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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy suggested Friday if elected in 2024, he would run the government like tech billionaire Elon Musk runs the social media platform X, formerly known a…

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[–] bloopernova@infosec.pub 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jon@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, like at a massive deficit, all while making sweeping policy changes at a moments notice with little research on how those changes effect stability. Also, cutting down on employed staff to save money while not bothering to investigate what those people actually do, to later realize it only when things start breaking. Only instead of some shitty social media platform he's fucking with, it'll be the United States economy!

He's got my vote!

[–] liz1328@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

accelerationists frothing at the mouth

[–] Arotrios@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

When someone says they intended to destroy your government, believe them.

[–] e_t_@kbin.pithyphrase.net 8 points 1 year ago

Directly into the ground?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fire everybody, fail to pay bills, run it into the ground, then change the name to a single letter? Country of "A", so we're always first?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Oh, man, people ARGUE over that kind of thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic#Diacritics_that_do_not_produce_new_letters

It boils down to if you consider Å to be a unique letter or if it's a variant of A.

If it's a variant of A, then A would still preceed Åaland as A comes before Aa.

If it's a unique letter, then it would be in whatever sort order is appropriate.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

We already had one (failed) business man attempt to run the country like a business, and it was awful. We don't need a different business man to fuck up in similar but different ways doing the same thing ...

[–] Itty53@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In case anyone is wondering, Ramaswamy is just another in a long line of the Republican history.

During the primary season you'll see rumblings of support for a relatively unknown and minority candidate for Republicans. Herman Cain was their last one. He's dead now, they needed a new one. Ramaswamy is it.

The only reason he's talked about at all is so they set themselves up to later claim, "see we're not racist! We almost elected this guy!". The reality is this guy, nor Cain, ever stood a chance. Whether or not they realize that and play their role anyway would be the thing to know.

[–] xc2215x@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds not ideal. Trump is going to win the nomination anyways.