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Elon Musk accused 60 Minutes of deception, saying its staff “deserve a long prison sentence” after the show aired an interview with ex-USAID administrator Andrew Natsios, who refuted claims of fraud in the agency.

Musk has previously criticized 60 Minutes for allegedly deceptive editing. However, Mediaite’s Colby Hall reviewed the released footage and defended CBS, stating it followed standard journalistic practices.

Meanwhile, JD Vance condemned European speech laws but distanced himself from Musk’s stance.

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    Supposed most powerful billionaire that has the world at his fingertips, can do no wrong and controls everything … can’t take a bit of criticism from a TV show.

    This guy’s skin is about as thick and tough as wet tissue paper.

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      It’s obvious if you look at how he runs Twitter. There’s actually more censorship now than before this ‘free speech absolutist’ took over.

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        That’s because they all think “free speech” means “my fringe speech”.

        Twitter/X is a “free speech” platform where the swastika is protected, and the Rainbow flag is banned. Every account still on there today sees this as a good thing, or as the cost of messaging on that platform. All of them should be ostracized and dropped until they close their accounts.

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    Something something “back to his shithole country” (nothing against South Africa as a whole, but Trump said something to the effect that all of Africa was “shithole countries”)

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    Why? Because FREEZED PEACH?

    I thought fElon and his dumbass bootlickers were all about the freezed peach maximalism?

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      Free Speech™ is when you can spout racist and ignorant comments without repurcussion at the top of your lungs, literally or metaphorically online.

      Disagreeing with Elon though, that isn’t Free Speech™, that’s treachery and evil and small minded bigotry.

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      He deserves to work a job based on his skill and merit, and not the starter fortune he inherited. He might make it to department manager at a best buy.

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    I watched that piece. Nothing on there was beyond what we’ve been being told for the last few weeks. This is just hushing the criticism to keep it all quiet.

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    Unelected Kleptomaniac megalomaniac Neo-nazis deserve to swing on a rope.

    the president said he who saves his country isn’t guilty of a crime, by the way. :)

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    By repeatedly calling for arrests he’s trying to normalise this rhetoric as part of his position.

    Keep reminding everyone he’s an unelected civilian with Trump on a very short leash calling for arrests of private citizens. This is never normal and is just as reprehensible the 100th time as the first time.

    Keep calling it out.

    And keep asking elected officials especially republicans, who seem up for sale to the highest bidder, how much you have to pay to get musk imprisoned with a long prison sentence, because we’re all willing to chip in, and we will even let them seize and keep his assets too if it removes his face and voice from every story on every feed

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      Or he’s just having a tantrum because he has no self-control and his flunkes are afraid to tell him when he’s being a cunt.