‘Appalling And Indefensible’: Elon Musk Incites Rage Online After Claiming No One Is ‘Trying to Assassinate Biden/Kamala’
‘Appalling And Indefensible’: Elon Musk Incites Rage Online After Claiming No One Is ‘Trying to Assassinate Biden/Kamala’
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/
I think he needs a special interview.
180This, 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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Turns out a rich person can just buy a social media platform and fuck with elections and stuff.
175When you stack SCOTUS they just let you do it.
82Everything a rich person does is Correct™ because they're rich and obviously that means God™ blessed them.
/vomit
31In an oligarchy they can, yeah.
5nothing was stopping this with traditional media, the rich just had more sense.
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Stop using Twitter.
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66...especially you, Elon
30Especially you JOURNALISTS!
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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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Because he wants to spread rumors of conspiracy theories, as that is the only thing that would redeem someone like Trump.
51We 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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The correct response is for thousands of people to respond on Xitter with, "And no one is even trying to assassinate Musk 🤔"
98Which 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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They canceled my man Kyle Gass for less fuck you Elon!
85Seriously, wtf.
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He's implying that he thinks that someone should, but even the literal point he's making is not true.
73It's exactly this
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Actually, I suspect he's implying that nobody's trying to assassinate Harris because all the democracy-hating assassins are on her side, or she's the one setting them up, or something to that effect.
It's still the sort of slander which in a reasonable world he'd be called on, but that seems unlikely
12I suspect so as well. But also, a clearly thinking person would pick up on the additional implication.
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Fellas, is it a crime to advocate for the assassination of the current vice president?
Because that could be another one of Donald's charges. Just saying.
58Biden/Kamala
Not just the current vice president. The current President of the United States.
Easy to forget in this lunacy of an election campaign, but Biden is still president.
30no, but it'll kill your career to joke about the assassination of a former president, because in this country we believe in double standards.
9Conservatives love the quote "the shrub of freedom needs to be watered with the blood of parrots from a time to another time", so they've got a healthy dosage of normalizing violence.
They also LARP about Rome, which had a long and storied tradition of assassination. Famously, citizens of the republic were encouraged to strangle anyone who tried to become King... right up until they didn't.
Anyway, the Romans weren't always monsters; they just usually were.
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Typically the first amendment is going to protect you when you say most things. The types of things you definitely don't want to say are specific threats.
But there was a sad situation in Colorado where the courts ruled that a guy could be locked up for saying that he wished that bad things fell upon some judges, even though he definitely didn't say or imply that he was going to do them. So if you want to rely on the Colorado precedent, maybe there's something to work with, but it's a pretty terrible precedent.
That all being said, let's not wish death on anyone. Even if it's someone who's done horrible things, let's just wish that they're forced to retire early and either get locked up in prison, if they committed crimes, or live out there lives in miserable condition in some community that we never have to visit or think about.
1you can wish death on dick cheney, as a treat
6The big thing seems to be “is there reason to believe that the person saying this believes it will cause people to illegally act in accordance”. I’m some lady on the internet, if I say Nazis should be punched I don’t think I’m going to convince anyone to actually do it, instead I think I’m contributing to a cultural milieu of hostility towards fascists. Elon musk has fans, he has a legitimate platform. He has every reason to think someone might shoot the vice president over this, especially since he’s calling to the same group that has already attempted to shoot the other presidential candidate twice in three months, and particularly because that group in question is people who voted for that guy.
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It has been reported that this has now been deleted. He called it a joke, but damn what a terrible joke.
47‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’
44Closed 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.
43I ditched the day he took over. Maximum nope.
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Elon Musk is the joke. It’s just not funny.
36Why isn't anyone even trying to guillotine our billionare megalomaniacs? 🤔
35Just 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.
32Hate to break it to you E, but the Secret Service does not give a fuck if you were joking.
26He's rich, they might
23He's rich, the Secret Service doesn't give a flying fuck what he says or does.
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Can the secret service please just go get this guy? No? Oh well.
24And no one is even trying to assassinate the richest fascist in the world.
20Oh, they are. He's got a pretty serious security team that doesn't fuck around.
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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.
17The 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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And the American Oligarch will continue to face no consequences for his actions.
16That's not exactly true. He has lost a massive amount of public respect. He bought Twitter and now the company is worth much less than it was before. His credibility has gone down considerably in the last few years.
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i mean yeah, nobody is really trying that... They aren't really divisive figures, the divisive shit they do talk about is entirely made up.
16With the way klansmen in Ohio fell on the local Haitian automotive workforce like ravenous hyenas, I don't think you need more than that to turn certain people in the US absolutely feral.
Just whisper "Kamala Harris ate my dog" into the Internet and you'll have a military parade of psycho rednecks calling for her head.
11hmm. This gives me an idea, do you think we should just manufacture an entire campaign, only to come out and be like "haha got you, get trolled idiots"
that would be really funny, i think. It would probably make the republican party worse, but they would probably get closer to imploding anyway.
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imagine fake laughing for this guy
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