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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk squabbled during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, sources told the New York Times. Duffy…

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[–] TheProtagonist 39 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Does Musk have any other concept of this world besides firing people?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 51 points 1 day ago

As F Scott Fitzgerald said in "The Great Gatsby"

"They were careless people...They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

[–] DougHolland 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

“The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Elon Musk

[–] BetaBlake 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah a sociopath would think that

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Typical corporate “cut to profitability” attitude coupled with extreme stupidity when he doesn’t understand what he’s looking at, so he says “that looks stupid” and cuts it. Doesn’t want to take any time to understand because cuts are easy, learning why things might be necessary even if you don’t like them at face value requires effort and nuance. Something conservatives aren’t interested in.

[–] jj4211 3 points 1 day ago

See his own company when he canned the entire charging team..

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can get a sense of the true intelligence of a person if, when presented with something unfamiliar or that doesn't interest them, they dismiss it as "stupid and worthless".

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 2 points 1 day ago

Too cool for school.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's working for the guy who was using "yourefired" as his Twitter password so...

[–] Frozengyro 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Surprised he used the right 'you're'

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He then changed it to "maga2020!"

Not even kidding

[–] Snowclone 1 points 1 day ago

Didn't even try ''spring2024'' smh

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 1 points 1 day ago

Probably had someone else do it for him

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 1 points 1 day ago

Ironic for a guy obsessed with playing the victim when he loses.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Does Musk have any ~~other~~ concept of this world ~~besides firing people~~?

FTFY. Dude is constantly in a K-hole