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The theatre of the Absurd has reached New Heights. If you don't understand something, you shouldn't be running the department that focuses on it. The legislatu
by dwheeler 8y ago
The theatre of the Absurd has reached New Heights. If you don't understand something, you shouldn't be running the department that focuses on it. The legislature should have vetted his expertise before even proposing him as a candidate.
- lsd5you 8y agoOr maybe other people these days don't understand when you don't actually need a computer, something which he is clearly an expert in!
- gaius 8y agoIt’s pretty rare, and has been for a long time, for a domain expert to be in charge of a government department. Like St Mattis is the first SecDef in a long while and it still took an act of Congress to get his appointment in.
- int0x80 8y agoIt might be wrong though, even if common. That might explain a few things in fact.
- Aeolun 8y agoI mean, there is a precedent of people being completely unqualified and still becoming the president of the most powerful country in the world. In comparison this is just a minor issue.
- Edgar_S 8y agoI think Putin is very competent and qualified. What are you talking about?
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- laumars 8y agoI don't think it matters because ministers are so very rarely subject experts on the department they run. What annoys me more is when specialists give governments expert advice and then the government still goes off and does the complete opposite because of some predefined agenda they had. Or worse still, because of coercion from lobbyists.
- Alex3917 8y agoThe woman who NTT hired to create DoCoMo had never used a computer, and that was one of the most successful tech products of all time.