Summary
Republicans’ efforts to portray Elon Musk as a MAGA martyr are failing, as his victim narrative struggles to resonate with conservative audiences.
Musk’s controversial statements and perceived elitism, including his complaints of being targeted by Democrats, have alienated even right-wing supporters.
Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand, and Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings, especially on economic issues.
Attempts to rally sympathy for Musk, including his emotional Fox News appearance, have largely backfired.
Imagine saying “They basically want me dead.” and then wearing your child as a human shield. Father of the year.
“GO FUCK YOURSELF.” - Elon Musk
The people Musk told that empathy was bad don’t have any empathy for Musk?
no but see it’s only bad when it’s not for me. obviously. when it’s for me it’s good.
I forgot about that. It’s poetic.
They say things like this because their base wants to kill people they dislike. Most people don’t want to kill people they dislike, they want them to win three Guinness World Records for longest lasting, least operable, and largest hemorrhoids.
I realized this morning that for how much Luigi is praised there haven’t been attempts to follow his example.
I don’t know why that felt relevant on this post and I’m definitely not advocating anything, just an observationMost people capable of murder do not care about their fellow humans; and those of us who could often lack means or have to protect others closer to home. They cannot just go away without harming others who need them.
Once you get past all those filters it’s a very tiny percentage of people who have motive, means and opportunity. Most of those get unlucky.
Just about everyone is capable of killing given the right circumstances.
An certain Austrian duke comes to mind…here’s hoping that Elon gets to play his role in the remake.
I hope his story skips to the ending. Preferably live streamed to twitter.
Just because you didn’t hear about something doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
The home of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation (SAIF) CEO Chip Terhune in Lake Oswego, near Portland, was shot up in the early hours of Feb. 21, the Lake Oswego Police Department said Wednesday.
https://www.fox9.com/news/saif-chip-terhune-insurance-ceo-bullets-oregon
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s been other incidents which were kept away from the news.
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.
He is such a ridiculous asswipe that it seems like he’s doing it on purpose to help distract from other billionaires falling in line or random horrible shit the administration is doing.
I doubt it’s an act, and I suspect he’s really just that much of an asswipe, but damn.
Honestly, I don’t think there’s any distraction tactics. Anyone who can’t see what’s happening is blind. It’s full on dictatorship in progress, people.
He’s one of the most prominent disconnected individuals out there. It’s almost certainly not an act, he’s just an idiot. One of the most powerful and influential idiots that has ever existed, unfortunately…
He and Trump are very similar. Both managed to make a bunch of other people’s money tied to their personal brand and both had a whole lot of interests trying to help build them up while simultaneously running interference to keep them from making actual decisions about businesses because those folks realized what a moron that he was, until it gets out of hand and they can’t control him anymore. It’s a perfect storm to just make the most insufferable people, idiots who have been told their whole lives by everyone how great and smart they were by an ‘in crowd’.
Empathy for me, but not for thee!
“They basically want to kill me”. Quote from people discussing their american health plans?
Tbf, I do want to see him dead.
I don’t want to kill Musk, but I’m not going to shed any tears about anything bad that happens to him or any other racist, fascist piece of shit.
If empathy’s a weakness then Karma is a bitch
I wish for him to be reborn as bee, so that when in anger he stings a person, he must remove his stinger himself in a desperate plea to survive or tear his innards out in the ultimate karma that would humble his soul.
Bees are pretty much the angels of the insect world… Harming no-one and nothing, and almost single-handedly holding up the ecosystem of a quarter of the planet’s life forms.
He’s got a long way to go to reach level bee.
Empathy, like tolerance, should really be considered a social contract. If he doesn’t have empathy for the less fortunate than him, I have a really hard time having empathy for him.
Don’t kill him. Just tax him like they would with a normal working person. That would throw him into a world of sufferung.
Put him to death for treason and tax his estate at 100% and absorb Space X into NASA.
I think he’s done enough damage and stolen enough from the american people that he deserves to hang.
It isn’t just him. The whole oligarchy have understand that the guillotine is being prepared and that they are next.
Then maybe they will pretend to not be assholes, and thus save themselves.
i mean, he’s already lost $200B net worth. If we keep at it, he will be in the gutter soon enough.
Clarence Darrow wrote: “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
Yeah, I don’t want to do it, but it would be convenient if he did
Just every day some little misfortune to balance out karma like wet sleeves after washing hands, occasionally stepping into dog crap, marmalade toast falling on the floor upside down, a few paper cuts, stepping onto lego barefoot, mobile phone falling into toilet bowl and so on.
Whoa whoa whoa, wishing death upon someone is one thing, but wanting them to step on a lego barefoot? You’re a monster.
but
Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings
Wow, you have to be a special kind of shitty to actually hurt Trump’s image, rather than the other way around.
Truly the Ticketmaster of people.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
“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!”
All Americans worthy of the name want to kill Nazis.
Hold my beer and hand me some ammo
What about a rusty spoon?
The feeling of rust on my salad fingers is almost olgasmic
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
Protests and vandalism are the effects of a shitty brand, not the cause. Musk himself is the cause.
Also “controversial statements and perceived elitism” is doing some heavy lifting…
“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
I’ll celebrate with a drink if somebody does.
Come the margin call I’ma feast on a dozen fried eggs and maybe, just maybe a tiny smidge of K
