You don't get that kind of wealth without hurting people.
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ooh, ooh! I can answer that!
Because you're a nazi piece of shit and have accomplished nothing more than being born rich and taking credit for other people's work.
Also you're wrong about the products, your companies make absolute shit especially when they listen to you.
Also you're a sexual harasser obsessed with impregnating women because you can't make up for the fact that you're an unfuckable troglodyte.
Oh and you were buddies with epstein and ghislaine.
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
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.
I used to care, but after he went crazy, and the Cybertruck hit $80k from the $40k he promoted. I'm just done with him and his shit.
If you're going to be a deranged loon at least put out good products at reasonable prices
I drew the line at union-busting CEO who falsely accused someone of being a pedophile
How to have everything and still be a miserable shit.
Unbelievable lack of responsibility on this guy.
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.
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.
ignore QC, thats why some of his regular tesla have problems.
Notice how he specifies that he technically never "physically" hurt anyone.
But damaging his product and brand is "violence."
also he has absolutely physically hurt people. I don't know how, I don't know when, but he has.
Provably all the people that died when his cars blew up or drowned them
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.
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."
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.
This in combination with the retweet about "Hitler didn't kill millions" is really frightening!
Is the woke mind parasite in the room with us, Elon?
God I wish I was
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.
It's for all the other shit you do, dumbass. Get fucked.
"I've never physically hurt anyone" is a weird thing to say, in any context.
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.
Apparently it only counts if you hurt people physically. Hurting their finances, support systems, healthcare, employment prospects are all fine.
No one realizes the damage an insurance company can do, because they are all clean and and they have shiny offices.
They never stabbed anyone.
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!?"
"It's not like I killed anybody. I mean, I gave the orders but they didn't say no."
Exactly. Just like fElon reminded us the other day - it was the public workers that killed people, not Hitler.
There's been violence against Elon? Does anyone have a video?
I wish there was. Badly.
Didn't he just twitted that cringe AI image about being a violent man as opposed to being harmless or some shit? Now he hasn't hurt anyone and is an armless victim of people's hate? Which is it?
Armless or not, he’s a villain that’s for sure.
I’m sorry. Your typo made me do it.
I like how Bill Burr calls him: "the Twitter guy" I bet that hurts his ego more than fElon etc
you'd think someone this rich could buy a clue.
it really says something about him that there are no confidants, friends, mentors, no one to step in and shake him back to reality.
He has a clue. He’s not trying to convince his detractors of anything. He’s throwing red meat to his supporters.
At that level of wealth, it is easy to insulate oneself from anyone who would actually give helpful advice, and even easier to find oneself in the company of yes men suckups.
Musk has brain damage and doesnt understand basic human emotions. Is he even human?
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.
I feel like it's going understated that his dismantling of USAID has also directly led to deaths by starvation and preventable disease. Like yeh it sucks that Dave lost his job, but let's not forget the actual fucking murder happening.
It couldn't be because you're the doughy soft handed son of a rich apartheid loving father that never invented anything but takes credit for everything.