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

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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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      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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    He’s an actual sociopath

    I’m not being hyperbolic, he’s an actual clinically sociopathic person, of course he thinks he hasn’t done harm.

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      Clinically psychopathic. Sociopathy is the result.

      The distinction is important because neurotypical people can be raised to behave in ways that are sociopathic, both directly and indirectly. Most of the ultra wealthy who are born into wealth for example explain away the harms their lives cause others. But they still feel and express empathy in many aspects of their lives

      But Musk seems genuinely like he has no genuine empathy, and like he has no comprehension of how to be a moral actor in the world. Trump is the same.

      Being reasonable intelligent and born into privilege in the world that rewards sociopathy through the market system… psychopaths seem to disproportionately find themselves in positions of power. It’s perverse.

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      He knows that his actions have killed people. He knew that he was cutting USAIDand he knows now that people have died because of those loss of services. That’s not a secret. And by now he knows that some people have been cut off from social security because they were declared dead when they’re still alive, which again is harming people.

      Of course he might say that those changes were necessary or reasonable or accidental. But whatever the explanation, he knows that his actions have harmed people.

      And if you’d like to take a different look at it, just think about how he’s described damage to the economy. He has openly said that he thinks the economy is going to get worse before it gets better, because of the changes that he and Trump have enacted. Here again, you can make an argument that he believes in the long run things will be better than they were in the past. I don’t think that’s true, but even if you do, it’s still openly acknowledging that he made things worse for many in the short term.

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    “I’m not bad. I just tell people to do bad things and they do it. Why are you mad at me?”

    I know this guy is a bit autistic, but he can’t be that dumb.

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        Yup he’s one of those people. I have 2 kids on the ASD spectrum. The Internet is full of asshats who self diagnose with that and ADD (of which I and my 2 boys have been diagnosed).

        Although I commend them on the positive aspects of getting to know yourself better and maybe you don’t have the means to get a formal diagnosis, without it anything you spout is easy to dismiss.

        Also to Elmo being autistic. I tell both my boys “Just because you have autism it doesn’t entitle you to be an asshole”. I wish Errol and his wife ingrained that in their kids but clearly they didn’t and from what I see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

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      he’s not even autistic, just a sociopathic nepo baby piece of shit

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      Who cares if he’s autistic?? I only know 2 autistic people. They are the gentlest people I know. They are the least likely to display a Nazi salute, they don’t assume control of governments, and they aren’t involved in cutting off people’s much needed funding. I’m so tired of hearing “Elon" and “autistic" in the same breath. If conservatives really believe the shit he does should be excused because he’s “autistic”, then he isn’t competent FULL STOP

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    You don’t get to be the richest man in the world without crushing those under you. Fucking liar.

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    Holy shit, I actually laughed out loud at this. “Never done anything harmful”, lmfao. Get the fuck outta here.

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    “I’ve never done anything harmful”

    Haha, good one, Musk. Trolls gonna troll. Now fuck off back under your bridge, you nepo-baby scumbag.

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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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    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.”