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This is a straw man argument. I don't like Musk. That's true. The reasoning is irrelevant. Let's take someone I do like. Linus Torvalds. If Trump (or Harris o
by junon 2y ago
This is a straw man argument.
I don't like Musk. That's true. The reasoning is irrelevant.
Let's take someone I do like. Linus Torvalds. If Trump (or Harris or ...) appointed Linus, unilaterally, to do what Musk is doing, I'd still have a problem with it.
Now the two responses you might have are:
- I don't believe you.
- Linus wouldn't be bad either.
Both of which completely miss the point. Nobody should have singular, unilateral, unsupervised access to governmental systems like this.
- bdcravens 2y agoImagine if Obama had given Bill Gates a similar role.
- matwood 2y agoThe people on Fox would have literal heart attacks on air. I'm remember them going crazy because Obama wore a tan suit (it's got a wiki page!). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_tan_suit_controve...
- JohnBooty 2y agoTruly an incident where I couldn't tell how much of that was legitimate insanity, and how much of it was carefully curated fake-controversy-as-distraction. A common question I ask myself about conservatives every single day. Multiple times a day, lately. It's objectively true no sane person would have cared about that issue.
- OKRainbowKid 2y agoOr George Soros.
- chasd00 2y agoYes imagine. So it’s pretty clear the other team is overreacting just like the current team would overreact.
- gwd 2y agoI'm not a fan of Bill Gates in a lot of ways, but he actually has experience building and running a large, successful, long-lived organization. There's no way he'd come in and make drastic changes to an organization he knows absolutely nothing about in the name of "efficiency".
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoThat basically does describe his philanthropy in education though.