Daniel Keys Moran

But sometimes she did. She might say: “This mess will clear up if you will take that troublemaker there—What’s your name? You with the goatee—out and shoot him. Do it now.”

-- Heinlein, Glory Road

... in our timeline we'd have to start with Trump, but we'd need to at least do Netenyahu and Putin while at it.

Mar 12 at 2:28pmWeb
Show threadGraydonMar 12

@fatsam All the billionaires. Everybody running the tax haven system. Everybody on Epstein's client list, all the facilitators and staff thereof. All the fossil carbon execs; everybody running the casino wrongly labelled "market".

By the time you set out to stop mammonite cultural transmission, you're into many millions.

It's incredibly hard to get a utilitarian analysis to produce an answer other than "do it" all the same.

Show threadDarwin WoodkaMar 12

@fatsam

Honestly I think we would just get worse troublemakers. Our real problem is the 40% stupid populace.

Show threadToken Sane PersonMar 12
@fatsam Just remember that the empress in question had absorbed the memories of a few dozen predecessors in order to get to the point where she could do this with sufficient accuracy.
Show threadDaniel Keys MoranMar 12
@tokensane I suspect even a person of rather more moderate intelligence, say me, is probably right about Trump and Netanyahu and Putin.
Show threadDean L. SurkinMar 12
@fatsam Unfortunately, making martyrs of them won't solve the problems they've caused.