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Secret Service Probes Elon Musk’s Prez Biden and VP Harris Killing ‘Joke’
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2024
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I still don't understand how anyone here (or on the internet in general, for that matter) is still asking "Is Elon stupid? Is he a moron?" in response to stuff like this.
Elon's a jackass, but he clearly knows what he's doing with this. He's inciting political violence and then acting like it was an edgy joke as a way to give himself probable deniability. Dude's an asshole, but he's not literally brain dead.
You don't have to be smart to incite political violence. You're talking about two different things here.
The man is stupid.
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.
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).
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".
Almost every time I type "reboot" into my terminal I have to restrain myself from saying it out loud like in the TV show.