Summary
Republicans’ efforts to portray Elon Musk as a MAGA martyr are failing, as his victim narrative struggles to resonate with conservative audiences.
Musk’s controversial statements and perceived elitism, including his complaints of being targeted by Democrats, have alienated even right-wing supporters.
Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand, and Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings, especially on economic issues.
Attempts to rally sympathy for Musk, including his emotional Fox News appearance, have largely backfired.
DOGE wants to kill me, by taking away my insulin. I have good reason to want Musk and Trump to be trapped in a burning cyber truck.
Musk’s ties to Trump have hurt the Trump’s approval ratings
Wow, you have to be a special kind of shitty to actually hurt Trump’s image, rather than the other way around.
The people Musk told that empathy was bad don’t have any empathy for Musk?
no but see it’s only bad when it’s not for me. obviously. when it’s for me it’s good.
i mean, what did he expect if he threatens to slash social security? any attempt to slash social security is a declaration of war to the civil class; and if you’re declaring war, you better be ready to die.
how can we respect their lifes if they don’t respect our lifes?
Protests and vandalism against Tesla have damaged the brand
This is the narrative Musk and Republicans want.
The protests and vandalism aren’t hurting his brand.
They’re another consequence of him openly being a fucking Nazi, which is what’s hurting his brand.
It’s not that complicated, but a shit ton of people keep missing the point
“I can excuse some nazism, but vandalism is where I draw the line!”
…you can excuse nazism?
Won’t someone think of the stock market?!
-Neoliberals
Musk: Acts like a Nazi
Society: “A good Nazi is a dead Nazi.”
Musk: “Y U DO THIS”
“They basically want to kill me”. Quote from people discussing their american health plans?
All Americans worthy of the name want to kill Nazis.
Imagine saying “They basically want me dead.” and then wearing your child as a human shield. Father of the year.
I’ll celebrate with a drink if somebody does.
Come the margin call I’ma feast on a dozen fried eggs and maybe, just maybe a tiny smidge of K
He is such a ridiculous asswipe that it seems like he’s doing it on purpose to help distract from other billionaires falling in line or random horrible shit the administration is doing.
I doubt it’s an act, and I suspect he’s really just that much of an asswipe, but damn.
He’s one of the most prominent disconnected individuals out there. It’s almost certainly not an act, he’s just an idiot. One of the most powerful and influential idiots that has ever existed, unfortunately…
Empathy for me, but not for thee!
Honestly, I don’t think there’s any distraction tactics. Anyone who can’t see what’s happening is blind. It’s full on dictatorship in progress, people.
I realized this morning that for how much Luigi is praised there haven’t been attempts to follow his example.
I don’t know why that felt relevant on this post and I’m definitely not advocating anything, just an observationMost people capable of murder do not care about their fellow humans; and those of us who could often lack means or have to protect others closer to home. They cannot just go away without harming others who need them.
Once you get past all those filters it’s a very tiny percentage of people who have motive, means and opportunity. Most of those get unlucky.
Just about everyone is capable of killing given the right circumstances.
An certain Austrian duke comes to mind…here’s hoping that Elon gets to play his role in the remake.
I hope his story skips to the ending. Preferably live streamed to twitter.
I don’t want to kill Musk, but I’m not going to shed any tears about anything bad that happens to him or any other racist, fascist piece of shit.
Clarence Darrow wrote: “All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
If empathy’s a weakness then Karma is a bitch
Empathy, like tolerance, should really be considered a social contract. If he doesn’t have empathy for the less fortunate than him, I have a really hard time having empathy for him.
A core principal of a martyr is being widely liked. No one gives a shit about this dude. Even the people who he surrounds himself with don’t give a flying fuck about the dude. Musk himself makes every interaction with him transactional. Add in his default behavior of being an 11 year old edgelord wrapped in a 50 something whale body with hair plugs that’s awkward as fuck to be around, and yeah it’s not hard to see why nobody likes this fucking billionaire with attachment issues.
Dude needs to ditch the ketamine and perhaps get actual therapy. And actually having a better diet and exercise regimen wouldn’t hurt either.
Elon Musk is a real victim, instead of having “more money than anyone should ever be able to amass or dream of spending in one lifetime”, now he only has “more money than anyone should ever be able to amass or dream of spending in one lifetime”.
