d0ct0r0nline

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[–] d0ct0r0nline@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Or I'll even take it a different direction. Say the janitor is single, lives a minimalistic lifestyle, and gives money to anti-war causes or politicians actively trying to regulate these weapons.

Can we quantify morality? Is there enough of an ethical net gain here to absolve them?

[–] d0ct0r0nline@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

We were never the customer, we were always the product.

[–] d0ct0r0nline@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

I mean, I am thoroughly unconvinced that any amount of damning evidence will erode his suppose among Republicans. He just has to keep running the same plays and claim it's "fake news", that it was some kind of deep fake, let QAnon float around a conspiracy, or even at this point maybe even sit back and let the base contort itself from condemning the move to hailing it as a political master stroke of putting pressure on an American adversary.