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The genius would lie in planning that in advance. You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money, use it to influence elections or at least give the impress
by ithkuil 2y ago
The genius would lie in planning that in advance. You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money, use it to influence elections or at least give the impression that you'd been instrumental in influencing the election so that the new president will want to give you a new department with a funny name you made up.
I don't know man, my Occam's razor cuts another way.
- sangnoir 2y ago> You'd need to buy Twitter for quite a lot of money On the other hand, if he had been forced to buy Twitter against his better judgement, he may have an axe to grind against the "overbearing" administrative state and use the tools at hand to achieve his ends. No evil genius required, just happenstance and humans seeing patterns in chaos.
- ab5tract 2y agoBeing “forced” to honor a contract that you yourself entered and legally bound yourself to. The horror, the dishonor, the overreach of justice!
- namaria 2y agoIt doesn't take genius for an opportunistic rich person to expand their power and wealth. You're just creating a narrative from a string of cherry picked events. The Twitter acquisition also destroyed a ton of value.
- ivewonyoung 2y agoIt is not a department.
- ithkuil 2y agoIndeed, it's a Presidential advisory commission. To create a federal executive department you need an act of Congress which is not very efficient. It's much more efficient to just use the name "department" and bet on the chance that nobody would care about words, meanings, facts and rules.