And whose fault is his rise and prominence again? Who riddled every single day of the last nine years with gadfly stories about him to the exclusion of everything else? Who gave him free marketing, non stop, at all times, for ad money? Oh it was the press? That’s wild. Well, y’all wanted this.
Yes, of course we can estimate it. We can just guess, that’s estimation. From there, it would have to come along with clues, or metrics, though. At that point, that’s when the real problem emerges: each company has a completely different impact on the planet, economy, culture, etc.
So, in other words, you can’t proceed with a single model, and therefore the models are difficult to compare with one another in terms of their accuracy.
It’s almost better to, instead of trying to measure each company (depressing, time consuming, complex) just come up with a threshold of what constitutes too much death. Then it becomes clearer that the problem is that we’re looking for a certain tally to determine if a line has been crossed or not, when we already know the answer:
One preventable death is enough to warrant a major response.
No amount of bureaucracy or legislative tissues can change the fact that it’s morally wrong to broker death for profit. Scale of profit doesn’t matter, plausible deniability doesn’t matter. It’s the end of someone’s life for money. Either it is okay, or not.
We often get caught up in the numbers because they introduce a debatable, grey terrain where the gravity of what we’re really discussing isn’t as hard to face. But it’s the trolley problem, and ultimately most of the actions we do in the interests of debating it just serve the purpose of letting us talk and ignore the lever. Meanwhile the trolley barrels on.
Holy shit NBC, do your goddamn jobs. “They’re besties but he did a widdle supplement oopsie doo?” This dude has bragged about plans for using the FBI as political contact killers.
These news rags want these people in office
I just took a look at the list and it looks like a pretty tall order to me. I think the targets are so high profile that there’s a chance that if he goes after even one, it’ll drag out for a long time.
We’re talking about people who currently control pro Republican news networks and stuff like that in some cases. How’s he going to get anything like that done with a wing of Republican propaganda suddenly turning against him?
These networks are a large part of why Republicans escape accountability. Like it or not they have to work within that framework - especially if they decide they don’t want to work within a legal framework. Consent of the governed isn’t negotiable, and while they’ve proven they can get that through propaganda, they haven’t proven they can do without it.
I’m not saying you’re wrong though. I’m just saying if he tries to follow through it’ll be far more of an undertaking than he imagines, and several of those targets could actually sabotage Trump if they thought it were necessary for self preservation.
Far more likely that targets get taken out in accidents, and not anyone on any well known lists.
The Martians deserve him
Well this is incredibly depressing news thanks for sharing, heaven sent me alcohol too, I guess.
I’m already tired of these “Trump mocked / slammed / blasted / whatever” posts. My God the coming years will be insufferable
Yeah. Pretty telling that now they turn around and act like an authority on it after ignoring everyone’s warnings for the last decade. “News”.