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Given their actions, it's been pretty clear that the racism and eugenics is their goal. Looks like one of them made it too explicit:

The deleted profile associated with Elez, who was embedded in the Treasury Department to carry out efficiency measures, advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a “eugenic immigration policy” in the weeks before President Trump was inaugurated.

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Come on, this was a guy on musk's team, who did Nazi that coming really?

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The people Musk put in place to do this are all kids. He's choosing them because racists without any real professional network are completely dependent on his patronage, and are disposable when accountability for crimes starts to happen.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 7 hours ago

Well, shit, I thought that was a prereq to work with fElon and donvict.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 56 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on X in September, according to a Wall Street Journal review of archived posts. “Normalize Indian hate,” the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.

The user appeared to have a special dislike for Indian software engineers. “99% of Indian H1Bs will be replaced by slightly smarter LLMs, they’re going back don’t worry guys,” the user posted in December.

“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” @nullllptr posted in July.

You were never cool buddy.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

That's funny, because Indian-Americans have been an emerging MAGA group.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Idiots are everywhere. And propaganda's a helluva drug.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

It's like telling junkies to stop using. For some reason they just don't.

Propaganda works. It doesn't fail. It is only ever stopped.

[–] blackjam_alex@lemmy.world 60 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

These people are in favor of eugenics while their leader Musk looks like a macaque with a Cybertruck for a body.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 37 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

He looks like a corpse that's been in the water for a bit.

Also like the roach skin suit guy from MIB

[–] dojan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 hours ago

May this portend his future.

[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 11 hours ago

That's an insult to macaques

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Hitler was small, had dark hair, brown eyes and just one testicle while talking about the master race of virile, blonde, blue-eyed tall people.

[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 points 10 hours ago

A true Aryan should be tall like Goebbels, as muscular and slim as Goering, and blonde like Hitler.

[–] niketunic@lemmy.world 50 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 38 points 11 hours ago

He was missing a few hundred billion dollars. With that, they'd have overlooked his hate just like they do with Musk

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 37 points 11 hours ago

it's always the people you most suspect

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I'm surprised they thought this was resignation-worthy. His boss just did two Hitler salutes and the AG wants to make anti-racism illegal.

"That racism is too overt" seems to be a quaint GOP stance from times gone by.

[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Maybe it's more like "your inadequate cover-up demonstrates your inability to do the job of rewriting sensitive and confidential Treasury information without being caught."

They are a "meritocracy" after all.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Confused about why he'd have to resign over that. I would have suspect that it's a workplace that welcomes those perspectives. Elon is a "free speech absolutist" after all.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Also, there was a whole thing about nazis getting fired for their marches. And the right absolutely blew up claiming free speech no matter what the off-the-job activities were.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 28 points 11 hours ago

were they too qualified to work in this admin?

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine being too racist for this regime? That’s a pretty high bar to reach.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 10 hours ago

Don't give him too much credit. He resigned right after a judge limited his access.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The Independent reports:

[Marko] Elez has reportedly been given administrator-level privileges [to Treasury Dept systems] that theoretically allow someone to change user permissions, delete and modify critical files that contain highly sensitive and confidential information.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 9 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, I think Wired and Talking Points Memo did the original reporting on his access, with Wired getting his name, and Talking Points Memo getting many other details.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago

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[–] Gerudo@lemm.ee 5 points 10 hours ago

He's a scapegoat so they can claim they aren't racist. The same ones who say Trump isn't racist cause he has black people in his cabinet.

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

So much for my appeal to their better judgement. Sounds like they're all gearing up for Holocaust 2: Eugenics Boogaloo.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 10 hours ago
[–] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I'm more surprised the little goon felt like it needed to resign. Isn't being a racist piece of shit half the job description?

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago