did you know the person was going to do something horrible before they did it?

its fucking Saudi Arabia

did they say "hey bruh. I'm gonna go blow up some kids"

I suppose if the government decided to cut ties with Saudi Arabia and end foreign interventionism in general that LM lobbyists would just sit by and let it happen, then?

Or do we live in reality

A trusted US Ally (tm)

@Risotto why not

it wouldn't stop the US from allowing them to sell the product

????

That's a different thing you're blaming them for too

Not that it would ever happen regardless

Like go back and look at "isolationism" back during before WW1

yes, the trusted us ally who often likes to fund the bombing of another trusted us ally

Doesn't change the weird relationship you guys have with em

its not weird, they have oil.

at no time did that STOP US Defense Contractors (which at that point were basically small factories and companies) from selling to foreigners

annoying

So do many other countries

Including ones that didn't participate in 9/11

If you have one guy, let's call him Bernie, saying interventionism is bad, and another person, let's call them Hillary, saying we need to spread democracy throughout the Levant, which campaign would LM be more likely to donate to?

@Risotto You're mistaken if you think that they give a shit who won based on that

That's a different claim than "LM is responsible for [thing they could not forsee]"

they care about who takes them less or gives them tax breaks

They will BOTH still let them sell shit

either way, i wouldn't run an ad asking for pictures of our product after it has been made public that our product was used to kill 40 children. particular if it was not a product that civilians can own. That is just gonna potentially hurt sales of products civilians can buy but do nothing to boost sales of government only products.

public 2 days earlier*

They weren't advertising for that missile, they just said "pictures of our products"

It just backfired in a satisfyingly snarky way

that would be my point, hence why they are idiots

drawing that attention away from the bomb itself and who did it, to themselves, and then onto their other products.

they wait a week or two, people would forget and just blame the US government and Saudi.

Eh, easy mistake tbh. Particularly for a US military contractor

How often do you think American made weapons get used by foreign countries for dumb and awful shit? Probably fairly often

oh all the time, just like the AK is used all over.

but usually is the US to blame because the manufactures are not trying to brag about their products right after one of those things happen.

I suppose I am conflating some things, but still, I find them generally more culpable than gun manufacturers who don't make full auto or sniper-range stuff

It's probably quite the crapshoot to promote yourself

on a normal day, yeah.

So if a manufacturer made "sniper range" and "full-auto" stuff they're culpable too?

but usually they can hide behind the US being at fault for the bad stuff, and then take claim for the good stuff

Which like, I genuinely don't know what you mean by a "sniper range" gun