Dominion is not Google, or Ford, or Amazon with billions in revenue. They have 125 employees on LinkedIn, and probably a few of those don't even work there anymore. So lets say ~150 people total and give them $200K per employee in revenue and that gets them to order of magnitude ~$30 million annually. Its not their job to save democracy. Its their job to stay in business and keep their employees fed. I don't blame them for taking $787 million now vs. waiting possibly 5+ years for some unknown payoff while their business is in limbo. Anyone actually paying attention to what went down knows the score. The hordes of maga fucktards weren't going to change their minds anyway. A trial verdict 100% in favor of Dominion would simply be written off as the swamp/deep state fucking over MAGA yet again. If fat Donnie doesn't say it, they don't fucking care.
There's plenty about the realities of America today that pisses me off, but I ain't gonna pin that on Dominion. I'll save my outrage for Biden, Garland, and the dems in Congress standing around jacking each other off about their sick George Santos burns on twitter. Who has more resources for saving democracy, Dominion Voting and their mighty 150 employees, or the DOJ and its 9200 attorneys? Failure to hold Trump/GQP/Fox etc... accountable will lie at the feet of the democratic buffoons we elected, not some tiny company nobody had ever heard of until last fall.
I do have a question for the lawyers on this board however. I assume Fox wouldnt agree to any settlement if Dominion mandated that Fox personalities admit/apologize for their fuckery on air. So Dominion takes the money now and Fox clears the first hurdle. But there's plenty of more hurdles for Fox to clear. Could the principals at Dominion and Smartmatic have an undisclosed agreement where they agree to work in tandem (discovery process, sharing intel, trial preparation, etc...)? And more importantly could that agreement also include a split of legal damages?
In other words, Dominion gets their money (a fuck ton of money) now, not in 5-7 years after who knows how many appeals. So Dominion agrees to give half of that to Smartmatic, and Smartmatic in turn agrees to share any awards they receive in their suit against Fox. But now with 3/4 of a billion already "booked," team Dominion/Smartmatic can play some fucking hardball. Smartmatic may still agree to a settlement and no trial in round two, but they mandate Fox and their personalities explicitly admit to lying on air. If Fox won't agree to that...." see you in court" and Tucker, Hannity, and Murdoch can admit to it under oath anyway.
I can see some strategic advantages to an agreement like that, but that seems like it might run afoul of some legal ethics. Would you have to disclose that type of arrangement? Also, I realize that sounds pretty far out there, but ........edibles.