Summary
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.
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}
Get fucked Elon, you absolute piece of shit
you going to have to do better than that
Looks like he’s trying to grow an Adolf moustache.
Along with a cringy edge-lord neckbeard.
Dude thinks that “truth hurts” gives him the right to get rid of someone for hurting him with truth.
Lmao get’em Katherine!
Don’t worry, JD Vance told Musk to rehire him then goose-stepped away.
Booohooo! Those big meanies hurt the widdle feefees of Muskyboi by pointing out things that are real! So disgusting!
I thought the GOP didn’t like it when people get cancelled?
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.
“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
It’s always different when they perceive themselves as the victim.
And they’re always the victim.
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.
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.
Free speech for Musk means Musk gets to decide what people are allowed to say.
Turns out, racists don’t like being outed.
Elon should know.
He needs the full mussolini treatment
The full Luigi treatment
Too quick. Gaddafi treatment please
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.
Anybody can “demand” something. I am demanding the firing of the disgusting and cruel dumbass who runs the Department of Government Enshitification.
