The only people who "care" about Musky are the ones who dumped their life savings into Tesla stock.
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
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I don't want you dead, Elon. I want you to be penniless and without anyone willing to loan you money anymore.
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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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.
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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.
I'd settle for lead poisoning
(From the tap... double)
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 what will the Republicans do if it is discovered that Tesla was manipulating and committing fraud in its accounts?
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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??
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And how many lives do you think he’s destroyed as he takes a chainsaw to their careers?
"GO FUCK YOURSELF." - Elon Musk
"why no one like me 😢"
-Elon Musk, 1 year later
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.
What a misguided thinking, way to shoot on their own feet. By now, it should be clear that anything republicans perceive as weak, fragile, or reflective of their own insecurities triggers aversion.
trump managed to survive such perceptions because his mugshot projected a "cool" toughness or because narratives like "chosen by God" framed threats to his life as some divine bs. Musk on the other hand… getting his feelings hurts and being bullied by democrats does not create strong optics for republicans to rally behind, especially given their frequent ougabouga war cry of "dems/woke tears" or "go woke go broke".
Keen to see where this leads as musk is clearly expending significant influence at a rapid pace.
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"Wahhhh! People I've demonized and repeatedly talk down to don't like me! Just because I'm destroying any positive programs the government has and taking your future safety nets away doesn't mean we can't still be friends!"
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
Also "controversial statements and perceived elitism" is doing some heavy lifting...
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
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.