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Good to know how he jokes in person to his group.

by openair18 2y ago

brodouevencode 2y ago
This reads more like tin foil hat than a joke.
- jprd 2y ago
  With his platform, influence and money - this is just dangerous. Forget how morally wrong it is to joke like that in private, to then think that THE ENTIRE WORLD would find it funny and it would not incite additional violence - especially in this climate? This dude also offered to impregnate Taylor Swift a few days ago. We can't keep venerating this guy. He is either in desperate need of intervention/mental health assistance, or a clear and present danger to democracy - or probably both. I admire some of his achievements, but he isn't Tony Stark. Stark found his conscience.
  - solardev 2y ago
    It feels to me like he's envious of Trump's ability to say and do anything, social norms and morality be damned. They both want a world where those at the top can do whatever they want and the little people don't matter because big daddy knows better... democracy just gets in the way.
    - xenospn 2y ago
      They're nearly there.
  - brodouevencode 2y ago
    There is a chance that 1) he actually believes it and removed it because someone pointed out how bad the optics are for it or 2) it was a joke and was removed for the same reason. Here's my point: at least with characters like Musk and Trump you know where you stand. Zuck recently only admitted to the shady actions during the last election cycle, Jack was proven to have been shadow-banning when Elon took over. IMO none of them are exemplars of character and righteousness, one group is just much more covert about it than the other.
  - sickofparadox 2y ago
    If a guy making odious jokes on his large social media account is enough to constitute a "danger to democracy" why are we even bothering with such a rotten structure? If the institutions of the US are in such a condition, when does someone who believe that decide it's time to give up the ghost?
    - xenospn 2y ago
      The structure is rotten BECAUSE him and trump and all of these other clowns are making these "jokes" that aren't really "jokes" because he has to make excuses after making them. It didn't start with him. It's trump "asking a question about Obama's birth certificate" and Fox News "just asking questions/just making innocent jokes" but repeating them an infinite number of times. It's death by a thousand cuts.
      - brodouevencode 2y ago
        The rhetoric is just as bad on the other side.
        xenospn 2y ago
        What rhetoric? Simply explaining what they’re doing?
    - deleted 2y ago
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    - MrMan 2y ago
      [dead]
    - jfengel 2y ago
      This isn't an "odious joke". This is a call for violence. Nobody believes it's a question, any more than we believe that Henry II was merely inquiring why no one would rid him of that turbulent priest. It likely doesn't rise to the level of a criminal act. But it's the kind of thing that earns one a stern talking to from the Secret Service. And if somebody actually does take him up on it, there may yet be charges.

Good to know how he jokes in person to his group.

brodouevencode 2y ago

This reads more like tin foil hat than a joke.

jprd 2y ago
With his platform, influence and money - this is just dangerous. Forget how morally wrong it is to joke like that in private, to then think that THE ENTIRE WORLD would find it funny and it would not incite additional violence - especially in this climate? This dude also offered to impregnate Taylor Swift a few days ago. We can't keep venerating this guy. He is either in desperate need of intervention/mental health assistance, or a clear and present danger to democracy - or probably both. I admire some of his achievements, but he isn't Tony Stark. Stark found his conscience.
- solardev 2y ago
  It feels to me like he's envious of Trump's ability to say and do anything, social norms and morality be damned. They both want a world where those at the top can do whatever they want and the little people don't matter because big daddy knows better... democracy just gets in the way.
  - xenospn 2y ago
    They're nearly there.
- brodouevencode 2y ago
  There is a chance that 1) he actually believes it and removed it because someone pointed out how bad the optics are for it or 2) it was a joke and was removed for the same reason. Here's my point: at least with characters like Musk and Trump you know where you stand. Zuck recently only admitted to the shady actions during the last election cycle, Jack was proven to have been shadow-banning when Elon took over. IMO none of them are exemplars of character and righteousness, one group is just much more covert about it than the other.
- sickofparadox 2y ago
  If a guy making odious jokes on his large social media account is enough to constitute a "danger to democracy" why are we even bothering with such a rotten structure? If the institutions of the US are in such a condition, when does someone who believe that decide it's time to give up the ghost?
  - xenospn 2y ago
    The structure is rotten BECAUSE him and trump and all of these other clowns are making these "jokes" that aren't really "jokes" because he has to make excuses after making them. It didn't start with him. It's trump "asking a question about Obama's birth certificate" and Fox News "just asking questions/just making innocent jokes" but repeating them an infinite number of times. It's death by a thousand cuts.
    - brodouevencode 2y ago
      The rhetoric is just as bad on the other side.
      - xenospn 2y ago
        What rhetoric? Simply explaining what they’re doing?
  - deleted 2y ago
    [deleted]
  - MrMan 2y ago
    [dead]
  - jfengel 2y ago
    This isn't an "odious joke". This is a call for violence. Nobody believes it's a question, any more than we believe that Henry II was merely inquiring why no one would rid him of that turbulent priest. It likely doesn't rise to the level of a criminal act. But it's the kind of thing that earns one a stern talking to from the Secret Service. And if somebody actually does take him up on it, there may yet be charges.