Kill Musk and parade his bloated corpse through the street. Death to the oligarchs.
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Sorry officer, I've never seen this person in my life...
...and even if I did, I'm sure they didn't do it, and if they did do it, I'm sure it was self defense, and if it wasn't, well it must have been that the other guy really deserved it.
I'm curious what the consequences of that were to be. There are more oligarchs operating here than just Musk. His death might trigger something, but killing a whole gang of operatives discreetly would be quite the challenge.
It might happen in a generation or two when the gap is so great there is no alternative.
What future generations?
As much as I see your point. They are already here. So it's not over yet
A foreign sieg heiling, self described drug addict, absent father, hostile nation to the US favoring, non elected billionaire is making these threats. And apparently that's all good with the right. Let's just imagine Harris and Soros pulling this. What would be the outcry?
Hey wait, wasn't this exactly what they said Soros was doing
Yes.
If the email leaked is true, it says that it came from outside DoD. I'd just mark it as phishing and tell them you didn't recognize the sender.
Office Space parodied these feckless "efficiency consultants" but of course neither Musk nor this fluff piece writer see the irony.
I guess the world has become so stupid, satire couldn't survive.
... neither Musk nor this fluff piece writer see the irony.
I think you missed a lot of the tone of the article if you think the writer was in favor of Musk's actions.
I mean, it's open to interpretation, but the reason I said that is because the author uncritically accepts a lot of Musk's and Trump's premises which legitimizes Musk's actions, while consistently avoiding any clear criticism.
E.g.:
Musk, the self-appointed Trumpian king of government efficiency, is also not only taking a hardline approach to trimming the federal bureaucracy.
Frames that Musk actually is seeking to "trim the federal bureaucracy" in the author's voice.
Of course, this all aligns perfectly with President Trump’s broader goal of cutting government spending, with Trump even suggesting that Musk should get more aggressive. That’s right — Musk’s plan to weed out slackers thus far somehow hasn’t been “extremely hardcore” enough for the president. So, in classic Musk fashion, he’s gone all-in, demanding rigorous reporting, cutting contracts, and looking to save a cool $1 trillion along the way.
Bold mine. This paragraph together has a lot of tells. The phrase "weed out slackers" implies there are real "slackers" that Musk is fairly "weeding out."
Musk's "demanding rigorous reporting" also legitimizes and normalizes Musk's harassment of these employees. The author's use of "classic Musk fashion" with this legitimized language implies the author also has a positive opinion of Musk.
"Looking to save a cool $1 trillion" is breezy casual language that could be argued to restate Musk's goal, but use of "save" is a positive connotation word, and subtly implies waste. "A cool" before money is meant to make the number more impressive.
Meanwhile, over at DOGE (the acronym for the Department of Government Efficiency), employees are reportedly working 120-hour weeks and sleeping in pods to keep up with the billionaire’s demands. Will this lead to a leaner, meaner federal workforce, or just mass resignations and bureaucratic chaos? Either way, I think we all know how Musk would answer his own What would you say you do here? question: He led the DOGE team in hacking through the federal government like a caffeine-fueled lumberjack at a piñata party.
The closing paragraph is meant to look neutral but again, this seems to lionize DOGE by making them look like hard workers (no need to verify or be skeptical of the 120 hour claim?), and frame it as Musk having a killer response to the Office Space question.
Read the article through the lens of a MAGA and maybe that will convey it better - this seems like hype, loosely coded for mainstream.
Same quotes with emphasis changed:
Musk, the self-appointed Trumpian king of government efficiency, is also not only taking a hardline approach to trimming the federal bureaucracy.
Of course, this all aligns perfectly with President Trump’s broader goal of cutting government spending, with Trump even suggesting that Musk should get more aggressive. That’s right — Musk’s plan to weed out slackers thus far somehow hasn’t been “extremely hardcore” enough for the president. So, in classic Musk fashion, he’s gone all-in, demanding rigorous reporting, cutting contracts, and looking to save a cool $1 trillion along the way.
Meanwhile, over at DOGE (the acronym for the Department of Government Efficiency), employees are reportedly working 120-hour weeks and sleeping in pods to keep up with the billionaire’s demands. Will this lead to a leaner, meaner federal workforce, or just mass resignations and bureaucratic chaos? Either way, I think we all know how Musk would answer his own What would you say you do here? question: He led the DOGE team in hacking through the federal government like a caffeine-fueled lumberjack at a piñata party.
I'm sure you intend this to highlight the alternative reading of the article, but just being frank and no offense, I actually don't see the difference. Most of the things you highlighted are things I explained why they are implicitly actually legitimizing Musk and his actions, some seem random, and none of them contradicts my theory.
But yes, there's are competing ways to interpret this. That's why I call it a "fluff piece" rather than a outright authoritarian sycophancy.
here's a secret, the insanity is the whole point. it's a beserker, reset, on a federal level, break, burn, and wreck everything they can lay their hands on, make it unusable unworkable and irretrievably broken. that's elon musks's job, that's trump's entire cabinet's job. that's it.
I don't think anyone really doubts that. entire 4000+ word think pieces decrying why "move fast, break things" doesn't work in govt are being written alongside hours+ long YouTube essays describing project 2025 goals to dismantle the state. you're not sharing a secret, you're describing what we see with our own eyes... well, I guess maybe apolitical brainwashed normies aren't aware.
but breaking shit isn't the actual GOAL, imo, at least not the whole goal. it's a methodology, a strategy perfected in silicon valley boardrooms unleashed into the realm of politics. it will merely pave the way for other goals down the road.
heritage foundation freaks might be content with dissolving government, but Thiel and Musk and others like them have much longer term plans than that. we need to focus on that while yes, simultaneously spreading the truth of what's happening to the normies.
well, I guess maybe apolitical brainwashed normies aren’t aware.
A.K.A. the majority of people.
And much of it are regulators that regulate HIS businesses. Of course he wants to break them.
Justify your job to a teenager in one sentence
We should pull Musk aside and fix his “glitch”
Musk has big Lumbergh energy.
Nah lumbergh had an air of competency that musk conspicuously lacks
At least Lumberge wore a tie. Musk looks like one of the kids who claims to love punk rock but inly listens to one Green Day album.
He did? I don't remember him doing anything besides walking around acting like a big shot without actually doing anything. Kinda like this asshole.
I deal with the god damn customers. I have people skills. Can't you understand that?
What exactly do you do?
Hardly. Musk is asking for TPS reports, not the other way around.
Get this man a promotion!
It’s not like they are going to read it. They just learned from the last round of mass-firings that they will get sued if they lie about firing people for performance reasons. Now they will have plausible deniability when lying about firing people for performance reasons.
“The complaint filed late Wednesday says the employees were sent standardized notices of termination, drafted by OPM, that falsely stated that the terminations were for performance reasons.“ - https://apnews.com/article/federal-employees-firing-lawsuit-trump-probation-unions-4a9384c21e408df85ca17dfac5b9dc93
I can't Beleive the Americans just let a foreigner into all their most sensitive systems....
that he's a foreign-born citizen matters so much less than he's an incompetent ketamine addicted billionaire narcissist. but I get it, something something right wing hypocrisy.
Those ridiculous shades are actually real? I thought someone had photoshopped them on in the first picture I saw of him wearing them.
#douchebag