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Summary

Elon Musk called for arrests after posting a video on X showing a confrontation between women and a Tesla Cybertruck driver.

In the video, a woman pointed at the vehicle, prompting the driver to yell threats while the crowd chanted "Shame!"

Another woman called the driver a Nazi.

Musk claimed the incident was part of broader attacks and urged authorities to arrest those funding such actions, saying targeting only “puppets and paid foot-soldiers” would not stop the violence.

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[–] ChillCapybara@discuss.tchncs.de 259 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, you mean I’ve been flipping off cyber trucks for free?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You mean you did not fill out the forms at culturalmarxism.com beforehand? 🤦

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago

You can just write to Soros and he will pay for the arrears.

/s for any right wing nutjobs reading this

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 183 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Never forget that Elon Musk has built his fortune on many many violations of the law, including SEC violations and breaking employment laws. This ghoul firmly believes that his is of a privileged class that is permitted to do this while you are not. He is a cancer in our society and deserves nothing but ridicule and punishment for the harm he feels entitled to inflict on the rest of us.

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 45 points 1 day ago

He doesn't even have to believe it, it's been proven time and time again that he is part of a privileged class.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

The treatment for cancer is not "ridicule," you know. Just sayin'.

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[–] regrub@lemmy.world 138 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sounds like free speech to me, which is something that a free speech absolutist like Elmo shouldn't have a problem with, right?

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Free speech for he, not for thee.

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[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 134 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Musk has a point, though. The Cybertruck is extremely fragile, so pointing at it with your finger poses a significant risk and could even set it on fire.

[–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But first it will lock the doors.

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 117 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You guys are so quick to judge Elon. It’s not fair.

He’s not a Nazi. He just likes Nazis.

Get a grip guys he’s not a Nazi. He just really likes everything they stood for.

Quit calling him a Nazi. He’s just a guy who really really likes Nazis and hitler and being a piece of shit.

He’s not a Nazi guys. He just likes Nazis. A lot.

He likes them as much as any Nazi would.

Can’t a guy just like Nazis and act like a Nazi and do Nazi things without being labeled a Nazi?

It’s unfair. Maybe you have too small a brain to understand the distinction.

Elon musk is not a Nazi.

He just really really wants to be one.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

And he just happens to like the same salutes nazis like. But the leftist woke mob still calls him a nazi.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 100 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (11 children)

arrest those funding such actions

Wait, we can get paid to laugh at cybertrucks? And here I am doing it for free like a sucker.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 21 points 16 hours ago

It's always projection with those assholes.

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[–] drascus@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Its a good thing we have Elon protecting free speech. What a fucking sham.

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

But was she screaming the hard-R N-word into the face of a black guy? No? See? That's "real free speech" is! We may never know how many harmless but funny pranks and jokes were lost to being potentially called "racist", which should be also illegal.


Elon Musk probably

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Didn’t you hear, only billionaires with media companies can afford free speech now.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 79 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"It is time to arrest those funding the attacks," he wrote. "Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence."

Yes, very much so. It is high time we arrest those who are funding the violence against America.

Who is responsible for the havoc we are suffering, again?

[–] Corno@lemm.ee 79 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's allowed to do Nazi salutes at inaugurations, but people aren't allowed to point fingers at his cars?

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[–] xenomor@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Well, if people are going to be arrested for just flipping off cybertrucks, then they might as well just go ahead and actually damage them.

[–] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

Exactly. If youre gonna arrest me even if I'm not chucking bricks into faces,

Well then I might as well chuck some bricks.

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Because he’s funding fascism, he assumes anyone against his agenda must be “funded” by someone. He can’t comprehend that someone would be against living in a dystopian fascist hellhole without being paid.

[–] blady_blah@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It's projection. It's always projection.

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[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 17 points 1 day ago

Yeah, if you think about it, being a paid protester would be a really fun job, for gleeful jerks like me at least.

You get to travel around, hang out with like-minded folks on the bus and in new cities. You get to strategize maximum shenanigans and once in a while get on the news.

Strangely, my search for such job openings has come up completely empty. Guess you have to know some one?

/S

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 61 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I cannot wait till someone gets pissed off enough to shoot this motherfucker

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[–] ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"It is time to arrest those funding the attacks," he wrote. "Arresting their puppets and paid foot-soldiers won’t stop the violence."

How much funding does he think it takes to get people to protest against the world's most publicly obnoxious Nazi?

[–] Red_October@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He's absolutely the kind of person who would think the only reason anyone would ever act like they hate him is because they're being paid to do so. He can't imagine anyone not really thinking he's as great as he thinks he is.

[–] BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He also loves money and has no principles. People doing something because they have values is just not something he understands.

[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, the pathology goes so much deeper.

Musk's family hates him. Like they actively go out of their way to speak against him. His father tweets shit about him, his grown children want nothing to do with him but will speak out against him, his ex... Well you could fill a book with that. His mother and his youngest child (who he uses like a prop) are the only ones that haven't publicly worked against him

What friends does he have? His billionaire buddies will make moves with him, but we've seen the text chains - it's all business. They barely react when he goes against his word... They congratulated him for buying Twitter himself after making plans to go into it together that he backed out of - no way that wasn't a backhanded compliment

Trump hates his guts... But sucks up to him. What friends does he have? He has sycophants, he has people eager to use him... But every relationship he has is based around the fact he's the richest billionaire. If he loses that, what does he have? Who does he have?

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 52 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Elon's self esteem is the strength of soft tofu. it's not for the world to walk on eggshells. He needs to get some actual real therapy cuz this isn't managing at life.

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[–] softcat@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Given that it obviously won't happen, I have to wonder which particular thing he's trying to divert attention from.

[–] Apricot@lemm.ee 51 points 1 day ago

Well he's currently attempting to buy an election in Wisconsin, so you're spot on.

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[–] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 51 points 1 day ago

haha - funding them - no Elon, people hate you so much they're doing this for free.

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 50 points 1 day ago

Is the snowflake afraid of a little free speech? I thought he was all about free markets correcting themselves?

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wasn’t cyber tuck supposed to be a battery powered light tank chassis? Why are these punks scared of an old lady’s finger?

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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[–] SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

From the guy that called empathy weakness?

[–] mvilain@fedia.io 36 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When that bicycle rider flipped off Trump's motorcade during his first Badministration, the social media blowback got her fired from her job. She ran for Congress and won.

I hope this woman has a similar outcome.

Side query: I wonder if anyone in Child Protective Services is investigating Melon Husk's home environment for his kids. He's an resident alien who lied on his immigration paperwork and could be subject to deportation.

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[–] Litebit@lemmy.world 32 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Why not just ban Tesla and cyber trucks since they are offensive to people eyes, are linked to a Nazism and provoke violence.

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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

high profile non binary, non white, non male identified people deal with actual life threats on their life just for existing.

Meanwhile here's a white cisdude with billions worried about some woman pointing in a general direction.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (14 children)

That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.

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[–] TylerBourbon@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

Seriously, I think porcelain is less fragile than Elonia's ego. I'm definitely concerned about his volume increasing on calling for blatantly tyrannical actions. I hope one day in the future, justice is done and he is investigated and charged for any crimes he may have committed.
Though I'm not going to hold my breath.
Does anyone else get the sense that he is exactly the type of person who would go out the way the OG Nazi leaders went out? I.e. self self-deletion as opposed to accepting his loss and facing punishment like someone with courage.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

getting tips from putin, where russia arrested a little girl for having a protest poster.

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[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago

Right. Point your finger at Cybertruck, highest government office in the land calls for your arrest. Run over protestors with your brodozer? Clear case of self defense.

Get the fuck out of here.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 hours ago

Let's go through elons post history and arrest him for every bad thing he's said about liberals or anyone else. Remember that pedo comment he made? Arrest him for it.

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago (11 children)

This fool takes Karen to a new level. What a fucking baby.

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[–] jve@lemmy.world 21 points 5 hours ago

arrest those funding those actions

Every accusation is a confession.

[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago

Musk: comedy is now legal Also musk: flipping people off is not

[–] InTheDoghouseAgain@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Someone give her one million dollars

[–] credo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

urged authorities to arrest those funding such actions

Says the asshole trying to buy an election to rig a court ruling?

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