• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It is a major turnaround for Musk, who previously said he wouldn’t let Jones back on the platform despite repeated calls to do so. Last year, Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child and tweeted, “I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame.”

    Thankfully for him, his sycophants have the memories of goldfish.

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      11 months ago

      Musk pointed to the death of his first-born child

      He lied about his first-born dying in his arms, to win an internet argument:

      Elon Musk’s ex-wife refutes his claim that firstborn child died in his arms … ‘And not that it matters to anyone except me, because it is one of the most sacred and defining moments of my life, but I was the one who was holding him’

      https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/justine-musk-elon-musk-dying-son-b2234938.html

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      11 months ago

      It’s easy, considering his knobgobblers are the same sort of people who make up shit to forgive Trump for everything possible. They just have to tell themselves “well Alex Jones didn’t do that, he was framed by LIBRULS”

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      “…I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children…”

      Apparently he has mercy for such people now.

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        I remember some people saying, “nah, you don’t see it from his perspective, if your son’s life was in trouble and you owned the platform, you’d do the same thing”

        I kinda hate that logic because it assumes I’d say the stupid shit enough to put myself into that situation. Not to mention his family’s life wasn’t actually in danger.