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Demovictory9

(37,113 posts)
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 10:59 AM Mar 2025

Musk yesterday: I've never physically hurt anyone," "So why the hate and violence against me?"

https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-tesla-2671342972/

Share prices of electric car manufacturer Tesla slid yet again during trading on Monday, and owner Elon Musk took to his X platform to complain about the mistreatment he believes he's received.

"My companies make great products that people love and I’ve never physically hurt anyone," Musk wrote. "So why the hate and violence against me?"

The Tesla CEO then answered his own rhetorical question.

"Because I am a deadly threat to the woke mind parasite and the humans it controls," he claimed.

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Musk yesterday: I've never physically hurt anyone," "So why the hate and violence against me?" (Original Post) Demovictory9 Mar 2025 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2025 #1
Why would the Archons be escorted off the planet??? marble falls Mar 2025 #64
Since you brought up brain worms..... ShazzieB Mar 2025 #70
Post removed Post removed Mar 2025 #71
It is impossible to get polio from DDT. William769 Mar 2025 #74
Not only that, but... ShazzieB Mar 2025 #81
Correct. William769 Mar 2025 #85
Welcome to DU LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #72
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2025 #73
Question...Does the most recent Covid booster hurt? I've heard different GP6971 Mar 2025 #76
I don't think any vaccines really hurt... buzzycrumbhunger Mar 2025 #78
No problem! ShazzieB Mar 2025 #83
Muskrat bdamomma Mar 2025 #2
Musk is too stupid to realize he is hurting people LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2025 #3
Oh, no, he's well aware he's hurting people. Biophilic Mar 2025 #22
He grossly underestimated how many of us exist, Baitball Blogger Mar 2025 #46
Musk rather than use his hands, guns, and knives to cause,... magicarpet Mar 2025 #36
Yep. He's put thousands out of work and he doesn't think he's hurt anyone. brush Mar 2025 #56
I thought this asshat was a "genius". Shit...he can't even figure this one out. Bengus81 Mar 2025 #4
If Tesla goes to $114 a share OMGWTF Mar 2025 #18
I think Trump will save him blue cat Mar 2025 #34
That would be competition for his Truth Social. pandr32 Mar 2025 #59
Because you are a Nazi parisite draining the life out of our country and the planet. Autumn Mar 2025 #5
He truly does not understand people who have to work for a living jmbar2 Mar 2025 #6
I agree bdamomma Mar 2025 #23
Because you're a fucking nazi. And you want to steal everyones money. Suck on that. Hotler Mar 2025 #7
Just one minute and I will go ask Grandma... Hugin Mar 2025 #8
Usually when someone like Musk says that, it's a lie. yardwork Mar 2025 #9
Eloon, it's because you are a greedy, pathetic human being who doesn't give a damn about anything or anybody but OLDMDDEM Mar 2025 #10
He can't go back to S Africa, they stripped him of his citizenship. OMGWTF Mar 2025 #20
Let's hope he gets deported there. Maybe they would like his car company. The cars that I have seen are quite ugly. OLDMDDEM Mar 2025 #33
Or maybe people think his products are worth less than the receipts. Torchlight Mar 2025 #11
Hey Musk! This is called the FAFO phase of your life. n/t S/V Loner Mar 2025 #12
So, kindness, honesty, integrity, empathy, tolerance, love-- are mind "parasites"... Yup. Says it all for him. hlthe2b Mar 2025 #13
Elon is a deadly threat to all that's good, rather. eleonora Mar 2025 #14
no soul RANDYWILDMAN Mar 2025 #15
Oh, his feelings are hurt. Joinfortmill Mar 2025 #16
So you've never whacked anybody upside the head with a baseball bat. Bravo, Elon. Ocelot II Mar 2025 #17
yes, Al Capone never actually killed anyone DBoon Mar 2025 #52
Neither did Charles Manson. Ocelot II Mar 2025 #54
No one is physically hurting you, Elon... Why are you whining? Norrrm Mar 2025 #19
Ironically, his teens were spent reading volumes of philosophy texts--from which he clearly learned little hlthe2b Mar 2025 #21
He's not an idiot savant, just an idiot idiot. nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2025 #24
Absolutely. Still don't believe he's the "richest man in the world," either. Nobody allegorical oracle Mar 2025 #35
Never physically hurt anyone? Neither did Himmler. Figure it out. Ping Tung Mar 2025 #25
Yeah, I was betting that somebody would beat me to it. Paladin Mar 2025 #38
I left Adolph out because he had been a soldier and may have knocked off some other bit of cannon fodder. Ping Tung Mar 2025 #41
Stealing our retirement savings is a death sentence. C_U_L8R Mar 2025 #26
Is he not human? underpants Mar 2025 #27
He thought it was okay to hurt us but when we StarryNite Mar 2025 #28
Illegally firing people, and their livelihood is violence you asshole musk!!! JohnSJ Mar 2025 #29
Exactly, and even just putting this much stress and uncertainty on old people. What a jerk. Walleye Mar 2025 #32
Why Elon? Because you're such a nice guy and so considerate of everyone else? Walleye Mar 2025 #30
I'm a victim, says the parasite. 58Sunliner Mar 2025 #31
+1 dalton99a Mar 2025 #68
He is so fucking weird! Initech Mar 2025 #37
He's incredibly weak. Fragile. Maru Kitteh Mar 2025 #50
Musk Rebl2 Mar 2025 #39
Maybe he hasn't physically hurt someone alarimer Mar 2025 #40
Leon is full of hatred and there has never been any violence against him Quiet Em Mar 2025 #42
Starvation is a physical hurt..... Bayard Mar 2025 #43
This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Mar 2025 #43
He's not so smart kacekwl Mar 2025 #45
And This Guy RobinA Mar 2025 #47
He's a sociopath who harms people in other ways. maxsolomon Mar 2025 #48
It's absolutely stunning to learn how truly weak he really is. Maru Kitteh Mar 2025 #49
Oh, look. The oppressor is trying to play victim. EnergizedLib Mar 2025 #51
Neither did Hitler personally, Mz Pip Mar 2025 #53
Hey Eloon BlueKota Mar 2025 #55
Bitch when somebody cant eat or care for their kid SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #57
Well, he's physically hurting millions of starving kids on the other side of the globe. Vinca Mar 2025 #58
Hes physically hurting more people than you can count. SSJVegeta Mar 2025 #61
He is the parasite talking about himself kimbutgar Mar 2025 #60
He reminds me of the "Frank Lopez" character in the movie... keep_left Mar 2025 #62
Funny, how he was all pro-green energy to sell his EVs, but now is anti-woke. sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #63
The final crack up is underway. BannonsLiver Mar 2025 #65
it's simple. shut your effing mouth ecstatic Mar 2025 #66
Economic violence is violence. meadowlander Mar 2025 #67
Symbolic violence, a concept introduced by Pierre Bourdieu, refers to the subtle and often unconscious ways in which dom Demovictory9 Mar 2025 #80
He MIGHT be a bigger POS than democratsruletheday Mar 2025 #69
Serious? Out of touch much? SammyWinstonJack Mar 2025 #75
So he admits he's "a deadly threat to... humans...." unblock Mar 2025 #77
My answer: Because I hate Nazis. My uncles died in WWII defeating the German version, and I refuse to live under fascism sinkingfeeling Mar 2025 #79
SHUT The Fuck UP You DUMB Stupid Fuck. Cha Mar 2025 #82
Cry more! tulipsandroses Mar 2025 #84

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

ShazzieB

(22,590 posts)
70. Since you brought up brain worms.....
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 05:57 PM
Mar 2025

Are you a fan of RFK Jr? Just wondering. You'll find that not many of us here are among his admirers. Some of us are old enough to have had a lot of the diseases that kids get vaccinated for nowadays and were happy to be able to get our own kids vaccinated for those things, because we know that vaccines save lives. Like the people in this video:

?si=aY5GfPFX4SF_IWbE

Response to ShazzieB (Reply #70)

ShazzieB

(22,590 posts)
81. Not only that, but...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:34 PM
Mar 2025

Last edited Wed Mar 19, 2025, 12:07 PM - Edit history (2)

There was very little overlap between the years when polio outbreaks were common and those when DDT was in wide use.

There were major polio outbreaks in the US and other industrialized countries beginning in the late19th century and continuing through the first half of the 20th century. During that time, scientists and physicians were able to become very familiar with the disease, including how to recognize and diagnose it. The polio virus was first isolated in 1908.

DDT didn't come into wide use as an insecticide until 1939, and it wasn't completely banned in the US until 1972. The incidence pf polio, otoh, began to decline dramatically after the introduction of effective vaccines in the lste 1950s and early 1960s. So the numbers just don't add up!

William769

(59,147 posts)
85. Correct.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 08:50 PM
Mar 2025

I remember as a child going to the school gym & waiting to get all my vaccines. I can still see the scar on my left arm from the one shot they literally shot into your arm.

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #72)

buzzycrumbhunger

(1,931 posts)
78. I don't think any vaccines really hurt...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:01 PM
Mar 2025

The most likely to hurt more than most is the shingles vax, especially the second one (Shingrix is a two-part deal), but I’ve had a friend or two who’s had shingles repeatedly—on her face/head—and she wished to hell she’d gotten the jab to prevent it.

I’m a pharmacy tech and we do tons of vaccines. The needles used are very small and the most common complaint is that the influx of the medication into the tissue might ache for a day or two. I can’t recall the last person who reported really feeling achy or unwell following a vaccine, especially Covid.

LOL… Edited to add that I was confused after I posted and saw this was in a totally unrelated thread.

ShazzieB

(22,590 posts)
83. No problem!
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 08:01 PM
Mar 2025

The post started off with something different, but veered into the topic of vaccines. You post was not at all OT at that point.

Biophilic

(6,552 posts)
22. Oh, no, he's well aware he's hurting people.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:15 AM
Mar 2025

It's part of the joy. He's hurting the evil "woke" people. Those people who have the nerve to think you don't have to be white to be ok. The other old people? They are just in the way and using up resources.

Baitball Blogger

(52,345 posts)
46. He grossly underestimated how many of us exist,
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:11 PM
Mar 2025

To figure this out mathematically, around 31% of the voters voted for Trump and of that number, Knock off the number that regret their vote. So let’s say that less than 25% of the voting public support Trump. Of that number no one voted for Musk. That’s his reality.

magicarpet

(18,509 posts)
36. Musk rather than use his hands, guns, and knives to cause,...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:41 AM
Mar 2025

... suffering, injury, and death. He then weaponizes and uses his vast financial resources - originally derived from grants and payments he received from the US Treasury.

In his quest for gluttonous self -enrichment he takes food and medical care from the needy to give taxbreaks to the obscenely rich. All the while using his money to purchase the government right out from under us.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
56. Yep. He's put thousands out of work and he doesn't think he's hurt anyone.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:35 PM
Mar 2025

I'm seriously starting to think he's as stupid as trump. Two rich guys who inherited money and never had to worry about where their next meal or rent or mortgage payment was coming from and they wonder why the hate.

Bengus81

(10,165 posts)
4. I thought this asshat was a "genius". Shit...he can't even figure this one out.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:02 AM
Mar 2025

Maybe Musk you should mind the FUCKING store over at Tesla. You have shareholders that are losing their asses over your BS. Down $14.52 this morning at 10am.

OMGWTF

(5,131 posts)
18. If Tesla goes to $114 a share
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:11 AM
Mar 2025

the loans Eloon got to buy Twitter will come due since he used Tesla stock as collateral.

Autumn

(48,962 posts)
5. Because you are a Nazi parisite draining the life out of our country and the planet.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:02 AM
Mar 2025

Last edited Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:50 AM - Edit history (1)

jmbar2

(7,989 posts)
6. He truly does not understand people who have to work for a living
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:03 AM
Mar 2025

It's a gigantic blind spot for the extremely wealthy. That's why they should never be in decision-making positions over people's livelihoods.

bdamomma

(69,532 posts)
23. I agree
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:17 AM
Mar 2025

Muskrat has no earthly idea what the Middle and Working class working for a living details. They, on the other hand, like to STEAL, they are proving it now.

yardwork

(69,364 posts)
9. Usually when someone like Musk says that, it's a lie.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:05 AM
Mar 2025

I take this as a confession that he has physically hurt people, in person.

And of course his actions are hurting people everyday. Who knows how many children have starved now because of the cuts to USAID. And that's just one example of the harm he's doing.

OLDMDDEM

(3,186 posts)
10. Eloon, it's because you are a greedy, pathetic human being who doesn't give a damn about anything or anybody but
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:06 AM
Mar 2025

yourself. Those of us on Social Security need this income that we earned, yet you call us parasites. Go back to South Africa and kiss Putin's ass.

OMGWTF

(5,131 posts)
20. He can't go back to S Africa, they stripped him of his citizenship.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:13 AM
Mar 2025

Russia may take him.

OLDMDDEM

(3,186 posts)
33. Let's hope he gets deported there. Maybe they would like his car company. The cars that I have seen are quite ugly.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:30 AM
Mar 2025

Torchlight

(6,830 posts)
11. Or maybe people think his products are worth less than the receipts.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:06 AM
Mar 2025

And his ideas hold the same merit as a thesis by Mr. Bean.

We get Mr. musk. We get it-- bankruptcies and failures by a right wing company are due to cancel culture only; when it happens to anyone else though, it's simply the marketplace working like it's supposed to.

hlthe2b

(113,965 posts)
13. So, kindness, honesty, integrity, empathy, tolerance, love-- are mind "parasites"... Yup. Says it all for him.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:07 AM
Mar 2025

eleonora

(1,598 posts)
14. Elon is a deadly threat to all that's good, rather.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:08 AM
Mar 2025

When you poison the minds of young people saying "empathy threatens civilization," you are a deadly threat to humanity, period, end of discussion.

RANDYWILDMAN

(3,163 posts)
15. no soul
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:09 AM
Mar 2025

no conscience, what so ever

it would sever him right, if his billions in cash was stacked up and fell and smothered him !!!

This man is worse than a dolt !

Ocelot II

(130,533 posts)
17. So you've never whacked anybody upside the head with a baseball bat. Bravo, Elon.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:11 AM
Mar 2025

There are a lot of ways to cause harm without getting physical, and you're doing it to millions of people. And, by the way, your cars have physically hurt people.

Norrrm

(5,054 posts)
19. No one is physically hurting you, Elon... Why are you whining?
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:12 AM
Mar 2025

You are hurting millions of people mentally and financially.

hlthe2b

(113,965 posts)
21. Ironically, his teens were spent reading volumes of philosophy texts--from which he clearly learned little
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:13 AM
Mar 2025

except perhaps from Ayn Rand (The Virtue of Selfishness)...

His Asperger's (for those of us who have encountered it in one or more others) is all-encompassing in him.

allegorical oracle

(6,480 posts)
35. Absolutely. Still don't believe he's the "richest man in the world," either. Nobody
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:36 AM
Mar 2025

knows for sure how much he's leveraged with outstanding debt, and nobody knows how rich Putin is. Even Musk has said Putin's probably wealthier than he is.

Wouldn't matter, but he keeps being billed with both the "genius" and "wealthiest" monikers. That's why TSF is selling our country down the river -- to impress (and profit from) the rich genius, Musk. It's a symbiotic parasitism relationship.

 

Paladin

(32,354 posts)
38. Yeah, I was betting that somebody would beat me to it.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:47 AM
Mar 2025

I was going to use Hitler as an example of somebody who didn't personally hurt somebody physically, but Himmler works just fine.

Ping Tung

(4,370 posts)
41. I left Adolph out because he had been a soldier and may have knocked off some other bit of cannon fodder.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:01 PM
Mar 2025

StarryNite

(12,116 posts)
28. He thought it was okay to hurt us but when we
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:25 AM
Mar 2025

fight back he can't take it. Typical schoolyard bully.

Walleye

(44,805 posts)
32. Exactly, and even just putting this much stress and uncertainty on old people. What a jerk.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:29 AM
Mar 2025

Walleye

(44,805 posts)
30. Why Elon? Because you're such a nice guy and so considerate of everyone else?
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:28 AM
Mar 2025

I’ve never heard of anybody that rich who was that petty.

Rebl2

(17,740 posts)
39. Musk
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:47 AM
Mar 2025

you have hurt people’s livelihoods they depend on, you have caused fear among those who receive social security, ssi, Medicare and Medicaid. They fear cuts to social security that they paid into all their working life and that money belongs to them, not the government. That is why you are hated.

 

alarimer

(17,146 posts)
40. Maybe he hasn't physically hurt someone
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:52 AM
Mar 2025

But people have died in his factories or been hurt in them because he failed to adhere to regulations. And people are starting to die because of the programs he has cut, especially USAID.

Quiet Em

(2,936 posts)
42. Leon is full of hatred and there has never been any violence against him
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:04 PM
Mar 2025

He's a triggered, pampered snowflake who can dish it out but can't take it. A weak man.

Bayard

(29,685 posts)
43. Starvation is a physical hurt.....
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:06 PM
Mar 2025

Drop him down in the middle of a starving crowd in Africa.

Response to Demovictory9 (Original post)

RobinA

(10,478 posts)
47. And This Guy
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:14 PM
Mar 2025

calls himself a genius? You terrorize a whole lot of people about their jobs, then you fire them on fake charges of incompetence. He's lucky if threats are all he gets.

maxsolomon

(38,725 posts)
48. He's a sociopath who harms people in other ways.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:24 PM
Mar 2025

He doesn't need to hit people.

Let's go ask Grimes about their kids, or his trans daughter.

Maru Kitteh

(31,759 posts)
49. It's absolutely stunning to learn how truly weak he really is.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:24 PM
Mar 2025

He is. The man is weak. Weak-minded and nearly as subject to impression and manipulation as Trump is.


No wonder he’s so addicted to substance use. He’s been way over his head for years now.




Mz Pip

(28,454 posts)
53. Neither did Hitler personally,
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:32 PM
Mar 2025

but his policies killed millions. His followers killed millions.

Some of Musk’s followers are calling for a Civil War. That would definitely kill millions here if it came about.

BlueKota

(5,345 posts)
55. Hey Eloon
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:35 PM
Mar 2025

the only reason you haven't hurt anyone physically, if that's even true, is because you either pay or incite violent thugs through rhetoric, to do it for you.

🐔

SSJVegeta

(2,849 posts)
57. Bitch when somebody cant eat or care for their kid
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:41 PM
Mar 2025

Cause you arbitrarily fired them? That's very physically hurtful.

SSJVegeta

(2,849 posts)
61. Hes physically hurting more people than you can count.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 01:03 PM
Mar 2025

Somebody as smart as him should be able to figure that out.

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
60. He is the parasite talking about himself
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 12:56 PM
Mar 2025

I love seeing everyday his stocks taking a hint.

In January 2023 he told us at a Dave Chapelle concert F U I’m rich! He had laid off a bunch of people at twitter and more than physically harmed a lot of people and his Doge cuts are harming millions of people ! So FU you parasite
a hole.

keep_left

(3,210 posts)
62. He reminds me of the "Frank Lopez" character in the movie...
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 01:22 PM
Mar 2025

...Scarface (1983); those of a certain age will remember, too. Frank meets his end (along with a crooked cop) at the hands of Tony Montana, saying "I never did anything to hurt anyone" after an attempted hit. Tony simply replies, "No, you just had someone else do it for you". You can guess the rest, knowing that this is a gangster movie. (The clip is on YouTube).

I've posted numerous times about these people. They refuse to take any responsibility for the misery that they pile on their fellow man, whom they clearly see as livestock rather than citizens. George Carlin was right; they want it all--take every last dollar, destroy the social safety net, etc. They're just wreckers.

...these people are just asking for it...Piling additional stress and strain onto what we are already facing is objectively evil. And they just can't seem to help themselves.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219955982#post16

ecstatic

(35,075 posts)
66. it's simple. shut your effing mouth
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 02:13 PM
Mar 2025

But it's too late. You've already lost a generation of would-be admirers.

You ruined twitter, you ruined tesla, you're ruining starlink, and now you're ruining the United States (with trump and the gop's blessing).

Fuck off and leave us alone!

meadowlander

(5,133 posts)
67. Economic violence is violence.
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 02:22 PM
Mar 2025

When you arbitrarily fire someone, you take away their ability to feed and house themselves and their families. I think most people, given the option, would rather take a punch to the face that lose their livelihoods for no reason.

And to then run around gloating about it wielding and chainsaw and talking about them like the people who have dedicated their lives to helping others are just parasites who should get real jobs makes him a prize asshole.

Demovictory9

(37,113 posts)
80. Symbolic violence, a concept introduced by Pierre Bourdieu, refers to the subtle and often unconscious ways in which dom
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:06 PM
Mar 2025

Symbolic violence, a concept introduced by Pierre Bourdieu, refers to the subtle and often unconscious ways in which dominant groups maintain power and social hierarchies through the imposition of their values, norms, and cultural practices on subordinate groups.

unblock

(56,198 posts)
77. So he admits he's "a deadly threat to... humans...."
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 06:55 PM
Mar 2025

Note he did not say he's trying to "liberate" or "help" people afflicted with the "woke mind virus".

He said he's a deadly threat to that "virus" *and* a deadly threat to the humans afflicted by it.

sinkingfeeling

(57,835 posts)
79. My answer: Because I hate Nazis. My uncles died in WWII defeating the German version, and I refuse to live under fascism
Tue Mar 18, 2025, 07:01 PM
Mar 2025
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