Lol ‘service’. Any piece like this that credulously frames Musk’s successful (and continuing) data theft, job-gutting and self enrichment as an attempt at cost-cutting is carrying water for the fascists and should be shunned. It’s been clear what he's doing for months. This is willful propaganda. - ThreadSky

alexwinter.com • 9 days ago

Lol ‘service’. Any piece like this that credulously frames Musk’s successful (and continuing) data theft, job-gutting and self enrichment as an attempt at cost-cutting is carrying water for the fascists and should be shunned. It’s been clear what he's doing for months. This is willful propaganda.

Reposted from The Atlantic

“Musk came to Washington all Cybertrucks and chain saws, ready to destroy the bureaucracy,” write Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer. But as he winds down his service, “he has found himself isolated within the upper reaches of the Trump administration”: https://theatln.tc/ckySMUOS

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anthonygeorgeff.bsky.social•9 days ago

The Atlantic doing its small step to the left to do a long step to the right.

shadumura.bsky.social•8 days ago

After all, you need a good start to make a leap of [bad] faith.

anthonygeorgeff.bsky.social•8 days ago

Like Kierkegaard said ‘anything said before ‘however’, is bullshit’

enemywithin097.bsky.social•9 days ago

Continue the #TeslaTakedown

davidscall.bsky.social•9 days ago

And yet the piece stays up, the authors ignore any and all criticism pointing out the obvious (Musk was in the Oval yesterday, when this was published), the editors ignore it as well, and then they all have brunch

lukemeister.bsky.social•9 days ago

"We thank you for your self-service"

dawnmica.bsky.social•8 days ago

Also, he has not gone anywhere. He's still very much present behind the scenes, just keeping a low profile because he is DESPISED by most of the public. He is literally making deals with the South African government RIGHT NOW! Still using his proximity to Trump to enrich himself!

johnnylinsky.bsky.social•9 days ago

These articles always have me doing a ctrl-F for "USAID" and "HIV" and "Bill Gates" and "starving children" and not finding much more than a sigh about the wacky D.C. Follies of trying to cut the budget.

anthony60202.bsky.social•8 days ago

Both of these “journalists” have been working for the fascists their entire careers.

dantlux.bsky.social•8 days ago

It's also clear he's not remotely done. He realized he was unpopular AF and is now merely taking a more shadowy and less spotlight role. Don't be fooled!

somewhatcyclops.bsky.social•9 days ago

Another article on the pile of 'how journalism failed democracy.'

ericconk.bsky.social•8 days ago

Calling it service is wild. Musk didn’t show up to serve, he showed up to gut. Strip it of the tech gloss and you’ve got a billionaire playing demolition derby with public trust. Let’s not confuse sabotage with sacrifice.

wonky-1138.bsky.social•9 days ago

Shamelessness

jpober.bsky.social•8 days ago

This describes 99% of Atlantic pieces not written by Adam Serwer

berniemask.bsky.social•8 days ago

Yeah, he’s just a thief working on a massive scale

huggykitty.bsky.social•8 days ago

One official said (and I'm paraphrasing AKA translating) he is annoying, but that word is actually not strong enough for what he is, we need a word like annoying but on steroids times 100.🐈‍⬛

quartzann.bsky.social•9 days ago

Absolutely correct! Shunning is too good for him.

ken-kenny-kenneth.bsky.social•8 days ago

What service involves having the president peddle your satellite internet to other countries???

richardmarxist.bsky.social•9 days ago

Dude was literally in the oval office yesterday and got Trump to show the Prez of SA a video about “white genocide” that could have come from Stormfront. Jesus, can we have journalists who aren’t gullible rubes?

blackiris77.bsky.social•9 days ago

"If he steps back from politics, people will like him again. "

susanjohns1820.bsky.social•9 days ago

What Leon has done ia Not "service" to anyone but himself & his interests. Shameful that our elected officials stood silent & allowed him to decimate civil service for generations to come. Press: call it what it is.

zombiestomp43.bsky.social•9 days ago

What the fuck is this headline? Fall and decline mean the same thing. Who wrote that?

dantlux.bsky.social•8 days ago

Someone trying to do a Gibbon:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire

garethnewnham.bsky.social•8 days ago

Funny how his contracts were never touched and all the slashing and burning happened at departments that were investigating his companies. Sure it's just a coincidence.

danielthesuperfan.bsky.social•9 days ago

can you say its the 'fall' when he is still the richest person in the world?

amylynnherman.bsky.social•8 days ago

Based on Friday's Supreme Court ruling, I am here to advocate for class action lawsuits against Elon Musk, a private citizen, for grafting our data. It is in violation of the 4th Amendment and 1974 Privacy Act. Call lawyers.

jonsurgi.bsky.social•9 days ago

This is a puff piece where *anonymous sources* in the Trump Administration try and paint themselves in a better light. I'm surprised that Marco Rubio didn't get a co-write.

vegasgello.bsky.social•8 days ago

An insight from the campaign now a distinct possibility...

ebharchetype.bsky.social•8 days ago

I use The Atlantic a lot for school research, so I keep a subscription; I have also reached a point at which I have to gaslight myself into believing it all goes to pay Adam Serwer.

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