As of June 25, 55.1 percent of Americans viewed Elon Musk unfavorably, while 37 percent had a favorable opinion—a sharp shift from early 2024, when the numbers were roughly even, according to Silver Bulletin.

“Musk is still popular among Republicans, but he’s less popular than he used to be and less popular than other Republican figures,” elections analyst Eli McKown-Dawson wrote.

  • @[email protected]
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    55.1 percent of Americans viewed Elon Musk unfavorably, while 37 percent had a favorable opinion

    How is this possible? I’m convinced you can do the worst shit imaginable and 30% of people will still support it, no matter what.

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      6% of the us population consider themselves far-right, 17% consider themselves right-of-center-right, add in silicon Valley nuts, linked in lunatics, vc padded vest wearers, die hard Tesla / SpaceX fans, single issue voters, red-down-the-ballot-voters, and people who don’t keep up with what elon did bad - easy to see tbh

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    He killed his Dem fans by going MAGA. Then, killed MAGA fans going against their orange god. All-around idiot that got lucky investments with daddy’s money.

    Jump in one of those exploding rockets, Elon. It surely won’t blow this time.

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      He not only did what you describe, but by buying Twitter, he intentionally worked to polarize the entire political base into neat “pro-Trump” and “anti-Trump” camps. Then he finished systematically burning his bridges with both. Amazing work all around.

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      I mean, him Titan CEO’ing himself on the way to Mars as a showcase that his tech is safe, is well within plausibility

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            He isn’t taking his own robo taxis.

            Does he even drive a tesla?

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              He does. He required their charging port to be where they are due to the layout of his garage at the time when they designed the Model S

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        He could do that today by showing off how reliable the collision detection and braking systems are on his Cybertruck.

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        I don’t know, the stream where his entire goal was to prove how good starlink was for gaming where he immediately blamed all his deaths on poor connection quality, sort of implies he has trouble putting his products before his ego.

        And while he is an expert at deluding himself, I think we have already passed the point where even he could be convinced his rockets were safe.

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      friendly reminder that Eloser Muskrat got over 8 million USD in DAILY subsidies from the government, while he swore to hold a chainsaw to “democracy” to “cut costs”

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      Because he forged a stupid ass cult of personality based on the lie of “Rel lyf eronmaen” so thusly has way too much power even ignoring the fact that in theory he has billions in assets. Note he is also a damned fine example as to why stocks for anything other than resource extraction is fucking asinine.

      Personally I think the world would be a lot better if murder was still relatively easy, simply because then we could just kill fuckwads like musk and the world would somewhat improve.

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        You don’t want that world. Look at who commits murder even when it’s more difficult, and look at why they do it. The far-right love to respond to people trying to help them with death threats, guns, and bombs, the centre doesn’t do anything about it even if they’re also in the victim pool, and the left would like to see these executives and corrupt politicians arrested and their ill-gotten assets seized but we generally pump the brakes on the murder.

        These days, though, people are being pushed outside their “comfort zone”.

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          I meant on a technological level rather than a legal one, most right wing lunatics who are caught for murder are usually pretty stupid about it. A well planned killing could be don’t within seconds with the trail going cold within minutes, like with the CEO killing. Fact of the matter is without facial recognition and other trite there would be only a limited capacity to catch someone murking say musk.

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    If you ever feel useless, just remember that Elon Musk failed terribly at the easiest thing in the world - not being a Nazi shithead

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    Awesome strategy, though. First, piss off the sane people, then piss off the crazy people.

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      This is funny

      I stopped using twitter once I could no longer use it to see live updates for current events around the world

      I would never buy a new car let alone a fancy or wannabe fancy one

      I hope space x gets to mars

      Elon seems like he has a lot of issues he needs to work through, I don’t think he realizes how much his actions hurt those around him including people in his own family which he claims is important to him but that’s just me trying to humanize him I guess

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    I hope he will be ignored into obscurity and eternal oblivion. Peter Thiel too, what a disgrace for the german people.

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    fuck this Nazi scum.

    dude should go back to South Africa and crawl back into whatever shithole he crawled out of.