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[–] [email protected] 155 points 10 months ago (14 children)

Remember when Musk said he was working on saving all those people, but then someone else actually did it instead of just trying to show off on Twitter, so Musk baselessly called him a pedophile? You know, like a normal well-adjusted human.

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[–] [email protected] 140 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Two days before there was news about the giga factory close to Berlin where they produce batteries for tesla. Its incredibly unsafe to work there. Other German car factory have 2/3 less accidents and less severe ones. The article was really alarming. Everyone spoke about it. Then followed the x about the afd. Now everyone speaks about that. Smart move. Please let's speak about people almost dying in those factories again!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Funny how there is always an event that occurs so close to Musk needing to kick up a fuss. Shame the press is not more switched on and calling it out.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

I agree that people should be talking about the unsafe conditions in his (and any) factories, but lets not pretend that him openly supporting Nazis, even if he is doing it to divert attention, is still him openly supporting Nazis, and that is a serious threat.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you talk more about this here by posting a good quality source?

[–] [email protected] 76 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That man is not worth the amount of air he breathes. He is a tumor on society. I cannot put into words how despicable I find him.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago

Where is the anger? He made a stupid post, siding with what can only be described as neo nazis and got owned by the german foreign ministry on his own platform. Didn‘t stop him from doubling down with insane radical right claims, though. Anyway, that‘s a bad headline of quite an empty article if I may say so.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Downvote Musk spam. He will say/do anything to stay in the 24 hour news cycle.

The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.

[–] xmunk 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This isn't positive Musk spam and how much of an ass he is should be known.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Agreed. The world should never forget what a total piece of shit he is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

And this is kind of effin' important. Facebook and Twitter are critical in misinformation dissemination. Musk has a lot of power not only because he is a billionaire but because he owns Twitter and can influence so many people.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah Elon tusk is pulling the old “they are going to report all that I say! I am a success” bullshit like trump did on Twitter. Has Elon has his cofeve moment yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nah, he's most likely using the 24/7 news cycle to surpress the articles about . This time it's the news about his tesla factory in Germany being a complete disaster for workers' safety and the enivornment. He's just hijacking the news cycle with yet another stupid thing to surpress the news that are hurting his business interests. If we'd stop giving him attention as a person, then he would have absolutely no power over those negative articles.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A few years ago I had some respect for Musk because he build electric cars and quite revolutionary space ships. Funny how that's now all gone now.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 10 months ago (1 children)

He didn’t build any of that shit.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

He did, however, make a good job im convincing peolle that he does shit. He builds electric cars, he builds rockets.

Not the actual engineers and workers, it's magic Musk.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

He wasn’t even a founder of Tesla. He bought them out.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

His undisputed contribution is that he hired Gwynne Shotwell for SpaceX.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I see a resemblance in that thumbnail...

"...dad?"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope the EU fines the shit out of this douche bag

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I hope the EU shuts fucking twitter down for antisemitic and Nazi propaganda

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