You probably don’t want to stay in one place. The US would quickly lob a missile to wherever you are. $80m probably wouldn’t make up for being on the run for the rest of your life in a country that will probably be turned into a war zone.

In the next paragraph, Carter offered a now unsettling warning about what form that violent resistance might take. He explained that Palestinian and Lebanese militants knew the value of a captured Israeli soldier or civilian. As a result, absent an Israeli commitment to peace, militants would have an incentive to obtain hostages. Israel would then respond with overwhelming and disproportionate force. But it likely wouldn’t be enough to destroy the hostage takers, Carter warned. After the bombs stopped falling, they would emerge more popular than ever.

Looks like he definitely knew what he was talking about.

Yeah, wouldn’t mind that for the next 4 years or so, possibly longer.

Thank you, never heard of it before. Judging by the wiki description it seems like it would be a bit too meta. Like most movies that have a screenwriter as the main character, that kind of vibe.

Israel’s (over)reaction to the hostage crisis has been very harmful for the diaspora, and sometimes I think that’s by design. Basically ensuring that Israel is the only “safe” place for Jews by encouraging anti-Semitism abroad.

Exactly, the point is to keep the US on board so they can get multiples of that money back. As long as Americans don’t see dead Palestinian babies on mainstream news, the money will keep flowing.

Wonder if the cops will show up in force next time there’s a protest at his Berlin factory.

Everyone hates them and they have no idea why. Must be anti-Semitism.

We’ll see in 4 years then if the strategy of giving the most extreme groups money and weapons will have a different result this time. If only there were past examples we could learn from.

Oh look at that, the West toppling a dictator and replacing it with something that’s somehow worse. Those elections are never happening and the civil war will continue. It’s Libya all over again.

Most of us would stop doing whatever we were doing well before we amassed a billion dollars. That sort of wealth is enough to retire on, live a life of luxury and make sure your progeny won’t even need to work either.

These guys just don’t know how to stop, they have a hole they just can’t fill. And I guess when you reach “richest man in the world” status, you look around and you notice you’re still not happy, that probably doesn’t make things better for you mentally. And yeah, you stop seeing normal people in your life. You’re just surrounded by either other billionaires or people that are on your payroll. You don’t have any clue about the struggles of the other 99.9%.

It’s going to be built out of a Model X gull-wing door. Sharpen the edge and let him take a gamble on whether the software he forced his underpaid and overworked employees to write stops it in time.

It’s sort of ridiculous how the worst people rise to the top in all areas, whether that’s politics, business or entertainment. Sometimes it just feels like the rest of us are just being held hostage by a small minority of sociopaths.

They could probably live in some sort of witness protection situation in South Korea, but I guess that’s still a shitty life if you want to see your family again.

If you have a stable population, and a fixed amount of time graves are used you could just have a certain amount of cemetary space set aside and be fine. Mass casualty events like wars and pandemics can change these things, of course.

Yeah, whatever green energy shit they did was just PR. Basically telling governments they were working on pivoting away from fossil fuels, so no reason to regulate them or anything.

Yeah, why the hell is OP using SMS?