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A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as so
by ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
A person running for president of this country comes from show business and there are venture capitalists like Mark Andreeson who seriously talk about him as somebody who knows policy all because they can get a seat at the table.
- zabzonk 2y agoA person ELECTED for president of the USA came from show business - Reagan.
- bamboozled 2y agoIf I remember correctly, Trump was also elected once, as stupid as that is.
- samllmas 2y agoHe dabbled in show biz though.
- gomerspiles 2y agoA demented figurehead with other people behind him directing the show. It's as if acting was the perfect training for the worst idea for a position in a system of checks and balances.
- tuatoru 2y ago[flagged]
- gomerspiles 2y agoBiden was never an entertainer like the other 2 demented old men (entrusted with WMDs) under discussion. If we send you to space you'll have to pass a fitness test.. Because we aren't stupid? But sure, anyone in the middle of a psychotic break who can't tell fact from fiction should be fine for the entirety of national interests. Shoot down another plane for the old Gipper!
- mdp2021 2y ago> If we send you to space you'll have to pass a fitness test.. Because we aren't stupid? The real problem societies face is reaching a good fitness test for decision makers. That includes voters - discriminating, promoting, managing (etc.) the best electorate. And we had more focus and success in the past (abbeys, Venice etc.) than in the present, where the matter of electoral systems is kept like a theoretical branch of political science. And in running reality, people get Gerrymandering - an _opposite_ effort.
- gomerspiles 2y agoThat's a problem, but I think the problem is checks and balances for actual repairs to the checks and balances that would restrict a role are prohibitely hard to make while privilege escalations enlarging a role are at best temporarily denied. Mr Trump was supposed to be picked up by a military tribunal and probably executed. Whether that tribunal system is overreaching would have been an excellent discussion, after the execution.
- bsenftner 2y agoThat "fitness test" would be measuring a person's maturity, or better said "lack of immaturity". How to measure maturity might just be the most important measure ever devised by the human race, because it would enable US, the humans being led by our democracies, to finally demote the power hungry smooth talking immature, short sighted leaders.
- robotresearcher 2y agoAs did Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- hackable_sand 2y agoI don't think he can run for office in the US so this is false.
- robotresearcher 2y agoYou chose to take an ambiguous statement that could be read as true or false, and call out the false interpretation. Of course the true statement was the intended meaning, as I’m sure you knew.
- hackable_sand 2y agoYep, you understood
- valval 2y agoAnd that should disqualify a presidential candidate… why exactly?
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- Dalewyn 2y agoIt ain't democracy if you ain't won. -Vocal Minority, Intellectual Minority, Minorities et al.
- mdp2021 2y agoThe OP did not express the idea properly: people are not prejudicially disqualified because of the industries they worked in, but intrinsic disqualification comes from twisted profiles. "Guts exciters", getting followers through seducing their lower instances, is one of them. I am not labelling individuals here - but there are very many around the world fitting that description.
- valval 2y agoMy question was rhetorical, since I knew the previous poster’s position was indefensible. Whatever point you’re trying to make is also hilarious to watch. In democracy it does not matter what instincts were provoked to get the votes. Sometimes the person you didn’t like wins, and that’s part of the deal.
- mdp2021 2y ago«Deal» as in "I was dealt this"? As in, you play a cretinous game and we should be part of it? You seem to say, you called 'democracy' a game in which "who is elected rules, whatever the means that brought to election" - i.e. you are stating that a game is there which is pure filth. To that, you also seem to add that no judgement or criticism should be added, because the game would be under some unexplained extraordinary protection. And you are also resolving "bestiality" with "dislike", as if arbitrary, as if relativistic. Hilariousness not fitting.
- hshshshsvsv 2y agoCongrats. You brainwashed yourself into believing only certain class of people can run the country. Founding fathers would be proud.
- onion2k 2y agoI think it's fair to say the "why not inject yourself with bleach!" people shouldn't be running the show while there's a class of people who do what people tell them without questioning whether it's a good idea. People in power have a responsibility not to suggest things that would kill people. That isn't a high bar.
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- hshshshsvsv 2y agoThis assumes people are stupid and have no intelligence of their own and needs to be told what they should be doing.
- onion2k 2y agoNot quite. It assumes that some people don't verify what they're told, and so follow what people in authority tell them. That means people in authority have a responsibility not to abuse their authority. If everyone was rational and didn't do what they were told, choosing to verify everything and only follow what was appropriate, then the entire marketing, ad, government, legal, prison, etc industries would all collapse because they wouldn't be necessary any more. It's fairly obvious that there are people who follow dangerous, stupid advice.
- hshshshsvsv 2y agoOkay. That's fair.
- JKCalhoun 2y agoI'd prefer that the people elected to lead are smarter than I am.
- jjaacckk 2y agoAnd yet the alternative is worse.