So a billionaire wants people to work 80 hour weeks for nothing. People tell him to fuck right off. As in, find a cliff and keep walking.
I don't think these positions will remain empty. Corporations will send a few lobbyists to check if the cost/power ratio is beneficial and if so, just flood the department.
My first thought was spies... because they are already on someone else's payroll.
Also, bootlickers and extremely desperate people that would take on any job.
People "desperate for any job" are actually desperate for money and willing to work for it. They won't take an unpaid position, what are you thinking?
I hadn't thought of that, but this is 100% exactly what will happen. BP oil will surely pay someone VERY handsomely to 'volunteer' 80 hours a week toward eliminating all oversight of drilling rigs in the gulf.
Good grief. It's like he asked ChatGPT "how do I hire people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect?"
Dear meme-lords: I need something with much more facepalm than the Picard one. A "super facepalm" if you will. Thank you.
Perfection.
You need super high IQ people to create memes like that
Clearly. I'm also prepared to pay the handsome sum of $0. Where is my cabinet position?
That was my reaction almost exactly. It’s like Dunning-Kruger the job description.
feels like im playing plague inc. and these are all joke news
Please, someone uninstall this version of the game!
Drinking asbestos paste lets you escape the simulation
And it's delicious
The government doesn't want you to know this
They want it all for themselves
America's saving grace may in fact be that the fascists are too stupid and lazy to do the work required to dismantle the federal government and cause mass human suffering.
Last time I checked my IQ it was 129. Not super high but not trump level
Smart people don't work for the bad guys for free Jack.
The US are just a bad parody of themselves at this point.
IS use to mean Information System. It now means Intellectual Slavery.
This is fucking hilarious! More proof, maybe the best proof, of how much of a dumbass Muskrat is.
do "high-IQ" individuals even exist on the republican isle? why would a lefty want to get involved in this shit, especially unpaid? what idiot would accept unpaid labour under a multi-billionaire?
I'm considering it. I would cut the military budget in half.
High IQ individuals definitely exist on the republican side. The only thing is that they are the most selfish kind (hence why they are republican) and hence they won't work for free.
IQ tests intentionally omit any questions related to empathy, emotional intelligence and creativity, so it can favour people from the top of the pile and act as accurate perdictor of success in ruthless capitalist society. It implicitly promotes lack of those traits in individuals and explicitly promotes the definition of intelligence that's unrelated to them. While you don't get lower scores if you're highly creative or empathetic person, so it's not directly a detrimental for society and can be a useful metric for some cases like specific jobs, it's image as sole measure of intelect is manufactured to promote "specific kind of people", to which group many republican businessmen would belong.
I'm not disagreeing with what you said, just thought I'd expand on that.
I would imagine there's a few high IQ people willing to be exploited because they get to work with their heroes: Shit Bag #1 and Shit Bag #2.
Or, as another commenter pointed out, because their corporate bosses are paying gobs of money to them to 'volunteer' for these positions.
if those are their heroes they aren't "high-IQ"
(They mean folk indoctrinated into their ethonationalist world view, usually white.)
There are only two types of "Super High-IQ" people who will go for an unpaid job working in politics for the likes of Musk:
Also, even amongst the "very naive young things", in my own personal experience, the high intelligent types with the personality to be real believers of far right stuff, are at most above average intelligence but below genius level IQ (which is 120) and hence not really "super high"-IQ (which would more 160+) - I once worked with a guy like that who thought himself very intelligent and in his new job ended up working in an office with two genious level colleagues and he was very entertaining because of his "buttons" were so obvious and he was so easy to give the run around.
Super-high IQ people are often the very opposite of street smart, but one thing they aren't is stupid and at most fall into the first part of the saying "you can deceive most people some of the time, or some people all of the time, but you can't deceive most people all of the time" - they can be swindled but they'll figure it out faster than most.
Also, most actual intelligent people understand that IQ is incredibly flawed at best, and put little stock in it.
But I guess if your goal is "anti-DEI" or whatever, then of course you're cool with intelligence tests that make white people seem smarter.
I'm a guy with a high "test IQ", and my sister, who is in the normal range is way more succesful that me in most aspects of life. You don't want high "test IQ", you want "smart people" not the same, and far more difficult to measure. High IQ basically means you are good at solving certain types of puzzles
And smart people don't often work for free. Unless it's at gunpoint or similar. Though that might be in the plans of fascist assholes like Elongated Muskrat.
Exactly. Yes, I can tell you the chronological order of these images very quickly, but good luck getting me to do it.
There are gonna be lots of applicants from the Intelligence Institute of Texas...
Ok, get this. You elect politicians to "help slash federal spending".
What the hell is Musk even doing and why is he outsourcing this job to unpaid idiots, when politicians already get paid to do this?
Okay, I'll do a few suggestions for free:
I want YOU to be POTUS. Right now.
I just wanted to add some context for one of these bullets.
The US is upping the amount it spends on nuclear weapons maintenance and production because China has reentered the game as a major player. They'd been stable at 300-350 warheads for decades but is expected to ramp up to producing 100+ per year by 2030.
So one major adversary has just been replaced by another. Everything old is new again, including the cold war arms race.
How are they making them? Just fuel reprocessing? You can make them pretty cheap as a side effect at scale of you want to. US can't though.
Russia will have to surrender and disarm their nukes,
Interesting. During the Cold War, that was unthinkable, mostly because there'd be nobody to counterbalance a US monopoly on nuclear arms. Things have proliferated considerably since then, so perhaps a nuclear Russia isn't as important. If anything, they're proving themselves to be a liability.
my bingo card is almost full, just missing universal basic income - people with money, spend money, supporting businesses and thus "the economy".
I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!
--Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord
Thank god most of Trump's government by grifters are stupid and lazy.
And greedy. Can't forget greedy.
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