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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMusk 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 Ive 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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marble falls
(71,926 posts)ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)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:
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William769
(59,147 posts)You're reading the wrong books.
ShazzieB
(22,590 posts)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)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.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,858 posts)Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #72)
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GP6971
(38,013 posts)opinions.
buzzycrumbhunger
(1,931 posts)The most likely to hurt more than most is the shingles vax, especially the second one (Shingrix is a two-part deal), but Ive had a friend or two whos had shingles repeatedlyon her face/headand she wished to hell shed gotten the jab to prevent it.
Im 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 cant 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)The post started off with something different, but veered into the topic of vaccines. You post was not at all OT at that point.
bdamomma
(69,532 posts)go fuck yourself, and take your DOGE with you.
You're the parasite, not us.
LetMyPeopleVote
(179,858 posts)Biophilic
(6,552 posts)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)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 lets say that less than 25% of the voting public support Trump. Of that number no one voted for Musk. Thats his reality.
magicarpet
(18,509 posts)... 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)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)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)the loans Eloon got to buy Twitter will come due since he used Tesla stock as collateral.
blue cat
(2,454 posts)By buying x for the government.
pandr32
(14,272 posts)Autumn
(48,962 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 18, 2025, 11:50 AM - Edit history (1)
jmbar2
(7,989 posts)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.
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.
Hotler
(13,747 posts)Hugin
(37,848 posts)yardwork
(69,364 posts)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)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)Russia may take him.
OLDMDDEM
(3,186 posts)Torchlight
(6,830 posts)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.
S/V Loner
(9,545 posts)hlthe2b
(113,965 posts)eleonora
(1,598 posts)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)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 !
Joinfortmill
(21,163 posts)Ocelot II
(130,533 posts)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.
DBoon
(24,983 posts)He just ordered many deaths
Ocelot II
(130,533 posts)Norrrm
(5,054 posts)You are hurting millions of people mentally and financially.
hlthe2b
(113,965 posts)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.
eppur_se_muova
(41,939 posts)allegorical oracle
(6,480 posts)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.
Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)Paladin
(32,354 posts)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)C_U_L8R
(49,384 posts)Thats why, you numbskull.
underpants
(196,495 posts)Or does he think now that hes not?
StarryNite
(12,116 posts)fight back he can't take it. Typical schoolyard bully.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)Walleye
(44,805 posts)Walleye
(44,805 posts)Ive never heard of anybody that rich who was that petty.
58Sunliner
(6,330 posts)Initech
(108,783 posts)Maru Kitteh
(31,759 posts)Lacking.
Rebl2
(17,740 posts)you have hurt peoples 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)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)He's a triggered, pampered snowflake who can dish it out but can't take it. A weak man.
Bayard
(29,685 posts)Drop him down in the middle of a starving crowd in Africa.
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kacekwl
(9,147 posts)after all.
RobinA
(10,478 posts)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)He doesn't need to hit people.
Let's go ask Grimes about their kids, or his trans daughter.
Maru Kitteh
(31,759 posts)He is. The man is weak. Weak-minded and nearly as subject to impression and manipulation as Trump is.
No wonder hes so addicted to substance use. Hes been way over his head for years now.
EnergizedLib
(3,040 posts)Mz Pip
(28,454 posts)but his policies killed millions. His followers killed millions.
Some of Musks followers are calling for a Civil War. That would definitely kill millions here if it came about.
BlueKota
(5,345 posts)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.
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SSJVegeta
(2,849 posts)Cause you arbitrarily fired them? That's very physically hurtful.
Vinca
(53,994 posts)SSJVegeta
(2,849 posts)Somebody as smart as him should be able to figure that out.
kimbutgar
(27,248 posts)I love seeing everyday his stocks taking a hint.
In January 2023 he told us at a Dave Chapelle concert F U Im 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)...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.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219955982#post16
sinkingfeeling
(57,835 posts)BannonsLiver
(20,595 posts)He aint built for this.
ecstatic
(35,075 posts)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)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)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.
democratsruletheday
(1,880 posts)the orange shitgibbon. Just trash, both of them.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,316 posts)unblock
(56,198 posts)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)Cha
(319,074 posts)tulipsandroses
(8,251 posts)I hope TESLA goes the way of My Pillow