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.”

  • Tony Bark
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    2044 months ago

    This is coming from the guy who literately waved a fucking chainsaw up at CPAC.

    • @Eldritch@lemmy.world
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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.

    • @Xanthobilly@lemmy.world
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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.

  • partial_accumen
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    1314 months ago

    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.

    • @cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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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.

    • LupusBlackfur
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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.

      🤦‍♀️ 🤷‍♂️ 🙄 🖕 🖕

      • @Asafum@feddit.nl
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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

        • 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.

    • @eletes@sh.itjust.works
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      134 months ago

      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

  • Match!!
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    4 months ago

    Sorry Musk! I heard empathy is weakness!

  • @BetaBlake@lemmy.world
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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.

    • @ynthrepic@lemmy.world
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      Clinically psychopathic. Sociopathy is the result.

      The distinction is important because neurotypical people can be raised to behave in ways that are sociopathic, both directly and indirectly. Most of the ultra wealthy who are born into wealth for example explain away the harms their lives cause others. But they still feel and express empathy in many aspects of their lives

      But Musk seems genuinely like he has no genuine empathy, and like he has no comprehension of how to be a moral actor in the world. Trump is the same.

      Being reasonable intelligent and born into privilege in the world that rewards sociopathy through the market system… psychopaths seem to disproportionately find themselves in positions of power. It’s perverse.

  • @blady_blah@lemmy.world
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    574 months ago

    “I’m not bad. I just tell people to do bad things and they do it. Why are you mad at me?”

    I know this guy is a bit autistic, but he can’t be that dumb.

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        to clarify, one can absolutely determine themselves to have autism, but the reason most people go that route is because they can’t afford or haven’t got access to resources for an official diagnosis…

        …of which he has plenty. he’s not autistic; he’s a sociopathic piece of shit who thinks branding himself as autistic will earn him sympathy points, like keeping a child wrapped around his shoulders will keep him from being luigi’d.

        • @orrk@lemmy.world
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          honestly as somone who has autism, most people who diagnose themselves don’t have it

          • doug
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            74 months ago

            I mean I’m no expert and I’m not going to paint in as big of brushstrokes, but after being diagnosed myself and after reading Unmasking Autism I feel more comfortable in discerning who does and doesn’t have it, and I don’t think he has it. I think he’s just lacking empathy.

          • @PeteZa@lemm.ee
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            14 months ago

            There are just a ton of online tests now. Every time my wife and I take one, it says I’m definitely not on the spectrum but it tells my wife something along the lines of “you might want to get checked”. We don’t take that as a diagnosis though. I feel like this could possibly be another example of how we started seeing more left handed people in society after it was no longer stigmatized.

      • @whoisearth@lemmy.ca
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        14 months ago

        Yup he’s one of those people. I have 2 kids on the ASD spectrum. The Internet is full of asshats who self diagnose with that and ADD (of which I and my 2 boys have been diagnosed).

        Although I commend them on the positive aspects of getting to know yourself better and maybe you don’t have the means to get a formal diagnosis, without it anything you spout is easy to dismiss.

        Also to Elmo being autistic. I tell both my boys “Just because you have autism it doesn’t entitle you to be an asshole”. I wish Errol and his wife ingrained that in their kids but clearly they didn’t and from what I see the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

  • yeehaw
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    464 months ago

    You don’t get to be the richest man in the world without crushing those under you. Fucking liar.

  • ThePowerOfGeek
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    434 months ago

    “I’ve never done anything harmful”

    Haha, good one, Musk. Trolls gonna troll. Now fuck off back under your bridge, you nepo-baby scumbag.

    • GladiusB
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      14 months ago

      Those two words are the same thing. Like The Los Angeles Angels.

  • @dhork@lemmy.world
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    Is he seriously thinking that people might have empathy for him if he says that?

  • @lostoncalantha@lemmy.world
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    294 months ago

    I specifically remember the bud light and trans controversy where they were boycotting bud light. Elon seemed to support that. Now that people are trading in their teslas and boycotting all of a sudden it’s not good.