Summary

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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104 points

Dictators like President Musk always have the thinnest skin.

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39 points

I appreciate that this is a figure of speech, but I really think that humanity would be better off if said skin was painstakingly investigated and its thinness verified throughout. For science.

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9 points

The hole way through.

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43 points

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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165 points

Note this well - this isn’t just rhetoric. He truly and sincerely believes that people should go to prison for the “crime” of criticising him.

The US is on the path to gulags and mass graves.

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52 points

The world understand the USA is having some kind of episode right now . We greatly appreciate it if you could manage to keep it within your borders. Your neighbors would be glad to help rebuild once it’s calmed down.

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65 points

Except this isn’t an American thing. The whole world is slowly sliding to fascism. For fucks sake Germany is on route to elect fucking Nazis again. Haven’t seen how their elections ended but it wasn’t looking good.

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18 points

America spearheaded this idiocy with Trump’s first election. Hopefully now that it’s well beyond the point of fucking us we’ll now at least be an example of what not to do.

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12 points

To be fair the Nazis are projected to get around 20% of votes in the election (which will happen next Sunday). And as I see it, it still is unlikely (not impossible though) they would be part of a government. Yeah this is bad, but a long shot from an active fascist coup like in the US.

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24 points

According to musk the guy who exposed his employees past racist history committed a crime. It would be funny if he wasn’t basically the president

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94 points

Spoken like a true Nazi.

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20 points

it’s hard to get more nazi than musk

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113 points

These guys are the alpha males right? Trump and Musk are alpha? All I ever see is them complain about people hurting their feelings.

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32 points

The thing about being an Alpha Male is that if you think you are one, you most definitely aren’t.

When I was younger and in the Rick and Morty fandom it’s something I noted quick, so many losers saying “I’M LITERALLY RICK!11 HE’S SO COOL AND AWESOME AND NON-CONFORMING!111” and they’d fucking idiots with the most basic bitch ass taste imaginable…

I realized it was a rule that “If you think you’re Rick, it means you’re Jerry.”

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Have you ever met the soy boy ass-bitches that worship him and tate. Lol they are always edgy weaklings.

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14 points

I see their “fuck your feelings” bumper stickers and think, man you worship a freak who shatters at the slightest criticism

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12 points

And if you tell them that, they’ll throw a tantrum.

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2 points

They wish they could fuck my feelings because that would be the first and only piece of ass they’d land in their lifetime

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22 points

Alpha… as in, needed more time in development. They’re unfinished.

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alpha-wolf isnt really a thing. A wolf pack is usually a family lead by the father.

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Read thru the lines, you can see a lot of small dick energy there. Especially musk, what he’s saying about 60min makes me feel he is literally trying to be low resolution copy of Trump. A small sized teen boy is mimicking the senior big bully and scare rest of his class. It’s incredible how Americans make these psychologically undeveloped boys rich and in charge.

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3 points

Musk is plenty awful for many valid reasons; no need to body shame people for having a small penis.

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2 points

I meant nothing to do with actual dick size and everything to do with insecurity and want to be seen and etc. what’s the better term for it that’s man friendly?

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87 points

If Musk was born poor he would have been a school shooter.

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4 points

I believe that.

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5 points

Isn’t there more gun control in South Africa?

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Nah, South Africa is super capital L Libertarian, hence why it sucks so hard.

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5 points

But how did they got rid of Elon?

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Still plenty of illegal guns. Musk totally strikes as the type of guy who would have known some illegal gun dealers and grabbed an AK-47 if he was born to a poor white family down there.

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