Re-posted since LW removed it…
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.org/post/2610169
Jared Birchall is Elon Musk’s right hand man. He controls Elon Musk’s family foundation and is in charge of hiring bodyguards to protect Elon. He is one of the very few people that Elon Musk trusts.
With his wife Laura, he lives in Austin, Texas.
According to public documents, they are located at 16715, Destiny Cove, Austin, TX 78738-7421.
[Original image of family removed]
Donald Trump falsely said migrant families living in Springfield, Ohio, were stealing pets and eating cats and dogs.
Elon Musk amplified these lies on X.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/18/media/elon-musk-trump-rally-bomb-election-misinformation
As a result, these families received thousands death threats.
https://www.npr.org/2024/09/19/nx-s1-5114047/springfield-ohio-haitian-migrants-trump-safety-concerns
Jared Birchall laughed about it. He absolutely loved it. His lovely wife Laura Birchall thought this was very funny.
Jared is obsessed about his privacy. He doesn’t want anyone to know who he is.
“Why are you posting their picture?”
I don’t owe them shit.
In theory you are right yet history has shown dramatic political progress after assassinations.
UnitedHealthcare immediately changed their policies after the assassination.
History shows that poorly-thought out assassination attempts backfire far more than they succeed at achieving anything good. I can point at assassinations like Dmitri Tsafendas (an anarchist) stabbing Hendrik Verwoerd as an attempt that achieved absolutely nothing, and at Alexander Berkman (another anarchist) shooting Henry Clay Frick as an attempt that backfired disasterously on anarchists at the time.
Brian Thompson’s assassination should be an important case study for radicals when it comes to the use of targeted lethal force. For one, Thompson was an unknown - not a well-known personality like (for instance) Charlie Kirk. Second, Mangione’s motives was not overtly political - a very important factor in his subsequent lionisation. This is why Thompson’s demise could not be used as political theatre by liberals and fascists in the way that they used Kirk’s.
(I am aware that Kirk wasn’t assassinated by a leftist, but that’s neither here nor there when it comes to this question)
What do you mean by “not overtly political”? I feel like I disagree with you on that point, but I suspect that might be because I’m not understanding your meaning here
Mangione’s grievance with Big Healthcare was seen as personal - ie, he didn’t make any attempt to justify it with an overtly political narrative that could only be seen as abstract by the general public.
Leftists forget that the general public does not conflate the personal with the political. That is why the general public lionised Luigi Mangione and completely ignored Aaron Bushnell.
It is not a trivial thing, unfortunately.
R.I.P. Aaron Bushnell, Free Palestine
What policies?