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.
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…
Hope he never has another moment of peace.
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by doubling his intake of ketamine binges, and downing expensive bottles of dom perrignon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Speak for yourself.
I don’t care what happens to him as long as I no longer have to hear about him.
You’ll be heading about him for a long time. I mean Hitler is still taught about today as far as I know.
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Yeah if he’s dead, how will we revel in his failures?
Posthumously.
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”?
Gleefully
I don’t want him dead. I want him poor enough to need a gofundme when his drug abuse takes its toll.
“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.”
-Clarence Darrow
Always thought that was Mark Twain, but snipes does give Darrow the credit - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mark-twain-obituary-pleasure/
Always trust Wesley Snipes. Always.
So help crash his tesla stock so that the bank collects on his loan stock collateral, which will force him to to pay tax, too.
How many times am I allowed to upvote?
The people Musk told that empathy was bad don’t have any empathy for Musk?
I forgot about that. It’s poetic.
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.
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.”
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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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. Make elon the freeloader of tax payer subsidies pay his taxes.
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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Put him to death for treason and tax his estate at 100% and absorb Space X into NASA.
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.
Yeah, I don’t want to do it, but it would be convenient if he did
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
People cheer at the news that Tesla dealerships are burning. That isn’t because they hate Tesla, it’s because Musk is an insufferable piece of shit. He solidified his legacy of trash when he went alt-right. He’s now the villain and always will be
And the fucker revels being a villain. CPAC appearance on stage with a chainsaw, telling Bob Iger to go fuck himself, Nazi salutes, the list goes on… His brain is obviously mush, but I kinda wonder how he thought this was going to play out for his companies any other way than it has.
“DARK GOTHIC MAGA”
God that looked as dumb as a door knob, wouldn’t even fit for WWE show
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.
I don’t want Elon dead, I want him to go bankrupt, fail at creating some NRx corporate dictatorship so hard that he brings about a socialist utopia, and then end up getting the drug and mental health treatment he so badly needs for free, eventually issuing an apology for becoming such an asshole and proceeding to live out the rest of his days giving Ted talks around the theme of how being the richest person on earth was the most miserable time of his life.
This is a timeline I would vote for.
She’d a tear for the billionaire as he dismantles our social safety net to give his cronies a tax break.
There isn’t much of a safety net to dismantle, but he’ll find a way.
What a whining fucking maggot. Elon and that whole cohort of cowardly cunts are destroying education, Social Security, international relations, food safety, financial security, and any kind of safety net for the tens of millions of people who will fall through the cracks and die because of their greed. Yeah, no fucking shit people want you dead. It’s not out of spite, or jealousy, or political differences. It’s self preservation.
If he were killed, his killer would be more popular than Luigi.
A man should have goals.
Women, too. Never forget: The female of the species is often deadlier than the male.
Imagine saying “They basically want me dead.” and then wearing your child as a human shield. Father of the year.
“They basically want to kill me”. Quote from people discussing their american health plans?
Tbf, I do want to see him dead.
Musk and the other tech-Nazis who invested in Trump want to tear down the government and replace nations with individually owned territories, which each of these corporate criminals will run like a personal fiefdom. Think 13th century feudalism but with internet and cars. A bunch of lords owning everything including the people. “Freedom Cities” that will be wholly owned and operated by your corporate overlords.
You are pretty much describing the premise behind Max Berry’s book - Jennifer Government.
In the alternate present the novel portrays, the United States has taken over all of North and South America (except for Cuba) and dominates much of the rest of the world. The United States adopts “capitalizm”, a form of minarchy that abolishes taxation and privatizes government.
People take the names of the corporations that employ them as their surnames, and persons with two jobs hyphenate their name, e.g. “Julia Nike-McDonald’s”. Employees of the government, including the novel’s title character, take the surname Government.
Unfortunately, the takeover of the US government by billionaires isn’t fictional anymore. If Musk and the others get their way, the Supreme Court will be disbanded or powerless. The Senate and House will have no control over the government’s spending which is their constitutional role. All government power will be vested in the presidency and he will be their CEO. The billionaires will be a board of directors that gives the CEO / President his orders.
Something tells me the ones who think they’d be in charge would be quickly disappeared in theses “self regulating” “cities”.
Also, who do they think is going to move there? Do they believe liberals will gladly join their psycho future vision? The maga people are already against cities in general. They’ll never move to one…… so who do these people think will live/work/support their cities???
I could be bought with a walkable downtown, commitment to the highest public education standards, affordable and accessible medical care, affordable housing, net zero buildings, xeriscaping, high speed rail, internet fiber everywhere, extensive parks and nature areas, diverse people and cultural events, shops and restaurants, and an effective technology supported town hall government …… and a good brewpub.
The tech bros are supporting all that, right? Right?
To be fair liberals probably would join with how useless they are.
Chuck will lead the way
In Scotland we have a word for people like Elon, cunt
