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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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[-] CareHare@sh.itjust.works 103 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 59 points 1 month 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 9 points 1 month ago

Why did you say it's commonly known?

[-] JackiesFridge@lemmy.world 94 points 1 month ago

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

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

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 27 points 1 month ago

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 34 points 1 month ago

We do.

Nationalize SpaceX.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

Goldschläger for the win.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

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 2 points 1 month ago

Hmm... pretty watertight. Like your butthole.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It better be with all that gold coming out of it

[-] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 7 points 1 month ago

Maybe arrest him for encouraging assassination of the president?

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 month ago

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 1 month ago

The company formerly known as Twitter is also a private company

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

My bad.

But those damn Tesla shareholders...

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 49 points 1 month ago

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 14 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Plum@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago

Family car

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

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 1 month ago

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Replace 'major government contractor' with Elon Musk.

It is a shit headline though.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

....The FBI is flagged as Elon Musk? When did that happen?

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

The FBI is flagged (notified) as Elon Musk does something stupid.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

This title hurts my brain.

[-] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month 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 10 points 1 month 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 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month 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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