Summary

Elon Musk is distancing himself from sweeping federal job cuts linked to DOGE, blaming agency heads—not DOGE—responsible for mass layoffs, including the announced 70,000 job cut at Veterans Affairs.

Despite claiming DOGE’s role as merely advisory, Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them.

Some cuts have already been reversed, with a Trump administration memo clarifying agencies are not required to fire probationary employees (new hires).

  • Dogiedog64@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What a fucking PUSSY lmfao. Guess all that Ketamine didn’t “”“expand”“” his mind after all.

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    4 months ago

    He should be fired for giving bad advice and drawing a high salary. Bloody incompetent, such a simple job and he can’t even do it.

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    4 months ago

    He’s said he’s scared for his life. I think that’s reasonable given the amount of people he’s pissing off. It’s only a matter of time…

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      Yeah, considering he paid for a role in a fascist administration that he pushed in a fascist direction and bought a propaganda outlet for he should be afraid for his life. He’s basically set himself up as a fall guy for a reconstruction government, especially if Trump keels over first.

      Franco’s life was under threat until the great assassin of time finally came for him. At which point his government fell.

      And I don’t feel sorry for him because I’m over here just living my life and he’s trying to get people to hurt me and people like me instead

    • Wilco@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Seen that Lemmy section “Is Elon Musk Still Alive”? Heh

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      Exactly. He’s fucked over countless veterans with military training and most likely a shitload of guns and ammo. Good fuckin luck bud .

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      He’s just paranoid. However the minorities that are at the receiving end of his racist hate speech, are justified to fear for their lives.

      One a pampered and spoiled trustfund brat fallen into drug induced paranoid hysteria. The other are millions of people he is defaming and scapegoating for his and his friends destruction of the country…who are actually in danger because the hatespeech on x and elswhere is encouraging violence against them.

      Stop being paranoid melon husk.

  • Brdi29@lemmy.world
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    Musk privately acknowledged that he’d made some massive missteps, and that he “can’t bat a thousand all the time,”

    You got rid of all the gear for your team, you’re not batting at all wtf

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    Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them

    Please no. I’m not sure the world’s ready for more of this ass “fixing” things.

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    4 months ago

    Bro mistook a bunch of Russian bots praising him in his echo chamber as real people.

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    I really hope this becomes a modern day Icarus story of a billionaire who flew too close the sun and then set off a radical turn events for the better.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    Because efficiancy never was the goal. “DOGE” is just a knock-off of Yarvin’s “RAGE” (Retire All Government Employees), likely done to both stroke Muskrat’s ego, and to obfuscate Yarvin from the “normies”.

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        It’s because everything we think is true about wealth is untrue…

        There is no meritocracy…. Wealthy people have no great talent or intelligence….

        The number one factor by a large margin that determines whether or not you are weatlhy is whether your parents were wealthy….

        That’s it… that’s literally all it takes to be wealthy, to have capital… be born into it.

        Anyone who says otherwise is fucking with you or trying to write their own personal bootstraps anecdote

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          There’s more to it. To get that rich you need to make roulette level bets with money most of us will never have. For every Musk you have plenty of people born with similar amounts of money who either lived a normal life or made a bad bet. To a certain degree you have to be a bit daft to make these bets at all. If a reasonable investment strategy means you get a comfortable life and a bold one where you dedicste your life to it means you get to buy governments, then you have to be stupid and broken to take the latter.