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Summary

At a Wisconsin rally, Elon Musk complained about personal attacks and financial losses tied to his role as head of the DOGE.

He insisted he’s not stealing from Social Security, saying it’s actually costing him money—citing Tesla stock’s sharp drop.

Musk whined about Governor Tim Walz mocking the stock’s decline, calling him “a big jerk.”

Despite the criticism, Musk is pouring millions into Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race, while lamenting the pressure he faces for pushing controversial reforms.

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 170 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Even given the most charitable reading that he was doing a Nazi salute to troll people instead of because he's an actual Nazi, the whole intention behind trolling is to piss people off.

And I'm not inclined to give this steaming coprolite any charity, because he acts like a fuckin' Nazi.

(I'm not going to play along with the whole "he said his heart goes out" bullshit. Other Nazis sure knew what he was doing and loved it.)

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the nazis were trolls. they would have loved 4chan

[–] Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 day ago

What do you mean "would have", they're there right now.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You don't even need this to have happened given what he's done with DOGE and his buying an election. People would have still hated him, just not as many.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Unrelated (completely related) : chatgpt refuses to acknowledge musk having anything to do with Nazis, even when presented with facts about his "memes" and his Nazi salutes. And will not write a story about musk and his Nazi associated acts.

It will happily tell you stories about Hitler.

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[–] ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 85 points 1 day ago

Confirming he's not as smart as he pretends to be

[–] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I wish the media would stop giving this asshole an audience.

I support freedom of speech, but it does not mean that you are automatically entitled to an audience.

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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 60 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Earn friends by firing tens of thousands of people. It should have been so simple, what could have possibly gone wrong?

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

I don't remember that chapter from How to Win Friends and Influence People.

[–] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 52 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

He knows perfectly well why.

He’s gaslighting so the people who hate him hate him louder, which he can then use as validation that they’re crazy or irrational.

It’s fucking disgusting and obvious as hell. He deserves all of the shit thrown at him and he knows it but doesn’t care because he doesn’t have to face any real consequences for it, so he escalates.

Everyone’s anger is his weapon against them, sadly because his supporters are dumb enough to go with it. He needs tangible consequences or else this will just keep getting worse.

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I wonder if that's actually true, because I think that he is to some extent literally psychotic. What happens when someone who actually has enormous wealth and power still goes through manic phases or experiences something like grandiose delusions? He might really believe that he's saving the nation and the world, and that this should be obvious to all.

It's like those movies (I can't remember which ones but I'm sure I've seen some) where the king thinks of himself as good and is genuinely surprised and confused when he learns that the common people feel oppressed by him. Except in this case the king does not (and probably can not) learn a heartwarming moral lesson.

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[–] debil@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How dumb can this jerkoff be?

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

No matter stupid you think he is, I guarantee it's more than that.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

That makes it so much more fun to hate his guts.

Cry about it you fuckhead.

[–] kipo@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

Maybe he doesn't know because he refuses to listen to anyone who criticizes him, banning them on Twitter and calling them paid actors in public events.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

This just in: man who despises empathy struggles to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.

[–] Solarhwan@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 day ago

It truly is a mystery 🤷‍♂️

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It still surprises me someone with that complete of a lack of self awareness manages to get dressed without injuring themselves.

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That guy hears loving cup and knows he can’t

Run and jump and fish or fight

Or fuck

Dude can’t fuck. lol

His sex organ is mangled after a botched gender affirmation surgery.

I am not making this up.

This is a real story the media reported on until it abruptly went quiet on it.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm gonna need a source on that one.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 13 points 1 day ago (17 children)

https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/02/26/musk-penis-implant/

There were stories on regular traditional media websites. For a few hours.

Then it disappeared to rumor status lol.

All them kids are ivf.

His dick doesn’t work. lol.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://www.yahoo.com/news/breaking-down-rumors-musk-penis-230000612.html

seems iffy at best though i 100% believe the hair implant stuff no one comes back from the balding he had.

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

The fuck, this comment makes no sense.

[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nryc7h6TCIE

The stones wrote a song about being a functional man who loved a woman.

Elon is not a functional man.

Only ivf babies for him.

Normally I wouldn’t laugh at impotence but Elon isn’t a human. He deserves no empathy.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Maybe we can focus on the fact that he's a corrupt Nazi who's destroying the USA, instead of unfounded rumours about his penis.

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[–] Mallspice@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fun fact, Solar City, a company owned by Elon musk, is infamous for signing people up for lengthy solar panel leases and refusing to repair them if they break.

Right now, without China, solar would be unaffordable by anyone but the rich in America.

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[–] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This dude has the whole collection of type B personality disorders

[–] dontpanic@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Checks cluster b list

antisocial PD, borderline PD, histrionic PD, narcissistic PD

math checks out

He also ticks the boxes for the dark tetrad.

[–] distantsounds@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Love how we dedicate dozens of professional journalist staffers and editors to follow this asshole around with a microphone and queue up to hear him do Trollface into a camera and say "Why you mad, tho?" in a Ketted out South African accent.

American Journalism A#1. Liberty, Whiskey, Sexy. Most informed population on earth.

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[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 9 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Hitler probably said the same

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (4 children)

Ironically, Hitler was a very charismatic man who people felt had a honest interest in and a magnetic personality.

You can feel something if that when listening to the Mannerheim tapes, the only recording of his actual speaking voice. When not shouting through a tinny PA system that warps his voice into the shrill shrieking that most people know, he had a lovely warm voice.

So Elon has very much less rizz than the Führer.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Andre_shooting_Hannibal.jpg

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narcissist never do. They are forever the victim and honestly believe it.

Why doesn't anybody like me? I don't understand.
Guess I'll have to crawl inside, and I don't know why
I'm sitting by myself, when the problem isn't mine

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

What is so crazy is that at the same time I see a headline with "Tesla's sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows" and yet TSLA is up 4.72% at the moment.

W T A F

Sales plummet 13%. Stock goes up nearly 5%.

[–] ECB@feddit.org 5 points 7 hours ago

The value of the stock (which is outrageously overvalued) is solely down to musk's personality cult. So now that it's been announced that he should be "leaving government and going back to his companies" it led to a stock jump, since his presence is the only reason that the stock is worth a lot in the first place.

The issue is that Musk often sounds convincing when he talks about things you don't really know much about, and there are a LOT of investors who have a lot of money but don't really know much about anything.

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

I’m surprised he’s even willing to indicate he cares. Well…cares about anything past his falling stock price and burning swasticars.

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 19 hours ago
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago

Had to check this wasn’t a theonion com

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