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I mean... There is a non-zero chance he might get Luigied....
man i can only dream
it's almost like championing certain 'activists' and then being shocked when people don't like you is a predictable outcome. who'd have thought.
Not xSecurity?
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“Foundation Security” 🙄
Probably related to the Foundation series from Isaac Asimov and Musk’s absurd idea that he is remotely a figure in some such space story.
He's named after a character called The Elon from Werner Von Braun's sci-fi book called The Mars Project
Asimov has too much empathy for Elmo
He probably identifies with The Mule.
iirc he's named after some space serial character. I do wish he'd just fuck off to space.
I say next time Musk wants to get a permit to fly one of his Starship test flights, we require he be riding on the thing.
please. for all mankind. rid us of this musky odor.
Ketamine is making him paranoid
Nah. There are legit people out to get him. At least, there should be.
Good. Stay lonely with the gang of dudes you have to pay to hang around you and whose only job is to keep people away from you.
I just went to see a movie with a big group of friends and now getting a burger, before tonight I work on a creative project with some other friends who all really respect and appreciate each other's talents.
Something this fascist freak will never have.
That's what happens when you turn into a POS. Ask the politicians.
Is it fair to call someone who wants to kill the richest Nazi in the world, who wants to destroy western democracy and rule the world, a maniac?
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To be fair, one could argue that that is a cherished Afrikaner cultural tradition.
20 bodyguards and 1 child human shield.
It is good to know this guy is terrified of the consequences of his own actions. I'm sure his hired meat shield will stop and mitigate some threats. I doubt they will stop and mitigate them all.
We should feed his paranoia. Everyone should start messaging him on Twitter warning him of the prospect of mosquito-sized suicide drone assassins. Warn him there are rumors that he is the target of a group developing this technology.
Let's see if we can drive him truly mad. We'll turn him into a proper Howard Hughes in no time. He'll lock himself in a hermetically sealed bunker 24/7. And that's when the real demons kick in....
Axiom of modern warfare, actually. Throw enough shit at a problem and it will stop being a problem.
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Elon Musk, father of 14 children was basically never seen with his kids until a CEO was shot. Now he always travels with at least one portable meat shield.
Father of 14 known children. The down low is apparently he pays women one million dollars to bear his child and she has to sign a non-disclosure agreement that she won't tell people it is his baby.
He is on record saying he wants to make a legion. That is around five thousand babies. He is one of the richest men in the world so this is within his reach. I am going to go throw up now.
A million dollars? It's sad those women don't even realize what a paltry sum of money that is. You become a billionaires concubine, and all you get is enough money to pay for a house in a low cost area, and food/medical bills/clothes/school/activities for like maybe five years at most, then you get to find a job and become a single mother that works full time. And you better be careful with your choice of housing, taxes are due every year
yep. and at his net worth, a million is nothing, it's a rounding error
How crazy expensive is america? One million is like thirty years of minimum wage salary before taxes in Spain. I bet I could manage to retire at 45 with that kind of money.
This person is greatly exaggerating. I bought a house in central Illinois with 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for $130k
Also, just having a million dollars is a big step up
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"Hey Kelvar, hop on daddy's shoulders, time to go to work!"
Good to see that Elmo lives in fear of consequences. I hope the cunt can't have a crap in peace. His body guards are on the wrong side of history, and ought to be ashamed of themselves.
And that’s just to protect him from his kids.
Imagine being such a loser that the only job you qualify for is taking a bullet for the worst member of the parasite class.
When you're the face of what a large number of people see as what is wrong with the world, having lots of security only make sense.
Has he tried not being a human pile of feces?
Self-improvement is a poor man’s game.
If you have a dominance-oriented worldview, being less shitty than your clout allows you to get away with is preemptively surrendering. Imposing your full shittiness on the world is dominance.
The former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to have not changed his socks daily, seeing imposing his stench on underlings and those wishing to deal with him as a power flex.
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According to my sources (hitman series) this is low
Is the human shield kid a security professional too? By the time he's 18 he will have 16 years of bodyguard experience, the perfect employee just like in those entry level job ads.
For legal purposes he's a volunteer
What's alarming to me is that this shows me they don't experience fear. It sounds like to them, it's an inconvenience.
So if they can't be motivated by fear, are they actually motivated by money?
I don't think so. I think they're motivated by power. Wealth has no meaning to them - you can observe the behaviors of a lot of them (with like extremely rare exceptions and they are usually the only ones not born into wealth) and they don't match up with enjoying life.
They don't seem to experience joy. So if they don't experience any emotion, that gives them a pretty concrete diagnosis of sociopathy doesn't it? So, we have the worst of the worst humans doing as much damage to the world as possible because they can't feel.
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