Summary

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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    His existence is harmful. I feel that I need to defend myself against him at all times, since him just existing is akin to assault and battery.

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      Can’t remember where I heard it but someone posited this to me and it stuck: Nobody ever does anything they believe is wrong.

      If you take that at face value then how you explain evil is that a person has justified to themselves that death, suffering, pain, and unhappiness are all balanced against what they believe is the right way things should be. I can’t imagine being in a ecosystem of people where the things I believe start justifying the way these people behave. But, I’m not a billionaire. Or religious.

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

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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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    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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    “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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      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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      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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      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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        He’s not clueless, he’s using this as an opportunity to play the victim and paint “the left” as the real problem. It’s all for Fox news viewers and the ignorant and it’s going to work. These people are masters at propaganda and manipulation. It’s disgusting how effective they’ve been

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          Sure it’s going to work. The American right is a lost cause of lead-huffing morons. They’d open up wide if Musk said he was going to shit in their mouths and chugged a milkshake made of Taco Bell and Diablo sauce on the way to do it.

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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