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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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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 42 points 1 year ago (2 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?

[–] jarfil 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The new flag would be just an 𝔸 on a black background.

[–] chahk 8 points 1 year ago

Country of "S" with a big fat ass in the background.

[–] DarkeSword 1 points 1 year ago

This is an incredible comment.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

So... Republican standard operating procedure then?

[–] furrowsofar 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.

[–] liv 16 points 1 year ago

That's ludicrous.

This is the first I'm hearing about this person but it sounds like another clown show, distracting everyone and sowing chaos while disaster capitalists profit.

[–] Cobrachickenwing@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago

So turn the bond rating of the USA to junk status?

[–] matchphoenix@feddit.uk 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] perviouslyiner@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

States having to guard their PPE shipments from the federal government?

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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Click here to see the summary“What [Musk] did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state,” Ramaswamy said in an interview with Fox News.

His remarks come after Musk called Ramaswamy a “very promising candidate,” in an interview on Thursday on Tucker Carlson’s online show.

After buying the social media platform in a $44 billion deal last fall, the first installment of Musk’s “Twitter Files” were published by Matt Taibbi, an independent journalist.

The posts showed purported screenshots from internal communications from top executives on how to handle the New York Post’s publication of a story containing potentially damaging allegations about Hunter Biden, the son of then-presidential candidate Joe Biden.

Ramaswamy suggested he was impressed “anytime a bureaucrat has pressured a private company for the world to see.”

Since purchasing the X platform, Musk has implemented a series of controversial changes including mass layoffs, the ousting of some top executives, pay walls on some features without a subscription and pulling back on some of the platform’s content moderation programs.


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