The Secret Service has launched a probe into an X post by Elon Musk in which he tweeted that “no one is even trying” to kill Kamala Harris or Joe Biden.

The tech billionaire deleted the post on his X platform and passed it off as a “joke.” However, the White House did not find it funny and instead called it “irresponsible.”

“Violence should only be condemned, never encouraged or joked about,” the White House said in a statement. Now the Secret Service is involved.

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    1 month ago

    You don’t have to be smart to incite political violence. You’re talking about two different things here.

    The man is stupid.

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      1 month ago

      You’re talking about two different things here.

      I’m really not. This very thread is full of comments acting like Elon is a moron for making his stupid “joke”, literally playing into his hand. As @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world said, he’s doing the “turbulent priest” thing.

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        1 month ago

        There is a huge difference between intelligence and base cunning.

        Do you think it takes a brilliant mind to come up with that basic-ass mob bullshit? Trump does the same thing. And we have professors on record saying he was the stupidest person they have ever taught (or possibly encountered? Can’t remember the exact wording).

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          Do you think it takes a brilliant mind to come up with that basic-ass mob bullshit?

          I feel like you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying in, like, an extreme way.

          I’m absolutely not saying that Elon is some kind of mastermind. But there are people who legitimately are buying his bullshit. I’m explicitly pointing out that it is bullshit, and that the dude did not “just make a dumb joke without realizing the implications”.

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            1 month ago

            Almost every time I type “reboot” into my terminal I have to restrain myself from saying it out loud like in the TV show.