u/No_Evening_7617

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I mean...thirteen days. Jesus. That's a long to keep checking the news.

I like the psychology aspect of it all. Forty five men, some rich, some poor, some ill, some healthy, each tackling the exact same thing - absolute power.

A child is born in 1880s Missouri. He spends his youth working on a farm alongside his father. By thirty three years old he is enlisted into the U.S. army and is sent to fight the germans. By sixty one years old he now wields, at his sole discretion, the literal power of the sun. His decision and his decision alone ends up determining the lives and deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, as well as setting the precedent for the total destruction of the planet earth.

In 1976, a spoilt nepo baby rich kid is pulled over by a police officer and is forced to read the alphabet backwards. He is taken into custody and charged with a DUI. Twenty five years later that same drunkard is seen giving a rousing speech while stood on top of a crumbled Manhattan skyscraper. All around him are the rubble submerged corpses of countless men, women, and children. He speaks of avenging their deaths.

In the county of Erie, New York, 1872, a condemned inmate stands waiting. Finally, a rope is placed around his neck and he is slowly walked up onto the gallows. The executioner mutters a few words of grace, looks the condemned inmate in the eyes, and pulls the lever. Patrick Morrisey falls, jolts, and is pronounced dead soon afterwards. He had been convicted of murdering his mother. Thirteen years pass and the executioner who had carried out his sentence, Sheriff Grover Cleveland, is named President of the United States.

You don't get these kind of stories with prime ministers from my country. Most have interesting lives, sure, but I always find them to be a bit "samey". Here, someone like Andrew Johnson, a former indentured servant, or Andrew Jackson, a former child solider, would never be elected MP let alone Prime Minister. Their pasts wouldn't allow it full stop.

I have to admit that up untill today I had very little knowledge of Larry Eyler and his crimes, but after doing some more research it now seems that this whole thing is a much larger rabbit hole than his wiki page lets on. If Eyler's confession is true, Professor Little has to be one of the most highly educated/high society serial killers on record.

The current dem governor of Virginia was a CIA operative responsible for orchestrating the war on drugs. Prior to the rape allegations, the dem nominee for Governor of Maine, Graham Platner, was a literal Blackwater mercenary. Senator Elissa Slotkin of New York worked for Israel during the war on terror during the 2000s... I feel like the Dem's have a lot to answer for in this regard. How best do we combat you in this area? If we let your lot win in November the next thing we know we will all be dosed up to high heaven in LSD and jumping out of hotel windows. These are the stakes here, folks.

Obviously, I am being facetious, but does this not bother anyone else? My party, the Republicans, have a lot of problems, but the one thing we're good at is avoiding the military industrial complex. For all of Trump's many, many flaws he is assuring that all the grubby arms dealers of america are not all over Ukraine right now reaping their particular brand of mayhem and misery.

Obviously the vast majority of presidents have psychopathic traits, but even the most particularly "evil" ones like Jackson and (Andrew)Johnson seemed to have at least some ideological beliefs about america that kept them teathered to reality. Has anyone ever successfully sought the office of president for the purpose of power and power alone?

I mean, on a numerical level, he has objectively saved more lives than he has ended. Thats a fact, right? Plus it is not even like he tortures his victims or anything nor does he derive sexual pleasure from the act of killing. On both a professional and social level he is arguably more well adjusted than even a none-serial killer could ever hope for.

After watching all eight seasons I've come to the conclusion that Dexter Morgan is probably an overall better person than I am. Even the "innocent" photographer that he killed in season three was arguably a rapist in his own right.

This series could have been so great if the writing was even half-way competent. I have always felt like Dexter's character should have significantly regressed as his murder-addiction worsened throughout the seasons. Start by having him exclusively take out other killers and end it with him killing car thieves/drug dealers. Like an alcoholic running out of champagne and resulting to mouth wash instead.

I apologise for the morbid question, but as someone who has only ever experienced the 21st century, I find the lack of CCTV/forensic ability present in the 20th century absolutely insane to think about. If I hit my head and suddenly gained homicidal tendencies what was it exactly stopping me from taking a gun, walking into a city centre at night, and shooting the first homeless tramp I saw? How would the police have any remote chance of catching me? Surely all that you would have do to get away with your crime of choosing was to put on a pair of glasses, a hat, and a nondescript t-shirt? Gloves, too, if you're feeling particularly nervous.

Obviously I have no desire to commit murder but I do kind of bemoan the fact that I never got to live in a time where you could just...get away with things. I feel like the ability to commit crimes relatively consequence free was, in itself, an innate human liberty. You ever wonder why historical texts were so obsessed with discussing morals? Because once upon a time you had to actually put those morals to the test. Now we're just barn animals locked away in a pen of our creation. Still, less chance of me getting shot I suppose.