During a call with investors Tuesday, Musk blamed “paid” and “very organized” protesters for his electric company’s remarkably weak earnings so far in 2025.

https://archive.ph/M6g1C

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    “They’re obviously not going to admit that the reason that they’re protesting is because they’re receiving fraudulent money, or that they’re the recipients of wasteful largesse, they’re gonna come up with some other reason, but that is the real reason for the protests,” said the billionaire.

    Musk and DOGE have slashed the agency that manages Social Security, as he’s falsely criticized America’s core safety-net program as a “Ponzi scheme.”

    They probably receive or expect to receive funds from Social Security or some other government program. The filthy swine.

    Somehow, I don’t think that this is going to do a great deal to heal any brand damage with progressives.

    Frankly, I think that Mr. Musk would be considerably better off if he would simply stop tweeting or publicly-saying things before running them past a PR team.

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    Who the fuck is paying them? hes the in with the crowd who hoarded all the money

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      Same, getting paid to do something I love is a dream. It would also be very funny if I got paid enough money as an anti-tesla protester to afford HRT with enough money left over to donate to worker liberation organizations :3

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    Can only imagine the damage this scumbag has done and who he’s really serving. It isn’t humanity. Thats for damn sure.

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    His narcissism won’t let him admit that no one likes him. He’s a Prince, his mother told him so.

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        This.

        I usually don’t watch YouTube celebrities, but recently I watch the Vaush guy state what I’ve known for a while in my 53 years on the planet:

        Some people truly can’t understand why anyone would do anything without some kind of compensation. They think it’s stupid, and anyone who does anything without expecting something in return is stupid, and deserves to be taken advantage of. And they don’t feel bad about it. It’s the “Natural Order.” Winners win, and losers lose. Any instance of “Altruism” is just “Virtue Signaling,” done for attention and to influence others to their advantage.

        Everything is transactional, and everyone who is not useful is expendable. To them, “empathy” truly is weakness.

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          I’m some 5ish years younger. You’re not wrong. Typically if I watch anything political at all it’s majority report with Sam Cedar. Rarely any of the highly politics involved younger millennials etc. I’ve seen Hasan, and while I think some of his stances are good. He has some major issues, and is way too obsessed with courting a specific demographic however. Leaving him a very unreliable narrator.

          Vaush, what I know of him, has said some extremely stupid shit in the past. From what I’ve seen however, he just kind of doesn’t give a fuck what others think about him. And he doesn’t suck up to groups like Hasan seems to. When he’s discussing a concept he tends to be pretty direct and academic about it. Not afraid to call out any groups deserving. Even though I don’t always agree with him, typically I can respect the differences. Where I can’t with others.

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    Paid protestors, eh? I heard he was paying them to not protest and this is how much they hate him.

    I heard that he offered them a million billion dollars and that they still refused because he sucks so much.

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    If there’s nothing wrong with paying out millions of dollars for votes, then there wouldn’t be anything wrong with paying for protests, either. Have your cake, and shut the fuck up while we force feed it to you, too.