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Meanwhile... presidential candidates falsify just about everything else. Ironic double standard?
by bicknergseng 14y ago
Meanwhile... presidential candidates falsify just about everything else. Ironic double standard?
- fleitz 14y agoThere's no joke about how to tell when a startup CEO is lying, there is however a joke about politicians. Seriously though, president is probably the least important job in america. I bet America would be just fine without a president for the next 100 years. Why you elect presidents based on things like 'likability' and 'electability' is because it's a very unimportant job, that just about anyone can do. Probably why America doesn't elect very many highly trained people to do the job. Community organizers, peanut farmers, coke addicts, philanderers, actors, etc.
- bicknergseng 14y agoI'm curious... why would America be fine with no president for 100 years, but a bad CEO means a company goes under? I'm seriously having a hard time finding a lot of logic in your response. And I'm not joking. I find it incredibly hypocritical that our society just accepts political trash.
- geofft 14y agoThere are no legislative or judicial branches in most companies.
- bicknergseng 14y agoAnd there's no executive board in most sovereignties... yet similar patterns arise. Despite some snarkiness, this is a legitimate question and a serious problem. I'm disappointed HN downvotes it.
- jlgreco 14y agoClumsily trying to drag up politics where it doesn't belong normally gets downvotes, yes.
- bicknergseng 14y agoInteresting that criticizing politics at all.... at all... no matter the angle... seems to be taboo at HN. Don't know if you noticed what the OP was, but what would your definition of "elegantly" dragging up politics be?
- jlgreco 14y agoActually I agree with you, HN seems to have the tendancy to defend the status quo. That really is not what the issue here is though, you are just off topic.
- bicknergseng 14y agoWhy does this get downvoted so hard? It's a proven fact that both parties lie through their teeth. I understand HN isn't a political platform, but this is a serious subject relating to business as well as politics. If you're going to downvote, provide a counter argument.
- EvilTerran 14y agohttp://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics... ... Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them. ... Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
- robertsonai 14y agoB/c this is not a thread on politics..