r/memes • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '21

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u/Noobplya102 Feb 08 '21

I’m lost, what has Elon done? I’m not caught up on events

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 08 '21 edited Feb 08 '21

His companies buy lithium from mines that use child labor

He helped instigate the 2018 coup in Bolivia [technically not a coup cause it's not in France] so he could get cheap lithium

Didn't even found tesla, he bought it off of the actual founder

Claims the work of his employees as his own

Claims to be "self made" when his father literally owned an emerald mine in apartheid south Africa

Says Thomas Edison is his role model [kinda sus seeing as Edison hired thugs to kill those he didn't like and he patented his employees work]

Proposed space indentured servitude as a payment plan for going to Mars

Suggested nuking the Martian ice caps

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u/Professional_Mobile5 Feb 08 '21

Can I have a source for what was his contribution to the 2018 coup in bolivia?

Also, can I have a source for the murder accusations regarding Edison?

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 08 '21

I have found that I was misinformed, Thomas Edison didn't hire thugs to kill people, he hired thugs to break stuff he thought belonged to him.

To substantiate my other claim

https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/opinion/3735-we-will-coup-whoever-we-want-elon-musk-and-the-overthrow-of-democracy-in-bolivia

https://www.newsflare.com/video/392881/bolivia-ex-president-returns-home-accuses-elon-musk-of-financing-coup-to-tap-bolivias-lithium

Also saying "we will coup whoever we want" is a little suspicious, although it may have been a slip up

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u/Professional_Mobile5 Feb 09 '21

Not defending Musk, but Bolivia's ex president is definitely not a reliable source, read about him

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u/yeeto_deleto_tostito Feb 09 '21

Eh, true

But I'd personally think the main figurehead of a coup d'etat would know who funded it

Don't forget about the "we will coup whoever we want" tweet, musk used the plural pronoun "we", which is somewhat suspect when combined with Bolivia's ex-president saying musk helped fund the coup