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Staffer at Musk's DOGE resigns after racist social media posts exposed (www.cnbc.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by ooli2@lemm.ee to c/usa@midwest.social
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[–] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You’d think that would be a promotion, not a resignation.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

He'll be shifted elsewhere within the fascist dictatorship.

[–] ooli2@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably became the COF in space X

[–] frezik@midwest.social 50 points 2 weeks ago

Headlines on this aren't making it clear. He resigned after a judge limited his access. Racist social media posts are not the reason. That was part of the interview process.

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I wonder if Musk has any posts we should know about.

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You mean the guy on international TV doing the Nazi salute?

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Didn't.you hear? He's autistic. He didn't know any better.*

*don't get me started on the multiple levels of offensive that "defense" hits

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

Some people are wondering if he was born and raised to be a Nazi. There is speculation that the name "Elon" came from the government body of Mars in the book "Project Mars" written by the nazi Werner von Braun.

[–] ooli2@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I heard there are video of him doing a nazi salute

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

given that he uses sock puppet accounts, as horrendous as his main is, can you imagine how horrible the shit he must spew on his sock puppets is?

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are we to believe that Musk (or his hiring team) didn't know about these posts on his own platform?

Or are we to believe that they knew about it and hired the little nazi shit, anyway? Because I'll let you guess which one I believe.

[–] ooli2@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

"anyway"? you mean "because"

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago

Given that he seems to have fired anyone competent at the remains of twitter, potentially not

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

Gonna go be racist on Twitter so I can work at SpaceX

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Nah he fucked up by writing shit about Israel

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 points 2 weeks ago

This is so obvious it doesn't even feel like it deserves a story.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

You mean his bona fides?

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

"This is not some roving band running around doing things."

My ass they're not, ya piece of shit.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Shhhhhhhhocking