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▲ estebank 8 hours ago

> No normal person engages in this stuff, it’s hyper activists part of organized groups with real financing

I guess I'm not a normal person then. I didn't realize that I was a hyper activist because I drew on some cardboard and that my group of friends was being financed. I better go demand for my Soros-check from them.

▲monero-xmr 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you planning on going to a Tesla dealership again to protest? This was top of my Reddit algorithm for several months, no one even mentions it anymore

▲runako 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Over that timeframe, did anything change about the relationship of the CEO of Tesla and the US government?

▲monero-xmr 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn’t Musk own the “Nazi social media” website now? Shocking that people literally destroyed Tesla dealerships out of anger and now no one even bothers to show up anymore

▲runako 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Is it possible that you did not fully understand the reasons people were protesting at Tesla dealerships?

Perhaps the protests were less about Twitter than you may be assuming, and more about something else that happened much later than the Twitter acquisition?

▲noxer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

They protested un-elected president Musk who will stay in power forever. Then he left his position exactly like communicated from the very start and people now think that they won, even tho they only annoyed tesla dealership employees and tesla owners.

▲lostlogin 6 hours ago | parent [-]

You don’t think it got under Musks skin?

That was the point.

▲noxer 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Many things do, mostly people on Twitter seem to get under his skin quite a lot lol.

If the goal was to "trigger" him I don't think the protests succeed in any meaningful way. Innocent Tesla owner where the primary victims followed by share holder, (damaged) property owners and people affected by insurances premiums due to the vandalism.

And then of course there are still a handful of people in jail for crimes committed in relation to the Tesla protest. Arguably not victims but still a negative effects that clear outweigh any perceived positive effect it all had on Musk.

▲coryrc 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Because they won? Have you seen Tesla's sales numbers and market share?

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▲noxer 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They didn't care about Tesla they wanted to "hurt" Musk Musks net worth is about $270 billion more today compared to when the protests began. Does this look like winning?

▲ChromaticPanic 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

A completely meaningless number that would crater if he dumped his stock to materialize it.

▲noxer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Bring better numbers that show where the protest "won". I wasn't the one using the stocks as metric for "protest success".

▲goatlover 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Conveniently you left out Musk's DOGE effort to take a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy that people were protesting. And those protest did have the effect of making Elon unpopular enough that the administration didn't want to keep him around.

▲noxer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I didn't leave it out, it doesn't matter to my point. I refute the part about "winning" because clearly the protest did nothing to Musk it only had severe negative effects on thousands of other people.

He left his position as planned from the beginning, the protest had zero effect on what he did trough DOGE.

▲goatlover 7 hours ago | parent [-]

That's not true. DOGE did not achieve it's goals of massive cuts. Unless the real goal was stealing information.

The negative effects were on all the people fired, thus why Virginia swung massively toward the Democrats in the 2025 elections.

▲noxer 7 hours ago | parent [-]

You are moving the goal post. I never said DOGE did achieve anything.

You said the protest lead to him no longer be part of the administration which is factually incorrect. His position was limited from the start and he left as planned.

▲47282847 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It is accurate to state that we don’t know if the protests had any influence on how things went down with DOGE. It is equally accurate to state that we don’t know if they didn’t have any influence on it. It is not accurate to state that he left as planned since the announcements of the USG change by the minute and don’t mean a thing.

▲noxer 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I never made such statements, I refuted the parent posts statement that the protest against musk "won" that's all I did before the goal post moving replies came talking about DOGE.

Elon Musk's role in DOGE was limited because he was designated as a "special government employee", a federal employment category defined under 18 U.S.C. § 202 that restricts service to no more than 130 days in any 365-day period.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/202

This was publicly know back in February. The exact date wasn't know since it was not public when he because such a "special government employee". It turns out they started counting days straight from the inauguration date or rather the Executive Order 14158 (Creation of DOGE) date which was on the same day.

It is totally accurate to say he left as planned and thus also totally accurate to say that one of the statements above claiming the protest "won" by pushing him out of the administration is factually incorrect.

▲lostlogin 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

To claim that his role at DOGE was clear is incorrect. Musk’s position was unclear.

Even the DOGE was opaque and its status unclear. Having him with a black eye and chainsaw organising anything was madness. Even Trump eventually saw it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Government_Effic...

▲noxer 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Again another goal post moving and inventing some claim that were not made in this thread.

▲philk10 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

yes, there's a group still goes once a week on Monday and I go when I can. There's also one on Wednesday at the main Social Security office Totally normal people there, not being paid a dime