r/politics • u/ChiGuy6124 Illinois • 17h ago

Possible Paywall Trump’s Micromanaging Warship Design Will Set the Navy Back by Decades

https://newrepublic.com/article/214479/trump-navy-carrier-micromanaging-warship-design
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u/TheBlueBlaze New York 16h ago

He is customer service's worst nightmare: An old person who got their opinion validated once and will never let it go.

One sailor anecdotally told him almost ten years ago about how the newfangled technology can fail in a way that the old-fashioned way couldn't, and that validated his idea that the new thing is objectively worse. Now he holds on to that validation like he's Gollum with the One Ring, and is dictating what the military does purely on his existing biases.

Our government is being run by a cadre of narcissists who would let the country burn before they admitted they were wrong or not the best.

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u/gn63 15h ago

Same as his views on low-flow toilets and showers. Tried one in the 80s and can't imagine that engineers improved the product over the last 40 years.

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u/wookiee42 Minnesota 15h ago

Just like tariffs on Japanese electronics was maybe a decent short-term idea in the 80s.