the problem with politics remains that you can’t trust anyone who wants to be in charge. you need to pick someone at random for governor, maybe the night manager of the 24 hour mcdonalds

April 10, 2026 - 23:00 UTC

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Perfect choice:

-completely exhausted
-wants all this crap over with
-done with everyone's bullshit
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lady who i just know running that Popeyes like it’s the damn navy ‘28
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“We found that people with the greatest preference for being in charge are, on average, worse than randomly assigned managers.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/08/you-want-to-be-boss-you-probably-wont-be-good-at-it/
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like jury duty, the prospect of assuming the governorship should loom over every adult in the state
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But you would have to leave LA, SF, or SD for Sacramento for four years
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i literally believe this
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I was randomly put in charge of a project at work and now I’m managing a lot of the business and I hate it. This should be every governor.
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Perhaps the Athenians were not entirely wrong in this respect!
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“can’t come to work this week, it’s my turn to be governor”
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As a former mcdonalds overnight manager - Don't put that on them, their lives are hard enough as it is 😭
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I'm very busy, I would be so annoyed
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you’re hired!
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That's pretty much how we got tr*mp and his entire second Cabinet.
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you’re telling me that picking somebody at random isn’t how california decides who becomes governor
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Here in Texas, we literally couldn’t do worse than picking someone at random
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This is how the ancient Greeks did it: democracy is drawing straws, we’re equal enough
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In my opinion, the prerequisites for politics should be that you’ve:
1. Worked in customer service, preferably retail
2. Had less than $500 total in the bank at some point, as an adult
3. Lived in a low-income, diverse, neighborhood
4. Loaned friends/family money that you couldn’t afford to

🤷‍♂️
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this is what electric six was trying to tell us
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Florence had the Sorition system where nine random dudes were elected and locked in a tower where it would be hard to bribe/influence them.

@adapalmer.bsky.social's brilliant Inventing the Renaissance provides a good deep dive into how the system performed over the century. I find it fascinating.
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*sortition

(Dies internally)
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If roughly 50-60% of the country weren't so monumentally stupid, I'd be in favor of a lottery type system for picking our representatives.
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