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Elon Musk called for arrests after posting a video on X showing a confrontation between women and a Tesla Cybertruck driver.

In the video, a woman pointed at the vehicle, prompting the driver to yell threats while the crowd chanted “Shame!”

Another woman called the driver a Nazi.

Musk claimed the incident was part of broader attacks and urged authorities to arrest those funding such actions, saying targeting only “puppets and paid foot-soldiers” would not stop the violence.

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    26 days ago

    Never forget that Elon Musk has built his fortune on many many violations of the law, including SEC violations and breaking employment laws. This ghoul firmly believes that his is of a privileged class that is permitted to do this while you are not. He is a cancer in our society and deserves nothing but ridicule and punishment for the harm he feels entitled to inflict on the rest of us.

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      The treatment for cancer is not “ridicule,” you know. Just sayin’.

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      This is incorrect.

      A ghoul behaves independently unto itself and for its own needs and survival. (Think The Walking Dead, The Last of Us). They can be clever, and are typically depicted as adaptive.

      I think the word you’re looking for is “zombie.” (Think necromancy, magically risen dead) They are essentially mindless controlled entities. Constructs. They cannot behave independently unto themselves or for their own needs.

      Elon is owned. Just like the rest of them. Everything he does is for the benefit of whatever entity that happens to control the static between his ears.

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    Musk has a point, though. The Cybertruck is extremely fragile, so pointing at it with your finger poses a significant risk and could even set it on fire.

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    arrest those funding such actions

    Wait, we can get paid to laugh at cybertrucks? And here I am doing it for free like a sucker.

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      But was she screaming the hard-R N-word into the face of a black guy? No? See? That’s “real free speech” is! We may never know how many harmless but funny pranks and jokes were lost to being potentially called “racist”, which should be also illegal.

      — Elon Musk probably

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      No one on the right ever gave a shit about free speech. They don’t care about actual freedom in general, either. They want to own people. It’s the Southern idea of “freedom”.

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    He’s allowed to do Nazi salutes at inaugurations, but people aren’t allowed to point fingers at his cars?

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        Not sure why you got downvoted.

        I’m not a violent person—I want peace. But if the quickest path to it, with the least bloodshed, is removing this idiot, then so be it.

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            Id really consider it I weren’t foreign to the US. Really really bad look for my whole country if I did anything. But if USA invades us then I’m absolutely going to try.

            I’m hopeful I’ll be so popular after that no lawyer will be required 🤞

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          some people think the newport folk festival is on the edge of peace. others are ready for dylan to go electric.

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              the scene from “a complete unknown” really hammers the point home.

              pete seeger: “we’re so close to peace”

              dylan: “they just killed JFK and Malcom X”

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    Well, if people are going to be arrested for just flipping off cybertrucks, then they might as well just go ahead and actually damage them.

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    Elon’s self esteem is the strength of soft tofu. it’s not for the world to walk on eggshells. He needs to get some actual real therapy cuz this isn’t managing at life.

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      A good criminal justice system ought to have comprehensive mental health services as part of the goal of rehabilitation. Therefore, for his own good, he should be in prison and we should reform the prison system.

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    haha - funding them - no Elon, people hate you so much they’re doing this for free.

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    Is the snowflake afraid of a little free speech? I thought he was all about free markets correcting themselves?

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    Wasn’t cyber tuck supposed to be a battery powered light tank chassis? Why are these punks scared of an old lady’s finger?

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    Given that it obviously won’t happen, I have to wonder which particular thing he’s trying to divert attention from.

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      Well he’s currently attempting to buy an election in Wisconsin, so you’re spot on.

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      Given that it obviously won’t happen,

      I’ll just put that on my overflowing inbox of things that obviously won’t happen, which is right next to my overflowing outbox of things that obviously won’t happen but did anyway.