Summary
Republicans’ efforts to portray Elon Musk as a MAGA martyr are failing, as his victim narrative struggles to resonate with conservative audiences.
Musk’s controversial statements and perceived elitism, including his complaints of being targeted by Democrats, have alienated even right-wing supporters.
Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand, and Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings, especially on economic issues.
Attempts to rally sympathy for Musk, including his emotional Fox News appearance, have largely backfired.
Musk: Acts like a Nazi
Society: “A good Nazi is a dead Nazi.”
Musk: “Y U DO THIS”
These fucking people just.don’t.get.IT.
Their problem is not that they don’t get it, it’s that they can’t sell it. We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Elon Musk is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections. You gather a group of middle age, middle class, middle income voters who remember with longing an easier time, and you talk to them about family, and American values and character, and you heil Hitler.
Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand
This is the narrative Musk and Republicans want.
The protests and vandalism aren’t hurting his brand.
They’re another consequence of him openly being a fucking Nazi, which is what’s hurting his brand.
It’s not that complicated, but a shit ton of people keep missing the point
Protests and vandalism are the effects of a shitty brand, not the cause. Musk himself is the cause.
“I can excuse some nazism, but vandalism is where I draw the line!”
…you can excuse nazism?
Won’t someone think of the stock market?!
-Neoliberals
Also “controversial statements and perceived elitism” is doing some heavy lifting…
Hope he never has another moment of peace.
Based on the way he is acting. He hasn’t in a long time. Unfortunately he is taking it out on others being a text book narcissist
Basically?
No, motherfucker. Literally.
And every article I see posted about Elons lame sorry ass further secures the aggressive positions I have taken against TSLA in the stock market.
Suffer, you petulant wealth goblin.
“GO FUCK YOURSELF.” - Elon Musk
“why no one like me 😢”
-Elon Musk, 1 year later
Why can’t people just BE NICE to the Billionaire Illegal Immigrant Taking ALL our Jobs?
Yes, I’m suprised at all the hate considering he’s white.
And how many lives do you think he’s destroyed as he takes a chainsaw to their careers?
Musk, if you cared about your fragile reputation, you should never have entered politics in the first place. We would’ve just been back to hating you because you’re the richest and the symbol of capitalism.
But we hate you because not only are you that, but you happily stomp over things you don’t care to understand why it is important to have them in the first place that so many Americans rely on. You are Trump’s bitch, you got here because he rewarded you for supporting him, like he has with all of his corrupt buddies.
Get the fuck out of politics, dissolve your stupid tongue-in-cheek government branch and fuck off.
Seriously! If I were the richest man in the world, I’d just fuck off quietly to my secret billionaire volcano, where I’d get fucked up on wine plundered from a sunken Spanish treasure galleon, and drugs you’ve never even heard of, for as long as I want, because literally nothing can affect you when you’re that rich! Why would you invite so much mockery??
Because true respect is something money can’t buy.
They say money can buy you whatever you want, but really it can only buy you items and appearances. But rich people spend so much time just throwing money at various desires and issues that they tend to confuse appearances with substance. Note Musk buying ‘skill’ at video games, and the push for AI—because it allows them to pretend to have skill at something they don’t.
So they endlessly chase appearances, and are confused when all they end up holding is empty air. An unsatisfying feeling, to say the least.
When you have everything else, and you’re still not happy, and throwing money at the issue is your only skill, you keep trying that, no matter how often it doesn’t work.
And what will the Republicans do if it is discovered that Tesla was manipulating and committing fraud in its accounts?
Lol… Oh you’re serious?
Nothing? At least, so long as he’s bankrolling his pet they will look the other way.
A core principal of a martyr is being widely liked. No one gives a shit about this dude. Even the people who he surrounds himself with don’t give a flying fuck about the dude. Musk himself makes every interaction with him transactional. Add in his default behavior of being an 11 year old edgelord wrapped in a 50 something whale body with hair plugs that’s awkward as fuck to be around, and yeah it’s not hard to see why nobody likes this fucking billionaire with attachment issues.
Dude needs to ditch the ketamine and perhaps get actual therapy. And actually having a better diet and exercise regimen wouldn’t hurt either.
I’d settle for lead poisoning
(From the tap… double)
I don’t want you dead, Elon. I want you to be penniless and without anyone willing to loan you money anymore.
I don’t want you dead, Elon.
Let’s not be hasty, now.
I don’t care if he’s dead or not. I just never want to have to hear that stupid Twitter guy say another word. I’m at the point where a single sentence from him makes me cringe enough to throw my phone across the room. Dead or irrelevant makes no difference to me. Just wish he was gone. Go to Mars already idiot.
Nah, they’re right. Dead people can’t suffer.
While he certainly deserves to suffer proportional to the suffering he’s causing, top priority is stop him from causing more - if that means he ends up taking a bullet in a manner that renders him incapable of processing what’s happening, I’ll still count that as a good start.
While he certainly deserves to suffer proportional to the suffering he’s causing
Even Abu Gharib would struggle to do that. The scale of influence billionaires have is insane.
Can’t we have both?
I want Squirrel Girl to mob him with 1000s of squirrels, dragging him from wherever he is to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, then dangle him by whatever nuts he’s got on him.
Then I’ll be happy.
Personally, I would prefer the squirrels to treat him like roadkill. They can start with his precious nuts and work their way up.
I mean, no amount of torture will ever be proportional to the amount of suffering he’s caused, so, if the opportunity presents to make his death excruciating, then by all means: my point is simply that all that takes the back burner to stopping him from damaging our country/planet.
Stop him at any cost; use him as an opportunity to send a warning to other oligarchs if able.
Yeah if he’s dead, how will we revel in his failures?
Gleefully
Posthumously.
I remember about twenty years or so ago there was a tiny plaque in there parking lot the Soviets built over the fürerbunker. It gave me great calmness to pee there, against the sign
Now it’s a bus stop. So current and future generations are deprived of this simple connection with their anti-fascist ancestors.
I want him to blast off on a self funded one way trip to Mars with his closest friends. Then televise him and friends trying to create a Mars society. It would be better than any reality show produced yet.
What odds are they giving for “shitty rocket accidentally blows up on launch”?
Speak for yourself.
I don’t care what happens to him as long as I no longer have to hear about him.
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The only people who “care” about Musky are the ones who dumped their life savings into Tesla stock.
Everyone with that blue checkmark on Twitter and their username ending in a crypto domain can go too
I don’t want to kill Musk, but I’m not going to shed any tears about anything bad that happens to him or any other racist, fascist piece of shit.
Just every day some little misfortunes to balance out karma like wet sleeves after washing hands, occasionally stepping into dog crap, marmalade toast falling on the floor upside down, a few paper cuts, stepping onto lego barefoot, mobile phone falling into toilet bowl and so on.
Whoa whoa whoa, wishing death upon someone is one thing, but wanting them to step on a lego barefoot? You’re a monster.
but
If empathy’s a weakness the. Karma is a bitch
Empathy, like tolerance, should really be considered a social contract. If he doesn’t have empathy for the less fortunate than him, I have a really hard time having empathy for him.
I wish for him to be reborn as bee, so that when in anger he stings a person, he must remove his stinger himself in a desperate plea to survive or tear his innards out in the ultimate karma that would humble his soul.
Bees are pretty much the angels of the insect world… Harming no-one and nothing, and almost single-handedly holding up the ecosystem of a quarter of the planet’s life forms.
He’s got a long way to go to reach level bee.
Don’t kill him. Just tax him like they would with a normal working person. That would throw him into a world of sufferung.
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Put him to death for treason and tax his estate at 100% and absorb Space X into NASA.
It isn’t just him. The whole oligarchy have understand that the guillotine is being prepared and that they are next.
Then maybe they will pretend to not be assholes, and thus save themselves.
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A traitor to whom? South Africa? He seems to be doing a fine job for his country. More room on the global stage for them with Murca out of the picture.
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Musk stated that his immigration path included “a gray area” regarding his work eligibility in Silicon Valley during his early career.
I don’t even think he has a green card.
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Let’s compromise: Let him pay taxes first, and then treat him as the traitor he is.
crash his tesla stock, and he will pay tax on them.
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Seize all his assets and put them into funds for universal health care, social security, WIC, etc. Then not to be cruel, provide him with food and shelter like you would any living creature; however to get to the food each day, he has to walk down a street that is lined with people who can jeer, boo, spit and laugh at him (but fenced off so not allowed to do any violence), and daily footage is streamed online for viewing by those unable to attend.
Ah. Execution by suicide. Absolutely lovely. 🥰
If only we used civil asset forfeiture on this tractor.
i mean, he’s already lost $200B net worth. If we keep at it, he will be in the gutter soon enough.
Clarence Darrow wrote: “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
Yeah, I don’t want to do it, but it would be convenient if he did
