• U7826391786239@lemmy.zip
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    19 hours ago

    haven’t people been saying this since he first announced it? who else would be bearing the cost, except americans?

  • TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
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    19 hours ago

    I’m going to say something bold, radical even: I think the country should be run by smart people. I know, it’s a crazy idea, but I think it might just work.

    Ok, sarcasm aside, our leaders need to be smart, but they also need to be of high moral character. And smart doesn’t just mean they went to some high priced private school where they learned to regurgitate everything their 80 year old tenured professor told them, it means they need critical thinking skills. It means they need an understanding of concepts. They need to be problem solvers. They need to be open to inquiry and capable of setting aside their own biases. We need scientists, not ideologues or adherents to some orthodoxy.

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      18 hours ago

      I think world leaders should have to pass a rigorous set of exams and so should their cabinet. It might be a pipe dream, but the world would be in a 90% better spot if that ever happened.

    • AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      no, our leaders should need to be smart. But as we can see on exhibit “letter to Norway”, what people elect is a mentally deficient piece of shit that went to elections saying “I’m modern hitler and am going to do nazi stuff to all of you” because the alternative was a black, normal, decent woman.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Duh.

    But then again, 50% of voting Americans still think and say loudly that the other countries are paying them, think that they don’t affect their daily lives, or think the it’s the greatest thing since sliced bread.

    Americans are dumb.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    16 hours ago

    Well, sure. It’s a tax, directly from our pockets to the government.