Amazon burned $250M just for the rights to produce the goofy and embarrassing "R...

dispersed · 2026-01-30T18:39:34 1769798374

There is a universe where Amazon can be both incompetent and corrupt, and we're living in it.

MeetingsBrowser · 2026-01-30T18:53:43 1769799223

Some might argue the two traits go hand in hand

relativeadv · 2026-01-30T18:38:27 1769798307

bmacho · 2026-01-31T11:03:03 1769857383

I think they implied the following argument, or something along the lines

  1. Assume that Amazon knows the future
  2. Then spending $250M on Rings of Power is a bad decision
  3. Therefore paying $28M to Trump is also just a bad decision, and not a bribery

I personally don't think that 1 holds, or that 2 implies 3.