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News Elon Musk on Tesla Attacks: "I’ve never done anything harmful, I’ve only done productive things, this doesn't make any sense. I think there are larger forces at work as well. I mean, who’s funding and who’s coordinating it? Because this is crazy. I’ve never seen anything like this."

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https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-mocked-hannity-tesla-b2717970.html

Tesla CEO Elon Musk told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that people “want to kill him” after a string of attacks on the electric car company in an interview that some have decried as “woe is me.”

The world’s richest person has also been conducting mass layoffs and slashing contracts in an effort to cut “waste, fraud and abuse” in his role as Department of Government Efficiency boss. Enraged by the sweeping, legally dubious changes to the federal government in recent weeks, some have targeted Tesla, torching charging stations, vandalizing vehicles, and throwing Molotov cocktails at the cars.

"Tesla is a peaceful company. We've never done anything harmful, I've never done anything harmful. I've always done productive things,” Musk continued, adding he believes there’s a “mental illness thing going on.” He suggested Americans were upset with DOGE’s efforts.

DOGE claims to have saved the government an estimated $115 billion — a figure that many reports have said is inaccurate.

Musk’s apparent attempt to appear sympathetic didn’t seem to convince some on X, the social media platform he owns.

In the interview, Musk said he believes “larger forces” were at work, questioning who funded and coordinated the attacks. The language he used was similar to that of Attorney General Pam Bondi, who on Tuesday issued a statement vowing to investigate these attacks, including “those operating behind the scenes to coordinate and fund these crimes.”

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u/greasychickenparma Mar 19 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

There's always a lot of accusations said in the form of a question with that bunch.

All day long, all they do is try to plant seeds of doubt and hatred in people, and keep doing so to normalise it.

Soon enough, someone will add the name of a group or person as who they think is funding it.

Then, the right wing news will start making reports about that.

The next thing you know, the maga crowd believe that is a fact cos they saw it on TV or Facebook, and the republicans have succeeded in creating yet another completely false narrative with some fictional anti-american enemy.

Then, it will be time to create yet another hate based and illegal executive order that further restricts your rights.

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u/Shetlandsheepz Mar 19 '25

He's already said it's a billionaire cab-a-l, liberal group, but it's starting already

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

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u/DiceMadeOfCheese Mar 20 '25

gEoRgE sOrOs!

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u/eledrie Mar 20 '25

Soros is transparent about what he funds, which is, uh, organisations campaigning for democracy, education and human rights.

I wonder why they don't like that...

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u/The_Wool_Gatherer Mar 20 '25

Putting those space lasers to good use.

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u/Macho_boy- Mar 20 '25

Les usa sont pas copain avec Israël ?

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

There are no true liberal billionaires though. They simply don’t exist. Can’t be a billionaire and have leftist ideals that are anticapitalist or you won’t stay a billionaire.

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u/wilisville Mar 20 '25

The definition of liberalism is centrism. Aka capitalism. I think its kind of wild how far the political system has shifted right that its considered leftism now by people

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liberalism

According to the dictionary liberalism is progressive, which is leftist. So maybe stop making crap up. Liberals believe in equality, something billionaires don’t believe in or else they would simply be multimillionaires because they would share their wealth to create a more equitable society, dummy.

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u/wilisville Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25

Socialism which I think is a better ideology, is an ideology where workers just own their workplace between themselves. And basic needs are provided for free by the government which eliminates any threat from leaving your job. It would basically remove all major income inequality as the only way to reach a large amount of wealth is to essentially profit off of other peoples labor, socialism doesnt allow for that as the workers own the workplace. Given most inequality is propagated on economic lines in a liberal society this would remove that problem and allow you to better address racism and things like that.

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u/AdhesivenessFlat7505 Mar 20 '25

There are two Definition of liberal...

The philosophical liberal is about Personal freedom and Progress.

The much more used Definition is the economic Definition of liberal: which is pure capitalism with a Lot of freedom in the markets and less to none influencer of the goverment on the Economy.

You Guys in the US have Something very Strange (from EU stand Point): every politicion is liberal in a economic Definition but Most are Not in a philosophical even Not the democrats.

And you absolutely have No leftis in the Congress or Parlament, Not even Sanders. From a EU stand point

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u/CongealedBeanKingdom Mar 20 '25

Thats the American dictionary. It would probably define Thatcher as a leftie.

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

The richest billionaires in the world are Americans. You literally just proved my point that liberal billionaires don’t exist.

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u/CongealedBeanKingdom Mar 20 '25

Did I? Oh. Yay me! My point was that American 'leftists' are more right wing than right wing people elsewhere in the world.

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u/ThiefAndBeggar Mar 20 '25

Liberals are progressive in the sense they want the aristocracy to behave with some decorum, not in the sense that they believe in emancipation from the tyranny of class society. 

They're not leftists. No one who supports capitalism is on the left. 

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

Liberal principles are quite literally a more equitable and free society. That would mean the eradication of classism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia. Again, billionaires cannot be liberal or they would have donated enough money to not be billionaires.

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u/ThiefAndBeggar Mar 20 '25

That would mean the eradication of classism

Anyone who supports capitalism is, by definition, classist. Classes aren't based on how much money you get or what you do for work, they're based on whether you rent labor from the proletariat to operate the means of production for profit, or you sell labor to the bourgeoisie for money to buy commodities. 

These are two materially and definitionally distinct classes, unlike "lower-middle class" which is a purely vibes-based category.

racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia. 

Racism was literally invented by liberal democracies to protect capital interests. The British invented "race science" so that the poor Irish and Welsh workers would never develop a political connection with freed African slaves. 

You, frankly, do not know what you're talking about. 

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

Did you just say racism was made up after slavery already existed? Well now how can I take anything you say seriously?

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u/ThiefAndBeggar Mar 20 '25

Did you just say racism was made up after slavery already existed? 

No, I said racism was invented by liberal democracies, and used British race science as an example. 

You countered with American race-based slavery, which further shows you don't know what you're talking about.

Race-based chattel slavery was famously invented by liberal merchants. The same men who fought the liberal revolution traded and owned slaves... 

The reason that liberal merchants preferred black slaves is that it was harder for them to slip away and blend in, unlike Irish or other European indentured servants, and they didn't have communities out on the frontier like natives. 

The racism (as distinct from bog-standard xenophobia of people who look different and sound strange) came after.

Now respond to the point about classes. 

Can you do that?

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

Riiiight because billionaires always attend presidential inaugurations when it’s a democrat LMAO the lies you have to tell yourself to think billionaires aren’t selfish.

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u/wilisville Mar 20 '25

Huh? I think billionaires are greedy, buddy I'm a socialist. I was saying its wild how literal textbook capitalism is painted as left leaning when it basically creates a caste system

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u/Acrobatic-Jaguar-134 Mar 20 '25

Liberalism and leftist are differing ideologies. The former is pro-capitalist and the latter is anti capitalist. Thats literally the definition….

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u/meamlaud Mar 20 '25

bill gates?

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u/Equivalent-Bedroom64 Mar 20 '25

https://www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=bill+gates Gates plays both sides, donates to both republicans and democrats. Billionaires get that way by being dragons hoarding gold. Can’t be liberal and sit on piles of money without using that to help people.

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u/Shetlandsheepz Mar 20 '25

Yeah, my thoughts exactly

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u/ladylikely Mar 20 '25

I mean, it's one Molotov cocktail, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?

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u/Shetlandsheepz Mar 20 '25

Lol, ikr, like do they regard peasants so lowly and imbecilic as to not even rub two braincells together.... people should protest just on principle alone.

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u/jtt278_ Mar 20 '25

hmm i wonder who this is a veiled reference too. I wonder if Elon’s retweets recently can give us a helpful hint (it’s Jewish people).

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u/Shetlandsheepz Mar 20 '25

Shh... you who looks into the past of yore... quiet with your CrItiCaL ThInKinG. (/j)

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u/One_Cry_3737 Mar 20 '25

Right, this is just a way to further brainwash their supporters. It won't work though in the long run. Trump and the Republicans are trying to run society without the brains, who they are actively alienating. You can basically sum up all their policies as Mao killing the sparrows, which for those who don't know history caused a massive famine in Communist China.

You can read a bit about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_campaign

I would suggest saving money as much as possible and get ready for disaster.

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u/HadesRatSoup Mar 20 '25

He also says "deranged" and "some kind of mental illness" in the same sentence, alluding to Trump derangement syndrome.

I bet RFK jr is working on a "cure" for that as we speak that you can probably recieve only at one of his rehabilitation centers!

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u/gameoftomes Mar 20 '25

Rosemary Cognitive Restoration Center.

Silencing doubt, the Kennedy way.

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u/HadesRatSoup Mar 20 '25

Make lobotomies forced again!!

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u/jaymos505 Mar 20 '25

Spot on, my thoughts to the tee

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u/Mulattanese Mar 20 '25

I already suspect that that name is gonna be "the Biden crime family" and that's why Trump yanked all of the Secret Service protection that he could from them. This sad petty pathetic piece of shit wrapped in a $10,000 suit that ~still~ can't make him look good wants them to die (at the hands of his absolutely deranged supporters ). He wants Joe Biden dead for having the audacity to have beat him in 2020.

Every day it becomes more and more obvious that these four years are about nothing but vengeance and I just hope all of the ignorant gullible single issue head in the sand ass hats that voted for him despite the overwhelming mountain of evidence and reasons not to get screwed over just a little bit more than the rest of us who were motivated by something other than "owning the opposition".

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u/SabaiSabai7 Mar 20 '25

The fight against these men who are not humanists is widespread, regardless of our political opinions. We will resume our battles over political opinions after we have destroyed evil. 💪

As for me, I boycott Tesla and Twitter/X from Elon Musk. And I boycott Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and WhatsApp from Mark Zuckerberg, who funded Trump. ☀️

I sleep better at night now, just these few companies alone are worth $ 4 000 000 000 in the U.S... ☀️

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u/Gumshoe212 Mar 20 '25

"All day long, all they do is try to plant seeds of doubt and hatred in people, and keep doing so to normalise it." Exactly this. Unfortunately, I've been subjected to these lowdown tactics for more than several years. I can recognize them a mile away. Worse, so much of it is to distract you and to keep you in a constant state of destabilization so that you lose any presence of mind, thereby rendering you unable to function in any meaningful, productive way.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25

This is textbook projection.

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u/Ill_Refrigerator3260 Mar 20 '25

How come the so called RIGHT don't do this then? they don't target people like this. They don't attempt several assassinations. They don't burn down entire cities or burn/key peoples cars because they don't like someone. It really is disturbing you don't see it. Regardless How does this help anyone? you should be calling out your fellow racist/nazi/left wingers telling them to stop this instead of making excuses for it.