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[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 4 points 59 minutes ago

Stalkers = women demanding child support.

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

It's wild to me how Musk is proving (just like Trump is) how fundamentally weak and small he is.

Fred Rogers never had to travel with a single bodyguard.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Is he still using his own child as a human shield?

[–] Opie1Smith@lemmy.today 7 points 1 hour ago

He probably forgot him somewhere again

[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

Not a single one of them would take a bullet for him.

[–] Legisign@europe.pub 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

”Homicidal maniacs”? Do they need to be maniacs?

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

Imagine if someone had travelled to the past to kill Hitler, failed, and then Hitler would include them in his speeches: "I already survived a homicidal maniac!".

[–] Der_Mann_mit_Hut@feddit.org 1 points 1 hour ago

I sometimes ask myself if 90% of Lemmy consists of hobby-revolutionaries....

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

How many guards?

Never more than 20.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Remember when UHC got shot, musk started using one of his children as a human shield. He would often hold the shield in front of him, Everytime he does a press release

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

His bodyguards must be lucky all the time, whereas...

[–] 11111one11111@lemmy.world -1 points 1 hour ago

Have you seen the comments in any tesla or musk thread? I'd sleep with 20 body guards if I were him and the rest of the world was as crazy as lemmy's neckbeard basement dwelling Linux obsessed hivemind 😂

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 22 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I mean... There is a non-zero chance he might get Luigied....

[–] humanemployee8189@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 hours ago

man i can only dream

[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

You can still do it!

[–] thearch@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

it's almost like championing certain 'activists' and then being shocked when people don't like you is a predictable outcome. who'd have thought.

[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Bgugi@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

X2AE, and sidareal

[–] skittle07crusher@sh.itjust.works 28 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

“Foundation Security” 🙄

Probably related to the Foundation series from Isaac Asimov and Musk’s absurd idea that he is remotely a figure in some such space story.

Looks like his ketamine dealer has good stuff these days

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

He's named after a character called The Elon from Werner Von Braun's sci-fi book called The Mars Project

https://youtu.be/9y-erGt0LsU

Asimov has too much empathy for Elmo

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

iirc he's named after some space serial character. I do wish he'd just fuck off to space.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 3 hours ago

Thats why he names his children like the way he does

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I say next time Musk wants to get a permit to fly one of his Starship test flights, we require he be riding on the thing.

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

You misunderstand him. When he said that space conquest would have casualties, he was thinking about NPCs. He's the Player1 in this universe. Contrary to all of us, he's not expandable: the game would instantly ends.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 7 points 14 hours ago

He probably identifies with The Mule.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 39 points 17 hours ago

Good. Stay lonely with the gang of dudes you have to pay to hang around you and whose only job is to keep people away from you.

I just went to see a movie with a big group of friends and now getting a burger, before tonight I work on a creative project with some other friends who all really respect and appreciate each other's talents.

Something this fascist freak will never have.

[–] 13igTyme@piefed.social 95 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Elon Musk, father of 14 children was basically never seen with his kids until a CEO was shot. Now he always travels with at least one portable meat shield.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 52 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

Father of 14 known children. The down low is apparently he pays women one million dollars to bear his child and she has to sign a non-disclosure agreement that she won't tell people it is his baby.

He is on record saying he wants to make a legion. That is around five thousand babies. He is one of the richest men in the world so this is within his reach. I am going to go throw up now.

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[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 22 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Is it fair to call someone who wants to kill the richest Nazi in the world, who wants to destroy western democracy and rule the world, a maniac?

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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 9 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Ketamine is making him paranoid

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

And cocaine, I believe he consumes both,.with dashes of shrooms from time to time

[–] junk 5 points 10 hours ago

Nah. There are legit people out to get him. At least, there should be.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 156 points 23 hours ago (4 children)
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[–] henfredemars 177 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Has he tried not being a human pile of feces?

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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 22 points 18 hours ago (6 children)

It is good to know this guy is terrified of the consequences of his own actions. I'm sure his hired meat shield will stop and mitigate some threats. I doubt they will stop and mitigate them all.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago

We should feed his paranoia. Everyone should start messaging him on Twitter warning him of the prospect of mosquito-sized suicide drone assassins. Warn him there are rumors that he is the target of a group developing this technology.

Let's see if we can drive him truly mad. We'll turn him into a proper Howard Hughes in no time. He'll lock himself in a hermetically sealed bunker 24/7. And that's when the real demons kick in....

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[–] Kirp123@lemmy.world 65 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Is the human shield kid a security professional too? By the time he's 18 he will have 16 years of bodyguard experience, the perfect employee just like in those entry level job ads.

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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 104 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Who is going to protect him from his own security personnel?

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