Saturday, February 08, 2025

Only the best (outright racist) people

So, as this Reuters story tells us, of Elon Musk's kiddie team of "DOGE" pretend department of cost cutters and ideology enforcers:

*    one had a X account re-post Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate content;

*   one was sacked for leaking a company's proprietary information;

*   one resigned after outright racist content was posted on his X account.

The last example has had more detail supplied in other media, such as this BBC story:

The account connected to Mr Elez - first reported by the Wall Street Journal - posted a variety of inflammatory comments that were verified by the BBC as authentic.

"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," read one post from the pseudonymous account in July.

Another post, in September, said: "You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity."

"Normalize Indian hate," another post that month said.

All of the posts have since been deleted.

JD Vance, with Indian wife, has said people shouldn't be mean to him.  And Elon deals with it by having a X poll of his MAGA app:

On Friday, President Donald Trump, when asked about Mr Elez's resignation from Doge and Vance's support for the employee, said he didn't know about "that particular thing", but agreed with the vice-president on the matter.

Writing on X, Vance said that while he disagreed "with some of Elez's posts... I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life".

Earlier in the day, Musk posted a poll on X inviting users to say whether the staff member should be brought back.

At least 78% voted in favour of his return out of hundreds of thousands who participated, according to results displayed underneath.

What an appalling bunch of people.  

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

They are not pretend cutters. They are slashing away at the dumb left patronage network. Very energetic and quick off the blocks. You need young people on the team.

Anonymous said...

That’s just despicable that you think kids should lose their jobs for online shit posting. Good lord those days should be over. This was an act of pointless vindictiveness that should be overturned. It’s way over the top in terms of the penalty.

Not Trampis said...

do not believe Musk is smart. his attack on USAId was because of someone he heard on joe rogan.
The man cannot determine between lies and fact so he spreads lies across the world and he hurts the USA in this instance because he ddoe not have a clue about soft power and does not understand corporate knowledge

Anonymous said...

USAID is a terrorist outfit. Of course it has to go.

Anonymous said...

In a great triumph against you pro genocide thieves and taxeaters JD Vance made sure the kid was rehired.