Elon Musk demands firing of ‘disgusting and cruel’ WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE employee’s racist tweets

Musk is officially part of the government now, so this literally is an attack on free speech

Not that any conservative cares.

- They. Do not care. About the law.
  Why does this keep needing to be said?
- he’s part of the government, but congress never vetted
  So just like the rest of the Trump kakistocracy, then.
  With the way the Dems, King, and even Bernie are rolling over and letting them do almost everything they want, they're not gonna start bothering with vetting now.
- Special government employee. Why he’s allowed to do that without senate approval and has access to so many departments is beyond me
- he doesn’t have security clearance…
  Yet, somehow, he seems to have unfettered access to the entirety of the government's record keeping system.
I mean, I think it's specifically more targeted at freedom of the press, and the 1A really only prevents Congress from passing laws to limit free speech or the press. So while I agree with you 100% in principle, I don't think what Musk is doing is illegal here, he's just a fucking asshole.
- Clearly 1A also limits the executive branch. For instance If an executive order infringes on freedom of speech this can be challenged with an appeal to 1A.

I thought the GOP didn't like it when people get cancelled?

It's always different when they perceive themselves as the victim.
- And they're always the victim.
“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”
- Rules for thee but not for me
Nazis turn out to be self-serving unprincipled assholes. It's really a surprise.
- If only there was nearly a century of history behind us we could have drawn on to see this coming.
If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.

Yes, she's the disgusting one, not the guy who was "racist before it was cool."

And people still defend this Nazi.

And ~~people~~ Nazis still defend this Nazi. --FTFY

Can we fire Musk... into the sun?

That's a lot of ∆v, can we fire him out of the solar system instead?
- One problem would be that he'd expire happy, because he was doing "cool exploration stuff".
  Perhaps it would be more environmentally friendly (which would upset him) if he was "retired" in a more traditional, boring, normal manner (which would upset him), on Earth.
  He could then be composted and used to grow flowers, in some kind of "All-Nations LGBTQ+ Peace Garden" (which would upset him).
- And risk him initiating alien first contact? How about sending him to Venus?
- Compromise, send him to Venus.
- We should fire him into an irretrievable orbit with enough food, water, and oxygen for months. Put cameras everywhere inside the capsule and live stream his descent into madness as he runs out of supplies.
There's a Tesla in sun orbit. Why not sending him there?
What did the sun do to deserve that?
Would be a better use of nasa resources
We could try but he's likely to explode if we use one of his rockets.
I vote for a collision with that car he launched into space.

He is really, REALLY becoming fucking absolutely unhinged VERY fast. He is trying to suppress any form of overlook VERY fast and very aggressively. He hasn't acted like this before. While it is expected, he needs to be told that he can go to hell.

What I fear is that he won't be asking for people to be fired, he will be soon asking for arrests and I am very, VERY confident he will brazenly calling for hits on people very openly.

always has been, he is the son of a slaver in apartheid SA and iirc grandson of a nazi. of course he is racist too.
now that he is the literal dictator of the biggest empire in the world, i don't think he needs to worry about softening it anymore. its logical that fascism will serve him judging from the... gestures hes been making. or the casual fascist shit hes been saying for years at this point. or the alleged attempted coups. or the fact hes a billionaire. or ...
i think your hunch is correct though. he didnt bother climbing onto that throne not to use it. the silver lining is that he already showed himself incompetent.
- Not the grandson or the son, he is aamof a Nazi. US officials are obeying orders coming from a Nazi.
he's going full (kan)ye
- I mean if there is no recourse for social murder of that scale, what do they expect? The original era of leftist terrorism (the propaganda of the deed) was in the 19th to early 20th century, but it was actually ditched for humanitarian reasons (all the while the first fascist regimes ramped UP their violence) and it was done more to bring about change.
  What Luigi did (and he was not a leftist) is far more personal than political. While he did mention political reasons, the events in his own life really got him so pissed at the system that he shot that low-level CEO (He was a CEO. But the conglomerate that is United Health is so large that he was practically a middle-manager in terms of the internal predatory chain). It was mostly very personal, and I think this is what is even scarier to them than a revolutionary feeling. People killing for personal reasons will do so regardless of their overall political reasons.
He is really, REALLY becoming fucking absolutely unhinged VERY fast.
He has been for a while now.
It's just becoming more obvious the more he is in the public eye.

Press freedom is a threat to ~~society~~ Elon and must be stopped! Heil Elon!

What a fucking moron. Why is no one stopping him.

You can't lay a finger on an oligarch, so no one bothers.
Law: He'll get pardoned, pre pardoned and whatever other bullshit he can think up.
Pitchforks: People have to unwillingly partake in the machine or the machine will crush their family. They can't risk going up against the security detail of one of the richest people alive.
Marijuana: sorry that's about as far as I can type for the night.
Main takeaway: That is a very good question that too few people will ask themselves before it affects them.

Elon Musk, the Nazi?

He's a bit of an expert on what's "disgusting and cruel."

Oh the little snowflake is feeling hurt...

Musk is more disgusting than anyone else other than his orange bf

He needs to be shot. Idgaf who sees this. Come see me.
- I got warnings and a ban on reddit for saying he needs to be subject to capital punishment. Which I believe he does. Musk needs to be arrested and sentenced to death. He needs to be made an example of in that manner.
- The fucker started carrying one of his kids everywhere with him after Mangione did a Luigi on a POS. The poor tyke's name is "X Æ A-Xii". People are saying the kid is being used as a human shield...
  Not that I am discouraging you or anyone from joining the Mario Party. It just highlights the sheer depravity that is Musk.
You see the shit kanye west wrote today?
Billionaires and their boot licking lap dogs are all beyond sick, its time we sharpen the guillotines, they live like royalty on our backs. Ive been on a strike for the last 5 years living in abject poverty because i will not work for wages not even providing me an existence worth living for. I would rather be broke and free than live as a slave deluded to believe in an illusory freedom while our lives are controlled by those who spend more money on weekend vacations than you or I could earn in a dozen consecutive lifetimes. All while dozens of homes per every unhoused person sit empty to artificially increase the value of property to the point where even renting a shitty 1 bedroom apartment is unaffordable and 1/3 of all food produced is thrown away because it cant be sold fast enough to make someone else more fucking money. I would rather die free and destitute then wake up and be psychologically whipped into obedience to make someone else passive income while i despise every second of my existence and wake up feeling psychological dread after the brief 1 or 2 day respite of the weekend or the 8-16 hours of sleep food and household chores between shifts. Thats not living its slavery with extra steps all these sick deluded fascist fucks and this system theyve built by destroying the social progress made in the 40’a 50’s and 60’s and worked tirelessly to eradicate to install a technocratic feudalist surveillance and police state it all needs to be violently dismantled and burned to the ground. Ballot box idealist bullshit doesnt work, they own the ballot boxes and the ballots, they own the news outlets they own the printing presses putting out educational material and have abysmally lowered the standards of what constitutes education today. There is only one side of the political spectrum in America. The democratic parry is right wing and blatantly enables the far right super fascist gop. But weve been so dumbed down that we believe the democrats are left, they arent, we live in a class dictatorship. There is no true democracy without economic democracy. I am MaGGA- MAke Guillotines Great Again.
- Nah I've ignored him ever since his kardashian days. Not surprised by anything he would say though
- A racist clock is right twice a year.
- Lawful Evil slavery
  Why keep specific humans constantly on your land like animals? When they finish their work you can send them off to feed and wash themselves and leave you alone. If one isn’t working you throw it back and grab another from the pool. I mean obviously YOU don’t, but somebody you enslave does.
  When I hear stories like yours, I think revolutionary_fighters++.
- Ye is just pissed that Snoop for invited to the party and he got snubbed.
  Edit: He probably stole MAGGA from somewhere, but I'll steal it from him.
No, they are just two colors on a putrid rainbow of sin. We got jerks like Yarvin, and I am willing to bet a $1,000 that Bezos is going to join up with this lot.
- He was at the inauguration, he already has. I'm still wondering what that yacht raid was all about, it totally got lost in the deluge of news and I don't believe the official story for one minute.

Get fucked Elon, you absolute piece of shit

you going to have to do better than that

My grandfather, a WWII veteran, would be rolling in his grave if he saw the rise of Naziism in this country.

And he was the type of person who would openly call for ass-whuppin' if he saw one in person.

Unfortunately propoganda is very effective and most of the people who would outright call for groups to be placed in concentration camps simply for their existence can't see any coorelation to them being like NAZI's.
Person I work with today, "I wouldn't want to to go the Superbowl because someone would drop a nuke on our heads". To which I responded, thankfully that has never happened. To which they responded, "Well people don't even know what sex they are anymore."
So attempting to unpack any of that leaves me starting with the fact that they apparently mistrust transgender people so much that they fear they have the means and motivation to launch a nuclear attack on the President of the United States. Kim Jong Un really might want to meet these people.
This person also calls every person of Hispanic descent we drive by an illegal that thankfully Trump will round up soon.
It's all blatant bigotry, but they can't see it themselves.
Sounds like your gramps was a good dude

The sooner someone Luigi's him the better, if only for the fact we would never have to hear the fucker speak again.

be careful reddit will ban you /s
- I'm freeeeee now!
- So glad I left that censorship shithole.
At least then his money will do something good in the hands of his family. That's assuming he didn't remove his children from his will.
- What makes you think his children won't be just as bad if not worse than him?
The sooner someone Luigi’s him the better
I dunno. His kids are just going to inherit his wealth and feel entitled to have our kids serve them.
Think we need to take note of Luigi's heritage if we're truly going to go after these oligarchs; the Italian mob would also go after their families so there's nobody left to seek revenge.

The free speech absolutist at work

Yes, cry ketamine tears about your boy harem

Can he just take a bit more ketamine please? I feel it's not sedating him enough.
- Turn that a-hole's k-hole into a black hole

how are some people still hypnotized to believe this man is a genius? GOD i will forever resent the media for glazing this man for 15 yrs and convincing the public that he's anything more than a trust fund baby who could by companies and play pretend.

"It's easier to fool a man than to convince him he'd been fooled." -Mark Twain
- Nvr heard this before. It's a good one
He bribed the IQ testers I swear

Free speech for Musk means Musk gets to decide what people are allowed to say.

Oh my, this is how you destroy and erode democracy ever faster. Dismantle the media and stop any criticism of the leaders, and reporting of true events.

I saw this in a country once who’s name is North Korea.

India also

What a punchable face.

Business idea: make boxing bags or dartboards with his faces printed on them.
- Sell bottles of gasoline with a promotional t shirt that sports the print, 'Not An Incindiary Device'.
🎯 face

What a fucking snowflake.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Is there a Lemmy fednews? I've been lurking on reddit solely for this news, but noticed a distinct change in tone in the past few days, and I think they may be drowning in muskrats before too long.

How about no and fuck you, fascist.

- Too quick. Gaddafi treatment please
This statement was removed for "advocating violence" but it was only a statement about what an asshole deserved, a value judgement. Mods are a little out of pocket.

Don’t worry, JD Vance told Musk to rehire him then goose-stepped away.

Hopefully the outcome of the French investigation will be an international arrest warrant.

eh, can see how those are working great for the powerful people (examples: putin, bibi, the libya guy)
- I'm not talking about an ICC warrant against a sitting president.

zero chance that dude resigned because of those tweets..

He realized how far over his head he was, and rather than admitting that to his overlord musk, he takes this lucky break, whines about harassment, and resigned.

when i saw the pictures the first thing that came to mind was how fucking terrified some of these kids might be. imagine just coming out of school and being appointed to be one of the main analysts for an oversight department to your favorite dictator in a major world power.
then getting access granted to major, and i say major, governmental systems with the expectation you fix it along with a handful of other kids with absolutely no prior experience doing it?
- I have no sympathy for any of them, and neither should anyone else. The choices they have made will result in the suffering of millions. Whatever fate they ultimately meet will proportionally be infinitely merciful by comparison. They do not get some special dispensation for being naive.
  It is possible to be both immature and abjectly evil. That is, most likely why Musk picked these young men. They have the hallmarks of sociopathic tendencies with the inexperience to be led into a fucking minefield. Here is hoping they trigger some explosions that don't take a billion of us with them.

Nazis gonna Nazi

Anybody can "demand" something. I am demanding the firing of the disgusting and cruel dumbass who runs the Department of Government Enshitification.

So uncovering the disgusting cruelty of others is in itself Disgusting and Cruel? That's just what a tyrant would say.

He really has gone from a wannabe Tony Stark to a wannabe Homelander hasn't he?

You don't get it, he HATES his trans daughter!
- Oh no I know, and he hates me because he believes in a version of his daughter who is a gay fashion-loving stereotype who is Musk's token "Queen" friend, and instead of realizing this person never existed even prior to transition, he's blaming people like me for taking her from him.

Any sane country that wants to remain that way should be banning Twitter immediately.
It feels like insanity to me that they're watching what he's doing to America right now and not immediately reacting by banning the tools he used to do it here.

I find it very funny how the Internet switched from "net neutrality at all cost, websites shouldn't be banned!" to finally realizing that actually yeah, some websites are just bad for social cohesion and should be banned or at least under strict regulation!
- Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, offering users and online content providers consistent transfer rates regardless of content, website, platform, application, type of equipment, source address, destination address, or method of communication
  Net neutrality is not what you think it is.
- That’s not the same as net neutrality, more a free speech concern.
  I used to be a free speech absolutist, partly on the grounds that people recognize lies, hatred, racism, sexism, and bs of every kind, so are generally not affected. We always ostracized the nut cases, so why wouldn’t we online as well? I had faith in my fellow citizens that letting extremists speak out would just shine the light on that extremism., expose the truth, correct the facts.
  But we’re clearly in a world where none of that is true. We have people spewing forth all sorts of extremism, and people believe it. They’re gullible, naive, easily manipulated. Hatred, anger and lies have done serious harm to our society, economically, socially and politically.
  The right to free speech only applies to government, and does not guarantee freedom from consequences. The root of the problem is online speech without consequences, but that’s a commercial entity, not government . If the service won’t rein in the worst speech, or provide consequences for speech that harms society then society doesn’t need the service. Shut ‘em down

3yrs ago, I was 39, if you found a racist tweet from 3 yrs ago, I should be responsible, who cares if 3 yrs ago the kid was in diapers and shouldn't have had access to the internet, that is likely a good enough reason they should never have been allowed near government systems. Wtf did Elon do, walk into a highschool graduation like "you boys wanna see the inside of the government?"

A short while ago (like less than a month) he asked for people who are willing to work for no pay and are super diligent. What he was looking for were people who were rich enough to not need to be paid (their families anyway) and at the same time were his complete and absolute simps and will do ANYTHING for him and to prove their worth to the guy.
All of his young cronies need to be arrested and given at least a mandatory minimum of 20 years and a lifetime prohibition on using computers.
- For no pay??? Lmaooo, bunch of fuckin' Pick Me's

Dude thinks that "truth hurts" gives him the right to get rid of someone for hurting him with truth.

Booohooo! Those big meanies hurt the widdle feefees of Muskyboi by pointing out things that are real! So disgusting!

No can do, stinky Musky boy. First amendment explicitly protects criticism of government agencies and employees. Which is exactly what you're claiming DOGE is.

The actual intention "free speech", not what these idiots think it means.

Goodness Gravy, you mean an investigative journalist did the fucking job they were hired to do? I know its surprising to Elon, because he's never actually done any work and doens't understand the concept, but holy shit he's earning that upcoming lead implant

But it's so much work writing emails to tell your underlings what they need to spend the next 2 years struggling to accomplish without overtime pay, flying on a private jet between public appearances with known criminals, and spending hours a day reposting misinformation on Twitter. It's so hard! Nobody understands how hard he works!
(Obvious /s)
- Don't forget how hard it is to pay other people to play video games for you so you can call yourself an "elite" gamer.

Sounds like Katherine Long should sue the DOGE for infringing on her first amendment rights.

She can try, but I expect the Trump admin is expecting to lean really hard on that thing where you need the permission of the federal government to sue the federal government.
When it suits them, Musk is not a government employee. Also when it suits them, musk is a 'special government employee'

Elon: But look at the disgusting stuff she uncovered!! It's as if she said those things herself by publishing that!

Free speech for me but not for thee

Elon Musk: "Famed Free Speech Absolutist"
- Abolitionist*

Lmao get'em Katherine!

Only if we are allowed to fire everybody who is disgusting and cruel.

My Chrystal ball says that Elon keeps realizing agenda 2025 until the resistance within their own ranks becomes unbearable. While Elon makes news Trump makes legislation to fuck over whoever he can. Only then, goat Elon gets scaped by savior Donald to appease Maga and everything is in shambles.

My money is on Vance removing Trump via the 25th amendment in spring of 2027, then firing Musk.
- It will never happen. Vance is a tool, an the GOP has been clear, there is only one man they bend over for and it's Trump, I'm surprised Musk is this involved without him being shoved aside by Trump, but it is pissing people off and making people deeply anxious about if they have a country or not next week or so, and the panic and pain is the thing Trump loves most while he's looting the country, so many this is all just gravy for him.
- Why would he fire Musk?
- Disagree, the asswipe Vance defended Elez and his racist comments about Indians. WTF, Vance's wife is Indian and his kids are half.

I always find the conservative "How dare you tell people what I said" outrage amusing.

Mald harder, Elon. We will not be ruled by your little band of incels.

Leon hitler would like the USA to turn into Russia, China and the former Apartheid South Africa. Fuck him and the MAGAts.

Space Karen.

Real free speech absolutism there.

Looks like he's trying to grow an Adolf moustache.

Along with a cringy edge-lord neckbeard.

It's soon illegal to not be racistin america.

Off topic, but Racistin is a cool name for a dnd character.
- He's an elf who hates his half-elf siblings.
- It's a medication for racists
- They can be from Racistan, a "planet of hats" country with one very ugly defining feature.

Turns out, racists don't like being outed.

Elon should know.

So we can add Irony to the things he doesn't understand

This pasty lil blood diamond baby needs a decade of Guantanamo treatment

For who people would like to see as an all powerful, intelligent and genius billionaire ... he sure has a thin skin

For anyone that didn't notice ... this is the power of journalists and why we should defend them, help them and support them.

Is this the same guy who’s been rehired already?

Fuck that small dick muskRat forever. My taint awaits his tongue.

Well of course, uncovering the crime is worse than committing it in this administration

MAGA has a fucking hardon for cruelty unless it's directed at white men.

Is there a Lemmy fednews? I've been lurking on reddit solely for this news, but noticed a distinct change in tone in the past few days, and I think they may be drowning in muskrats before too long.

People fixate on all the racist shit that actually qualified him for the position.

Dude got cancelled because he insulted Israel.

Please defend this guy and find out Mr Musk, the cult doesn't need to extract your wealth peacefully.

Trump doesn't mind Elon being the president in the press, because they convinced him this time around that he's the fully insulated mob boss. Layers of others around him getting their hands dirty, so he claims "oh, I didn't know that. That's bad, you should probably arrest whoever did that crime".

That is if our systems survive them flooding the zone with bullshit and making weak attempts to dismantle them.

The only thing that seems to get to Trump is when he has a press conference and they just keep asking him about things Musk is doing.

God damn, every time I think this douche can't get any worse... There's no bottom (well, to be fair Trump is his bottom}

Do I quote the "free speech" or the "absolutist" when talking about this "man"?

Ah, yes. The champion of freedom of speech strikes again.

He may be an actual villain.

I suspect think he’s consciously chosen to be a villain because he’s er seen it gets him more power, money, and notoriety than the techno savior thing he tried first. Or maybe he’s been planning this story arc for years.
He seems broken in the right sorts of ways to see life as an actual game of genetics, resources, and popularity.

Musk has ruined the reputation of the Shiba Inu. Thanks, you jackass.

Funny, I thought HE was disgusting and cruel, but the rest of us can’t bully people using money and illegal threats.

Big balls attacks again

The stun-lock advances

He may have a fault or two but his work in USAID has been uncovering some serious corruption. If you refuse to acknowledge that then i don't know what to tell you.

Can you give some examples? Genuinely curious
- Well, if you want to take it from the horses mouth , its supporting DEI and LGBTQ+ rights internationally. Which sounds less like "corruption" and more like "the point", but what do I know?
  And to save everyone a click, here is the link I posted's full list of "corruption" :
  Here are only a few examples of the WASTE and ABUSE:
  $1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”
  $70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
  $2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
  $47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
  $32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
  $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala
  $6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
  Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
  Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
  “Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
  Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
  Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
  The list literally goes on and on — and it has all been happening for decades.
  \
  \ Under President Trump, the waste, fraud, and abuse ENDS NOW.
  edit: they say the list goes "on and on", but I couldn't find anything. Presumably stuff not added to the aforementioned post were even less convincing, and as such didn't make the cut.
- this is just one example:
  https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1887864991560192107
I think Trump supporters have a different definition of corruption than normal people.
While USAID definitely funds/funded many ridiculous things (such as this) they also provide much-needed food and medicine to a lot of people - for cynical politically-motivated soft-power reasons, but still. It seems very likely that abruptly cutting off those programs will cause some people to die. I really hope someone (the PRC seems likely) will step in and replace some of those programs!