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84 points

Good thing it didn’t get out to the internet. That would be embarrassing to keep being reminded of.

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24 points

Even if it did get out to the Internet, though, all you have to do is delete it and it instantly disappears.

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158 points

Elon Musk deletes his stochastic terrorism tweet.

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Won’t someone rid me of this meddlesome priest vice president

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37 points

The best thing that could come from the Harris election is cut ALL Musks government contracts.

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28 points

Seize his companies in the name of national security.

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15 points

If it’s an official action there’s no legal consequences for it.

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1 point

We’ve already got sailors on our warships using Starlink to circumvent restricted internet access.

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277 points

“Well, one lesson I’ve learned is that just because I say something to a group and they laugh doesn’t mean it’s going to be all that hilarious as a post on X,” he wrote Monday, adding later, “Turns out that jokes are WAY less funny if people don’t know the context and the delivery is plain text.”

The owner of Twitter is learning how text-based communication works in realtime before our eyes.

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157 points

“I wAs JoKiNg!”

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30 points

That’s always the lame cover up.

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26 points

If only the Bible said something about this.

Now we need people to read and remember what their book actually says.

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8 points

IDGAF what the bible says

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7 points

Thanks. A handy verse to throw in the face of those who claim to be Christians.

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1 point

Is Elon a Christian?

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65 points
  • lots of negative blowback: “it was a joke!”
  • not that much negative blowback, at least initially: “yeah I meant that”
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39 points

aka Schrodinger’s douchebag.

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You think the Secret Service got the joke?

I wouldn’t be surprised if he got a visit. Any of the rest of us might have for statements like that.

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Any of the rest of us …

I think you have answered your own question.

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45 points

Slash he surrounded himself with people absolutely willing to step on one another to gain power and wealth so of course they’re going to laugh at all of his “jokes”

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6 points

probably one of the lawyers told him to cool it.

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1 point

He’s incredibly paranoid and conspiracy minded. He probably realized after “just asking questions / joking” that “they” might send a few of these guys for him next! 2spooky4him

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7 points

Turns out some things simply aren’t funny. Not posting a thought right when it comes to your head also helps.

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4 points

Lots of regular people know thats its risky to send a sarcastic text

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1 point

Sometimes I’m feeling bold and leave out the /s. You gotta keep it spicy.

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22 points

Lol at “the context”. Bitch, WHAT context would make it any better?

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9 points

I’m sure the yes men he surrounds himself with was “the context”.

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3 points

Being in a room full of nazis would make that “joke” a total thigh-slapper.

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7 points

I can just see him making his “joke” then doing that annoying over the top laugh with all his sycophants grinning along.

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10 points

And being surrounded by yes men. And by right wing nutjobs.

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4 points

At 53 years old

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43 points

It is odd that this man has any government contract, let alone any national security contract with the United States government

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10 points

Indeed. He seems like a dangerous and unstable individual. Shouldn’t he be on a watchlist instead?

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Yeah… spend some time actually interacting with people with clearances. They are people just like any other so you have some humans and some deranged chuds. And everyone in positions of power are either political appointees (elected or otherwise) or ladder climbers who want to suckle on the teat of those appointees.

So when you point out that someone is actively cheering for russia in a conflict with our allies or is openly calling people slurs? You get told that people are allowed to have political opinions and you are the problem. Because YOU are the reasonable person who will drop it. Whereas they will then bitch and moan that someone in IT has “blue hair” and whine until a local politician runs on that and suddenly everyone has very strict dress codes.

Which, in turn, leads to people leaving in droves which just leaves the shitheads and the appeasers.

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I’ve actually had clearances and government contracts. I’ve seen them pulled for much less than what Elmo did here.

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Not for the upper managers though, right? I’ve also had clearances, and I know about some shocking things that some of the government managers did while never so much as being investigated for them.

Contractors are different though.

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