The Trump II cabinet so far: Tulsi Gabbard, RFK, Jr. and Elon Musk.

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    1 year ago

    Musk wouldn’t take it, or wouldn’t stay long if he did. People in cabinet positions get sidetracked all the time by stuff outside their main goals. For example, Dr. Steven Chu, secretary for energy under Obama’s first term, wanted to push a nuclear power renaissance. When BP had an oil rig disaster, he had to focus on that instead. So that’s great, we wasted the time of a doctor of physics on an oil spill. It’s far from the only reason the nuclear renaissance failed, but it didn’t help.

    If Musk doesn’t realize this problem already, it won’t take very long until he does and leaves the job.

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      You seem to think Musk is putting in a lot of time doing important work, and not shitposting on Xitter. You also seem to assume he would actually give the cabinet position the full attention and effort it deserves.

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        Yeah, his boss would be Trump, who used fema resources to steal medical equipment from states during an unprecedented (in modern times) pandemic scenario. A president who thought he could gain politically by letting the virus run wild, on the assumption that it would hit cities harder, and then probably didn’t even care that much when it backfired.

        I think the real reason Elon might not want this position is because there’s a decent chance his and Trump’s egos will clash at some point.

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    Elon Musk is a genulius just asuch as Trump is.

    Both are incompetent scammer assholes who got incredibly lucky, that’s it.

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    I do not think musk is stupid but he is an idiot. At least behaves like one.

    Whilst I do not think he has a low IQ, he certainly misses crucial points in many areas.

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      1 year ago

      It’s really easy when you inherit wealth… hard part is inheriting wealth for most people though

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      People forget emotional intelligence is also just as much if not more important than logical intelligence when attempting to change the world for the better. And both Trump and Musk rank among the lowest of low there.

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        It, honestly, is not. If you want to decide what is fair, what is true, what is good, you dont fucking believe the universe god flows through your emotions. Instead, you think logically, and try to analize and understand what in the human world are the concepts of liberty, good life. And also, analizing whether your emotions are dumbly guiding you in stupid directions.

        You cannot solve any societal problems with emotional feeling of what is good. That is what republicans do. Empirical bullshit loosely based on their inherent emotional desires of racism, chauvinism and the rest of the assorted bag of megalomaniac insanity pills.

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            Relying on logic and rationalism is just intelligence. Emotional Intelligence is understanding and to some degree using peoples emotions, if you want to be very correct. You dont use emotions to define social policy, and hopefully, any social policy will be devoid of emotions, because that can only lead towards confusion, biasedness and group mentality.

            If you want to define EI as ability to step away from one’s own emotions. Sure. We can agree with that. Personally I would just call that intelligence.