Comment by junon

Comment by junon 10 months 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 10 months ago

Imagine if Obama had given Bill Gates a similar role.

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matwood 10 months ago

The 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_controve...

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- JohnBooty 10 months ago
  
  Truly 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.
  
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gwd 10 months ago

I'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".

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- ZeroGravitas 10 months ago
  
  That basically does describe his philanthropy in education though.
  
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OKRainbowKid 10 months ago

Or George Soros.

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chasd00 10 months ago

Yes imagine. So it’s pretty clear the other team is overreacting just like the current team would overreact.

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