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.

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    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.

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    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.

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          So he can be the guy who saved America. If he keeps his head down and looks like the sane one while Trump and Musk go full Nazi and he removes them from power, he’ll have an insanely high approval rating, even if he doesn’t roll back anything they did. He’d probably win the 2028 election in a landslide, and since he’d have served just under half of Trump’s term he’d be eligible for re-election in 2032.

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            I can see the Trump removal scenario.

            For Vance to get rid of Musk he needs to both

            A) Disagree with Musk’s actions and philosophies.

            B) Be able to refuse the amount of bribe money Musk can throw at him.

            I don’t see either happening.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

      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.

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    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.

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      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?

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        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.

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        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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        Nah I’ve ignored him ever since his kardashian days. Not surprised by anything he would say though

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          Its basically a 50 tweet diatribe of the worst shit fascist billionaires could say. Basically poor people are garbage hitler was great and fuck the jews and thst he wants to colab with p diddy cause he is his hero. It almost makes elon’s fascist salute look mild.

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        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++.

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          We wouldn’t be in this position if more people had enough common sense to see zero sum game for what it is and opt out of working. This would 100% be met with violence from the ruling class if enough people started quitting their jobs and refusing to participate. which would show the true color of our society and dissolve the facade of liberal democracy once and for all and show it for the class dictatorship it truly is. Any democracy that fights against economic democracy at all fronts is inherently and obviously anti democratic.

          People may think i am lazy but that’s far from it. Ive always outworked my peers but been punished for my aptitude with an ever increasing job description and no increase in pay. Im auto didactic have taught myself automotive diagnostics and maintenance as well as music theory and basic construction and carpentry. I recently even considered getting a job as an automotive tech but hiring wages are a joke. Mcdonalds and fast food near me start at $16-17 an hour and youre lucky to find a job at a garage for $19-20 so for $4000-8000 more a year i can blow my back out, bust my knuckles and have toxic automotive fluids and solvents absorb into my dermal layer. meanwhile the shops charge on average $200 an hour for labor and sometimes even More (masarati/mini near me charge $295/hr even kia/hyundai are at $235 and the highest payed guys are making $45-60/hr flat rate and billing 2 hours for every one hour they work so they are making $90-120 an hour while the shop makes $470 its ridiculous. Multiply thst by however many garahe bays they average pccupied throughout the day and domenof these places are bringing in $2000 gross an hour ebery hour from 8 am till 3:30 People don’t understand this is the corporate model, they aim for 500-1000% profit margins. While working class people say “fast food and other service industry workers dont deserve a living wage because i make what they want now and that would mean i would be payed less” instead of realizing those engorging themselves on passive income off of our backs are under paying us. Not to mention complaining that other working people who are deemed inferior dont deserve a living / thriving wage is nothing more than class traitor bullshit that is promoted in our society to distract from the true enemies of humanity. The wall street billionaire military and prison industry profiteers who view us all as disposable cattle to be ridden as hard as possible till we die in poverty so they can have another yacht every year.

          And yes it does suck being broke, i miss out on new tool sales all the time, my phone has a cracked back glass panel, my wife and my pets live in a drafty 36 year old rv spending $30 on propane for heat every week till the end of winter so that we and our pets don’t get sick but its better than the awful treatment I’ve endured at the 20 or so jobs I’ve had since i was 14 years old and got my working permit. While all the rich kids at the private school my grandmother sent me to in order to brain wash me into being a dumb right wing boot licker looked down on me for having a weekend job and taking the city bus. Im just upset i cant buy a few things at the harbor freight 30% off items $10 and under this weekend and the ryobi high torque impact wrench and battery currently $90 off. I could care less about fancy clothes or luxury items, i just like tools so i can fix things and keep my mind busy. It beats the hell out of staring at a clock for 4-5 hours out of an 8-9 hour shift because i finish tasks quickly and then have to avoid superiors who would make me do busy work to justify a trash garbage wage they feel i should be grateful for. Or deliberately slowing myself down on monotonous tasks so i can appear busy for longer periods of time. Fuck. That. Noise.

          Meanwhile these billionaires are blatantly praising hitler and gesturing blatsnt fascist salutes while telling us the sky is green and espousing anti intellectualism/ anti working class fascist ideals with no fear of public retribution. Fascists have gotten far too comfortable. It seems like the wall street putsch/ business plot was just delayed but successful none the less. especially since one of the coup’s main architect’s son and grandson were both sitting presidents and our government is now blatantly controlled by an intersection of wall street economic and military industries who control a vast majority of the propaganda outlets masquerading as journalistic outlets. While right leaning centrists who think they are on the left just keep telling us to have faith that voting will fix things when that hasn’t worked for 50+ years and what this country needs is a full fledged leftist working class revolution and not one tenth of a millimeter less.

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      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.

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        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.

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    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?”

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      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.