FYI you can "vouch" for dead comments if you have enough karma. But in general, if a comment is dead it is a sign that it is not worth engaging with it.
pfdietz has 13 thousand karma since 2018 so that's not a non-serious account.
perhaps in this case "he" edit-clobbered his comment because it was so unpopular, but what it says now is just off-topic and doesn't match the response:
"It had to do everything because the business case for it (that it would have sufficient ROI) required it. Even then, the business case was basically fraudulent, and the reality was even worse than the critics like Mondale were saying."
NoahKAndrews|11 months ago
fsckboy|11 months ago
perhaps in this case "he" edit-clobbered his comment because it was so unpopular, but what it says now is just off-topic and doesn't match the response:
"It had to do everything because the business case for it (that it would have sufficient ROI) required it. Even then, the business case was basically fraudulent, and the reality was even worse than the critics like Mondale were saying."