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Sheryl Sandberg should run for President in 2020, not take a CEO role
by paulsutter 8y ago
Sheryl Sandberg should run for President in 2020, not take a CEO role
- ceejayoz 8y agoThe current administration is doing a pretty good job casting doubt on the "if you can run a business you can run a government" idea. Tillerson, for example, found that the State Department is a very, very different beast than Exxon.
- mikert5671 8y agoMind listing the failings of the current administration that support this?
- chomp 8y agoParent already provided you an example. I feel like your question is begging for a political argument, and there's multiple places on the internet (that's not Hacker News) where you can have those.
- mikert5671 8y agoWhich example are you referring to?
- untog 8y agoRex Tillerson? "Tillerson was “one of the worst secretaries of state” in modern history, according to experts from across the political spectrum." https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/13/16029526/rex-tillerson-fired-state-department https://www.vox.com/world/2018/3/13/16029526/rex-tillerson-f...
- ceejayoz 8y agoMy post only had two lines, and one of them literally says "Tillerson, for example".
- ceejayoz 8y agoI cited Tillerson as a nice example. If you want more, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/16/us/politics/all-the-major-firings-and-resignations-in-trump-administration.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/16/us/politics/a...
- baal232 8y agoIt's pretty easy to follow the news. You don't need others to google things for you.
- mikert5671 8y agoPlease list the failings in clear language here...
- untog 8y agoPeople here are not obliged to do research for you and rephrase it in language you can understand. There is a lot of clearly written source material out there if you look for it.
- baal232 8y agoUnless you've been hiding under a rock, you know how the current administration has been running things. You are free to have a positive of negative opinions of their actions, but you are clearly aware of what other people might characterize as failings. You might think you're being the calm and reasonable one here, but you're not asking this question in good faith. It's clear you just want to pick a political fight on hacker news. While we are not above politics here, there is a time and a place for that. And it's not here or now.
- fifnir 8y agoHow about the inability to repeal obamacare, a main goal of theirs for many years, while having 100% control of the government?
- rconti 8y agoIt would be easier to list a success. Seriously. The failures jump off the page. Maybe it's not PC enough for you because it looks partisan, but frankly, they've proven rank incompetence over and over again. The best compliment I could give Tillerson is he probably WANTS the State Department to collapse which is why he's utterly under-managing and under-staffing it. By any other metric, of course, he's an abject failure.
- apetresc 8y agoYou keep using the present tense, I'm not sure you're aware that Tillerson is not the SoS anymore.
- mikert5671 8y agoWhat are the failures?
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- chomp 8y agoCan't tell if this is sarcasm, so why do you think Sheryl Sandberg would be a good candidate? I personally feel like I cannot trust any Facebook leadership as Commander in Chief.
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- 908087 8y agoIf the democrats run Zuckerberg, Sandberg, or Eric Schmidt, they'll once again be losing my vote. I don't even want to imagine what the future would look like under an administration run by someone from the surveillance capitalism world.
- paulsutter 8y agoMark and others designed the total free for all that is Facebook data policy, I wouldn’t vote for him or (especially) Schmidt, who loves surveillance. Yes I’d want to hear what she has to say about that.
- 908087 8y agoSchmidt loves surveillance, and openly idolizes Henry Kissinger. He's probably the most terrifying possibility of the three people I mentioned.
- majewsky 8y ago"Move fast and break things."
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- pluto9 8y agoBecause what we really need in the White House is more corporatism and more identity politics.