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Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.

Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.

Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.

Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 26 minutes ago

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.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 32 minutes ago

The free speech absolutist at work

[–] sumguyonline@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 4 points 23 minutes ago

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.

[–] ofcourse@lemmy.ml 2 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago) (1 children)

He may be an actual villain.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 8 minutes ago

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.

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 35 minutes ago

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

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 8 minutes ago

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.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 39 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 21 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

He needs to be shot. Idgaf who sees this. Come see me.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 3 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 2 points 17 minutes ago

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.

[–] exploitedamerican@lemm.ee 5 points 41 minutes ago

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.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 2 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 4 minutes ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] PagingDoctorLove@lemmy.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

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.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 23 points 2 hours ago

How about no and fuck you, fascist.

[–] naeap@sopuli.xyz 60 points 3 hours ago

Oh the little snowflake is feeling hurt...

[–] makefish@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] nesuno@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Turns out, racists don't like being outed.

Elon should know.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 85 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

Can we fire Musk... into the sun?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 1 points 16 minutes ago

I vote for a collision with that car he launched into space.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 44 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

That's a lot of ∆v, can we fire him out of the solar system instead?

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 13 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

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).

[–] almost1337@lemm.ee 5 points 2 hours ago

The amount of special K in his body would probably fuck up the flower garden

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

I don't want to piss in the All-Nations LGBTQ+ Peace Garden tho :c

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[–] crusty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

And risk him initiating alien first contact? How about sending him to Venus?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Just fire him, from orbit into the earth. Way more efficient

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 2 points 2 hours ago

Compromise, send him to Venus.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

We could try but he's likely to explode if we use one of his rockets.

[–] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago

There's a Tesla in sun orbit. Why not sending him there?

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmings.world 0 points 24 minutes ago

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

[–] DBT@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] p2173@lemm.ee 6 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 324 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

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

Not that any conservative cares.

[–] Kingofthezyx@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

they keep saying he’s part of the government, but congress never vetted and confirmed him… he doesn’t have security clearance….

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 55 points 5 hours ago (12 children)

They. Do not care. About the law.

Why does this keep needing to be said?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Because it's the root of the problem and is important to be repeated constantly.

Congress took an oath to defend the Constitution. Let's see who cares.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Congress also has specific authority over making laws and allocating money. You’d think they’d have the self-interest to protect that authority from whatever baboon tried to take it, especially an unelected one

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

My guess is that a lot of people don't realize or accept that the game is already over and the constitution is as good as shredded. A lot of people think that if only one person would put one in his brain case or vote him (Trump and Elon by extension) out, we could return to normal. The Republic is cooked, we're right now, as a society, deciding what happens next.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 74 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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

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

[–] tourist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] WilhelmStroker@lemmy.world 172 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

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

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 120 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

And people still defend this Nazi.

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