Elon Musk says he's shocked at the level of Tesla hate and vandalism happening: 'I've never done anything harmful'
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."
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This is coming from the guy who literately waved a fucking chainsaw up at CPAC.
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.
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.
Like three days ago no less
The whiplash...
*elicit (though the way he does it is definitely illicit)
Thanks.
And did a Nazi salute, and literally fired tens of thousands of people for no fucking reason. I hope he's just pretending to be surprised and not actually this dense.
And let's not forget about the emerald mine, and stealing Tesla, and environment harm.
He didn't steal Tesler. He was such an obscenely shitty person to have to deal with the founders literally sold out to not have to deal with him anymore.
Well, it's no better than stealing, tbh.
It's funnier though.
Apparently, he is not as smart as we were led to believe.
From the guy who literally said "Hitler didn't harm anyone"
Then we know what his standard is: he means he's no more harmful than Hitler.
Well, he didn't physically cut anyone on stage with it... /s
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.
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.
Such is life when you are empathy free...
And, likely, a sociopath to boot.
🤦♀️ 🤷♂️ 🙄 🖕 🖕
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.
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
Get fucked you Hitler saluting fascist.
The rich deserve daisies.
Homeless go home
Sorry Musk! I heard empathy is weakness!
The worst part is, he probably fucking believes that.
That's how out of touch he is
Can't remember where I heard it but someone posited this to me and it stuck: Nobody ever does anything they believe is wrong.
If you take that at face value then how you explain evil is that a person has justified to themselves that death, suffering, pain, and unhappiness are all balanced against what they believe is the right way things should be. I can't imagine being in a ecosystem of people where the things I believe start justifying the way these people behave. But, I'm not a billionaire. Or religious.
I feel like that quote is easily wrong. Hell, I've done things I know are wrong (on small, minor things, like leaving work 15 minutes early and not taking leave or calling in sick when I'm not, because fuck it).
Then again, I guess I don't think it's entirely wrong, either. Because yeah, there are lots of people who truly believe their unethical/immoral actions are in the right. But I also think those people are often victims of indoctrination and/or they are sociopaths.
Same. In fact I worry about how often I feel like I'm sometimes slacking at work, but generally my numbers look good. I warned my boss not to spoil me because I can fall into bad habits.
No one is the bad guy in their own story.
Morality isn't black and white. Anything that happens has good and bad. Personally, I believe that many can't understand the balance of side effects with the greater good. It's something doctors literally have to balance every day. Every medication and treatment has side effects and risks. Even taking Tylenol. So they have to balance "this vaccine might cause x" with "but this will keep the kid alive and a kid with x is still better than a dead kid."
But I'm sure they could say the same about me. If Musk really believed their was fraud and waste in government. The pain and suffering of those he is firing and those who are being hurt by his policies are the side effects. In his mind, he thinks he's the good guy. He thinks what he is doing is the "right thing" from his perspective.
I would be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't believe the government should efficient and without fraud and waste. But since it's literally filled with people who believe that, it's far more efficient than certain media portray it as.
In regards to you leaving work early or calling off, if your world view taking care of yourself is doing the right thing. And sometimes you need to "do something wrong" like leaving work early in order to do the right thing like taking care of yourself.
The government shouldn't be run as a business. That's a lie that's been told to us for far too long. How many people hate their jobs? Do people really want to hate being a citizen as well?
I firmly believe Government is a collective tool to take care of it's citizens. It's to protect them from individuals who want to hurt and take advantage of them. To protect them from foreign actors who want to influence and hurt them. To take care of their medical problems. To take care of their security, such as housing and food. To provide them with the collective infrastructure their daily lives need, like roads, water, electricity, trash services, and gas. To take care of their education. To create a fair playing field giving everyone an opportunity to achieve their dreams.
I don't believe that capitalism cannot be a part of that. But it cannot be unbridled and unregulated. Private businesses have literally no obligation or incentive to provide a service or good if they can get money without doing so. They have no incentive to provide it cheaply. Their only incentive to being efficient is so that the people at the top can make more.
If governments take that approach, the people at the top like the President are the ones who get more money. And we the citizens, the employees, are used and abused.
Paying taxes, in my opinion, should be a source of pride. You should be able to look around at the roads, ambulances, parks, playgrounds, hospitals, and schools and say "I did that." You should look at your neighbor smiling and say "hell yea, I helped them."
Will some people try and take advantage of a government like that? Yea, of course. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't help the 99% of those that need it to keep 1% of people defrauding us. We should identify ways people do, find ways to single them out and address them. And even if someone gets away with it, I believe that is worth it so the other 99% are taken care of.
I'm not saying perfection. That's my last sentence. The fraud of by a small number of people is worth it if it means more people are helped.
It doesn't make sense to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to prevent fraud of hundreds of dollars.
Oh I totally agree.
When I say efficiency, I'm talking about quickly providing service. I expect the USPS to be efficient in that they deliver the mail without sending something around the country pointlessly and that they deliver it quickly. Efficient in that appointments are easy to get. Efficient in that applications are processed in a timely fashion.
I don't want meaningless busy work or pointless paperwork. I honestly don't think there is a lot of that anyway. These aren't things that federal workers want or administrators would set up to purposely be obtuse. (Other than those purposely trying to sabotage agencies for privatization. But I'm good with my tax money going to more federal workers. Those people aren't getting rich on their government salaries.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
honestly as somone who has autism, most people who diagnose themselves don't have it
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.
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.
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.
he's not even autistic, just a sociopathic nepo baby piece of shit
I can believe that.
“I was just giving orders.”
You don't get to be the richest man in the world without crushing those under you. Fucking liar.
Let alone destroying the majority of the us government
Holy shit, I actually laughed out loud at this. "Never done anything harmful", lmfao. Get the fuck outta here.
Even good people do harmful things sometimes, he doesn't even say he's good, he says he's a perfect saint, jfc
It's lonely at the top.
Narcissist talk
Haha, good one, Musk. Trolls gonna troll. Now fuck off back under your bridge, you nepo-baby scumbag.
"iVe nEver dOnE aNytHiNg hArMFuL"
If you dont consider hacking a government to pieces harmful.... Idk what to tell you. Even hacking a regime to pieces will hurt people. You can't move fast and break things with governments and people's lives.
Elon, the Nazi snowflake
Those two words are the same thing. Like The Los Angeles Angels.
fires thousands of people in violation of the law why do you hate me???
"What's that noise? Where did all these chickens come from..?!?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHiBhzdBCjg
A) Dig the name.
B) "The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement!"
I'm just trying to be a Nazi dictator and everyone hates on me 😭
Is he seriously thinking that people might have empathy for him if he says that?
Elon Musk is 3 beers away from cornering his most attractive niece at Thanksgiving and lecturing her for 38 minutes about how Lincoln started the "War of Northern Aggression."
Well, I guess that's still a step 'up' from his dad, with the 40 year age gap between him and his baby mamma/former step daughter, saying "Show me the rules that say I can't groom/fuck/marry my former step daughter. Show me the rules."
Certainly not enough of a step
It’s less of a step, more of a slightly uneven bit of floor.
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.
Well yeah he isn't pro trans. It's moral consistency /s
Hope he doesn't want us to feel empathy for him because according to him that is a bug and weakness.
Homie looked at Greek mythology and took it as a guidebook. Total asshole, check. Shitty to your innumerable children with many different women, check.
Ever since I read his first wife's article I've disliked him. These days it's mild compared to everything else, but back when he was popular… also it's just such personal scumbag behavior
Which is more pathetic. The idea that he really thinks he is a good person or the idea that he can tell a lie like that and someone might believe him who isn't just as pathetic as him?
As ridiculous as it is with him, noone is a villain in their own story.
I can accept a cluster B freak like him might really think he has done nothing wrong. Someone with severe NPD cannot admit fault.
If that many people kiss your ass an dtell you it smells like roses down there, your ego might get out of hand.
"i made me and my businesses political, and im shocked to find there are political ramifications of this!
"I made me and my businesses vaguely political in one direction then went all the way into the other direction very explicitly and I don't get why my former customers are pissed"
Dude just cut lifesaving money for starving children a week ago.
"I am just a poor smol bean uwu nazi"
Then he’s fucking dumber than I thought. And I already thought he made rocks look fucking brilliant.
I mean, forget the dismantling of the United States of America. Even without that, he sued into oblivion and made it untenable wherever possible to even get recompense from Tesla after the cars self-crashed or self-destructed. Musk is a walking, talking pile of shit harming everyone wherever he can. He made a person saving miners out to be a pedophile. He names his fucking kid an unpronounceable series of letters and numbers. This man is a fucking shouldabeenabort plaguing the whole world.
And he's a deadbeat dad.
His existence is harmful. I feel that I need to defend myself against him at all times, since him just existing is akin to assault and battery.
Elon reciting the first line of The Narcissist’s Prayer.
Tesla, famous for using fairly mined lithium, not abusing migrants on work visas and encouraging unionization.
Elon Musk: "Hitler didn't kill millions of people."
I'm surprised that people didn't start hating on him earlier
Elmo and VonShitznpants.....
Someone did a really good one of this with their faces, but now I can't find it.
"If you ignore the staggering amount of human misery that I am directly and indirectly responsible for, and all the absolutely appalling things I advocate for, I've never done anything harmful."
Boycott them all.
Only stochastic terrorism. A nazi salute here and there. Spreading some racism and queerphobia every now and then. Opening the sewer gates to let in all the nazis on his social media platform. Exploiting some labour in the third world for his personal gain. Buying out politicians and the press in the detriment of the people.
Other than that, yeah, he hasn't done anything harmful.
The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy [for the rich.]
I wonder if he actually beleives that
He only hurt government NPCs. He is the only brain in a jar in this system we are all computer programs.
He's got protagonist syndrome.
Ya know... I could see him thinking all his bad jokes, and online antics don't hurt anyone (not true) but the dude is decimating the federal workforce, he can't honestly believe he hasn't done anything to garner that hate. That's people's livelihoods.
I don’t think he believes in anything beyond accumulating as much wealth as possible at whatever cost.
One would think the world's richest man could afford a mirror....
Social murder is murder, plaster-faced bitch.
I support the current thing.
Fuck you Muskcovite.
You're a fucking neo-nazi who ruined the livelyhood of tens of thousands of people, many of them veterans who had served the county and became wounded in the process. All so you could set aside more of the US budget for kick backs to yourself and cronies.
I'm shocked at the number of open Nazis in American "leadership". And the number of unelected "officials" tearing up our government from the inside.
I am less shocked and more resigned. Been tracking the progress of the Republican party over a decade now and watching them throw out euphemism after euphemism as they just aren't needed anymore. What the reaction of shock got us back then was "alarmist" since the Conservative playbook was so layered up in dogwhistles the average person thought it was tinfoil hat fodder.
The base was being groomed to accept this as an outcome and so they were slow boiled. It was that way for the Nazis too. Each terrible move wasn't quick it was the next horrible logical conclusion of their worldview of removing the "useless" aspects of humanity. They started first in government services and then with eugenics in mental health care while dismantling queer infrastructure in cities under the same eugenics line citing them as non-reproductive genetic dead ends. Then it turned to homelessness. Then as their policies created more "useless" classes of people in the form of minorities who could not legally work because of the laws they passed they turned to liquidation of those groups. Each step was followed by a pause to make the rhetoric more callus to build off the basic premise that as an able-bodied, regularly employed, sane, cishet, white, Christian / atheist that your resources were personally being stolen from you to feed the "undeserving".
How far back can you remember Republicans on their soap box about people being undeserving of assistance or support? About people being a waste of resources or campaigning to make those people easier to stigmatize? It shouldn't be surprising after over a decade that they've been dropping the mask.
Yeah, it's a conspiracy fuck-face. It's not like people are openly saying you suck, you're a leech, we're going to boycott the companies you're involved with and you're not wanted here. It's all a secret conspiracy. Pay no attention to the signs at very public protests.
People like him do harmful things and act like they're the most important people on Earth, but when the boomerang comes right back at them, they crawl around and cry that they did nothing wrong. PATHETIC.
Oh yes, so innocent. 🙄
you routinely go on social media and cheerlead for butchers committing genocide in ukraine and gaza, amongst other things.
terminal affluenza. doesnt understand that actions have consequences.
Damn near everything he does is harmful.
Just another Conservative Victim™️.
Textbook example of narcissism.
elon musk doenst have a functional penis.
How do you know, have you checked? xD
Most of his children have been IVF or by surrogates
Not harmful for him or his fellow billionaires...
His intention wasn't that, but to just enrich himself and his fellows even more.
I don't know which is scarier: Musk lying about this, or actually being so self-unaware he really doesn't know what an enormous shitbag he is.
So I've tried it a couple times now, with varying degrees of success, but I want to write a paper which takes a lifecycle approach to excess deaths by industry. My goal was to come up with a deaths/ billion estimate, to figure out a quantity of wealth after which we could decide, the person holding that wealth has effectively committed murder; then we buffer it by 10x to account for the fuzziness of the math, and we set that as the global maximum wealth cap.
Its practically impossible to believe that any industry results in 0 deaths per billion. However, when I did the first couple intial forrays into the research, its very dificult to pin down exaclty which is the source industry for a given death (for example, fossil fuels contribute massively to peoples deaths. But so does tobacco. Electric vehicles dont have tail pipe emissions, but might use fossil fuels in their construction, etc.. etc..)
Here is some summary output from that.
I'm honestly curious what kind of bubble this guy lives in. Who the fuck does he talk to on a regular basis?
It might be a lot of yes men, and people who feed his ego. His personality could be just to cut out anyone who has any level of differing opinions. Maybe he actually believes this shit he says. Who the fuck knows.
Here is a good glimpse of what he is surrounded by. Yes men who just laugh and agree with everything he says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywlsTbKsl6k
Fuck this POS!
He intends to slash social security.
How can we respect their lifes if they don't respect ours?
The paranoid part of my brain sees things like this as an attempt to piss people off enough to kick off some violent attacks, and give Trump the justification he wants to enact martial law.
I am sick and tired of headlines sanewashing this fascist fuck by cutting off the end of that quote.
Pro tip:
Don't let narcissists become CEO, president, or anything with a remote inch of power. They'll rob you blind, let you die and then turn around and say "I was such a good guy, wasn't I? Now kiss my ring to show how you feel about me" and then be all screeching if you bite his finger off
Ayo Elon suck my man musk and use your tears as lube
Bitch, you ain't seen nothing yet.
I will literally throw a party when he dies.
I’ve never done anything wrong either, but it would be an absolute honour to choke the life out of the African fascist Nazi.
Fuck Musk! May he get the most painful incurable type of cancer there is on this planet.
I wish him nothing but sorrow, suffering and pain for him.
Fuck his feelings. I’ll take a front row seat when they shove him into the guillotine.
Can't wait to see his reaction when robotaxis will get Wile E. Coyoted.
This guy just operates on pure doublespeak.
Eventually, people do notice.
Yeah yeah, totally only leftwing folks that hate his guts /s
LIE
Hate Musk all you want, leave the Tesla cars and stations alone. Anti fascists doing fascist things. The irony of it all is beyond amusing.