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by SavageBeast 527 days ago
It's worth a 20 minute rabbit hole dive to research Vivek's background a bit. Compare his accomplishments to the accolades (seemingly?) heaped on him. Love or hate Musk, his remarkable qualifications are undeniable. They are not the same breed of animal.

I put this out there simply to draw some attention to the question of exactly who are we "taking direction" from and on what basis? Why?
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hilux 527 days ago
Your second paragraph – you might have a point, but to be fair, the same could be said for pretty much every person in high office. (In other words: what's your control?)

Even as a liberal, what bugs the heck out of me is that almost no Democratic politician/functionary has ever worked in the private sector in any meaningful way. How can they understand anything about the way the business world works, or should work? Answer: they don't.

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bdangubic 527 days ago
Even as a liberal, what bugs the heck out of me is that almost no Democratic politician/functionary has ever worked in the private sector in any meaningful way. How can they understand anything about the way the business world works, or should work? Answer: they don't.

the role of a government and role of a business have little in common and should seldom-to-never be mixed together. hence businessman should never be in politics and politicians should never go into business... and yet here we are - post-gov career many politicans find themselves in the business sector and now we have these amazing businessman that we are going to let run the government for the next couple of years. like asking a fat kid to handle distribution of apple pies :)

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hilux 526 days ago
Let's say for the sake of argument that you agree with me that the US should not become a completely state-controlled economy like the former Soviet Union.

However, our private-sector economy is regulated by laws.

Do you want the lawmakers who regulate business to have no idea how business works? Because that's what we get with the Dems. And people who have never worked in business, who have never started or run a business, just don't grok what makes sense or doesn't make sense for businesses to succeed.

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bdangubic 526 days ago
so this is a political thing? “thats what you get with Dems??”

people who run businesses and start businesses should stay the F out of the government. government is by the people and for the people, businessman (especially ones that currently bought their way into politics for a couple of years) do not give two shits about people, only themselves and absolutely nothing else ever

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hilux 525 days ago
Unless you want to live in a country that has no private sector (i.e. the state controls all media, all manufacturing, all stores and markets, all restaurants, all transportation, ... ), be careful what you wish for.
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f1shy 525 days ago
That is not (by far!) what the person you are replying to said! That is a straw man fallacy at its best!
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dzhiurgis 527 days ago
Same can be said about showman going into world politics.
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SavageBeast 527 days ago
Also, when every house rep and every senator is on their respective floor and participates in each and every vote, I'll entertain the validity of RTO. Until then its just a means of soft-firing people.

If they can't be productive OUTSIDE the office, they're likely no productive IN the office.

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Zigurd 527 days ago
TBF he has a blog.
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AnimalMuppet 527 days ago
He has a blog. Musk has X. They are not equivalent.

Or was your post more sarcasm, and I missed it?

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