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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    The only money involved for the protesters was what they are going to lose because of this f-ed up governments policies.

    No need to pay anyone who does protest out of sheer pain.

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    I can get paid to tel Elmo henvan gonfuxk himself?

    Why did nobody tell me?

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    Than stop paying for people to show up on your side and then you won’t have a problem. The people against you are doing it for free.

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    The richest guy in the world, and he is so horny for any love and respect that the smell of desperation fills any room he is in. You can even see it anytime he makes a media appearance. The guy actually exudes a breath-taking level of anti-charisma. He’s truly revolting to anyone who sees him.

    All that money, and he has to rent wombs to manufature his DNA Storage Units/ Organ Donors/ Human Shields because no woman will go near him. I’ve heard his dick doesn’t work anyway, due to a botched wiener enlargement surgery.

    So he thinks the gamers are his peeps, and they’ll love him, right? Nah, all those great toys, and still none of the neighborhood kids want to play with him, because he’s so fucking wierd.

    It fills me with such glorious schadenfreude to see him demonstrating in real time, the old saying “Money can’t buy happiness.”

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    If President Musk would be so kind as to post a link to the website or app where I can sign up to get paid for displaying leftist views and hating on oligarchs, I would really appreciate it. I could use some duckets.

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      For future reference, it’s ducats.

      Ducat was a “trade coin”(not usually a legal/single state currency) that started in the late 1200s Italy, and was still used by Austra in the early 1900s.

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      Exactly, I’m ethusiastically trashing him on a daily basis for free, I’d LOVE to get paid for it. I’d be so good at it, I’d probably get promoted.

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    Who’s paying them? Genuinely, who, in his grandiose delusions, wants his demise and is paying people to protest, just to lower his stock prices. Who does he actually think is “out to get him”.

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    He’s conflating paid and organized in an attempt to make them synonymous. Basically, anyone you ever see holding a sign is just an actor and their message is not worth acknowledgement. Don’t think too hard about how much you’re getting utterly fucked, Billy. That’s what a “globalist” would do!

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      Classic, straight out of the fascists playbook. Everyone who supports the fash is grassroots movement, everyone who opposes fascism is a paid shill from the scapegoat du jour.

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    Just hire counterprotestors? You have the scratch. Show us how logistically plausible it is to hire an enormous group of people to congregate and chant your ideas.

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      You’ll know that’s happening when the counter protesters show up in matching T-shirts, with professionally printed signs, and they appear at multiple protests. They’ll claim they all responded independently, despite the obvious evidence before our eyes.

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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.