Daily Beast Defends Death Threats Against DOGE?

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The Daily Beast is upset that Elon Musk complained about people threatening him and his DOGE team with death. 

Because, of course, they are. Death threats are free speech, and we all know that the left is all for free speech, unlike Elon Musk. They are just "taunts," after all.

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Muh norms. 

A forum on Reddit was shut down, and another temporarily paused due to the explosion of violent threats against Musk, and suddenly, the people who have been complaining that X isn't moderated enough (threats of violence are prohibited on X, by the way) are deeply, truly upset that they can't plot the assassination of people. 

Yep, Daily Beast, it is awful that leftists calling for murder is prohibited

"Whined." "Moaned."

You see, DOGE is Musk's 'goon squad' and hence should be fair game, don'tcha know...

Reddit has totally axed one of its communities and temporarily banned another after a run-in with Elon Musk.

The X chief moaned on his platform that some Reddit users on the subreddit r/WhitePeopleTwitter had broken the law after they allegedly revealed the identities of his so-called DOGE goon squad, the young engineers hired at his new agency to sniff out government corruption.

Some of the comments on the forum were of the mundane variety, with one mocking their haircuts: “Shaving their heads is the least that should happen.” [This is a reference to what happened to Nazi collaborators in Europe after WWII, not a comment on haircuts]

But other comments called for violence against the members of the Musk-led government agency after it was reported that DOGE personnel had accessed classified material.

Musk reshared a post on X, from a page called “Reddit Lies,” that showed some of the alleged comments in r/WhitePeopleTwitter, including one calling for the “public execution of the DOGE software developers.”

“Muskrat’s DOGE Henchmen have been identified,” another said.

“Time to hunt,” one more said menacingly. “I’ll say it. This nazi stooge needs to be shot,” another message read.

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Somehow, the Daily Beast thinks that banning the call for murder is a threat to free speech. Telling people something true--like the COVID vaccine causes myocarditis or that it came from a biolab should be banned as "misinformation," but calling for the public execution of 19-24 year-old software developers needs to be protected. 

Another community, r/IsElonDeadYet, was axed all together for obvious reasons. “This subreddit was banned due to a violation of Reddit’s rules against posting violent content," a note said.

The forum was dedicated to noting that the billionaire “first buddy” of President Donald Trump was not dead yet, on a near daily basis.

Bluesky is similarly filled with calls to murder Musk and company, but it is the "nice" version of X because it is filled with leftist loonies. 

We get continuous propaganda about how X is a right-wing Nazi violent place, and all the lefty lunatics quit X in a huff and flocked to Bluesky where it turns out that they spew their violent fantasies all day every day. 

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The mainstream media eggs them on, publishing lies about what Musk is doing and how Africans are starving because of him (not true--all food and medicine funded by USAID is still flowing) and claiming that DOGE is stealing from the Treasury Department. 

It's the same tactic, over and over. I just got an email from a close friend about how Musk is recreating the "Red Scare," and I reminded him that it has been the left calling everybody a Nazi and demanding DEI loyalty oaths everywhere. 

It's all a Truman Show. 

The media is just as scared as the Democrats because their grift is being exposed, so you should expect the threats to ramp up and the propaganda to become ever more extreme. 

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I really do fear for the boys of DOGE, and for Elon Musk. They are targets. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | February 05, 2025
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