• hark@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Reminds me of this:

    “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you, would you take a handful?” said the tweet on the verified @DonaldTrumpJr handle.

    “That’s our Syrian refugee problem,” said the post, which caused a stir and negative tweets on the internet into Tuesday.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/donald-trump-jr-likens-syrian-refugees-poisoned-skittles

    Are you sure THIS is how we should think?

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      20 hours ago

      As per usual it’s a stupid analogy. It assumes that only bad things can happen and the best you can hope for is a not poisoned skittle, it totally precludes the possibility of a beneficial skittle. But of course it does because the Trump family deals exclusively in zero-sum games, it’s either all or nothing with these idiots.

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      20 hours ago

      Agreed - by this logic we all just ought to kill ourselves as there’s literally nothing that is risk free.