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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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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If you're walking past a swastikkkar and don't yell joyfully, "Elon's a super-genius and the savior of Earth," then you're a terrorist.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days 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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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Dear Resident, America is Under attack. We are in a state of War with the globalist menace. The FBI has determined that because you have not put up a US flag in your domicile, Taken a picture of your Ballot confirming you voted for our president, donated to an approved organization on the President's approved list, or purchased a vehicle or other asset in excess of $50,000 USD from an approved vendor such as Tesla, That you may be a seditionist, and will be placed in custody upon further investigation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (4 children)
  • This official notice was brought to you by Goya - patriotism in a can®
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's projection. It's always projection.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days 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

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago

From the guy that called empathy weakness?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (10 children)

He showed that with that incident with the Thai kids stuck in the cave. They wouldn't take his submarine because it would never be able to navigate the cavern and he got all pissy and jealous of the actual heroes who accomplished the rescue. Kept calling one a pedo for years.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (14 children)

That reminds me, I have to sharpen my guillotine.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 days 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?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 days ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days 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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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Someone give her one million dollars

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

This is how terrorists are born.

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