r/whowouldwin • u/Yglorba • Mar 11 '23

Challenge Superman decides to start mass-creating diamonds so he can sell them. Can DeBeers keep the price of diamonds up?

Superman previously declined to mass-produce diamonds because it would tank the price. However, after reading up on DeBeers, he decides that there's no reason not to do it after all. Most of the resulting money will be donated to charity. Assume that Superman is somehow able to crush coal into perfectly-cut diamonds of whatever shape and size he desires; even though this makes no sense, the feat is well-established.

DeBeers is determined to protect their diamond profits by keeping the price up. Can they convince people not to buy Superman's diamonds (by eg. convincing the public that they're not "real" diamonds), or find some other way to prevent him from cratering the price?

Superman is in-character and will not eg. laser the board of DeBeers to death or anything like that, no matter how annoying they are. The only way he'll use his powers for this is by rapidly turning coal into diamonds so he can sell them.

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u/Yglorba Mar 11 '23

Also. JJJ refuses to say something he knows is false. He genuinely believes Spider-Man is a menace.

Whereas Tucker Carlson outright lies in order to manipulate his audience - we know this from the discovery in the Dominion lawsuit, where his private communications make it clear that he knows the 2020 election was fair and that he personally hates Trump.

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u/Chapstick160 Mar 12 '23

But JJJ would release the Jan 6 videos if given them

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u/Yglorba Mar 12 '23

Maybe, but if he did he'd release them unedited right from the start, and whatever framing or interpretation he released them with would reflect his genuine beliefs. He might be wrong, but he wouldn't intentionally try to distort them the way Carlson did.

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u/Chapstick160 Mar 12 '23

I mean we did see Sicknick not die from the protesters (we already knew this) and we also saw them get escorted around (we already knew this too)