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RE: Elon Musk
November 18, 2024 at 12:25 pm
(November 16, 2024 at 2:55 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: To apply for a job at Elon Musk’s DOGE, you’ll need to pay Elon first
Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (which he runs with Vivek Ramaswamy) put out the call Thursday for “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting.” As appealing as that job might sound (oh, it’s seemingly unpaid also), the potential conflict came in the instructions about how to apply.
Potential applicants are being instructed to send their resumes to the DOGE account on X via direct message. Under Musk’s changes to that platform, however, only premium subscribers are able to send DMs to the DOGE account. Those run from $8 to $16 per month.
Put another way: To even be considered for a role in the department (and the site said only the top 1% of resumes will be reviewed by Musk and Ramaswamy), applicants will have to make a financial contribution to one of Musk’s businesses.
https://fortune.com/2024/11/16/elon-musk...tion-cost/
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RE: Elon Musk
November 18, 2024 at 2:22 pm
I guess he still had a thing or two to learn about the art from Trump.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 25, 2024 at 8:31 am
Hmm, he should protest against the Chinese regime first.
Quote:Elon Musk Declares Britain A “Tyrannical Police State”
Elon Musk fired the latest shots in his war with the British government over the weekend, branding the U.K. a “tyrannical police state,” boosting a petition calling for a fresh general election, and sharing a documentary by a jailed far-right activist to his millions of X followers.
In his latest attack, Musk responded to a post about a viral online petition calling for an immediate general election in the U.K., which only went to the polls in July and returned Labour in a landslide.
https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-mus...ice-state/
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RE: Elon Musk
November 25, 2024 at 11:37 pm
The U.K. has issues with free speech. Being highly multicultural, they have chosen peace over freedom of speech. That is their choice to make, not Elon's. Their electorate will deal with their own laws.
Elon appears to promote white nationalism now. I am happy I got rid of all my Tesla stock.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 26, 2024 at 1:48 am
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Seems like Leon could use some of that austerity on himself.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 26, 2024 at 4:09 am
^Fat billionaires have no business touting an austerity agenda.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 26, 2024 at 8:37 am
I'm sure Leon and Dipstick will tighten their belts.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 26, 2024 at 3:21 pm
(November 25, 2024 at 11:37 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: The U.K. has issues with free speech. Being highly multicultural, they have chosen peace over freedom of speech. That is their choice to make, not Elon's. Their electorate will deal with their own laws.
Elon appears to promote white nationalism now. I am happy I got rid of all my Tesla stock.
There's a difference between freedom of speech and freedom to denigrate. The US goes so far as to allow the latter, most countries don't.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 26, 2024 at 3:42 pm
(November 26, 2024 at 3:21 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: (November 25, 2024 at 11:37 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: The U.K. has issues with free speech. Being highly multicultural, they have chosen peace over freedom of speech. That is their choice to make, not Elon's. Their electorate will deal with their own laws.
Elon appears to promote white nationalism now. I am happy I got rid of all my Tesla stock.
There's a difference between freedom of speech and freedom to denigrate. The US goes so far as to allow the latter, most countries don't.
That's why it's called freedom of speech, not freedom of speech that we approve of. If someone can't handle any criticism, they need to grow up. Or move to the UK.
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RE: Elon Musk
November 26, 2024 at 5:49 pm
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(November 26, 2024 at 3:42 pm)MR. Macabre 666 Wrote: (November 26, 2024 at 3:21 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote: There's a difference between freedom of speech and freedom to denigrate. The US goes so far as to allow the latter, most countries don't.
That's why it's called freedom of speech, not freedom of speech that we approve of. If someone can't handle any criticism, they need to grow up. Or move to the UK.
Criticism and denigration are two very different things. Racists like to think they’re the same, though.
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Edit: Inextricably linked to free speech is freedom of the press. The UK is rated 23rd in the world, while the US clocks in at 55th place. Cool, huh?
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