Summary

Elon Musk called for arrests after posting a video on X showing a confrontation between women and a Tesla Cybertruck driver.

In the video, a woman pointed at the vehicle, prompting the driver to yell threats while the crowd chanted “Shame!”

Another woman called the driver a Nazi.

Musk claimed the incident was part of broader attacks and urged authorities to arrest those funding such actions, saying targeting only “puppets and paid foot-soldiers” would not stop the violence.

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    Seriously, he keeps saying we’re supposed to be being paid to hate Tesla, but I haven’t seen a paycheck yet. Anyone have the number for HR?

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    Never forget that Elon Musk has built his fortune on many many violations of the law, including SEC violations and breaking employment laws. This ghoul firmly believes that his is of a privileged class that is permitted to do this while you are not. He is a cancer in our society and deserves nothing but ridicule and punishment for the harm he feels entitled to inflict on the rest of us.

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      He doesn’t even have to believe it, it’s been proven time and time again that he is part of a privileged class.

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      The treatment for cancer is not “ridicule,” you know. Just sayin’.

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      This is incorrect.

      A ghoul behaves independently unto itself and for its own needs and survival. (Think The Walking Dead, The Last of Us). They can be clever, and are typically depicted as adaptive.

      I think the word you’re looking for is “zombie.” (Think necromancy, magically risen dead) They are essentially mindless controlled entities. Constructs. They cannot behave independently unto themselves or for their own needs.

      Elon is owned. Just like the rest of them. Everything he does is for the benefit of whatever entity that happens to control the static between his ears.

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    Sounds like free speech to me, which is something that a free speech absolutist like Elmo shouldn’t have a problem with, right?

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    Musk has a point, though. The Cybertruck is extremely fragile, so pointing at it with your finger poses a significant risk and could even set it on fire.

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    You guys are so quick to judge Elon. It’s not fair.

    He’s not a Nazi. He just likes Nazis.

    Get a grip guys he’s not a Nazi. He just really likes everything they stood for.

    Quit calling him a Nazi. He’s just a guy who really really likes Nazis and hitler and being a piece of shit.

    He’s not a Nazi guys. He just likes Nazis. A lot.

    He likes them as much as any Nazi would.

    Can’t a guy just like Nazis and act like a Nazi and do Nazi things without being labeled a Nazi?

    It’s unfair. Maybe you have too small a brain to understand the distinction.

    Elon musk is not a Nazi.

    He just really really wants to be one.

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    arrest those funding such actions

    Wait, we can get paid to laugh at cybertrucks? And here I am doing it for free like a sucker.

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      Idk about you, but I had the best first IRL interaction. I love an a small town and had one pull up to me at a stop light. I immediately started belly laughing, and my shit carries even when I don’t intend it. Heard some sort of quick beep almost immediately when I started. I hope I see myself online someday.

      Edit: https://youtu.be/fmLx5S5GUJc

      Good job editing the part of your comment where you called me a liar.

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        What kind of lameass story is that?

        Quit screwing around and flip them off like a proper adult.

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          Naw this actually happened I assure you. Pretty sure I still got the dash cam footage, but you’re just going to hear the laughter and beep.

          But you know, good job sounding like a dick. You must be a blast at social gatherings.

          Edit for the cynics https://youtu.be/fmLx5S5GUJc

          Why would I lie about something like this?

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      But was she screaming the hard-R N-word into the face of a black guy? No? See? That’s “real free speech” is! We may never know how many harmless but funny pranks and jokes were lost to being potentially called “racist”, which should be also illegal.

      — Elon Musk probably

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      No one on the right ever gave a shit about free speech. They don’t care about actual freedom in general, either. They want to own people. It’s the Southern idea of “freedom”.

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    “It is time to arrest those funding the attacks,” he wrote. “Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence.”

    Yes, very much so. It is high time we arrest those who are funding the violence against America.

    Who is responsible for the havoc we are suffering, again?

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    Well, if people are going to be arrested for just flipping off cybertrucks, then they might as well just go ahead and actually damage them.

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    Because he’s funding fascism, he assumes anyone against his agenda must be “funded” by someone. He can’t comprehend that someone would be against living in a dystopian fascist hellhole without being paid.

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        I was thinking the exact same thing. If you pay a bunch of people to have a political opinion, it must be natural to think that everyone who has a political opinion is being paid.

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      Yeah, if you think about it, being a paid protester would be a really fun job, for gleeful jerks like me at least.

      You get to travel around, hang out with like-minded folks on the bus and in new cities. You get to strategize maximum shenanigans and once in a while get on the news.

      Strangely, my search for such job openings has come up completely empty. Guess you have to know some one?

      /S

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        Not sure why you got downvoted.

        I’m not a violent person—I want peace. But if the quickest path to it, with the least bloodshed, is removing this idiot, then so be it.

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            Id really consider it I weren’t foreign to the US. Really really bad look for my whole country if I did anything. But if USA invades us then I’m absolutely going to try.

            I’m hopeful I’ll be so popular after that no lawyer will be required 🤞

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          some people think the newport folk festival is on the edge of peace. others are ready for dylan to go electric.

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              the scene from “a complete unknown” really hammers the point home.

              pete seeger: “we’re so close to peace”

              dylan: “they just killed JFK and Malcom X”

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    “It is time to arrest those funding the attacks,” he wrote. “Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence.”

    How much funding does he think it takes to get people to protest against the world’s most publicly obnoxious Nazi?

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      He’s absolutely the kind of person who would think the only reason anyone would ever act like they hate him is because they’re being paid to do so. He can’t imagine anyone not really thinking he’s as great as he thinks he is.

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        He also loves money and has no principles. People doing something because they have values is just not something he understands.

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          I mean, the pathology goes so much deeper.

          Musk’s family hates him. Like they actively go out of their way to speak against him. His father tweets shit about him, his grown children want nothing to do with him but will speak out against him, his ex… Well you could fill a book with that. His mother and his youngest child (who he uses like a prop) are the only ones that haven’t publicly worked against him

          What friends does he have? His billionaire buddies will make moves with him, but we’ve seen the text chains - it’s all business. They barely react when he goes against his word… They congratulated him for buying Twitter himself after making plans to go into it together that he backed out of - no way that wasn’t a backhanded compliment

          Trump hates his guts… But sucks up to him. What friends does he have? He has sycophants, he has people eager to use him… But every relationship he has is based around the fact he’s the richest billionaire. If he loses that, what does he have? Who does he have?

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            TLDR:

            He has to pay people to pretend to like him, so he thinks the people who hate him have been paid too.

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        Deep down, he knows, and it torments him. Unfortunately he’s rich enough to take it out on the world.