My friend’s father bought a 2025 Tesla after my friend begged him not to, but a boomer’s gotta boomer. Suffice to say, it hasn’t gone well for him, so the man went and put this decal on his car. My brother in Christ, you are driving a freshly redesigned car. Nobody is going to believe your swastikar is pre-COVID.

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      I feel like around 2018 with the mini sub and insisting it be used to save those boys in the cave was a big turning point in the public perception. Maybe more of an inflection point.

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        Yeah, the “pedo guy” comment was completely revealing. That’s not just a moment of weakness or slip of the mind. Thems the words if a verified sociopathic narcissist.

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          I’ll never forget that tweet that went viral i guess where some guy said: “please mr. Musk, you are the closest thing we have to Tony Stark. Please help these children.” That shit still haunts me

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        To me it was when he started to sell bullshit and didn’t deliver that it became clear he’s a lying piece of shit. So when I first heard about him. When he forced himself into important positions while being horrible in everything he did except for hyping up dumb people who gave him their money. He’s a sleazy salesman who has shown time and time again he will do anything at any cost to achieve his goal, which consists of money, fame and power. He doesn’t care about the people he harms or deceive. He doesn’t have great ideas himself, he steals other’s ideas and claims them as his own. And this showed when he pushed himself into the tesla company and he became a more public figure, or at least to me he did. I never trusted the guy, I always warned people about him because he’s a lying charlatan. Looking back at older footage of him, it also shows clearly (with the whole old X - PayPal disaster which he lies about, or the game he copied). If anyone thinks he wasn’t crazy before, they are just dumb and/or extremily ignorant.

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          He took all the credit for Tesla and sued the guys that started the company so that only his name was attached to it. I remember reading about the Lotus based Tesla before I knew about him.

          The original creators of the Tesla car were engineers Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, who founded Tesla Motors in 2003. While they were the company’s founders, Elon Musk became the company’s first major investor in 2004 and was later granted co-founder status after a lawsuit settlement, which also included other early executives like J.B. Straubel and Ian Wright.

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            Yup, that’s how he operates. Major red flag imo. But many people think he just went crazy when he did the Hitler salute. His entire track record consists of failure, lies, crimes, narcissism, etc. Elon probably went crazy when he got hit by his dad a lot as a kid.

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      Less obvious if your not paying attention to him and only hear things about him from his fans…or atleast back in 2017. Now it’s basically impossible not to notice he’s a twat