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Elon Musk reportedly mocked federal employees he fired by privately reacting to their hardships with “laugh-crying emojis,” according to Rolling Stone.

Sources say Musk finds amusement in stories of lives disrupted by his mass dismissals.

Ben Vizzachero, a fired wildlife biologist, confronted Musk at Trump’s congressional address and asked, “Am I waste?” Musk responded with a line from the 1999 movie Office Space: “What would you say you do here?”

Even Trump officials express frustration, calling Musk “irritating” and difficult to work with.

  • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    21 days ago

    I think Musk is a necessary catalyst for any resistance movement. He is so evil, unlikable, unhinged and too powerful; a wet dream for any author who writes dystopian novels.

    If he did not exist I would fear that the nascent American protest movement would just evaporate like before. But here, literally one can just point to this bastard instead of arguing politics, and it generates waves of hate.

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      21 days ago

      My mom is a lifetime Republicsn who up until last year was on a pure reactionary right feed on Facebook. She’s basically turned 180° in just the last few months, and while it started with her immediate gut-level dislike for Vance, it was driven home by her imnediate, gut-level dislike for Musk. It’s now expanded out to criticizing (and laughing at) Trump and the rest of the would-be oligarchs, and she’s moved from Facebook to Reddit and is already trying to decide which Democrats she’s going to vote for.

      And while it actually started with Vance, it was almost entirely Musk (or as she referred to him for quite a while - “What’s his name - the asshole co-president”) who accomplished the most to drive her away from the party she’d supported her entire life.

      And I assume she’s far from alone.

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        21 days ago

        Have you thanked JD Vance even once for nudging your mum onto a slightly more sane trajectory?

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          It’s tempting - it would be greatvto be able to say something like, “I just want to thank you for being such an insufferable asshole that you were the catalyst that started the process that ended with my mom becoming a Democrat.”

          But I assume it would be lost on him. Like both Trump and Musk, I assume he’s determinedly oblivious to the fact that he’s an asshole

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        21 days ago

        She’ll be permanently banned from Reddit for criticizing Musk. Trust me. They’re cleaning house. Because they’re cunts, and Spez is a little bitch.