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[–] [email protected] 236 points 1 month ago (4 children)

That's $21 billion per bullet ROI.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We've never seen a better cost/benefit ratio

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

That sounds like a treatment we should pre-approve of

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Pentagon budget office in shambles after seeing such a ratio

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

And Luigis life, unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

He'll be treated like a king in prison until he's killed by a bribed prison guard. And that's assuming the US itself lasts long enough to enforce his sentence.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I wonder what the odds are trump accidentally pardons him.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago

0 his ceo friends will stop him

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Depends on how loud we blast YMCA outside the white house. Once he gets to "dancing" (if you can call it that) who knows what he'll do (he'll do the double jack-off motion and probably nothing else, but I do wonder how easily he'd be to manipulate if ordinary citizens tried).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We need a plant on his team, which shouldn't be hard considering he's forgoing the usual background checks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Knowing how the US works, he probably won't get to interact with humans. He's being charged with terrorism, so they're trying to make sure he can't easily be accessed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Is he in jail for federal charges? I thought they were NYS charges

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

We're talking health insurance in the US so that doesn't change much. 3 bullets plus....20k?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not really a Return on Investment if there's no actual "return".

Their valuation decreased, but none of our wallets got fatter as a result. The price tag's number just changed.

This by itself doesn't really help anyone who's struggling. It's frustrating to see so much focus on a net worth number changing, as if that actually helps anyone.

[–] howrar 7 points 1 month ago

Valuation decreased because they're expected to earn less in the future, with lost profits approximately proportional to the drop in value. If they earn less, it's probably because they're going to be exploiting fewer people and they're getting that much less money from these people. I would count that as a return.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder if those bullets will end up in some rich guys personal collection someday.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

They might end up with a collection all their own, inshallah.