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‘Appalling And Indefensible’: Elon Musk Incites Rage Online After Claiming No One Is ‘Trying to Assassinate Biden/Kamala’

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‘Appalling And Indefensible’: Elon Musk Incites Rage Online After Claiming No One Is ‘Trying to Assassinate Biden/Kamala’

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Billionaire Elon Musk sent out a controversial post on Sunday following the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump.

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As usual, he’s now claiming it’s just a joke. https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-deletes-appalling-and-indefensible-harris-biden-assassination-social-media-post/

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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    imagine fake laughing for this guy

  • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    And no one is even trying to assassinate the richest fascist in the world.

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      Oh, they are. He’s got a pretty serious security team that doesn’t fuck around.

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    I think he needs a special interview.

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      This, I’ve known people who got knocks on their door by the FBI and SS for posting dumb shit they weren’t serious about as a “joke.” They take that shit seriously I guess only when its lone wolves that can’t do as much damage and not people rich enough to fund a small army.

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        My friend went to a different high school than me and for some reason they had a forum with open sign ups.

        The FBI showed up at my school because I said I was gonna punch the mascot in the face…

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          That sucks that happened to you, but thanks for the chuckle at the absurdity of the situation!

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            I’ll add to the absurdity for you: The agent asked me, “does this sound familiar?” and recited my forum signature which was a short poem about a sailing goat

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              Oh you know they were giggling to themselves on the drive there

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        But rich people have a different set of rules. And people who are unimaginably rich have no rules.

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          deleted by creator

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    They canceled my man Kyle Gass for less fuck you Elon!

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      Seriously, wtf.

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    Hate to break it to you E, but the Secret Service does not give a fuck if you were joking.

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      He’s rich, they might

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        He’s rich, the Secret Service doesn’t give a flying fuck what he says or does.

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    Closed my X account a couple days ago. He’s truly gotten out of control and my feed had become riddled with conspiracy theory fear-mongering garbage. Good riddance. I encourage others to leave as well, it’s the only way he’s held accountable unfortunately.

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      I ditched the day he took over. Maximum nope.

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    Just a joke? Which of his wives will he blame for posting that? Isn’t that what conservatives all do? Blame their wives?

    Funny enough, two posts away from this one it sure sounds like someone is threatening Harris’ life.

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    Yeah because everybody everywhere doesn’t want then dead/irrelevant.

    I get a kick out of it STILL only being trump people who are trying to kill trump. It’s like if reality were trying to paint trump supporters in an overly negative and biased light.

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      The left has been fairly successfully persuaded not to initiate violence. For better or for worse, and I believe it to be better, that’s the case. The right wing is being radicalized to violence and the emperor has no clothes. It’s not surprising that it’s his former voters shooting at him, he keeps lying to them and telling them to get violent.

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    Stop using Twitter.

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      …especially you, Elon

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        Especially you JOURNALISTS!

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    Can the secret service please just go get this guy? No? Oh well.

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    ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’

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    Isn’t the straightforward answer to his question that people don’t want Harris or Biden dead enough to put themselves at risk of death or arrest?

    Why be baffled when the answer is obvious?

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      He’s not baffled.

      Not baffled at all.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

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      Because he wants to spread rumors of conspiracy theories, as that is the only thing that would redeem someone like Trump.

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        We should also point out that because Trump said he’s going to be put in a cabinet position we can take this as a direct word from the Trump campaign.

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    Turns out a rich person can just buy a social media platform and fuck with elections and stuff.

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      When you stack SCOTUS they just let you do it.

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      In an oligarchy they can, yeah.

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      Everything a rich person does is Correct™ because they’re rich and obviously that means God™ blessed them.

      /vomit

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      nothing was stopping this with traditional media, the rich just had more sense.

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    The correct response is for thousands of people to respond on Xitter with, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Musk 🤔”

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      Which would be worse for him: someone actually trying to do so as a result of said post, or realizing that no one wants to because no one cares enough about him?

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    Elon Musk is the joke. It’s just not funny.

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