Full tweet:
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.
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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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Turns out a rich person can just buy a social media platform and fuck with elections and stuff.
When you stack SCOTUS they just let you do it.
Everything a rich person does is Correct™ because they’re rich and obviously that means God™ blessed them.
/vomit
In an oligarchy they can, yeah.
Stop using Twitter.
…especially you, Elon
Especially you JOURNALISTS!
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?
Because he wants to spread rumors of conspiracy theories, as that is the only thing that would redeem someone like Trump.
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.
The correct response is for thousands of people to respond on Xitter with, “And no one is even trying to assassinate Musk 🤔”
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?
They canceled my man Kyle Gass for less fuck you Elon!
Seriously, wtf.
He’s implying that he thinks that someone should, but even the literal point he’s making is not true.
It’s exactly this
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
I suspect so as well. But also, a clearly thinking person would pick up on the additional implication.
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.
Biden/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.
no, but it’ll kill your career to joke about the assassination of a former president, because in this country we believe in double standards.
Conservatives 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.
The United States is the truest successor to Rome, just the Roman republic. While others called themselves czar or Kaiser, we completely failed to create a functioning society but failed upwards by dint of knocking everyone else down
The worlds middleman.
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you can wish death on dick cheney, as a treat
The 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.
It has been reported that this has now been deleted. He called it a joke, but damn what a terrible joke.
It wasn’t a joke. That’s his go-to excuse when people generally decide he’s said something atrocious.
It’s also the go to excuse when getting called out when gaslighting someone.
The “It’s just a joke, bro” defense. Classic defense.
‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’
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.
I ditched the day he took over. Maximum nope.
Elon Musk is the joke. It’s just not funny.
Why isn’t anyone even trying to guillotine our billionare megalomaniacs? 🤔
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.
Hate to break it to you E, but the Secret Service does not give a fuck if you were joking.
He’s rich, they might
He’s rich, the Secret Service doesn’t give a flying fuck what he says or does.
