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"On the path to hypersonic passenger aircraft, Hermeus is partnering with government agencies including the US Air Force and NASA to develop a series of autonomous aircraft that derisk the technology and solve urgent national security challenges."

All smiles and nicely dressed young people making future war machines.

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So what? Do you think what's happening in Ukraine is bad right now? Do you think we shouldn't send them anti-aircraft weapons, drones, planes, whatever? There are bad people in the world who take advantage of those without the means to defend themselves, and I would much rather that America be able to defend itself (or her allies) than live under the thumb of whatever dictator had better weapons and the will to use them.

Because the US would only use the weapons to defend good causes, never to invade other countries or sell them to anyone doing anything bad. I don't think Russia being worse suddenly makes the US the good guys.

What's your proposal?

The US absolutely does things I don't like, a lot, but you know the old saying -- "compare me to the alternative, not the almighty." The only other superpower out there is China, a country actively committing genocide. The EU is a theoretical economic and regulatory superpower but won't ever be a full one because they don't have a strong military and depend on America's security guarantees. So maybe the US isn't a "good guy", but it seems like the best guy out of the ones to choose from.

maybe the bad people in the world is you ? wubba wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo

Maybe, or maybe it's the ones who invaded a sovereign country and bombed a maternity hospital, or maybe the ones committing genocide.

upvoted you because you agreed with me

I get the point you're trying to make, but almost no one in the picture is really smiling, and many are clearly not intentionally. That stood out to me. I wouldn't be surprised if they were told not to, perhaps even in an attempt to avoid comments like yours.

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