Comment by junon

Comment by junon 2 days 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 2 days ago

Imagine if Obama had given Bill Gates a similar role.

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matwood 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 2 days ago
  
  That basically does describe his philanthropy in education though.
  
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OKRainbowKid 2 days ago

Or George Soros.

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chasd00 2 days ago

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

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