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To absolutely no one's surprise...

Marko Elez, 25, who worked for a number of companies run by Elon Musk and was part of the billionaire’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force engaged in dismantling federal offices, resigned Thursday, a White House official told The Hill.

Elez’s racist, now-deleted social media posts were uncovered and first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

“Normalize Indian hate,” the account associated with Elez posted in September, regarding people of Indian ethnicity who work in the U.S. tech sector, the Journal reported.

“You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,” the account wrote on Elon Musk’s social media site X, the Journal reported.

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[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 30 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The surprise is that he resigned.

[–] credo@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

He probably office spaced the system, sending all the fractions of pennies to some offshore account. This was just his exit strategy.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Did we forget that his direct superior threw up two Nazi salutes on national television?

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, but Worthington's Law. These idiots working for him don't have fElon kind of money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbU4VRs2rro

[–] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 31 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Statement on beyer.house.gov (https://beyer.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=6370)

Rep. Don Beyer, who represents a Northern Virginia congressional district with one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the country, issued the following statement today on the reported resignation of racist “DOGE” employee Marko Elez, who had previously been granted access to U.S. Treasury payment systems:

“This is a scandal.

“Elon Musk gave a self-described ‘racist’ and eugenicist access to a system that controls all financial payments from the U.S. Treasury. That system also contains the personal information including Social Security info of every American.

“This is why we have a process to vet civil servants, and why we hire and promote them based on merit, not their personal relationship to some rich guy. How dare Elon Musk bully and threaten good people who spent their careers serving the American people when he brings this level of gross incompetence to his work.

“Everyone involved in hiring Marko Elez should be fired and ‘DOGE’ should be deleted.”

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 10 points 12 hours ago

This is why we have a process to vet civil servants, and why we hire and promote them based on merit, not their personal relationship to some rich guy

The self control it took to chose the word ‘guy’ here is truly impressive. Very professional Don. Excellent work.

[–] Pistcow@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago

Deleting Elon Musk?

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 hours ago

Wonder what his nazi boss elon feels about that?