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Elon Musk blamed trans people for recent Tesla attacks after his daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson, called him a "pathetic man-child."

Musk shared false data on trans violence and claimed hormone therapy causes volatility. He linked trans identity to attacks on Tesla cars and dealerships, citing unverified reports of trans suspects.

Musk’s comments followed Wilson’s interview where she condemned his far-right shift and disavowed responsibility for his views.

Critics accused Musk of scapegoating trans people amid Tesla's financial decline and political controversies.

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[–] phoenixarise 8 points 1 hour ago

He’s so pissed that his daughter transitioned. 😂 Hateful dork.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 minutes ago

That's not fair, I'm sure some there are some trans people burning the cars too.

[–] RizzRustbolt 8 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

And the Agender Agenda continues apace...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 minutes ago

Against all authority!

[–] Beetschnapps 1 points 23 minutes ago

Stop being so clever!

[–] boughtmysoul 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Now that the Trump administration is treating Tesla vandalism as domestic terrorism, Musk has connected Trans people to domestic terrorism.

Whether or not he meant to (I don’t know if his Ketamine and amphetamine addled brain even comprehends cause and effect), this is a stated goal of Project 2025: criminalizing Trans people.

[–] andros_rex 7 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

An argument I read recently is that the Nazi plan for gay and trans people wasn’t “genocide” per se. It was a mental health issue or deficiency to be cured. More a project of conversion therapy. In effect, it was wanton slaughter and being a “pink triangle” prisoner was about as bad as you could get, but Himmler had ideas like having gay men fuck prostitutes in the camps (women promised a better life than Ravensbrück - they’d end up on the trains to Auschwitz after). Like you could supposedly be cured, so the goal would be to fix you before giving up and eliminating you, at least in theory.

They’ll have trans people declared mentally ill for being trans and institutionalized. The institutionalization won’t have the goal of killing us, but the people put in charge of caring for us will exploit their power. We will be sexually abused, chemically castrated, and physically abused. This will happen under the appearance of mental health treatment, so it will be invisible.

[–] boughtmysoul 5 points 2 hours ago

They’re trying to make not liking Trump a mental illness in one state so far, they’re absolutely going to make being Trans a mental illness.

Although with Musk connecting being Trans with attacking Teslas, and the Trump administration treating attacking Teslas as domestic terrorism, I could absolutely foresee Trans people eventually being sent to CECOT and never leaving.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I really don't want to hold tesla drivers responsible for that degenerate. Having said that the tesla driver who tried to go around me yesterday as the lane was closing and nearly got me involved in a collision with a oncoming cement truck can fuck right off. I'm sure there are many more just like them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I don't own a car, but if I had a tesla, I'd immediatly sell it after the nazi salute happened. Like, I wouldn't want to be mistaken for some nazi.

(Also I can't trust a car if the manufacturer's executives are deranged lunatics. Like... its not a Nike branding on shoes that you can just cover up and call it a day, the manufacturer can literally shut down your car for holding dissenting views.)

[–] axh 17 points 8 hours ago

trans people’s fault that cis people are burning Tesla cars

Elonia is trying to tell us something.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Wonder how much better off the country would be if Elon and his daughter could reconcile.

[–] Soup 20 points 7 hours ago

It would be 100% of Musk suddenly making a genuine effort to be a good person. It’s not on his daughter’s shoulders so it’s not like there are “two good people who just need to communicate”. If he actually worried about being a good person then of course the country would be better off because d’uh.

[–] CitizenKong 14 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

He has always been a sociopathic, narcistic asshole. His sociopathy just latched onto the transgender thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Now would be a good time to find a way to heal a sociopathic, narcistic asshole.

[–] EaterOfLentils 5 points 6 hours ago

There's no reconciling with a narcissistic parent.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I think it would be easier to just get WW3 over with and see how the dust settles!

[–] captainlezbian 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh some of us might die for him saying that.

[–] MataVatnik 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"You're overreacting" my friends and family members

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 7 hours ago

Yeah that's why I'm not telling my grandma my actual reason I'm quitting my job and moving to a blue state. Fortunately it's something everyone kinda expected me to eventually do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Funny how in life you’re always pointing all of the fingers at everyone else…. But if you just step back and look, it’s everyone pointing at you.

[–] binary45 2 points 6 hours ago

I kind of want to see that piss pool image, but with everyone else standing in clean water and the one guy standing in his own piss.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If Tesla cars turn people into gender dysphoria, are they actually trans formers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Drum roll, ting on the cymbal! Lol!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

She’s not electric, you wank(el)er!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 hours ago

She's a nun in the sheets but a Mazda on the streets.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Please tell me where this is from 🥺

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

I wish I could tell you! Hopefully someone else can. I found it by searching transgender transformers gif 😅

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Looks like Henkei Shoujo

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago

This guy walks around with a human helmet, he knows exactly what he's doing

[–] Sektor 72 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

One of the Umberto Eco's 14 signs of fascism: Fear of difference. “The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.”

The other sigs

[–] [email protected] 60 points 15 hours ago

Ooh, I've found a 15th:

Musk Nazi salute

[–] iAvicenna 2 points 9 hours ago

My first reaction to this news was "Hitler much?"

[–] wabafee 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Got it, it's Elon's fault.

[–] Sarmyth 35 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I guess he better watch out then, if trans people got that much power over people. Maybe he needs to check his fuckin tone...

[–] Huschke 7 points 10 hours ago

He probably should have thanked them more.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And the gays fully control the weather. This sounds like a new Marvel or DC series where the gays+trans team up to destroy the nazis.

[–] [email protected] 130 points 17 hours ago

Dear Trans People, if are you indeed burning Teslas. Please continue,

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I for one am perfectly fine with rising up with all our trans et al. friends and burn all the TeSSlas. Maybe round up all the capitalist pigs allover the world and burn them while we're at it!

[–] [email protected] 48 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Elon.

We're pissed at you because you are dismantling the programs that we relied on and loved.

We're pissed because you're disenfranchising millions of people.

We're pissed at you because our family and friends are being fired, bullied, beaten, and killed thanks to your hateful rhetoric.

We're pissed at you because you're meddling with foreign politics and fanning the flames of racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia at home and abroad.

We're pissed at you because we all know Trans people are the gender they say there are.

We're pissed at you because there are definitely more than 2 genders, and no presidential decree can erase facts.

We're pissed at you because that was unequivocally a Nazi salute in a nation that, despite it's Fascist history, killed more Nazis than most, and there's more people in America than you think who will do it again.

We're pissed because you are not our king Elon, Peter Thiel is not our king, JD Vance is not our king, The Heritage Foundation are not our lords, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, Sachya Nadella are not our fucking lords.

And Trump is NOT our king.

The world is burning Teslas as a reminder to you. We will not be ruled. Not by you. Not by anyone.

So fuck off with this blaming the Trans people for it, you sad excuse for a sack of shit.

Get the fuck out of the White House Elon.

Take your toys, your son you're definitely not using as a human shield since Luigi reminded you guys of your mortality, and just...go fucking home and shut the fuck up forever.

[–] Batman 18 points 13 hours ago

Hippity, hoppity , a nazi, has no property

[–] SS2k_2003 95 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

That's like blaming the weather forecaster for that day's rain

[–] aeronmelon 58 points 17 hours ago

Even that has a more logical throughline.

It’s like getting rained on and then saying the food stamp program caused the weatherman to form a rain cloud over your head.

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[–] Shootingstarrz17 3 points 9 hours ago

Keep up the good work, guys! ;) Lol

[–] [email protected] 20 points 15 hours ago

True, its trans peoples fault. When I see a trans person Molotov a Tesla I am inspired to join them and do the same.

Remember when you hear people like elon musk, trump and rogan attack hormone replacement therapy that they are literally using it themselves. Its so stupid.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I've never burned a Tesler, but you make me really want to, Elmo.

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[–] regrub 34 points 18 hours ago

It's like blaming communists for the Reichstag Fire

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