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.
They say things like this because their base wants to kill people they dislike. Most people don’t want to kill people they dislike, they want them to win three Guinness World Records for longest lasting, least operable, and largest hemorrhoids.
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
“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
Protests and vandalism are the effects of a shitty brand, not the cause. Musk himself is the cause.
Also “controversial statements and perceived elitism” is doing some heavy lifting…
All Americans worthy of the name want to kill Nazis.
Hold my beer and hand me some ammo
What about a rusty spoon?
The feeling of rust on my salad fingers is almost orgasmic
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.
Don’t kill him. Just tax him like they would with a normal working person. That would throw him into a world of sufferung.
i mean, he’s already lost $200B net worth. If we keep at it, he will be in the gutter soon enough.
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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.
Yeah, I don’t want to do it, but it would be convenient if he did
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.”
Just every day some little misfortune 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 then 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.
The people Musk told that empathy was bad don’t have any empathy for Musk?
I forgot about that. It’s poetic.
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He is such a ridiculous asswipe that it seems like he’s doing it on purpose to help distract from other billionaires falling in line or random horrible shit the administration is doing.
I doubt it’s an act, and I suspect he’s really just that much of an asswipe, but damn.
He’s one of the most prominent disconnected individuals out there. It’s almost certainly not an act, he’s just an idiot. One of the most powerful and influential idiots that has ever existed, unfortunately…
Empathy for me, but not for thee!
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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.
Musk: Acts like a Nazi
Society: “A good Nazi is a dead Nazi.”
Musk: “Y U DO THIS”
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings
Wow, you have to be a special kind of shitty to actually hurt Trump’s image, rather than the other way around.
Truly the Ticketmaster of people.
I’ll celebrate with a drink if somebody does.
Come the margin call I’ma feast on a dozen fried eggs and maybe, just maybe a tiny smidge of K
i mean, what did he expect if he threatens to slash social security? any attempt to slash social security is a declaration of war to the civil class; and if you’re declaring war, you better be ready to die.
how can we respect their lifes if they don’t respect our lifes?
slashing social security is murder, you have the right to self-defense.
Hope he never has another moment of peace.
I realized this morning that for how much Luigi is praised there haven’t been attempts to follow his example.
I don’t know why that felt relevant on this post and I’m definitely not advocating anything, just an observationJust because you didn’t hear about something doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
The home of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF) CEO Chip Terhune in Lake Oswego, near Portland, was shot up in the early hours of Feb. 21, the Lake Oswego Police Department said Wednesday.
https://www.fox9.com/news/saif-chip-terhune-insurance-ceo-bullets-oregon
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s been other incidents which were kept away from the news.
Most people capable of murder do not care about their fellow humans; and those of us who could often lack means or have to protect others closer to home. They cannot just go away without harming others who need them.
Once you get past all those filters it’s a very tiny percentage of people who have motive, means and opportunity. Most of those get unlucky.
Just about everyone is capable of killing given the right circumstances.
An certain Austrian duke comes to mind…here’s hoping that Elon gets to play his role in the remake.
I hope his story skips to the ending. Preferably live streamed to twitter.
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.
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.
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.
Speak for yourself.
I don’t care what happens to him as long as I no longer have to hear about him.
Yeah if he’s dead, how will we revel in his failures?
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.
