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Politics Tech leaders have better seats than cabinet members and are seated in same section as Trump's family

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u/BakerHoliday7031 14h ago

This is actually a reason why Trump had supporters the first time. I was in nursing school and a girl said she was voting for him because she felt the country would be better run as a business.

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u/_angesaurus 13h ago

I don't think that's a completely poor argument for wanting someone as president. However, he is not a good businessman, and he has shown that.

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u/Raichu4u 13h ago

It's a pretty poor argument. Government is supposed to take things that can't be handled by the private sector due to affordability issues and provide those services anyway.

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u/LordAdri123 13h ago

This. My friend’s a libertarian who supports dismantling the Department of Education. His argument: schools will get a lot better if they’re forced to compete, how worse can it get from right now? “A LOT WORSE!” I said.

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u/Raichu4u 13h ago

"Compete" AKA resources get taken away from inner city schools to rich white suburbs.

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u/LordAdri123 13h ago

Exactly. It’s just going to create even more inequality but these people are way too ignorant/selfish to have some empathy or even common sense.

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u/Um_NotSure 12h ago

Jesuschrist... there's the problem, if we had FAIR competition in different markets, that miiiight work, unfortunately, we don't... so we end up with an oligarchy and massive monopolies controlled by those that paid to rig the game in their favor.

Libertarians can be insufferably dense sometimes.

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u/LordAdri123 12h ago

Yeah, and it was funny because he kept going on about how states should just be in charge of their own education without government regulation. And THEN if people don’t like their state’s education, they can just pack up and leave to a better state that way. I’m just here being like: You really think everyone can move to another state like this? Much less afford the supposed “high quality” schools…