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Elon Musk Complains About 'Paid' Protests on Call About Tesla's Poor Earnings
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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He's truly revolting to anyone who sees him.
All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. I've heard his dick doesn't work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.
So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they'll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he's so fucking wierd.
It fills me with such glorious schadenfreude to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying "Money can't buy happiness."
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These guys can't even come up with an original excuse.
Surprised he didn't invoke George Soros.
Who's paying them? Genuinely, who, in his grandiose delusions, wants his demise and is paying people to protest, just to lower his stock prices. Who does he actually think is "out to get him".
Yeah and how do I sign up
George Soros, maybe?
Just remember, every accusation is a confession. Musk pays protestors, so he believes others do as well.
Are these day gigs or are these kind of jobs something i need a resume for?
He’s conflating paid and organized in an attempt to make them synonymous. Basically, anyone you ever see holding a sign is just an actor and their message is not worth acknowledgement. Don’t think too hard about how much you’re getting utterly fucked, Billy. That’s what a “globalist” would do!
Classic, straight out of the fascists playbook. Everyone who supports the fash is grassroots movement, everyone who opposes fascism is a paid shill from the scapegoat du jour.
Just hire counterprotestors? You have the scratch. Show us how logistically plausible it is to hire an enormous group of people to congregate and chant your ideas.
You'll know that's happening when the counter protesters show up in matching T-shirts, with professionally printed signs, and they appear at multiple protests. They'll claim they all responded independently, despite the obvious evidence before our eyes.
You guys are getting paid?
I'm getting paid. Not with money, but pure schadenfreude.
His narcissism won't let him admit that no one likes him. He's a Prince, his mother told him so.
which mother, the step sister one?
I think he also genuinely can't comprehend anyone doing anything that isn't for personal gain.
This.
I usually don't watch YouTube celebrities, but recently I watched the Vaush guy state what I've known for a while in my 53 years on the planet:
Some people truly can't understand why anyone would do anything without some kind of compensation. They think it's stupid, and anyone who does anything without expecting something in return is stupid, and deserves to be taken advantage of. And they don't feel bad about it. It's the "Natural Order." Winners win, and losers lose. Any instance of "Altruism" is just "Virtue Signaling," done for attention and to influence others to their advantage.
Everything is transactional, and everyone who is not useful is expendable. To them, "empathy" truly is weakness.
Reminds me of this clip.
"The kindest person in the room, is often the smartest."
Only 2 minutes, watch it.
That was excellent. Thank you very much.
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Maybe Elon is jealous that these "workers" were able to go home and sleep in their own beds at night. Unlike Elon, who apparently sucks so much at his job that he has to sleep in the office on the floor.
So Elon is just mad that he can't afford to hire protesters?
Nobody has to pay me to hate you, you fucking fascist loser. I do it pro bono.
So... given the "Every accusation is a confession" rule, what protests do you think he's funded?
He did pay people to vote, which is kinda similar.
If there's nothing wrong with paying out millions of dollars for votes, then there wouldn't be anything wrong with paying for protests, either. Have your cake, and shut the fuck up while we force feed it to you, too.
The reason he thinks they're paid is because that's how he gets people to do things. He doesn't understand any other type of motivation because his whole world revolves around money in exchange for services.
Yes Mr. Musk sir, your chips from 7-11 sir, on sale for only $10,000 sir. Yes sir, I’ll keep the change sir.
Seeing him suffer is payment enough
Paid protestors, eh? I heard he was paying them to not protest and this is how much they hate him.
I heard that he offered them a million billion dollars and that they still refused because he sucks so much.
I can get paid to do this? Where do I sign up?
Same, getting paid to do something I love is a dream. It would also be very funny if I got paid enough money as an anti-tesla protester to afford HRT with enough money left over to donate to worker liberation organizations :3
Can only imagine the damage this scumbag has done and who he's really serving. It isn't humanity. Thats for damn sure.