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.

  • @SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    744 months ago

    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.

    • Lit
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      4 months ago

      That sounds like self-defense to preserve your life.

      • @SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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        54 months ago

        Drawn and quartered, via Tesla vehicles. It is a quiz show where every time Musk fails to answer, one of the vehicles move several feet. These questions, can be about how many people lost their jobs and lives to Musk, and what rules DOGE broke in order to ruin them. Upon 10 questions failed, all the vehicles run free, and Musk becomes a wishbone.

        There might be a bear animatronic as the host to this event.

        • @WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works
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          4 months ago

          Nah. Let the drama queen go out like a drama queen. Make him be the test dummy on the next Starship test flight. We could use more entries on the “Inventors Killed by Their Own Inventions” Wikipedia page.

        • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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          14 months ago

          I recall George didn’t go for that because you would need a lot of prisoners. But I have to agree. We have enough nazis for a few seasons on Netflix…

          Okay, for our viewers watching at home, Kollin Johnson, a guy who erased 235 records from the ABC historical collection on Chinese BBQ of the ming dynasty just because he didn’t like the names…place your bets folks! How many teeth, which bucket!..a that’s a nice splat Bob! …ouch! Bob! With our slow mo splat-amera we can clearly see 5 teeth together on a chunk! Right into the blue bucket! And a piece of ear and hair! Folks you don’t see this every day!

        • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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          14 months ago

          You could make the mush puddle twitch with a Tesla coil…the imaginary is getting to be too much for me. Maybe we just line them up and kick them in the balls once per evil deed? …56732…56733…56734…

  • @Nunar@lemmy.world
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    514 months ago

    People cheer at the news that Tesla dealerships are burning. That isn’t because they hate Tesla, it’s because Musk is an insufferable piece of shit. He solidified his legacy of trash when he went alt-right. He’s now the villain and always will be

    • Prior_Industry
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      314 months ago

      And the fucker revels being a villain. CPAC appearance on stage with a chainsaw, telling Bob Iger to go fuck himself, Nazi salutes, the list goes on… His brain is obviously mush, but I kinda wonder how he thought this was going to play out for his companies any other way than it has.

      • @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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        94 months ago

        He thought he was going to be second in command in Trump’s cult, and every MAGAt would be buying Teslas and using Starlink for Internet. He thinks he’s a Hero and he thinks everyone will support whatever he does just because he’s the one doing it.

        He didn’t read the fine print before he aligned himself with Trump and now he’s paying the price & crying about it which is having the effect of making him look weak & stupid, when he thought it would make him a martyr.

        • @SaturdayMorning@lemmy.ca
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          14 months ago

          This is what I don’t understand: did felon truly believe that average magas (so not fascists tech bros and nepo babies) are going to give up gas cars and buy EVs instead?

          How are they going to lord it over cyclists if they can’t even spew out black emissions as they speed by?

    • @SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      134 months ago

      I own a Tesla and I cheer at the news. While I don’t particularly want someone to burn mine before it sells, I wouldn’t begrudge whoever did it.

  • @Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
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    464 months ago

    What a whining fucking maggot. Elon and that whole cohort of cowardly cunts are destroying education, Social Security, international relations, food safety, financial security, and any kind of safety net for the tens of millions of people who will fall through the cracks and die because of their greed. Yeah, no fucking shit people want you dead. It’s not out of spite, or jealousy, or political differences. It’s self preservation.

    • @Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
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      164 months ago

      You are pretty much describing the premise behind Max Berry’s book - Jennifer Government.

      In the alternate present the novel portrays, the United States has taken over all of North and South America (except for Cuba) and dominates much of the rest of the world. The United States adopts “capitalizm”, a form of minarchy that abolishes taxation and privatizes government.

      People take the names of the corporations that employ them as their surnames, and persons with two jobs hyphenate their name, e.g. “Julia Nike-McDonald’s”. Employees of the government, including the novel’s title character, take the surname Government.

    • @NotSerious@lemm.ee
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      54 months ago

      Something tells me the ones who think they’d be in charge would be quickly disappeared in theses “self regulating” “cities”.

      Also, who do they think is going to move there? Do they believe liberals will gladly join their psycho future vision? The maga people are already against cities in general. They’ll never move to one…… so who do these people think will live/work/support their cities???

      • @OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip
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        Their plan only works if the masses are desperate enough to move to their territory. That’s why their plan starts with dismantling the current economy and institutions. Then they can say “come live and work in TeslandTM where there are jobs and opportunities” but where you have to use TeslabucksTM to buy everything.

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        I could be bought with a walkable downtown, commitment to the highest public education standards, affordable and accessible medical care, affordable housing, net zero buildings, xeriscaping, high speed rail, internet fiber everywhere, extensive parks and nature areas, diverse people and cultural events, shops and restaurants, and an effective technology supported town hall government …… and a good brewpub.

        The tech bros are supporting all that, right? Right?

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    414 months ago

    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

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    4 months ago

    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.

  • Rentlar
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    234 months ago

    I don’t want you dead, Elon. I want you to be penniless and without anyone willing to loan you money anymore.

        • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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          164 months ago

          While he certainly deserves to suffer proportional to the suffering he’s causing, top priority is stop him from causing more - if that means he ends up taking a bullet in a manner that renders him incapable of processing what’s happening, I’ll still count that as a good start.

          • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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            24 months ago

            Can’t we have both?

            I want Squirrel Girl to mob him with 1000s of squirrels, dragging him from wherever he is to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, then dangle him by whatever nuts he’s got on him.

            Then I’ll be happy.

            • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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              74 months ago

              I mean, no amount of torture will ever be proportional to the amount of suffering he’s caused, so, if the opportunity presents to make his death excruciating, then by all means: my point is simply that all that takes the back burner to stopping him from damaging our country/planet.

              Stop him at any cost; use him as an opportunity to send a warning to other oligarchs if able.

          • comfy
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            14 months ago

            While he certainly deserves to suffer proportional to the suffering he’s causing

            Even Abu Gharib would struggle to do that. The scale of influence billionaires have is insane.

      • @glitches_brew@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        I don’t care if he’s dead or not. I just never want to have to hear that stupid Twitter guy say another word. I’m at the point where a single sentence from him makes me cringe enough to throw my phone across the room. Dead or irrelevant makes no difference to me. Just wish he was gone. Go to Mars already idiot.

      • @Kbobabob@lemmy.world
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        14 months ago

        You’ll be heading about him for a long time. I mean Hitler is still taught about today as far as I know.

        • @helvetpuli@sopuli.xyz
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          24 months ago

          I remember about twenty years or so ago there was a tiny plaque in there parking lot the Soviets built over the fürerbunker. It gave me great calmness to pee there, against the sign

          Now it’s a bus stop. So current and future generations are deprived of this simple connection with their anti-fascist ancestors.

  • @rational_lib@lemmy.world
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    I don’t want Elon dead, I want him to go bankrupt, fail at creating some NRx corporate dictatorship so hard that he brings about a socialist utopia, and then end up getting the drug and mental health treatment he so badly needs for free, eventually issuing an apology for becoming such an asshole and proceeding to live out the rest of his days giving Ted talks around the theme of how being the richest person on earth was the most miserable time of his life.

  • @gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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?

    • Lit
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      104 months ago

      slashing social security is murder, you have the right to self-defense.