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The depression for fElon is sinking in.. don’t stop making fun of him
Hell yeah June (Western Kabuki podcast).
Also I don't believe any of this psychopaths when they're playing uwu I'm just a smol bean baby, this is the guy who keeps going out of his way to champion having less empathy.
Pretty sure that stopping cancer research is gonna physically hurt a lot of people.
He has hurt plenty of people though.
People have DIED because his cars are shit & he lied about what they can actually do.
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"
Arguably he made Tesla's autopilot shittier by removing LIDAR because it was too expensive.
Tesla has never had LIDAR. They used to have radar and ultrasonic sensors.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ohhh I have never physically hurt anyone. Note the "physically" he knows exactly what the fuck he is doing. I hope his penis pump explodes, catches on fire, and burns him to death from the dick up.
(the fate I wished on him that got me my final reddit ban! hahahah)
The harm Musk has done to people far exceeds that of if he were in nonstop physical altercations 24/7.
Musk has killed people. Musk has starved children and animals.
Well nobody's physically punched him in his exceedingly punchable face, so I guess there hasn't been any violence against him at all! And frankly until we get to tell him in person to fuck off and die, by his metric we haven't hated him either!
I've never physically hurt anyone.
This is called a suspiciously specific denial.
Like saying "I was never convicted for shooting anyone in the head with a 9mm."
That's because Mr.Elon, you like Nazis & whitewashed Hitler's crimes.
Not to mention you also want to turn the world into a Anarcho-Capitalist hellscape.
Oh & your products were never excellent in the first place
I drew the line at union-busting CEO who falsely accused someone of being a pedophile
Lmao, this. He's been an asshole for years. The fact that THIS is finally what got people to turn against him is frankly pathetic. People have no morals.
Apparently it only counts if you hurt people physically. Hurting their finances, support systems, healthcare, employment prospects are all fine.
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.
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!?"
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.
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.
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.
"It's not like I killed anybody. I mean, I gave the orders but they didn't say no."
Notice how he specifies that he technically never "physically" hurt anyone.
But damaging his product and brand is "violence."
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.
I'm so glad that I was taught how to diagram sentences in middle school because when I see something like this I immediately strip it down to it's most basic structure. "I am a threat to humans."
teenagers: "Why do we ever need this?"
teachers: "To take down fascism"
Self admitted deadly threat to humans. Got it.
This guy is LARPing Hitler in real time at this point.
And fishsticks are... breaded, they're fried, they're frozen.
I don't think he'll ever get it.
You physically starved babies to death and caused immense suffering by shutting down USAID. And that's just one of the many ways you've literally killed people and ruined people's lives, yet you're not only not stopping these things, you're ramping them up and pretending you're not doing anything wrong.
At this moment you are literally the most dangerous, most horrible, most evil, most despicable and most loathsome person on earth.
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.
I like how Bill Burr calls him: "the Twitter guy" I bet that hurts his ego more than fElon etc
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.
How to have everything and still be a miserable shit.
"I've never physically hurt anyone" is a weird thing to say, in any context.
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.
Musk has brain damage and doesnt understand basic human emotions. Is he even human?
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.
