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Elon Musk's Unpopularity Hits All-Time High After Leaving Trump Admin (www.newsweek.com)
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As of June 25, 55.1 percent of Americans viewed Elon Musk unfavorably, while 37 percent had a favorable opinion—a sharp shift from early 2024, when the numbers were roughly even, according to Silver Bulletin.

"Musk is still popular among Republicans, but he's less popular than he used to be and less popular than other Republican figures," elections analyst Eli McKown-Dawson wrote.

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

If you ever feel useless, just remember that Elon Musk failed terribly at the easiest thing in the world - not being a Nazi shithead

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    All time until now...

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    [–] 97 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    He killed his Dem fans by going MAGA. Then, killed MAGA fans going against their orange god. All-around idiot that got lucky investments with daddy's money.

    Jump in one of those exploding rockets, Elon. It surely won't blow this time.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    I mean, him Titan CEO'ing himself on the way to Mars as a showcase that his tech is safe, is well within plausibility

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Don't give me hope!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Solid chance he does the same thing in one of his robotaxis

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    I don't know, the stream where his entire goal was to prove how good starlink was for gaming where he immediately blamed all his deaths on poor connection quality, sort of implies he has trouble putting his products before his ego.

    And while he is an expert at deluding himself, I think we have already passed the point where even he could be convinced his rockets were safe.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    He not only did what you describe, but by buying Twitter, he intentionally worked to polarize the entire political base into neat "pro-Trump" and "anti-Trump" camps. Then he finished systematically burning his bridges with both. Amazing work all around.

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    • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Being a sack of hot garbage will do that to your popularity.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He's mostly ketamine, and various drugs.

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    • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Has he tried not being a fuckhead?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    seriously.

    he has a golden PR opportunity.

    just say that he has a drug addiction take a vacation in s luxury rehab for a couple weeks and gain simpathy. then all he has to do is being less public about his racism.

    but he's too dumb to see it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If he does that he’ll lose his fuckhead supporters though

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    but he'll get back that apolitical centrists liberal demographic, the people who say hes Tony Stark. he'll be back in SNL, and people might use him as an example of "genius"

    that is all 100% BS.

    but it shows that he isn't only Selfish, racist,bigot, he is also not a smart one.

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    • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    He can always crawl back into his k-hole. Good riddance.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    He's probably too tolerant to ketamine now.

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    • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    55.1 percent of Americans viewed Elon Musk unfavorably, while 37 percent had a favorable opinion

    How is this possible? I'm convinced you can do the worst shit imaginable and 30% of people will still support it, no matter what.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    6% of the us population consider themselves far-right, 17% consider themselves right-of-center-right, add in silicon Valley nuts, linked in lunatics, vc padded vest wearers, die hard Tesla / SpaceX fans, single issue voters, red-down-the-ballot-voters, and people who don't keep up with what elon did bad - easy to see tbh

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    • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    And why do we even care how popular a CEO is, or who he is at all?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Because he forged a stupid ass cult of personality based on the lie of "Rel lyf eronmaen" so thusly has way too much power even ignoring the fact that in theory he has billions in assets. Note he is also a damned fine example as to why stocks for anything other than resource extraction is fucking asinine.

    Personally I think the world would be a lot better if murder was still relatively easy, simply because then we could just kill fuckwads like musk and the world would somewhat improve.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    You don’t want that world. Look at who commits murder even when it’s more difficult, and look at why they do it. The far-right love to respond to people trying to help them with death threats, guns, and bombs, the centre doesn’t do anything about it even if they’re also in the victim pool, and the left would like to see these executives and corrupt politicians arrested and their ill-gotten assets seized but we generally pump the brakes on the murder.

    These days, though, people are being pushed outside their “comfort zone”.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I meant on a technological level rather than a legal one, most right wing lunatics who are caught for murder are usually pretty stupid about it. A well planned killing could be don't within seconds with the trail going cold within minutes, like with the CEO killing. Fact of the matter is without facial recognition and other trite there would be only a limited capacity to catch someone murking say musk.

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Still alive tho.

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    [–] 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    It's all just Woody Harrelson crying gif to him though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Since the scene originally took place in a zombie apocalypse where money was worthless, unironically this. He's clearly unhappy and his money does nothing to change that. Like many narcissists, he desperately wants to be liked.

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    • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    People dont like Nazis???

    In other news, Forks found in kitchen!

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I hope he will be ignored into obscurity and eternal oblivion. Peter Thiel too, what a disgrace for the german people.

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    [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Awesome strategy, though. First, piss off the sane people, then piss off the crazy people.

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    [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    fuck this Nazi scum.

    dude should go back to South Africa and crawl back into whatever shithole he crawled out of.

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The big doughey lump made people mad at him. He deserves it. Fuck off, chud.

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    [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Good.

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