Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk squabbled during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, sources told the New York Times. Duffy…

  • @[email protected]
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    255 minutes ago

    Sean Duffy deserves a medal for stopping Musk’s reckless circus act mid-flight—literally lifesaving.

    🐱

  • TheProtagonist
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    Does Musk have any other concept of this world besides firing people?

    • @SocialMediaRefugee
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      As F Scott Fitzgerald said in “The Great Gatsby”

      “They were careless people…They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

    • Doug Holland
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      “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.” —Elon Musk

      • @BetaBlake
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        Yeah a sociopath would think that

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      Typical corporate “cut to profitability” attitude coupled with extreme stupidity when he doesn’t understand what he’s looking at, so he says “that looks stupid” and cuts it. Doesn’t want to take any time to understand because cuts are easy, learning why things might be necessary even if you don’t like them at face value requires effort and nuance. Something conservatives aren’t interested in.

      • @jj4211
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        See his own company when he canned the entire charging team…

      • @SocialMediaRefugee
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        You can get a sense of the true intelligence of a person if, when presented with something unfamiliar or that doesn’t interest them, they dismiss it as “stupid and worthless”.

    • @[email protected]
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      38 hours ago

      Does Musk have any other concept of this world besides firing people?

      FTFY. Dude is constantly in a K-hole

  • @[email protected]
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    6410 hours ago

    I’m always weary of “anonymous sources” reporting and palace intrigue.

    The interchange concluded with President Donald Trump telling Duffy that he needed to hire M.I.T. graduates as air traffic controllers, saying they need to be “geniuses,” the report said.

    Nevermind, this 100% happened.

    • @halcyoncmdr
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      See anonymous sources didn’t used to be an issue. It was standard for actual journalists and respected publications to require multiple independent sources when they weren’t able to quote and name those sources. They would verify the information before reporting it.

      That changed for a few reasons. One was propaganda becoming the reason for some organizations to exist at all. One was competition with small startups that would skip those ethical guidelines to scoop stories first, or without any verification. And of course in the mad dash to be first online and get those precious advertising revenue clicks.

      Anonymous sources weren’t an issue because the actual journalist already did the due diligence to verify their reporting. That no longer can be trusted, so neither can those reports.

        • @bitMasque
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          Any harm coming to the child or other human shield is on the shitbag using them in the first place.

        • @DarkSpectrum
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          I personally don’t think it is acceptable for someone to encourage others to kill a child online. It’s cowardly and rank. Go speak your wisdom to your own child or niece or nephew and think about whether you would sacrifice them so easily. You disgust me. The world you get as a result of actions like this is not worth having. You deserve everything you as an individual are getting, I have no doubt.

    • @MuskyMelon
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      None of the Secret Service are patriots. None.

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        Musk doesn’t have Secret Service protection. He doesn’t technically have the title of President.

        He does have a private security detail that’s been deputized by the US Marshalls.

  • Lit
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    Should just fire and ground all planes until further notice, Tell the press and put notices at airport that planes are grounded due to Elon Musk DOGE measures.

  • @Sludgehammer
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    At least there are still some adults in the government.

    • @[email protected]
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      810 hours ago

      a maga cult ‘yes man’ who could still see that planes are affected by gravity is not one of them.

      and where the fuck are they gonna find ‘genius’ MIT grads to work at atc? during this shitshow?

      • @[email protected]
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        58 hours ago

        Exactly. Any genius is going to be staying the hell away from US government work for the foreseeable future.