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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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[–] furrowsofar@beehaw.org 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

That's great. Get in charge of something that has value. Learn nothing, listen to no one. Impulsively change stuff and fire people some of it in pretty self serving ways. Destroy the value of the organization. Basically bankrupt the organization. Stop paying your bills. Try to make people pay more for every inane thing. Totally loose all credibility of the organization and yourself.

What a stupid plan. Only good thing about Twitter is it does not really matter. The federal government does matter and is not a business... so no.

[–] hellishharlot@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Collapse the govt, what could possibly go wrong

[–] Banzai51@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Don't threaten us with a good time." -Republicans

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Dont forget the giant flashing sign that annoys everybody.