Comment on Arnold Schwarzenegger: I'd be a great US president

pensa@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In fairness, Arnold Schwarzenegger already has political experience as governor of California. He’d be the most qualified celebrity for the Whitehouse if he was a naturally born citizen.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reagan was an actor, and he was instrumental in the process of fucking up our society to the degree that it is now. He spearheaded deregulation. One of the direct outcomes of that is the rampant increase of wealth inequality, as well as the now-“normal” boom/bust economic economic cycle that started with Black Monday in 1987 and has been getting markedly worse with each crash.

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    • Treczoks@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That was not because he was an actor. That was because Reagan was stupid enough to listen to the wrong people.

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      • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        OP’s point is that there is a correlation between celebrity presidents and terrible decisions affecting the nation.

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    • sab@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think the point is that Schwarzenegger, unlike Reagan, has political experience. He has proven himself not to be as much as a puppet as Reagan was, at least.

      That said, good thing he can't run.

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      • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Reagan was also Governor of California before he became president.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think you understand economics. The economy naturally booms and crashes since the dawn of time.

      The key is to slow down the boom and speed up the crash so we don’t end up with the economy totally crashing

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I am familiar with Keynesian economics. I am not suggesting that regulations fully prevent crashes, either then or now.

        What I am saying is that removing the guardrails so you can cut corners even more aggressively in the interest of profit works great until you crash in a way that the guardrails would have made the crash suck a lot less.

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  • blueeggsandyam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Except that was the same thing that gave us Reagan. He was an actor. Then governor of California. Then president. We are still paying for all his bullshit.

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  • elbarto777@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The most qualified doesn’t mean the best qualified, though.

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    • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t disagree with that!

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• KISSmyOS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Also, no more septuagenarians.

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  • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Celebtuagenarians

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