Summary

Elon Musk condemned rising vandalism against Tesla, blaming the political left and suggesting a conspiracy against him.

He cited incidents of arson, gunfire, and property destruction at Tesla dealerships, linking them to protests against his work with DOGE.

Trump and the DOJ have labeled the attacks “domestic terrorism,” vowing arrests.

Some Tesla owners are selling their vehicles or adding bumper stickers distancing themselves from Musk, who defended Tesla as a “peaceful company,” saying “I’ve never done anything harmful.”

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      8 months ago

      Yep. Fuck this fucking fucker.

      Though I think it is important to add that he has also illegally broken into many different government organizations without access or permission. Causing them to be unable to do their job serving the American public. He’s hurt thousands if not millions of people already.

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      He’s a sociopath, and like a good sociopath, he’s trying to illicit empathy in others for personal gain. He’s even said empathy is a weakness of Western civilization that can be exploited, and that’s exactly what these crocodile tears are designed to do. He’s even has an army of PR people he normally would ignore if his Tesla stock wasn’t tanking.

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      And did a Nazi salute, and literally fired tens of thousands of people for no fucking reason. I hope he’s just pretending to be surprised and not actually this dense.

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        And let’s not forget about the emerald mine, and stealing Tesla, and environment harm.

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          He didn’t steal Tesler. He was such an obscenely shitty person to have to deal with the founders literally sold out to not have to deal with him anymore.

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    he said. “We’ve never done anything harmful.”

    He’s personally seen to the loss of tens of thousands (hundreds now perhaps) of jobs has no signs of stopping, stopping nutritional aid to those that need it most, and has even made comments about going after Social Security which serves our societies most vulnerable. Elon, how on Earth are you so clueless to see that all this hate is directly from your actions.

    I’d even argue people may not have cared for Tesla, but the fact that Musk directly benefits monetarily makes Tesla a target.

    A perfect example: Musk also was partial creator of Paypal even though he sold his interest in it a long time ago and has no association with it now. While lots of folks don’t like Paypal for a number of reasons, I don’t hear one peep of people ditching paypal because Musk had a hand in its creation.

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      Dude literally harassed and tried to ruin the life of a guy who saved a bunch of trapped kids in a cave. Never did anything harmful my ass.

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      Elon, how on Earth are you so clueless to see that all this hate is directly from your actions.

      Such is life when you are empathy free…

      And, likely, a sociopath to boot.

      🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ 🙄 🖕 🖕

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        He’s not clueless, he’s using this as an opportunity to play the victim and paint “the left” as the real problem. It’s all for Fox news viewers and the ignorant and it’s going to work. These people are masters at propaganda and manipulation. It’s disgusting how effective they’ve been

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    If you dont consider hacking a government to pieces harmful… Idk what to tell you. Even hacking a regime to pieces will hurt people. You can’t move fast and break things with governments and people’s lives.

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    Is he seriously thinking that people might have empathy for him if he says that?

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    Then he’s fucking dumber than I thought. And I already thought he made rocks look fucking brilliant.

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    Which is more pathetic. The idea that he really thinks he is a good person or the idea that he can tell a lie like that and someone might believe him who isn’t just as pathetic as him?

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    Only stochastic terrorism. A nazi salute here and there. Spreading some racism and queerphobia every now and then. Opening the sewer gates to let in all the nazis on his social media platform. Exploiting some labour in the third world for his personal gain. Buying out politicians and the press in the detriment of the people.

    Other than that, yeah, he hasn’t done anything harmful.

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    “If you ignore the staggering amount of human misery that I am directly and indirectly responsible for, and all the absolutely appalling things I advocate for, I’ve never done anything harmful.”

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    Poor man meets rich man and they look at each other. Says the poor man, were I not poor, you’d not be rich!

    • Berthold Brecht

    Boycott them all.