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‘He’s Incompetent, He’s a Thief, He’s a Nazi’: Rep Jamaal Bowman Goes There in Fiery CNN Segment on Elon Musk (www.mediaite.com)

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Former Democratic congressman Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) called Elon Musk a “thief” and a “Nazi” during a fiery CNN segment Thursday night.

After Joe Borelli, the ex-Republican leader on the New York City Council, argued that much of the discontent at Republican congressmen’s town hall events were protests organized by Democrats, Bowman interrupted to insist that “that’s not true.”

“That’s not true. And this shows, again, the American people do not trust Elon Musk,” began Bowman. “And Elon Musk is incompetent in his position. And how do we know? Because they fired tens of thousands of people, it was challenged in court. The court said the people have to go back, and now the people are coming back. He’s incompetent, he’s a thief, he’s a Nazi, and people don’t trust him, period.”

Followup - Musk is threatening to sue

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Partly that it risks a lawsuit from Musk

he would have no case. his status and government position puts the bar a lot higher than if he were a random private citizen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

When you have that kind of money, your case doesn’t have to be winnable. The point is to tie up resources and time. And the lawsuit itself is the punishment- not the outcome.

Knowing Musk, I’d be shocked if he doesn’t do this to make an example of anyone who calls him a Nazi.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean tbh I hope he does, let's get discovery on his Twitter account and the comms between him and open nazis he's been signalboosting for years. You know, the evidence that he's a nazi? It'd be great if some judge called dom lucre to the stand to testify that elon personally intervened in his account ban, after he posted CSAM with his own name watermarked on it.

You know, defamation has to be provably false statements made intentionally with knowledge of the statement being a falsehood and being used to cause harm to an individual from said statement. None of those criteria are met by stating a well known and not hidden fact that elon musk is a nazi and has been, publicly, for at least two years. Nazi rhetoric, nazi salute, and nazi friends.

Sue all you want bro. Courts can't change the truth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Again, the outcome of the suit isn’t the goal. The rich sue all of the time without a good case. They have the money to bankrupt you by dragging out the lawsuit indefinitely.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

I expect a public case about whether Elon Musk is a Nazi will draw Mangione levels of public contributions for the defendant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

We should probably come up with a system where money doesn't mean more access to the legal system.

Maybe you're just not allowed to hire a lawyer directly, but you have to go through some magical entity that's not corrupt and they assign you people.

Or fuck it, just fix everything else so no one is super rich compared to everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Yeah, I think we need to seize all accumulated wealth above $100 million, set a max income of $10 million per year (with no borrowing to get over the cap), and set a max inheritance of $10 million per beneficiary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

He also gave two Nazi salutes on national television.