." 

A tweet is "ratioed" when only a few people "Like" it or "Re-Tweet" it, compared to the large number of people who are hitting "Reply" to say something negative about it:

If the Replies:RT ratio is greater than 2:1, you done messed up.

— Brian (@Briligerent) March 15, 2017

This week, we saw two painfully ignorant Ratio examples, both related to the Queen's funeral and Canada's attendance there-at. 

First, a tweet from the Globe and Mail - 300 likes vs 1,900 replies:

Unlike the tens of thousands of people joining the eight-kilometre queue along the River Thames, Mr. Trudeau used a special VIP entrance to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth. https://t.co/tprUgtrMjq

— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) September 17, 2022

The response was immediate and incredulous.

Seriously?
Are the tens of thousands of people in the eight-kilometre queue heads of state?
🤔
Didn't think so...
Do better you partisan hacks!
🤬#CdnPoli #CdnMedia #CdnMediaFails

— The Ubiquitous J-Man (@Swift01_2000) September 18, 2022

Unlike the tens of thousands of people joining the 8 km queue, who are not heads of state, the Prime Minister of Canada was shown the respect due a Head-of-State at an official function. He used the entrance they provided, he didn’t “sneak past” the bouncer. FFS G&M!

— No dilbit (@Nodilbit) September 18, 2022

I thought this was a funny one:

https://t.co/yx6xu5E7v3

— Party's Over 🇨🇦 (@PoliPartysOver) September 18, 2022

And this one:

Globe tweet: “The Canadian PM unbelievably walked instead of taking a car or a sedan chair to the meeting.” https://t.co/Lw9hHVOsPF

— Greg MacEachern (@gmacofglebe) September 18, 2022

People were also annoyed to see the Globe and Mail refer to PMJT as just "Mr. Trudeau" when they should have been calling him Prime Minister Trudeau -- the funeral isn't a campaign event, he is attending in his official capacity as Prime Minister. 

But mainly, the thousands of Canadians replying to this tweet were annoyed with the needless, gratuitous and mean-spirited sniping at PMJT.