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.”

  • DicJacobus@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    you routinely go on social media and cheerlead for butchers committing genocide in ukraine and gaza, amongst other things.

    terminal affluenza. doesnt understand that actions have consequences.

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      Ya know… I could see him thinking all his bad jokes, and online antics don’t hurt anyone (not true) but the dude is decimating the federal workforce, he can’t honestly believe he hasn’t done anything to garner that hate. That’s people’s livelihoods.

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      He only hurt government NPCs he is the only brain in a jar in this system we are all computer programs.

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      I don’t think he believes in anything beyond accumulating as much wealth as possible at whatever cost.

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    Elon Musk is 3 beers away from cornering his most attractive niece at Thanksgiving and lecturing her for 38 minutes about how Lincoln started the “War of Northern Aggression.”

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      Well, I guess that’s still a step ‘up’ from his dad, with the 40 year age gap between him and his baby mamma/former step daughter, saying “Show me the rules that say I can’t groom/fuck/marry my former step daughter. Show me the rules.”

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

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      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 if I’m not mistaken, he also stole someone else’s work and claimed it for himself (and steal Tesla, I guess). And let’s not forget about the emerald mine.

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        Then we know what his standard is: he means he’s no more harmful than Hitler.

  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    So I’ve tried it a couple times now, with varying degrees of success, but I want to write a paper which takes a lifecycle approach to excess deaths by industry. My goal was to come up with a deaths/ billion estimate, to figure out a quantity of wealth after which we could decide, the person holding that wealth has effectively committed murder; then we buffer it by 10x to account for the fuzziness of the math, and we set that as the global maximum wealth cap.

    Its practically impossible to believe that any industry results in 0 deaths per billion. However, when I did the first couple intial forrays into the research, its very dificult to pin down exaclty which is the source industry for a given death (for example, fossil fuels contribute massively to peoples deaths. But so does tobacco. Electric vehicles dont have tail pipe emissions, but might use fossil fuels in their construction, etc… etc…)

    Here is some summary output from that.

    To compare the estimated premature deaths per billion dollars of profit between tech companies and a fossil fuel extraction company, we'll examine ExxonMobil as a representative example.
    
    ExxonMobil's Annual Profit:
    
    In 2024, ExxonMobil reported a net income of $33.7 billion.
    investor.exxonmobil.com
    
    Estimating Premature Deaths Due to Fossil Fuel Emissions:
    
    A study by Vohra et al. (2021) estimated that fossil fuel combustion-related fine particulate matter (PM₂.₅) pollution was responsible for approximately 10.2 million premature deaths globally in 2012.
    investor.exxonmobil.com
    
    Calculating Premature Deaths per Billion Dollars of Profit:
    
    To estimate the number of premature deaths attributable to ExxonMobil's operations per billion dollars of profit, we can use the following approach:
    
        Global Fossil Fuel CO₂ Emissions: Approximately 35 billion metric tons annually.
    
        ExxonMobil's Contribution: ExxonMobil's operations contribute to a portion of these emissions. While exact figures vary, estimates suggest that ExxonMobil's products account for about 1.3 billion metric tons of CO₂ emissions annually, representing approximately 3.7% of global fossil fuel CO₂ emissions.
    
        Attributable Premature Deaths: Applying this percentage to the global premature deaths:
        10,200,000 deaths×0.037377,400 deaths
        10,200,000deaths×0.037377,400deaths
    
        Deaths per Billion Dollars of Profit:
        377,400 deaths33.7 billion USD≈11,200 deaths per billion USD
        33.7billion USD377,400deaths​≈11,200deaths per billion USD
    
    Comparison with Tech Companies:
    
    Previously, we estimated the number of premature deaths per billion dollars of profit for tech companies, assuming their energy consumption was entirely sourced from fossil fuels:
    
        Samsung: Approximately 1,004 deaths per billion USD
    
        Google (Alphabet): Approximately 153 deaths per billion USD
    
        Microsoft: Approximately 209 deaths per billion USD
    
    Conclusion:
    
    If we attribute a proportional share of global premature deaths from fossil fuel emissions to ExxonMobil based on its contribution to global CO₂ emissions, the company is associated with approximately 11,200 premature deaths per billion dollars of profit. This figure is significantly higher than the estimates for tech companies, reflecting the direct role of fossil fuel extraction and production in contributing to air pollution and associated health impacts.
    
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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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    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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          Sure it’s going to work. The American right is a lost cause of lead-huffing morons. They’d open up wide if Musk said he was going to shit in their mouths and chugged a milkshake made of Taco Bell and Diablo sauce on the way to do it.

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      Listened to a bit of a recent Joe Rogan visit he had. He plays it like the attacks are coming from the deep state hidden in bureaucracy as if those programs had no positive impact on people’s lives

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    I don’t know which is scarier: Musk lying about this, or actually being so self-unaware he really doesn’t know what an enormous shitbag he is.