Summary

JD Vance called for the rehiring of Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE staffer who resigned after The Wall Street Journal exposed his racist and eugenicist tweets.

Elon Musk polled users on X about reinstating Elez, with 78% supporting his return.

Vance, while disagreeing with Elez’s posts, opposed “rewarding journalists who try to destroy people.”

Elez had access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment system before resigning.

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    15 days ago

    In the same breath, they refer to him as a kid making a mistake, to appeal to us. We’ve all been in somewhat similar situations, making mistakes as kids. And then seconds later, he’s a highly trained professional who is well-equipped to manage poring through Treasury docs and deciding where funding is sent or ceased.

    What is he? Is he a kid or is he an adult? Be consistent. Fuck everything about this.

  • Veedem@lemmy.world
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    “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever,” said Vance, referring to the fact that The Wall Street Journal on Thursday exposed Elez’s connection to an X account that made the inflammatory tweets.

    Destroy people by simply pointing out what those people said lol.

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      And what they said RECENTLY too. They were not dredging up tweets from 40 years ago. If memory serves these tweets were within the year.

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        In September!!!

        The account linked to Elez tweeted in September, “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.”

        The same month, the account tweeted ″‘Normalize Indian hate,’ referring to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley,” the Journal reported.

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    16 days ago

    “Journalists shouldn’t destroy people, that’s our job. We make sure only the right people get destroyed, though, so it’s all good”

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    Vance is a total cuck. Imagine having to tell your wife and your kids that you called for someone to be rehired after he resigned because it was discovered he was saying to hate on Indians…

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    Fuck the racist posts this was the guy mucking about in the treasury systems financial computer code without any safeties. All changes directly to live. He should be black listed for that idiocy alone.

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      ROFL!

      The couch was underaged?

      I have to take a moment to say- I love when people go the extra mile to push what would have been a funny comment into a much better and hysterically funny one.

      It’s like in the show Community, when Pierce got injured, instead of saying: “Call an ambulance!” he said, “Call all the ambulances!”

      Maybe it’s just me, but I notice that stuff and always wonder how in the hell the writers thought to add that extra bit in?

      Well done!

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    I’m generally against holding people to the stupid shit they said as teenagers but the stuff he was saying goes a little beyond typical edgy stupid teenager crap. “I would never marry outside me ethnicity” isn’t a even fringe trying to be funny by being racist type of comment. That’s just someone who is racist through and through. Probably raised by racists as well. Typically kids don’t just fall outta the sky being that racist to begin with. That’s a learned behavior.

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      Also these kids are still in their stupid teenager phase, as proven by being little Nazis sucking up to to Elon Musk.

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    15 days ago

    I hope im alive when the next Wolfenstein comes out! Kill american nazis!

    America died with a whimper! Definitely not as strong as the Ukraine!

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      America died with a whimper!

      Do you get royalties every time you say this or something? You’ve had an account for ~3 days and you’ve already used variations of that phrase at least 8 times. I’m not attacking the sentiment, it just feels forced and isn’t a particularly witty comment worthy of that much repetition.

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        Definitely no royalties! Just stating the obvious. I thought there would be more of a bang, but nope. You dont have to like it. I dont agree with everything I read online, but that is the great thing about our current lives is that we have the ability to disagree. I just hope it stays that way