Look, sometimes you make mistakes. Maybe you send an email to the wrong person. Maybe you accidentally buy the wrong kind of pasta sauce at the grocery store. Maybe you accidentally dismantle critical global health infrastructure. These things happen! At least, that’s what Elon Musk wants us to believe.

At yesterday’s first official Musk/Trump administration cabinet meeting, Elon decided to share a cute little anecdote about his DOGE team’s approach to governing. Just a fun little story about how they “accidentally canceled” Ebola prevention efforts. What a knee slapper!

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The only problem is that almost everything here is nonsense… well, except for the part about canceling the program on Ebola prevention. Musk absolutely did that. And some other terrible stuff as well. But the fixing the mistake part? That doesn’t appear to have actually happened. Oopsie!

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    4 days ago

    I rewatched robocop recently and the satirical ads and newsegments in the movie have nothing on this shit. We are beyond any dystopian satire.

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      10 days ago

      It’s fine if you’re a new startup who doesn’t have any customers yet. It’s terrible if people depend on you for their very lives.

      Musk is a child who thinks the world is his very own startup and can’t understand that fucking up here is effectively murder.

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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        He should be treated as a murderer by the law. Have all his assets confiscated and then be executed. No life sentence for him. Death penalty.

        • Pennomi@lemmy.world
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          I think we have more class than the death penalty. Life imprisonment is perfectly fine for traitors.

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      10 days ago

      Yeah let’s just break 250+ years of laws, treaties, allies, infrastructure, social progress, public works, mail…seriously this guy…

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      It’s fine when you’re building a website. Not when you’re doing anything important like building cars, rockets or running the government.

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    When he said, “I think we all want to prevent Ebola,” I was trying to will the camera to pan and zoom in to RFKs stupid face, but alas, my willpower was not strong enough.

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    Billionaires with bunkers, ignoring climate change, destroying disease defence, disabling farmers economically, ceasing food aid, sowing discord and strife, gathering the means to control the media and avenues of counter organisation.

    It should be obvious. They think they’re super smart. They want lots of people to die so they get to claim the earth.

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    He said “very briefly” which implies its back, but without clarification we’ll never know. In all actuality though, we’ll probably never know about a lot of things in the next 4 and beyond.