I know this is a bit but honestly I genuinely like this idea. Yes at the moment Israel is using proportional deaths as a cudgel, but generally in is very useful to look and rhetorically powerful to look at this metric and gives the savagery of US invasions of Korea, Vietnam etc a unique potency.

It's not the only useful lens for comparing tragedy, but to say that The Korean War inflicted 20 kBu is an extremely damning statistic.

I prefer the more granular competing unit named Tower. 2 Towers = 1 Bush

In the Vatican City example, one death would be 62 Towers. Much more functional in everyday use.

Okay, and 1 Rona is defined as 1 Bush/day

I approve of this

Unironically this should be adopted as a standard Hexbear unit of measurement

Okay, the February 28 incident was in the ballpark of 250-400 Bushes, while Tiananmen Square was between ~20milliBushes (official figures) and ~85milliBushes (high end of Amnesty International's estimate).

So apparently Feb 28 was the equivalent national tragedy to massacring ~3-4.7 million people in China in 1989, whereas Tiananmen was equivalent to killing 1.5-6.5 people in 1947 Taiwan.

Incredible moral framework, no notes.

A second Bush has just hit the towers.

I hope the name is changed to the Dubya.

man in Vatican City choking to death on a hotdog

fake gay