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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    2 months ago

    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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    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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        I mean if there is no recourse for social murder of that scale, what do they expect? The original era of leftist terrorism (the propaganda of the deed) was in the 19th to early 20th century, but it was actually ditched for humanitarian reasons (all the while the first fascist regimes ramped UP their violence) and it was done more to bring about change.

        What Luigi did (and he was not a leftist) is far more personal than political. While he did mention political reasons, the events in his own life really got him so pissed at the system that he shot that low-level CEO (He was a CEO. But the conglomerate that is United Health is so large that he was practically a middle-manager in terms of the internal predatory chain). It was mostly very personal, and I think this is what is even scarier to them than a revolutionary feeling. People killing for personal reasons will do so regardless of their overall political reasons.

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

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

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      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.

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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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      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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        Ye is just pissed that Snoop for invited to the party and he got snubbed.

        Edit: He probably stole MAGGA from somewhere, but I’ll steal it from him.

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          I think ifs most likely he is just a piece of shit

          I didnt steal MaGGA i mean odds are someone has said it before but go ahead and use that shit till it or some billionaires be dead. hopefully the latter comes first.

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    how are some people still hypnotized to believe this man is a genius? GOD i will forever resent the media for glazing this man for 15 yrs and convincing the public that he’s anything more than a trust fund baby who could by companies and play pretend.

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    The sooner someone Luigi’s him the better, if only for the fact we would never have to hear the fucker speak again.

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      At least then his money will do something good in the hands of his family. That’s assuming he didn’t remove his children from his will.

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    My grandfather, a WWII veteran, would be rolling in his grave if he saw the rise of Naziism in this country.

    And he was the type of person who would openly call for ass-whuppin’ if he saw one in person.