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The Secret Service has launched a probe into an X post by Elon Musk in which he tweeted that “no one is even trying” to kill Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.

The tech billionaire deleted the post on his X platform and passed it off as a “joke.” However, the White House did not find it funny and instead called it “irresponsible.”

“Violence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about,” the White House said in a statement. Now the Secret Service is involved.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I still don't understand how anyone here (or on the internet in general, for that matter) is still asking "Is Elon stupid? Is he a moron?" in response to stuff like this.

Elon's a jackass, but he clearly knows what he's doing with this. He's inciting political violence and then acting like it was an edgy joke as a way to give himself probable deniability. Dude's an asshole, but he's not literally brain dead.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I'd never heard of this before! Interesting, thanks.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

You're so nice about it. Let's be real. He's a Narcissistic predator with too many means to destroy humanity itself and his motivation to do exactly that is transparent, claimed even.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wish I too could know if I've ever been probed by the secret service or some other government agency. I've made some risky jokes on reddit before.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I know how you can tell if you've been probed by aliens: you wake up butthurt. Trump gets abducted pretty much every night.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

All cool people get on a list one way or another

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Where’s all that left wing rhetoric inciting violence?

What a giant pussy Trump and Vance are.

Talk about leopards eating your face. This is the leopard eating its own face. This is the violent rhetoric you dumbass motherfuckers.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Eat the rich! Time for the guillotines.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Here.

I hope they don't miss next time.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Same. People who say "you can never condone assassination attempts" are idiots. We make movies about people who tried to kill future dictators.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Imagine looking at Dollar Tree Hitler and not thinking that the world would be better without him. I’m not “condoning” violence, but I fucking get it.

“We tried to kill Hitler” is basically it’s own genre; let’s not act like those actions don’t have merit on the eyes of a larger population than many people think.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Musk is a proven weirdo nutcase. What a collection of weird crazies - Elon, RFK Jr, JD Vance and the orange felon, along with little "Moses", Johnson and the entire House "freedom" caucus.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I sort of feel like the CIA should already have a file on him filed to the brim with juicy nuggets they haven't really been able to act on until now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

No doubt various TLAs have compiled dossiers on various very important people. It would be irresponsible of them not to. People who have so much power and access are intrinsic security threats, and that's no secret to the spy agencies.

Of course they might frame it differently. They might say that they compile information so that they can make sure that the powerful person doesn't get blackmailed, for example. It's easy to try to phrase things in a way that suggests you're protecting them, when the actual theoretical goal is protecting us from what they could do if things went sideways.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You're talking about the NSA. The CIA totally doesn't do that.

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

Sure, cia, sure

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong with his wrist?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

too much circlejerking with his neonazi buddies

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That should go well, since the Secret Service are renowned for having a good sense of humour about this sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

OTOH they did delete all those Jan 06 text messages so I no longer regard them as objective in the performance of their duties.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

At the end of the day, they're still cops.

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