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Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report
(www.independent.co.uk)
BYEEEEEE!
I can't wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning
this post was submitted on 21 Apr 2025
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Does he need help packing his shit?
We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge
This is just posturing to make people feel like we're not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes
I don't think he will. I think he's trying to get people to sympathize with him.
Please don't take my last bit of hope with your realism
Not going to change my mind. He’s for Donald.. I’m against him.
This better not be like the time he said he was gonna step down from running Twitter and then he didnt. He better follow through on his promise. And take his tech bros trying to shut everything down with him.
If he leaves that means the autocrats are ready to complete their coup. Then our only chance will be the military.
He should just focus on making rockets fly and cars self-drive.
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn't want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He's probably going to 'officially' bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
He's a vampire so only if he leaves during the daytime.
He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn't deserve any sympathy.
Exactly, Muskrat expected to be able to shit on and ruin peoples lives and get ZERO push back.
You can't buy a likable personality.
He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality
(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)
I often wonder what the world would be like right now, if he'd simply taken it on the chin, congratulated that cave diver on rescuing those Thai kids, and went about his day, rather than jumping right into calling him a paedophile and sinking into ever further nutbaggery.
Money and power is a mirror, this is just who he is at his core.
That event didn't make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Wouldn't have changed at all.
That event didn't change him at all, for fuck sake
No but I do feel like he nailed the ‘era’ where he started going off the deep end. From there on my graph it’s been a downhill slide from there. I thought it couldn’t go lower, but, as they say… lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
I also wonder ….. while it’s a safe bet that he didn’t change with that event, it was also one of the first times he strayed into something he knew nothing about to show his true nutbaggery. When he was talking about his companies, his products, that side of him didn’t really come out more did it really affect anyone outside his employees. That event made it clear the world was hanging on his every word and really shouldnt
And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.
As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.
He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.
Seems odd to imply he is concerned about the legal exposure of being a federal employee but willing to maintain illegal access to government data.
I don’t think he cares one lick about legal exposure. Others are just pushing back against what he wants to do, and he doesn't like obstacles.
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Even the hat in that picture is looking to escape that douce.
Too late buddy, you will never extricate yourself from what you've done here and it will haunt you for the rest of your miserable life.
Consequences? Me? But I'm rich and cool!
Keep up the bullying, it's working.
Alternate title:
"Scumbag musk has got all the info he needs from all the government servers. Now he's going to distance himself from everything then use that info as blackmail, or sell to Russia etc etc."
Primary goal was to neuter and disarm any agency that was actively investigating him, or had the authority to investigate him in the future.
The stolen data was just a happy little side dish he came into, that I'm sure isnt totally already in Russias hands. Just like how government credentials and login information didnt immediately end up in Russia's hands after Musks sham of an agency got a hold of them (it totally did)
Politics is a form of negotiation with other elements of leadership to make a nation's major policy decisions.
Musk, you never DID get involved in politics. You hired a private army and got involved in criminal intimidation.
Facts don't care about your feelings.
what will they rename DOGE to
Fucking Elon's Chainsawing of Everyone's Shit.
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Alternative title. One of the richest men in history can't find happiness and shifts blame away from his terrible decisions, stolen valor video game clout, fascism, and fucking over poor people. Decides to radically change the modern world because supposedly it wasn't working out for him, then cries that people don't like him.
"Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left..."
OR...hear me out...Trump is sick of him and wants him gone (because two egos that large cannot coexist in the same space indefinitely) and this is the cover story.
OR...Elon has already accomplished 99.9% of what he wanted by gaining access to all the data he wanted and further embedding SpaceX, Starlink, etc., into government contracts.
OR...some mix of all of the above.
Fuck this guy forever.
Such a delicate little snowflake. I say fuck his feelings.
Well, he did say empathy was weak.
We did it Lemmy
We did it, Reddit
Somebody call the wambulamce.
Damage done. It's not even good news at this point.
Holy shit, I didn't think the bullying campaign would acturally work. This is a grand victory for all workers of the world and a sign of whats to come. When all the workers of the world unite we can overcome the iron hand and destroy any fascist.
NEVER BACK DOWN FOR THEY ARE WEAK AND WE THE WORKERS ARE STRONG
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