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Summary

Elon Musk accused 60 Minutes of deception, saying its staff “deserve a long prison sentence” after the show aired an interview with ex-USAID administrator Andrew Natsios, who refuted claims of fraud in the agency.

Musk has previously criticized 60 Minutes for allegedly deceptive editing. However, Mediaite’s Colby Hall reviewed the released footage and defended CBS, stating it followed standard journalistic practices.

Meanwhile, JD Vance condemned European speech laws but distanced himself from Musk’s stance.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If Musk was born poor he would have been a school shooter.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Isn't there more gun control in South Africa?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Nah, South Africa is super capital L Libertarian, hence why it sucks so hard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

But how did they got rid of Elon?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I’m not sure I understand the question. Did I miss some kind of official denouncement of him from their government?

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 5 days ago

Free Speech Absolutists when people disagree with them be like...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He deserves a seat in a gas chamber for all the shit he's pulling now

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

Projection!

[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is how these people think. If you even dare disagree or ask questions, you deserve the nuclear option.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Spoken like a little man with a tiny mustache.

[–] [email protected] 113 points 5 days ago (5 children)

These guys are the alpha males right? Trump and Musk are alpha? All I ever see is them complain about people hurting their feelings.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

The thing about being an Alpha Male is that if you think you are one, you most definitely aren't.

When I was younger and in the Rick and Morty fandom it's something I noted quick, so many losers saying "I'M LITERALLY RICK!11 HE'S SO COOL AND AWESOME AND NON-CONFORMING!111" and they'd fucking idiots with the most basic bitch ass taste imaginable...

I realized it was a rule that "If you think you're Rick, it means you're Jerry."

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago

Alpha... as in, needed more time in development. They're unfinished.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Read thru the lines, you can see a lot of small dick energy there. Especially musk, what he’s saying about 60min makes me feel he is literally trying to be low resolution copy of Trump. A small sized teen boy is mimicking the senior big bully and scare rest of his class. It’s incredible how Americans make these psychologically undeveloped boys rich and in charge.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have you ever met the soy boy ass-bitches that worship him and tate. Lol they are always edgy weaklings.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I see their "fuck your feelings" bumper stickers and think, man you worship a freak who shatters at the slightest criticism

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

And if you tell them that, they'll throw a tantrum.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Further proving billionaires shouldn't exist

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Step 1: Seize all assets above 0.99 billion

Step 2: No more billionaires

(Now you got a bunch of money to redistribute)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

No you don't, because their wealth was immediately returned to the people who made it in the form of converting all industries into co-ops!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Afrikaans Himler pipes up. News at '11.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

You can't spell lonely without Elon. What an absolute fucking tool.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 days ago (1 children)

By repeatedly calling for arrests he’s trying to normalise this rhetoric as part of his position.

Keep reminding everyone he’s an unelected civilian with Trump on a very short leash calling for arrests of private citizens. This is never normal and is just as reprehensible the 100th time as the first time.

Keep calling it out.

And keep asking elected officials especially republicans, who seem up for sale to the highest bidder, how much you have to pay to get musk imprisoned with a long prison sentence, because we’re all willing to chip in, and we will even let them seize and keep his assets too if it removes his face and voice from every story on every feed

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

What a disgrace.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 5 days ago

"Free speech absolutist"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just a random note:

The word doge, in Italian, is very similar to Duce.

Duce means leader and was a sort of nickname for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

Doge, means ruler. As in overlord.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Duce was lynched when the Italians had enough of him.

Corpse hung up in Milan for the all public to come and see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Was it a Musk or Trump guy (effigy) they hung up from the same lamppost recently?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 days ago

Sounds like Putin talk. He wants to Nelvany the 60 Minutes staff

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why? Because FREEZED PEACH?

I thought fElon and his dumbass bootlickers were all about the freezed peach maximalism?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Free Speech™ is when you can spout racist and ignorant comments without repurcussion at the top of your lungs, literally or metaphorically online.

Disagreeing with Elon though, that isn't Free Speech™, that's treachery and evil and small minded bigotry.

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