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As the de facto head of the Department of Governmental Efficiency, Musk has deployed this brand of tactical callousness to maximal effect. He has boasted about throwing the United States Agency for International Development into a “woodchipper” and stumbled around the stage at CPAC with a chainsaw. He has presided over the dismantling of the administrative state and the harassment and mass-termination of federal workers—all while flaunting his lack of concern for the lives he has upended. Fired government employees, he announced last Thursday, with the laughing/crying emoji that’s become his calling card, will now have to “get a real job.”

This kind of depravity is a prerequisite for Musk’s new line of work. Dancing on the graves of lifesaving programs for kids is not something you can easily do with a conscience. But there is one set of feelings Musk is uniquely attuned to: his own. On Friday, the same day foreign service officers around the world received notices from a DOGE flunky alerting them that they would soon be out of a job, Musk—sans sunglasses—sat down with Fox News’ Brett Baier to ask for a little sympathy.

“I mean, you have Tim Walz, who is a huge jerk, running on stage with the Tesla stock price, where the stock price has gone in half—and he is overjoyed,” he said. “What an evil thing to do. What a creep, what a jerk. Like, who derives joy from that?”

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[–] Lightor@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago (2 children)

So you're asking me to feel bad, for the richest person on Earth. After he just harmed a ton of people and damaged our country.... All because he has slightly less money, the difference of which no average person could ever dream of?

No, I don't think I will.

[–] Pilferjinx@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Definitely have zero empathy for people that believe "empathy is weakness".

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Considering other people's hurt in one's own actions is a social contract and those who have no consideration for the hurt they might/do cause others with their own actions don't deserve that others to take their hurt into consideration in theirs.

Musk is very much an extreme example of somebody who couldn't give a rat's arse about the hurt he causes to others so it's absolutely Ethical and Moral for others to reciprocate it.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

No this is just the food they're feeding to their sycophants. Now they're making the argument that "Democrats are heartless for rejoicing at people losing their jobs" and that they're "bullies for rooting for an American company to fail"