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Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job. The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the second woman to hold the position and the first openly gay person to lead the department.

That was enough for Musk to weigh in. “People will die because of this,” he wrote, adding, “Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.”

As Gothamist reported, before her retirement in 2022, Bonsignore was both the highest-ranking uniformed woman in FDNY history and the first woman to achieve a four-star rank. At the press conference announcing her appointment, Mamdani praised Bonsignore, saying that “her record speaks for itself,” before detailing her career in the city that spanned from before 9/11 through the worst of the pandemic.

Musk is the richest person on the planet and a rabid opponent of diversity, equity, and inclusion measures, or DEI. He appeared to be claiming that the new head of the FDNY was a diversity hire. He’s written: “Time for DEI to DIE,” “DEI has caused people to DIE,” “DEI is a Civil Rights Act violation,” “DEI kills art,” “DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk,” and “DEI is just another word for racism,” amongst his other previous observations about these efforts.

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 113 points 3 months ago (5 children)

"People will die because of this,”

Aren't like hundreds of thousands of people expected to die due to the shit Elon did to USAid?

[–] Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (2 children)

They're not white so Elon doesn't care

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 points 3 months ago

Some of them are white actually.

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

*rich, turns out it's not about skin color. Never has been

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh no, it's definitely about skin color too. Just ask the people who worked in his daddy's emerald mines

[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still think the racial elements are mostly a smoke screen to keep us distracted

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

His companies have been found multiple times to be incredibly racist. Among people who all make decent money. Sometimes you can't just class-reduce every problem.

[–] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Not to mention in his cars.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Not to mention the two towns that are currently being demolished by both SpaceX and his fucking garbage AI facility.

[–] Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

Poor people from the global south don't count to the white South African. Shocker.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 75 points 3 months ago

Do we really need an illegal immigrant telling us how to run the country?

[–] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Why is Musk's opinion on the FDNY "news"?

[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Sadly being rich makes you opinion on random crap important for some crazy reason.

[–] THB@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

My thoughts exactly.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah how would he know anything about this? He doesn't live Anywhere near there. No one is asking him

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

He also doesn't know anything about "qualifications". He dropped out of school and won the dotcom capitalism lottery so now he thinks school and qualifications are for chumps. He hired teenagers to purge the federal government. He's the last person anyone should listen to complain about "qualifications".

[–] medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world 46 points 3 months ago

Says the man who can't get a car door to reliably open, burning people alive in minor collisions. Meanwhile, EMS trains to open those doors and save lives. STFU, musk.

[–] Ooops@feddit.org 43 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

he wrote, adding, “Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.”

Which is exactly the reason a 31-year veteran with experience got that job. I'm constantly impressed how Musk manages to always phrase his bullshit in a way that makes crystal clear it's nothing but insane ramblings.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I only just realised that she's not 31 years old.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

He literally hired teenagers when lives were at stake.

[–] Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon, and fuckers like him, are a major driving source of human misery. Both because of the wealth hording and politics that wealth hording necessitates, but also because he probably speaks to people and imagine how awful having to talk to that absolute garbage dump of a person would be.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Even in his most intimate interpersonal interactions, he probably mostly speaks at people like he's on social media.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk isn't qualified to lead a hot dog stand. And yet here we are.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

his hot dog got mangled by a "surgeon".

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Do we really need to be aware of every one of this idiot's stupid fucking opinions in real-time? Holy fuck.

[–] Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

+1 for this, cataloguing his nonsense isn't newsworthy. Let him sit in his 44 billion dollar echo chamber and screech at bots. At this point everyone who's not delusional knows he's a miserable idiot conman who's carried by the talent and effort of people much smarter than he is on the rare occasion he can get out of their way. His opinion means less than nothing.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)

She's a woman. Small dicks are scared of smart women.

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

i have a small penis and I am not scared of smart women. please stop associating penis size with mysogyny

edit: Ill tone it down since I was groggy as shit this morning: damn us tiny peeners catchin strays

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

You may have a small penis but you don't sound like you're a small dick.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

well elons dick is probably mangled from a surgery, probably no-dick, or a stump or close to it.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe he went to Thailand for one of those embihgening 'procedurea'? I hear they don't go so well. Maybe that's why he has a complex with the country.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

No joke, he's got a mangled dick. Dunno how it happened

[–] Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

And people with botched phallos or for example, a friend of mine who needed multiple surgeries on his genitals as a child should be assumed to be morally deficient?

Go wash the properity gospel out of your brain.

Some relevant viewing material.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 23 points 3 months ago

Elon's name should always be followed with his title, Biggest Welfare Queen in the World.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 18 points 3 months ago

Back in 1995, the FDNY did a hostile takeover of EMS.

EMS had originally been under the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, a city agency that oversees the public hospitals. In 1993, HHC funded an independent study to see what the best way to move forward was. The consultants looked at all the options, including moving EMS to police or fire supervision, ro making it an independent service. They decided that the best course was to keep EMS under HHC, but give it $3 million to upgrade.

At about that time, FD decided they wanted to study taking over EMS. The City Council voted them $5 million to do a test where FDNY responded to EMS calls in one borough. Even though the New York State agency in charge of licensing paramedics said FD had failed, the City decided the test was a great success. FD got control of EMS.

Pretty much the day FD took over, old time EMS people started leaving. Some retired, and others went to other civil service jobs.

Only one Fire Chief bothered to take an ride-alongs with EMS. Most never stuck their nose into an EMS station.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Elon Musk says a lot of dumb untrue shit. Why is anyone even paying attention to what he says anymore?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because everyone feels it appropriate to post the bond villain's every word. I wish I didn't need to hear it. I wish his arrest warrants were written and acted upon.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago

Elon Musk is not qualified to open his own damn mouth on any topic of authority.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

From the article:

Musk is the richest person on the planet and a rabid opponent of diversity, equity, and inclusion measures, or DEI.

Let's call it what it is and stop sugar coating this white supremacist asshole. He's a racist piece if shit and has been given the massive bullhorn that was Twitter to spout his racist bullshit because the assholes who own Tesla stock keep giving him more money. Good people meed to fully cancel not only Tesla but SpaceX and any other company he is at the head of.

I don't care that Tesla has created innovative cars. They can be made by other companies just as easily. I don't care that SpaceX has innovative rockets. The technology exists it can exist again someplace else. This asshole needs to be canceled so hard that he can never come back again. The next non-conservative person who runs for president needs to run on a platform of ending any governmental relationship with Elon Musk, permanently.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fuck you Elon, you cheese doodle. No one asked you. Go crash another rocket, or estrange your latest crotch goblin.

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"The woke mind virus made me piss my pants again!"

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[–] quinkin@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Grok says: Elon has the best openly intolerant shit-takes!

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago

woman

Gay

OPRNLY gay

I mean, what do you expect? Of course little butthurt loser is going to screech to conservatives which will continue carrying the screech. This hurts them to their core.

They don't care about actual metrics or anything, just the thought that a woman could do something useful goes against their beliefs.

And a gay woman? Oh my god, that must be even worse!

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"DEI has caused people to DIE,”

Your stupid cybertruck doors not opening during fires have caused so many people to DIE, journalists had to conduct their own research to warn the public because you wouldn't.

You don't have to be a gay or straight fire chief to know a death trap when you see one, yet you continue to sell your dumpsters of death to the public. Interesting...

Tesla promotes new door safety feature ahead of Bloomberg report on 15 deaths

And he would've gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling leftwing radical extremists at. ::checks source:: Bloomberg news...

Let's be honest, he probably will still get away with it bc men like him run the world and we live in a "merit based society," aMiRiTe? But at least fewer people may die in the future now that he's actually been forced to acknowledge he sold the public a death trap.

"Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.”

Lmao what a fucking joke 🤣🤣🤣 👌

It's like Gallagher but instead of a watermelon he gets paid to endanger the public, and destroy people's entire lives.

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Jon Steward cracking his knuckles in the background…

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Attacking the FDNY? Wait till Jon Stewart hears about this!

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

The only thing musk is qualified for is the receiving end of a guillotine

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Elon, just worry about South Africa. Okay?