Elon Musk responds with 'laughing emojis' to stories of workers' lives he's ruined
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2671742622/Billionaire Elon Musk has gone on a mass firing spree of federal employees, and Rolling Stone reports he's been immensely enjoying himself while doing so.
According to sources who spoke with the magazine, Musk has regularly "privately messaged associates and confidants about reports from federal staffers about how their lives have been wrecked" and "has been known to react with laugh-crying emojis" to their stories.
Musk's cavalier attitude toward fired federal employees was also confirmed on the record by Ben Vizzachero, a wildlife biologist with the Los Padres National Forest who had been fired by Musk earlier this year.
"When a Democratic lawmaker invited Vizzachero as a guest to Trump’s joint address to Congress in March, he found himself seated near Musk," writes Rolling Stone. "He took the opportunity to confront the world’s richest man. According to Vizzachero, he described his job to Musk and asked: 'Am I waste?' He says Musk, 'with a very condescending smirk,' hit him with a line from the 1999 movie Office Space: 'What would you say you do here?'"
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"More than a dozen Republican state senators have signed onto a bill that would prohibit satanic displays from being placed on public property in Arizona. Senate Bill 1279 is known as the Reject Escalating Satanism by Preserving Essential Core Traditions Act — or RESPECT.
The introduction of SB1279 follows the placement of a statue of the goat-headed deity Baphomet in the Iowa State Capitol by a local chapter of The Satanic Temple. The installation was allowed under a law that permits religious displays during the holidays. The statue drew strong criticism and was ultimately destroyed by a Mississippi man, who’s since been charged with a hate crime.
The group doesn’t actually practice devil worship or even believe in a literal Satan. They describe themselves as a “non-theistic religious organization” and frequently use satanic imagery to highlight encroachments on religious freedom"
https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2024-02-05/arizona-gop-lawmakers-preemptively-take-on-satan
Reject Escalating Satanism bill was defeated
