Would be neat if he got impeached regardless of putting in his resignation. I’d love it for him to have it in his permanent record, so to speak.

That’s an interesting perspective I hadn’t thought of.

Honestly, I don’t think I’d want to see him as the presidential candidate next. He’s very young and after being president you are mostly spent as a politician. Look at Obama. He could have had a longer productive career if he hadn’t been president as early as he was. Talarico I’d hope to see for two or three full cycles as a Senator. If he’s then elected president he’d still be young, but more experienced.

I had that moment with the flash back in Captain Marvel. I believe it was a “20 years earlier” and the sound track changes to Garbage/Only happy when it rains… The sound track of my friend group in the last years of school. Damn did I feel old…

I don’t think it’s quite as easy. If you decide you have a need for current tech missile tech your choices are quite slim. First choice used to be the US. But do you really want to rely on them these days? Second choice would have been Russia. That’s out. China? They will have the tech, but are they willing to sell that particular piece of kit? And do you trust it? Chinese kit looks equivalent or even superior on paper but hasn’t really been battle tested. Other suppliers? Europe has just realised they have severe gaps in their tech line ups, partly because those were filled by the US. India? They do have competent military gear, but do they have what you need? Korea is the new rage, but the also don’t have everything on offer yet.

And then there’s Israel. One of the things they do really well is missile tech. In a lot of variations. Germany is quietly purchasing Israeli tech. The Arrow system is the only available system approaching US tech I believe. They are getting MLRAs as well. They just tested some navy ballistic missile.

The tech is good, the conditions quite liberal, I believe, you just end up having to decide if dealing with Netanyahu is something you can do.

I assume we don’t teach kids to be like psychopaths because the system only can take so many. Unlike the image portrayed by propaganda, even American life doesn’t mainly consist of competition but of cooperation. There is competition to fill roles in companies, sure. But once in a role one is supposed to cooperate with coworkers to achieve something larger than one could alone.

If everybody saw life through the lens of a psychopath I guess we’d end up in a Mad Max scenario. Modern cooperative society with a system of division of labour simply wouldn’t work anymore.

On the other hand I’m morbidly curious how a society entirely without psychopaths would look like. Would it be better or worse? (And for wich definitions of “better” and “worse”). I can only assume we’d have much less wars, for one.

Sounds like they are reinventing the main frame, just without the specialized hardware support that guarantees things go right.