Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk squabbled during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, sources told the New York Times. Duffy…

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk squabbled during a cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, sources told the New York Times. Duffy…

  • Lit@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Should just fire and ground all planes until further notice, Tell the press that planes are grounded due to Elon Musk.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Typical corporate “cut to profitability” attitude coupled with extreme stupidity when he doesn’t understand what he’s looking at, so he says “that looks stupid” and cuts it. Doesn’t want to take any time to understand because cuts are easy, learning why things might be necessary even if you don’t like them at face value requires effort and nuance. Something conservatives aren’t interested in.

    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      As F Scott Fitzgerald said in “The Great Gatsby”

      “They were careless people…They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I’m always weary of “anonymous sources” reporting and palace intrigue.

    The interchange concluded with President Donald Trump telling Duffy that he needed to hire M.I.T. graduates as air traffic controllers, saying they need to be “geniuses,” the report said.

    Nevermind, this 100% happened.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      See anonymous sources didn’t used to be an issue. It was standard for actual journalists and respected publications to require multiple independent sources when they weren’t able to quote and name those sources. They would verify the information before reporting it.

      That changed for a few reasons. One was propaganda becoming the reason for some organizations to exist at all. One was competition with small startups that would skip those ethical guidelines to scoop stories first, or without any verification. And of course in the mad dash to be first online and get those precious advertising revenue clicks.

      Anonymous sources weren’t an issue because the actual journalist already did the due diligence to verify their reporting. That no longer can be trusted, so neither can those reports.

      • AfricanExpansionist@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        I also want to emphasize that whoever takes up this responsibility must not be deterred by his little human shield. It’s fair collateral damage

        • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I personally don’t think it is acceptable for someone to encourage others to kill a child online. It’s cowardly and rank. Go speak your wisdom to your own child or niece or nephew and think about whether you would sacrifice them so easily. You disgust me. The world you get as a result of actions like this is not worth having. You deserve everything you as an individual are getting, I have no doubt.

            • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              Dont get me wrong, Musk is a piece of shit, but as far as I’m aware, he has not personally killed any children nor threatened to do so. He may have indirectly killed children, by gutting USAID as one example, but that puts him into a category full of many other people, including you who sought to indirectly harm a child like a coward behind a screen by encouraging a stranger to do it.

        • bitMasque@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Any harm coming to the child or other human shield is on the shitbag using them in the first place.

      • frezik@midwest.social
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        2 months ago

        Musk doesn’t have Secret Service protection. He doesn’t technically have the title of President.

        He does have a private security detail that’s been deputized by the US Marshalls.