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Reminds me of this quote from Barack Obama... "I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significa
by standardUser 5y ago
Reminds me of this quote from Barack Obama...
"I'm absolutely confident that for two years if every nation on earth was run by women, you would see a significant improvement across the board on just about everything... living standards and outcomes."
- fnord77 5y agoyeah, look at the great job Margaret Thatcher did
- gmpart 5y agoCatherine the Great, Queen Victoria, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel. The last one caused the CDU to drop from 40% to 20% in 6 years and is partly responsible for Brexit. Thatcher has mixed reviews as well.
- Cyph0n 5y ago> The last one caused the CDU to drop from 40% to 20% in 6 years and is partly responsible for Brexit. Excellent example of cherry-picking btw.
- pizza 5y agoMerkel responsible for Brexit?
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- ben_w 5y agoMerkel has been chancellor for 16 years, and has maintained a longer track record for popularity than any US or UK leader I can remember. She also announced in October 2018 that she wasn’t going to seek a fifth term as Chancellor in the 2021 elections, after which the CDU opinion polls moved very little for 18 months before first going up to 40% for about a year and then going down to 20% now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2021_German_federal_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2021_G...
- bellyfullofbac 5y agoMerkel is horrible for a lot of things, but your example is a terrible one... She's a conservative, and the conservative economic doctrine is austerity for the masses, but handouts for businesses. She and her economic minister presided over the Euro crisis terribly, causing hardships in Spain, Italy, Greece. People commited suicide because of it! Since Germany was the biggest economy in Europe of course what Berlin said was what Brussels would parrot. And I'm glad she said Syrians were welcome, but after many years of telling Germans and other Europeans that they needed to tighten their belts, suddenly she said "we can do it!". It's freaking understandable that the people who've been indoctrinated that without the belt-tightening there'll be nothing left for their pensions are pissed off at the idea that several hundred thousand refugees would be fed, clothed, housed, etc, with their tax money. Again I'm glad she welcomed the refugees, but after spreading austerity doctrine all over Europe, the populist rightwing reaction is understandable. The rightwing party AfD is now a significant fraction in German state and federal parliaments, if you want to be cruel you can say Merkel did a better job of growing Nazism than a certain previuos German leader who had Europe-conquering ambitions..
- simonh 5y ago> causing hardships in Spain, Italy, Greece. FFS. It’s not as if Germany forced those countries to utterly bork their finances. Suppose Germany had said no, were not lending you money, it belongs to our citizens. What would those countries have done, who else would have helped them? The fact is they got better terms from Germany than anywhere else, and what thanks do the Germans get? So glad us Brits stayed out of all of that.
- bellyfullofbac 5y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/opinion/29krugman.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/opinion/29krugman.html , but a register-wall will probably prevent you from learning today (that and your cocksuredness about being sure how things really work).
- gjsman-1000 5y agoCan we just call that sexism against men? There's nothing innate that makes men or women better for the job (both have strengths and weaknesses) according to scientists; so a balance should be more effective than just replacing one dominance with another.
- rolobio 5y agoExactly how I see it. There are plenty of women who could run it better than men in power, and plenty of women who could run it worse! Take Elizabeth Holmes for example, proudly proclaimed to the female Steve Jobs. Turns out she’s a lying sociopath. Just because you’re woman (or man) does not make you good or bad. Especially in a position of power. Power corrupts, regardless of gender.
- standardUser 5y agoRepresentation within leadership can result in more equitable outcomes for less advantaged groups.
- gjsman-1000 5y agoObama said not that he wanted a 50/50 split (or more accurate 49/51 split) between men/women (which would be balanced). He said he thought all positions should be women for 2 years.
- seunosewa 5y agoThere's a different way to think of it. Since most countries are dominated by men, they are already enjoying the benefits of male leadership. Putting women in charge will bring new benefits that men couldn't offer. What he's saying is not so much that women are better leaders, but that they have strengths that complement male leadership we've always had.
- mlboss 5y agoIncompetence is not sexist. Barack Obama is a politician he will say anything that will increase his rating or get more votes.
- standardUser 5y agoHe said this after his presidency had ended.
- jrootabega 5y agoAh yes, politicians. Known for only speaking the truth and only for the greater good
- gremloni 5y agoOne of the few things I disagree with Barack Obama on. I miss him so much.
- standardUser 5y agoIs this idea that representation of less advantaged groups within leadership can lead to more equitable outcomes that disagreeable of an idea?
- pepperonipizza 5y agoThis is the thought I have about the Middle East, that if women would be more in power, a lot of the countries would develop quicker.
- the_third_wave 5y agoWell, that doesn't speak for his judgement seeing as how 100% women is just as exclusionary as 100% men. It might be the 'right' type of exclusion in the ideological circles he frequents but that doesn't make it true.
- simonh 5y agoHe didn’t say either that it would be right, or even on balance desirable.
- IncRnd 5y agoReminds me of this quote from anyone's grandmother... "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence."