Elon Musk took to his social media site on Friday to decry New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick to lead the city’s fire department, claiming that she couldn’t do the job. The commissioner-to-be, Lillian Bonsignore, is a 31-year FDNY veteran who led the department’s emergency medical services during the Covid-19 pandemic. She will be the second woman to hold the position and the first openly gay person to lead the department.
That was enough for Musk to weigh in. “People will die because of this,” he wrote, adding, “Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.”
As Gothamist reported, before her retirement in 2022, Bonsignore was both the highest-ranking uniformed woman in FDNY history and the first woman to achieve a four-star rank. At the press conference announcing her appointment, Mamdani praised Bonsignore, saying that “her record speaks for itself,” before detailing her career in the city that spanned from before 9/11 through the worst of the pandemic.
Musk is the richest person on the planet and a rabid opponent of diversity, equity, and inclusion measures, or DEI. He appeared to be claiming that the new head of the FDNY was a diversity hire. He’s written: “Time for DEI to DIE,” “DEI has caused people to DIE,” “DEI is a Civil Rights Act violation,” “DEI kills art,” “DEI puts the lives of your loved ones at risk,” and “DEI is just another word for racism,” amongst his other previous observations about these efforts.
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Deceptichum@quokk.au · 113 pts · 256d
Billy_fuccboi@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 256d
They're not white so Elon doesn't care
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 256d
Some of them are white actually.
huquad@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 256d
*rich, turns out it's not about skin color. Never has been
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 255d
Oh no, it's definitely about skin color too. Just ask the people who worked in his daddy's emerald mines
huquad@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 255d
I still think the racial elements are mostly a smoke screen to keep us distracted
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
His companies have been found multiple times to be incredibly racist. Among people who all make decent money. Sometimes you can't just class-reduce every problem.
mostNONheinous@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 256d
Not to mention in his cars.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 256d
14 million expected deaths
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
Not to mention the two towns that are currently being demolished by both SpaceX and his fucking garbage AI facility.
Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 255d
Poor people from the global south don't count to the white South African. Shocker.
rayyy@piefed.social · 75 pts · 256d
Do we really need an illegal immigrant telling us how to run the country?
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 256d
Why is Musk's opinion on the FDNY "news"?
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 255d
Sadly being rich makes you opinion on random crap important for some crazy reason.
THB@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 256d
My thoughts exactly.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 256d
Yeah how would he know anything about this? He doesn't live Anywhere near there. No one is asking him
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
He also doesn't know anything about "qualifications". He dropped out of school and won the dotcom capitalism lottery so now he thinks school and qualifications are for chumps. He hired teenagers to purge the federal government. He's the last person anyone should listen to complain about "qualifications".
medicsofanarchy@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 256d
Says the man who can't get a car door to reliably open, burning people alive in minor collisions. Meanwhile, EMS trains to open those doors and save lives. STFU, musk.
Ooops@feddit.org · 43 pts · 256d
Which is exactly the reason a 31-year veteran with experience got that job. I'm constantly impressed how Musk manages to always phrase his bullshit in a way that makes crystal clear it's nothing but insane ramblings.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 255d
I only just realised that she's not 31 years old.
Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 255d
He literally hired teenagers when lives were at stake.
Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 256d
Elon, and fuckers like him, are a major driving source of human misery. Both because of the wealth hording and politics that wealth hording necessitates, but also because he probably speaks to people and imagine how awful having to talk to that absolute garbage dump of a person would be.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 255d
Even in his most intimate interpersonal interactions, he probably mostly speaks at people like he's on social media.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 255d
Do we really need to be aware of every one of this idiot's stupid fucking opinions in real-time? Holy fuck.
Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 255d
+1 for this, cataloguing his nonsense isn't newsworthy. Let him sit in his 44 billion dollar echo chamber and screech at bots. At this point everyone who's not delusional knows he's a miserable idiot conman who's carried by the talent and effort of people much smarter than he is on the rare occasion he can get out of their way. His opinion means less than nothing.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 256d
Elon Musk isn't qualified to lead a hot dog stand. And yet here we are.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 255d
his hot dog got mangled by a "surgeon".
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 255d
She's a woman. Small dicks are scared of smart women.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 255d
i have a small penis and I am not scared of smart women. please stop associating penis size with mysogyny
edit: Ill tone it down since I was groggy as shit this morning: damn us tiny peeners catchin strays
bitchkat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 255d
You may have a small penis but you don't sound like you're a small dick.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 255d
well elons dick is probably mangled from a surgery, probably no-dick, or a stump or close to it.
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 255d
Maybe he went to Thailand for one of those embihgening 'procedurea'? I hear they don't go so well. Maybe that's why he has a complex with the country.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 255d
No joke, he's got a mangled dick. Dunno how it happened
Finalsolo963@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 255d
And people with botched phallos or for example, a friend of mine who needed multiple surgeries on his genitals as a child should be assumed to be morally deficient?
Go wash the properity gospel out of your brain.
Some relevant viewing material.
bender223@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 256d
Elon's name should always be followed with his title, Biggest Welfare Queen in the World.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 256d
Elon Musk says a lot of dumb untrue shit. Why is anyone even paying attention to what he says anymore?
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 256d
Because everyone feels it appropriate to post the bond villain's every word. I wish I didn't need to hear it. I wish his arrest warrants were written and acted upon.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 18 pts · 256d
Back in 1995, the FDNY did a hostile takeover of EMS.
EMS had originally been under the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, a city agency that oversees the public hospitals. In 1993, HHC funded an independent study to see what the best way to move forward was. The consultants looked at all the options, including moving EMS to police or fire supervision, ro making it an independent service. They decided that the best course was to keep EMS under HHC, but give it $3 million to upgrade.
At about that time, FD decided they wanted to study taking over EMS. The City Council voted them $5 million to do a test where FDNY responded to EMS calls in one borough. Even though the New York State agency in charge of licensing paramedics said FD had failed, the City decided the test was a great success. FD got control of EMS.
Pretty much the day FD took over, old time EMS people started leaving. Some retired, and others went to other civil service jobs.
Only one Fire Chief bothered to take an ride-alongs with EMS. Most never stuck their nose into an EMS station.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 255d
From the article:
Let's call it what it is and stop sugar coating this white supremacist asshole. He's a racist piece if shit and has been given the massive bullhorn that was Twitter to spout his racist bullshit because the assholes who own Tesla stock keep giving him more money. Good people meed to fully cancel not only Tesla but SpaceX and any other company he is at the head of.
I don't care that Tesla has created innovative cars. They can be made by other companies just as easily. I don't care that SpaceX has innovative rockets. The technology exists it can exist again someplace else. This asshole needs to be canceled so hard that he can never come back again. The next non-conservative person who runs for president needs to run on a platform of ending any governmental relationship with Elon Musk, permanently.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 256d
Elon Musk is not qualified to open his own damn mouth on any topic of authority.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 256d
Fuck you Elon, you cheese doodle. No one asked you. Go crash another rocket, or estrange your latest crotch goblin.
Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 255d
"The woke mind virus made me piss my pants again!"
velindora@lemmy.cafe · 0 pts · 255d
halfapage@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 256d
quinkin@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 255d
Grok says: Elon has the best openly intolerant shit-takes!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 256d
I mean, what do you expect? Of course little butthurt loser is going to screech to conservatives which will continue carrying the screech. This hurts them to their core.
They don't care about actual metrics or anything, just the thought that a woman could do something useful goes against their beliefs.
And a gay woman? Oh my god, that must be even worse!
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 255d
Your stupid cybertruck doors not opening during fires have caused so many people to DIE, journalists had to conduct their own research to warn the public because you wouldn't.
You don't have to be a gay or straight fire chief to know a death trap when you see one, yet you continue to sell your dumpsters of death to the public. Interesting...
Tesla promotes new door safety feature ahead of Bloomberg report on 15 deaths
And he would've gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for you meddling leftwing radical extremists at. ::checks source:: Bloomberg news...
Let's be honest, he probably will still get away with it bc men like him run the world and we live in a "merit based society," aMiRiTe? But at least fewer people may die in the future now that he's actually been forced to acknowledge he sold the public a death trap.
Lmao what a fucking joke 🤣🤣🤣 👌
It's like Gallagher but instead of a watermelon he gets paid to endanger the public, and destroy people's entire lives.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
The only thing musk is qualified for is the receiving end of a guillotine
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 255d
Jon Steward cracking his knuckles in the background…
Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 255d
Attacking the FDNY? Wait till Jon Stewart hears about this!
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 256d
Elon, just worry about South Africa. Okay?