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The richest man in the world, who also happens to be a U.S. defense contractor, is being criticized on social media on Sunday after questioning why people aren't trying to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump over the weekend was tackled by his own Secret Service after an individual was reportedly spotted hiding on the former president's golf course behind a bush with an AK-47. Authorities say they fired at the man, who was later apprehended and is being questioned.

A graphic designer posted a question, "Why they want to kill Donald Trump?" Elon Musk, who owns the social media company that he renamed from Twitter to "X," posted a controversial statement in response.

"And no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala," Musk wrote with a "thinking face" emoji.

The comment did not go over well.

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[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 159 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This is the most poorly worded title...

[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had to reread it multiple times because it initially seemed like the FBI was being flagged as a "major government contractor"

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

My response initially was no shit its the fucken FBI... wait contracter? Did they fucken privatize them?!

Then I realized the actual meaning.

[–] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

I think the goal was to tell the story in a way that doesn't seem as familiar to point out just how crazy it is that we have become used to these headlines every single day.

Just saying elon musk tweeted a dumb thing is whatever. But keep in mind who he actually is despite... who he is.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

It just needs commas. Having watched the "no child left behind" generation grow up, this is absolutely not out of the ordinary.

[–] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 104 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A graphic designer posted a question, "Why they want to kill Donald Trump?"

That 'graphic designer' is literally Musk's alt account on twitter. It's commonly known.

Edit: I've now read somewhere it's some Indian guy simping for Musk. I honestly don't know what to believe anymore.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 60 points 2 months ago

“Adrian Dittman” Is his well known alt. He also has that alt where he was pretending to be his baby son wanting to go to strip clubs.

But yeah Doge Designer is likely some simp from India.

[–] soloner@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Why did you say it's commonly known?

[–] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 94 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Padme: So they're going to cancel his defense contract, right?

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (4 children)

SpaceX is beating the pants off every other domestic launch provider unfortunately. All because Musk took some fantastic risks with his own money, and they paid off handsomely. And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.

You may have heard about ULA having a wee bit of trouble with some capsule thrusters. They have lost some truly epic amounts of money on that program.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish we had a legal way to force musk out of spacex. I want spacex to succeed, I think it's in our nature as humans to want to explore beyond our own planet. I don't think it should be under private control of fascist billionaires with the interests of building feudalist space colonies

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

We do.

Nationalize SpaceX.

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ooo what if we had a federal administration that covered the national aeronautical and space needs of the country...

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

What are we going to fund them with, our billionaire yacht money? Isn't that communism?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, should have specified “a realistic way to legally…” I think I would shit out actual gold before the Supreme Court voted to nationalize anything, much less spacex

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Goldschläger for the win.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I’m being hung up on all the technicalities. “I think it’s more likely that, in my lifetime, I would randomly shit out a pure Royal Canadian Mint 1 kilo 99.99% gold bar in its entirety before the US Supreme Court would nationalize any company”

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hmm... pretty watertight. Like your butthole.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It better be with all that gold coming out of it

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

This would send shockwaves through the market that it may not recover from. If rich people think their assets can be nationalized for any reason they will panic and bail

[–] krashmo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Good. Contribute to the society that allows you to be successful or gtfo. There's bound to be growing pains associated with that but I don't think that would be worse than what is happening now.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

I only see positive benefits in this comment.

[–] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The assets they have in the United States would not go with them, and they would no longer have access to the US consumer and corporate market. Good luck.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

Maybe arrest him for encouraging assassination of the president?

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the worst part is SpaceX is a private company: no public shareholders to keep Musk in check.

Not like the Tesla or Twitter shareholders are doing much good anyhow.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The company formerly known as Twitter is also a private company

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

My bad.

But those damn Tesla shareholders...

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Defense production act hangs over their head like the sword of Damocles though if they get out of line in actually following through on their contracts.

[–] MethodicalSpark@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Boeing*, not ULA.

Sadly he'll likely be able to assert a first amendment defense, so nothing will happen. One can always hope, though...

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 51 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After reading the article about 24h worth of his tweets, this isn't surprising. No lessons will be learned. I just want him to get run over by one of his full-self-driving cars and go away.

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It just occurred to me to wonder: does he even drive one of his own company's cars?

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Well he doesn't take high speed rail. I know that much.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

It doesn't say if he drives all of them, but according to this he has at least 3-4 Teslas along with several other cars that he really shouldn't be driving. Apparently he uses the Model Y as a "family car."

https://www.financialexpress.com/auto/car-news/elon-musks-car-collection-is-more-than-a-garage-full-of-teslas/3531712/

This article is about his poor decision making skills regarding McLarens specifically.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-spent-1-million-213715650.html?guccounter=1

[–] SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What's insane is that million dollar McLaren was about 0.0004% of his net worth. He could buy 250,000 vehicles that I could never even dream of affording.

We need to eat this motherfucker.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Family car

What family? His partners and children are all done with him.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

At first read, I thought that the Trump campaign had flagged the FBI as a major government contractor and thus part of the Deep State 😄

Also, given the state of Twitter now, this is the part I find hardest to believe:

the comment did not go over well

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Of course, it's not an entirely unreasonable question to ask, and if they were asking it seriously, it could lead to some self-reflection and improvement.

For example, maybe people are trying to assassinate Trump because he's made it clear that he approves of assassination as a political tool, and he's also made it clear that he is a worthless piece of slime. Maybe Harris just isn't quite bad enough to rise to the level of murder to a bunch off morons.

Also Harris hasn't really disappointed anyone. I don't think anyone who plans on voting for her believes she's the second coming of Christ or any bullshit like that.

However Trump is not leading a political movement. He's leading a cult. When you find out your god is just some asshole, you might snap.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

From anyone else, it would almost seem like a rhetorical question. The issue is whether or not he understands that level of thought.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Could it be that it's because Harris isn't a fascist piece of shit and the most pressing threat to democracy in American history? Could it be that Trump is an Un-American dumpster fire, and likely a full fledged asset of Russia and Vladimir Putin? Could it be that he traded nuclear secrets? Could it be that he received $10 million from Egypt's president? Could it be all the rapes? Could it be the belittling of American armed forces? Maybe it was the violent coup attempt, or just the general courtship between Trump and angry uneducated whites?

Durrr, what could be the reason?

Wouldn't it be something if Trump got killed by his own weapon? Like if he had been successful in removing the metal detectors from the mall on January 6th, and somebody had smuggled in a gun and killed him with it.

Trump and his supporters are this country's weird ex-boyfriend that won't stop stalking her and threatening her for attention.

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is this title missing a noun or something!? Very hard to parse...

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Replace 'major government contractor' with Elon Musk.

It is a shit headline though.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

What's the issue? The FBI is clearly asking why Kamala hasn't been assassinated.

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

This title hurts my brain.

[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

I'm GLAD my Taxpayer Dollars are going to someone who Wants to Assassinate the Vice President of the United States INSTEAD of Feeding Starving American Children!

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 2 months ago

Apparently he's trying to play this one off as a joke as well. You know like the "pedo guy" one. Just a funny joke.

High time this dipshit got to the finding out stage of fucking around.

[–] aniki@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago

another story about a bunch of blowhards on twitter doing absolutely nothing

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Hmmm , why might that be? Could it be that she's likable?

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The stupid just keeps going deeper.

[–] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I wonder if someone has tested Elon's security and it just didn't get reported. Maybe he is feeling kinship with trump that way. I honestly wonder if they could keep such a thing out of the press. And would he even try to?

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