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-Land of the Free
The Multifront Attack on Elon Musk
2023-12-26
[Epoch Times] Elon Musk is the world’s richest man but also the number one target of the world’s richest governments and their associated industrialists. The reason traces entirely to his independence of mind and the actions that follow from that.

In times of censorship, he bought and now protects a free-speech platform, the only one remaining with any real reach into the public mind. Countless millions of people are deeply grateful, even if the platform is a long way from profitability.

Further, he is innovating in a time of stagnation with Tesla, Starlink, and SpaceX. He is outspoken against the many forms of despotism of our time. He was an original dissident against COVID controls, and probably the most prominent, keeping his factories running in defiance of the governor and then even leaving California for Texas to find more freedom.

This is the whole reason he is fending off attacks from every angle.
An embarrassment to the globalists, kleptocrats, socialists, and commies.
Posted by:Bobby

#12  Likewise a local woman, dairy farmer, got her long hair caught by the milking machine- the suction cups that go on the udder. Horrible.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2023-12-26 18:40  

#11  My dad treated a guy who got literally scalped when his pony tail got caught in a truck driveshaft.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2023-12-26 17:20  

#10   A couple of years ago, a guy caught his necktie in a rotating machine with horribly messy results.

Never walk on the factory floor wearing something loose, not even if you’re just passing through. A female engineer* of my acquaintance told about taking a shortcut across the floor in our paper factory... Since she wasn’t staying, she didn’t bother to put on a hairnet. Naturally, her long ponytail got caught in the rollers. One of the workers heard her scream and hit the emergency shut-off, stopping the thing just before her head was pulled in. They had to cut her hair off to set her free, and she never grew it longer than an inch below her ears until she retired.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-26 17:08  

#9  Caught his necktie

Heh. Worked at a tool and die place where everyone in the "front office" had to wear a coat and tie. If you had to go out on the shop floor you had to remove jacket and tie for safety reasons. So, everyone found a reason to go out on the floor right after arriving at work.
Posted by: M. Murcek    2023-12-26 17:01  

#8  but but but he is 'afro-american'!
Posted by: irish rage boy   2023-12-26 16:19  

#7  Spacex/Starlink will be the backbone of next generation US war fighting capability. I hope Musk is making friends in the DOD, if they’re not too busy touching up their lipstick.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2023-12-26 16:16  

#6  The Daily Mail joins the attack, reporting on a three=year old incident, which may have been as simple as the worker getting in between the robot and its target.

80-100 years ago, punch press operators sometimes lost fingers. A couple of years ago, a guy caught his necktie in a rotating machine with horribly messy results.
Posted by: Bobby   2023-12-26 15:47  

#5  Tesla robot ATTACKS an engineer at company's Texas factory during violent malfunction - leaving 'trail of blood' and forcing workers to hit emergency shutdown button
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-26 15:41  

#4  He liked a picture on my Facebook page. I don't think it was really him.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-12-26 12:53  

#3  The government needs to careful. Elon is a mad scientist, he built space rockets that land on floating barges, remember NASA laughed at him, he built a car company in America, something that has not been successfully done in a century, he control a global communication system. He is a haircut and a shaved cat away from Dr Evil.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2023-12-26 10:56  

#2  Hopefully he invents a way around Heinlein's "bad luck."
Posted by: M. Murcek    2023-12-26 09:39  

#1  There is a reason he's no longer living in South Africa. I believe I know what that reason is. Perhaps some folks should listen a bit more closely to this young man.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-26 09:38  

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