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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    They want to arrest “the people funding this”, but what if nobody is? Is it so hard to believe people are just generally upset with what’s going on and are capable of organizing without a rich boogeyman leading them? It’s weird to think that only money can motivate.

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    Right. Point your finger at Cybertruck, highest government office in the land calls for your arrest. Run over protestors with your brodozer? Clear case of self defense.

    Get the fuck out of here.

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    I think Musk making people realize they have to aim higher than “foot soldiers” is not a great idea for him haha!

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    Is the snowflake afraid of a little free speech? I thought he was all about free markets correcting themselves?

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    When that bicycle rider flipped off Trump’s motorcade during his first Badministration, the social media blowback got her fired from her job. She ran for Congress and won.

    I hope this woman has a similar outcome.

    Side query: I wonder if anyone in Child Protective Services is investigating Melon Husk’s home environment for his kids. He’s an resident alien who lied on his immigration paperwork and could be subject to deportation.

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      I wonder if anyone in Child Protective Services is investigating Melon Husk’s home environment for his kids.

      Yeah I’d love to hear how he really treats his kids despite his talk about family values etc. The way he’s been dragging him (XÆ?) around, inadequatly clothed, probably fed too much candy etc. He wasn’t even 4 yo when that started. Psychological evaluation please. Not that anything is going to happen, but one can surmise (and hope).

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    Imagine how CORRUPT this would be if Elon Musk had Control over our FBI, our President and our Military! That would be EXTREMELY CORRUPT! Fortunately that’s NOT the case!

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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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    Elon’s self esteem is the strength of soft tofu. it’s not for the world to walk on eggshells. He needs to get some actual real therapy cuz this isn’t managing at life.

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      A good criminal justice system ought to have comprehensive mental health services as part of the goal of rehabilitation. Therefore, for his own good, he should be in prison and we should reform the prison system.

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

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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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    urged authorities to arrest those funding such actions

    Says the asshole trying to buy an election to rig a court ruling?

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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?