The depression for fElon is sinking in… don’t stop making fun of him

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    Apparently it only counts if you hurt people physically. Hurting their finances, support systems, healthcare, employment prospects are all fine.

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      I find it telling he had the self awareness to add that caveat, but in typical fashion, couldn’t follow the train of thought far enough to arrive at the logical conclusion. “I’ve taken away safety nets from the people, most are one paycheck short of being on the streets with nothing to lose, but what’s up with all these threats!?”

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        There’s a recent unironic Hitler Did Nothing Wrong sentiment that points out he never pulled the trigger or a lever on anyone.

        I think Musk is going that route.

        It’s also been used to defend Brian the dead health insurance CEO.

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          There’s a recent unironic Hitler Did Nothing Wrong sentiment that points out he never pulled the trigger or a lever on anyone.

          You mean the one he specifically amplified on his own site? Methinks he sees some parallels himself.

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            He thinks he’s orders of magnitude smarter than anyone else and nobody with guts could possibly see those parallels.

            Frankly, we’ve been doing a great job of proving him correct.

            He’s still quite happy, healthy, and wealthy.

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                I think he’s about as happy as any human being can be. Sure he has his less than perfect, probably performative sad moments on camera, but as they say, it’s hard to frown on a jetski.

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          I know this is beside the point & off topic, but Hitler is well known for pulling the trigger at least once…

          spoiler

          He did what many time travelers aspire to.

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        Oh, no. I don’t think you fully understand. He’s aware of what he’s doing to us. But as far as he’s concerned, we simply do not have the right to be upset about any of this, let alone fight back.

        That is the way elites parasites think. That’s how truly twisted they’re minds, not to mention morals, have become. The pain is intentional. But he honestly believes we deserve to be hurt, and further that he’s doing is a favor by reminding us of “our place”.

        Don’t make the mistake of sympathizing with the enemy.

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          It’s not that we deserve to be hurt, it’s that he is helpng us, saving us and the pain that comes with that isn’t his fault. It’s the fault of the oppressors he has saved us from.

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            Oh, I still think you’re being far more charitable than you realize. To people like him, we’re lesser. But their warped views rob themselves of a certain, I dunno, fulfillment. And if he’s not happy, and we’re less than him…

            "Elites parasites are sociopathic to the extreme. This poisons every thought, choice, and action. They do not think like you. This basic empathy you keep circling back to? The very definition of sociopath is that they do not have the ability to empathize.

            It really is much worse than you seem to think.

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                Source? Straight out of my ass, technically. In other words I didn’t have anything good to refer you to off the top of my head, but if you start just with the dictionary definition of sociopath you should see what I’m basing my argument from.

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      “It’s not like I killed anybody. I mean, I gave the orders but they didn’t say no.”

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        Exactly. Just like fElon reminded us the other day - it was the public workers that killed people, not Hitler.

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      You could literally torture people to death without physically hurting them.

      He’s just drawing a false equivalence between not physically hurting people and never harming people.

      I’m sure the people that he’s targeted on social media feel harmed, like the “pedo guy” for example.

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      No one realizes the damage an insurance company can do, because they are all clean and and they have shiny offices.

      They never stabbed anyone.

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      Another common example of this is the conservative justices testifying under oath before confirmation to the supreme court. Whenever they were asked about something like Roe vs. Wade, they always were suspiciously specific in the words they used to deny they were going to outlaw abortion.

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    The full quote is even worse.

    My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone.

    So why the hate and violence against me?

    Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls.

    So basically he’s saying - “I never harm anyone…the left only hates me because I’m a deadly threat to them (and that thing I made up to dismiss everything they say)”

    Also, just wanna point out he’s definitely killed/is killing people.

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    I like how Bill Burr calls him: “the Twitter guy” I bet that hurts his ego more than fElon etc

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    His confusion has got to be completely feigned. I can’t imagine even a billionaire doesn’t understand what firing thousands of people does to their lives.

    Either way there’s no sympathy here. Bitch could’ve solved world hunger if he thought of anyone else for a single moment that wasn’t for a press release.

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      Either way there’s no sympathy here.

      Elon complained that empathy is a big problem with Western Society, he wouldn’t want you to feel sympathy anyway.

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      I feel like it’s going understated that his dismantling of USAID has also directly led to deaths by starvation and preventable disease. Like yeh it sucks that Dave lost his job, but let’s not forget the actual fucking murder happening.

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      I mean he is hopped up on several drugs at all times.

      I can’t imagine even a billionaire doesn’t understand what firing thousands of people does to their lives.

      He probably doesn’t really

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      Musk: “The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy. The empathy exploit. They’re exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response.”

      I can easily imagine him thinking “I’m not directly hurting them, I’m only hurting other people. Why are they overreacting when they’re not the ones being hurt? Don’t they see that by hurting these nig… Nigerians, I’m helping them?”

      He’s right that nothing he has done has hurt me directly. But, I have that fundamental weakness of empathy, so the fact that he’s hurting so many other people means that I think the world would be better off if he were dead.

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    “I’ve never physically hurt anyone” says the man setting back cancer research in the US by decades and purposely starving poor people abroad (and at home).

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      But not unlike Hitler, he never actually physically pulled a trigger, or set an electric car on fire, or stole food from a hungry person, so really the hate against him is totally irrational and comes outta nowhere. s

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        Not to be pedantic, but Hitler was in heavy combat in WW1, so he’s actually pulled the trigger several times and we have no idea how many people he directly personally hurt or killed. Elon Musk would never let himself be put in harm’s way. Hell, he’ll use his own son as a bullet shield to ensure he’s never in danger.

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          I hereby bestow upon you my daily pedant award. I hadn’t thought of that.

          I guess I could say war doesn’t count but whatever, I was wrong. I think the rest of the sentence stands on its own.

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          We’re referring to the holocaust specifically. And to a lesser degree the war he lead. Hitler has an interesting history, barring the violence.

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      and also have been associated with epstien/island on occasion. setting back both social progress and STEM research, i believe stem funding has been underattack as of late, columbia university have seen bowing to trump by "reprimanding 22 students. funny the columbia university was where these type of protest started.

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    He has hurt plenty of people though.

    People have DIED because his cars are shit & he lied about what they can actually do.

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      He didn’t design, engineer, or build those. You give him too much credit. His input likely amounted to “make it cheaper and raise the price”

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        Arguably he made Tesla’s autopilot shittier by removing LIDAR because it was too expensive.

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          He also promoted, and named it autopilot. Which could at least be fraud, and if you or I or any other non-billionaire sold something similarly misrepresented, we’d be liable for the deaths and fraud.

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        I’m speculating but it seems plausible to also make decisions like start selling the cars even though the engineers are saying they are not ready yet.

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          I’d also say irrespective of whether or not he designed, built or engineered any of the cars he is still accountable for what happens with those cars.

          The person on top is accountable for it all. It may not be his fault someone could be sloppy in their work and he is still accountable for it.

          The managers who let things slide, the CEO is accountable. If these managers hired people not up to the task, the manager is responsible & accountable for those staff and the CEO is responsible and accountable for anything the managers & staff do.

          If I as a CEO had an accountant not paying the right taxes, the accountant may be at fault and lose his job but it’s still my responsibility and accountability those taxes are paid.

          There is no world where CEO isn’t accountable for the actions of the company. (In theory…)

          Unfortunately we live in a world where the CEO’s often have no consequences for the actions of their companies and the existing laws and structures to hold them to account are insufficient.

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        He’s the one who sets company culture as CEO, so the “move fast and break things” that got that lady stuck in her car while she drowned is his fault, and it will get a whole lot more killed when they actually enable that autopilot of theirs on the cars.

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    Ah yes, because he didn’t personally assault people he should be hands-off, event though he’s personally commanded people’s live’s to be fucked with.

    It’s like the UHC CEO that was executed, none of them want to take responsibility for their actions or actually consider the ramifications of them. Like pulling the trigger on the gun but taking no responsibility for what damage the bullet does.

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    He deserves all the hate he gets.

    And that hilarious line “…I’ve never physically hurt anyone”. Interesting how he has to qualify that by saying he never ‘physically’ hurt anyone. Like he knows if he said he never hurt anyone, he’d get called out right away. What a joke. Yeah, he’s financially ruined people, cost people their jobs, selling defective vehicles, overpromising and underdelivering, stolen from people (see how he took control of Tesla. People say he founded Tesla, but he didn’t. he was an early investor, and used strong-arm tactics to oust it actual founders), but he’s never actually physically put his hands on anyone, so he’s a good person… right.

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    Musk you absolutely have blood on your hands. There was a bipartisan bill to cap medicine prices and your tweets stopped and killed it. You know medicine that people rely on to live like insulin and asthma inhalers.

    Some of those people are looking at a life of medical debt induced misery for themselves and family OR a more permanent and tragic solution.

    You won’t be able to scrub hard enough to wipe those claret marks off.

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      Some of those people are looking at a life of medical debt induced misery for themselves and family

      Right, but it benefits our ruling class for the working class to have an extremely financially precarious existence. Makes it harder for them to pay attention, help each other, start unions, rise up, etc if they’re constantly focused on their immediate circumstances rather than the big picture.

      Smartphone addiction also aids in this

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    Notice how he specifies that he technically never “physically” hurt anyone.

    But damaging his product and brand is “violence.”

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    Why? Actions have consequences. If your good deeds outweigh the bad ones you’re okay. If bad deeds outweigh the good ones, people know you as elon musk.

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      He knows, he qualified it with he hasn’t physically hurt anyone, so it’s like, cool, you know?

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    ooh, ooh! I can answer that!

    Because you’re a nazi piece of shit and have accomplished nothing more than being born rich and taking credit for other people’s work.

    Also you’re wrong about the products, your companies make absolute shit especially when they listen to you.

    Also you’re a sexual harasser obsessed with impregnating women because you can’t make up for the fact that you’re an unfuckable troglodyte.

    Oh and you were buddies with epstein and ghislaine.