r/MurderedByWords • u/Soft_Cable5934 • 1d ago
Coming up Next: Elon’s million dollar bribes of Heil Hole
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u/beerbellybegone 1d ago
Every accusation is a confession
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u/Fabulous_Chip0 23h ago
They use this as a manipulation strategy,
I do something then I blame you for doing it, and the 🐑🐑🐑 are going to believe me
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u/GrandmasShavedBeaver 23h ago
It makes it so that when they are caught and called out in it, that it comes across as a no u. Because they already accused you of it first. Then at the very worst for them, it will be one of those well, both sides are bad dismissals.
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u/CrayonTendies 23h ago
“The libs are just mad it’s our turn!”
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u/scoopzthepoopz 22h ago
The "our" is, quite interestingly really, not about Americans in general, if you notice. Almost like the 1% win says that perhaps some compromise about how things are run would be in order, and republicans are immature babies abusing the modern era of information technology to avoid participation in a tried and true democracy.
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u/CrayonTendies 19h ago
Yea it’s amazing how the internet has somehow made us all dumber. You’d think having all the world’s history and information available instantly would make us smarter but when people can’t tell the difference between data and opinion it’s pretty easy for manipulation and misinformation. Pretty fucking sad really.
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u/Corben11 21h ago
It actually has a name DARVO - an acronym for "deny, attack, reverse victim & offender"
It's a common manipulation strategy of psychological abusers
It's the whole MAGA platform.
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u/TommyKnox77 22h ago
Accusation in a mirror. They make up crimes they want to commit then accuse the other side of them. Then they get to do those crimes because "the Left did it first".
Nazi tactic, straight from the playbook.
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u/deathangel687 23h ago
It's a way for them to say "well the dems did it first!!!" to justify it.
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u/Perryn 22h ago
And/Or "This is just a thing opposing groups say about each other."
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u/kia75 21h ago
They use this as a manipulation strategy,
Yes, when the accusations are the same then the fight becomes white noise.
Think of kids in the back seat of a car. If the two kids are going "Bobby is on my side of the seat!" "Nuh-uh, Sally is on my side of the seat!" then the fight turns into white noise and you yell at both of the kids to shut up and behave! Where if the argument is "Bobby's playing his switch too loud!" "Well sally won't stop singing!" you can tell bobby to turn the headphones on, and Sally to be quieter. Different complaints lead to different solutions, but the same complaint is just noise!
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u/Business-and-Legos 23h ago
Someone please come pay me for my protesting thank you
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u/TommyKnox77 22h ago
Ya no shit. If protesting was a paid gig I'd be out there every day at every protest: Left, Right, up, down who gives a fuck pay me.
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u/CrayonTendies 22h ago
accusation in a mirror is a propaganda strategy made famous by none other than the nazis. Be sure to click the description tab in the wiki to see the basic explanation and nazi connection. The right has used this method dramatically since maga and Trump has come around. Packing the court, illegals, conflating patriotism and religion with nationalism, George soros, election interference, etc. pretty much all their major talking points have been some form of double standard hyper bullshit.
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u/karmavorous 22h ago
During the 2024 election, whenever JV Pence was asked about Jan 6th, or if Trump actually won in 2020, he deflected to "Twitter censored posts about Hunter Biden". As if Trump whipping up an angry mob with lies and pointing them at the Capitol with violent intent was equivalent to the Biden campaign (Trump was President at the time - it wasn't even government censorship) asking twitter to take down dick pics of the candidate's son.
There was a day during the 2024 election where headlines about JD Vance's deflection about twitter censorship and headlines about Elon Musk taking down posts critical of Trump were right next to each other.
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u/nbriggs19 22h ago
You know I didn’t think the “he who smelt it dealt it” rule would apply to American politics but here we are
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u/kawdo_komic 23h ago
you'd think the rocket scientist billionaire would have a little more self awareness
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u/Allegorist 22h ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accusation_in_a_mirror
It's a common, well-documented tactic used by fascists in the past.
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u/barkatmoon303 23h ago
Right? Also he should check out his butt buddy's rallies. If you eliminated the people getting something for being there you'd be left with just the secret service detail.
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u/AliceTheOmelette 1d ago
The real Soros buying politicians was the South African Nazi that elected trump along the way
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u/Ok-Significance-7016 1d ago
Last time Musk did that it turns out he had pre picked the winners. They had to agree to be mouthpieces for him. They were hired they didn’t win anything.
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u/Gregistopal 23h ago
It’s not buying votes it’s just fraud!
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u/psychic-zucchini 23h ago
Buying votes / running an illegal lottery / running a fake illegal lottery. Seems like at least one of these things should actually be illegal.
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u/GodlessCommie69 22h ago
Literally all of them are lol, its illegal to give out bottles of water to people waiting in line to vote because of Wisconsin's vote bribery laws, its illegal on all counts, plus probably several more that I am not thinking of
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u/MyWifeButBoratVoice 18h ago
Why are we all just acting like he's above the law now? Somebody charge him! What the fuck?
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u/Gil_Demoono 22h ago
I believe it was mentioned in another thread that the winner of the million dollar check was the president of their college's Republican association.... So yeah.
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u/Roflkopt3r 22h ago
Yet even the offer is already illegal, if the justice system actually does its job.
The Wisconsin law clearly states that neither offering nor paying compensation is allowed. So it does not matter if he didn't pay the rest - the fact that he extended the offer means that he broke the law.
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u/ominous_anonymous 23h ago
He paid people in Pennsylvania $100 for "registering others to vote", as well.
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u/molten-glass 21h ago
That makes sense, he probably didn't have the cash to hand over considering he's using everything he's got for collateral in one way or another
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u/Low-Possibility-7060 1d ago
Still waiting for one shred of evidence that they are paid. My hate for Elon was and is free.
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u/LackSchoolwalker 22h ago
I think Elon is asking for people to personally express their hatred to him directly, face to face. That way he can feel our sincerity. It would be a shame for him to think this was about a paycheck. If he wants to double check, he can ditch the teams of body guards and secret service agents he’s hiding behind and come greet the public himself.
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u/Optimal_scientists 19h ago
From what I can see his tweets are related to a post by a journalist (apparently worked for WSJ but the only article I could find in a respected publication was Marie Claire saying how she hated being married to a Muslim guy and then married a white guy from the US army) where she says these campaigns are organised by groups like Indivisible and MoveON and her claim seems to be they pay to print placards I guess...like these seem like normal civic organisations to me. Probably use the funds they get donated for transport, phone calls etc.
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u/Low-Possibility-7060 18h ago
Which is nothing out of the ordinary, it’s called organising a protest. The organisation behind Tesla Takedown (troublemakers) also told the guardian all they have is $3,500 in the bank account, so that would be 17,50 for each of the 200 protests (for one week). That’s not gonna produce a big crowd if they come for the money.
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u/grantrules 19h ago
Who cares if it's real if your entire base believes it. "The party of common sense" doesn't need proof of anything. If it seems true and someone keeps repeating it, it must be true!
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u/hec_ramsey 18h ago
There’s also like 10 people in that picture lol like how effective is paying 10 people going to be
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u/awesomedan24 23h ago
Stop arguing with Elon, just leave his platform. If everyone leaves, he no longer has a platform.
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u/Critical-Caregiver 23h ago
But then how will these guys murder him with words and give clever comebacks. Even though the thousands of attempts haven't worked, the next one is surely going to cause Elmo to resign and go into hiding. Ofcourse, none of this generates engagement for the platform and keep making money for him so it's all good.
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u/Vospader998 23h ago
Man, you guys are getting paid? I keep doing that shit for free, no one's offered to pay me yet.
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u/schkmenebene 23h ago
Where do I go to get paid to protest? Sounds like ez money.
Or is it better for me to become a judge and\or responsible for something Elon needs to abuse and get rich from bribery?
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u/Careless_Owl_7716 23h ago
He didn't give any money away in reality. Completely staged.
That should have zero impact on this being vote buying though as the audience thought it was real.
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u/philthegr81 23h ago
This dork said the folks heckling him — at the rally where he was giving away $1M in exchange for votes — were paid by George Soros.
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u/InvestigatorChance28 23h ago
The wisconsin people have given a mandate to their supreme court. Landslide victory. Likes of which have never been seen before.
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u/onlyforthisjob 23h ago
Let's turn this around: MAGA protestors, why aren't you getting paid if this is the usual way things go?
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u/cahir11 23h ago
Well they are. Elon was literally paying people to demonstrate in favor of his preferred candidate.
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u/SonokaGM 1d ago
At this point, I really don't know anymore if he really is this deluded and demented (a few K holes too many can make a less powerful man believe he's the infallible master of the universe or god), or if he's simply lying and goading MAGA.
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u/Roflkopt3r 21h ago edited 21h ago
It's always a mix with these types.
They have too many delusions and insecurities to accept reality. So instead of dealing with their own issues, they double down on even crazier theories.
They sometimes have enough clarity to understand that they're just getting themselves into deeper and deeper lies, but can ignore this feeling for the rest of their time. They convince themselves that their lies are actually true from a certain perspective. And then become more and more accustomed to that perspective until it feels 'true' to them.
I'm sure that Musk really thought that he could just 'fix' the US with DOGE because everyone else was just so stupid and it 'should be easy'. He almost broke down over realising that everything is going to shit. He will probably deal with this by sticking to narratives that allow him to view the outcome as positive after all. "Of course it wouldn't fix the economy overnight, but the economic crash is really just growing pains before everything becomes better!"
This becomes extremely dangerous for voting/politics, since the rationalisation almost always turns into some version of 'the election was fraudulent, I'm actually super popular but the evil opposition suppressed my supporters/stuffed the ballot boxes with fake votes!'
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u/bleachinjection 23h ago
Man these Republicans seem to know how to get paid for protesting, could they clue me in? Times are tough out here!
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u/a2starhotel 23h ago
they're paid protestors? prove it.
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u/Fair_Occasion_9128 23h ago
I don't know if he's just resigned and kind of bitterly mumbles "I bet they're paid protestors" to himself, or if he actually, genuinely believes it.
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u/ericgtr12 23h ago
Last protest I went to was just a bunch of regular people who made signs at home and were passionate about using their voice. Not a single one was paid or otherwise coerced into being there.
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u/LouisDearbornLamour 21h ago
Anyone know where I can get one of these paid protester jobs? I've literally been doing it for free like a sucker
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u/Available_Leather_10 23h ago
But he’s not paying them even with a chance to win anything. He’s straight up lying to get dipshits to show up and listen to him ramble about nothing.
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u/Entire-Homework-1339 23h ago
How does a photo of a camera tripod on a corner, with peo0le, constitute paid protestors though?
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u/Kasern77 23h ago
Disturbing how Musk thinks everyone just likes him and that people can't possibly protest against him. The guy is severely delusional.
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u/Far_Estate_1626 23h ago
I want to see every individual protester sue him for slander.
Blatant lies about people in a democratic process should not be protected speech.
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u/Sempere 23h ago
If they were paid protestors, why wouldn't they be showing up at both right and left protests? In a capitalist society, they'd go to whoever pays them better. Surely then all Elon would need to do to prove his theory is to pay them to protest, right? Maybe offer them a salary, some benefits, a nice non-Tesla method of transport.
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u/PressureRepulsive325 22h ago
Stop giving him views and putting his shit everywhere. He literally bought Twitter so he can never be shut off. He wants to be seen, screenshotted, and his nonsense spread around. Dude would literally die if we gave him no attention and just let him screed at Russian bots all day.
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u/Tapingdrywallsucks 22h ago
Can you imagine the good he could do with his money if he had invested his bribes into a charitable cause?
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u/flayedsavior 20h ago
He has so much money, that a very small percent invested in philanthropy could have made him a modern day Carnegie, giving him the admiration he craves. But Leon is addled by his blackhole of an ego, and the accumulation of wealth it requires would never allow him to relinquish a minuscule amount of it to benefit the peons.
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u/FullAFwar 22h ago
Any chance Elon's and Trump's account are written by AI or some sort of ghostwriter, just to lead their flock and troll/ragebait the opposition at the same time?
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u/Medical_Arugula3315 22h ago
Hard to be a shittier American than a Trump/Elon supporter these days
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u/raphcosteau 22h ago
Anyone who has paid praisers (PR departments, publicists, image crisis management consultants, sock puppet twitter accounts etc.) has no room to talk about "paid protesters". He literally pays people to support him.
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u/B_Ash3s 22h ago
Honestly we should just start going up to them and asking them how much their paid and when they get paid, and then complaining that they get paid faster than us, saying that they keep telling us change will happen and we’re still not paid yet, and then see if they confess to be paid protestors… be like “who do I need to contact to get paid because these dems… they literally don’t pay us shit” They’re dumb enough to fall for it.
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u/BabcocksList 22h ago
I'm so looking forward to the new Tesla sales to be announced and for his stock price to drop even more.
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u/Santa_Barbarian02 22h ago
The rich is so out of touch with the normal working people that they dont realize what comes out of their mouth
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u/foudymoudy 22h ago
Lmao my retired programmer mom is a “paid protestor” now… literally 70 years old and never protested that I know of but she drew the line with you Elon. You are quite literally where people are forced to draw their lines….
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u/Desperate_Garage2883 22h ago
Can anyone tell me where to apply for one of these paid protester jobs?
I would love to get paid to travel and scream at assholes!
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u/wratanar 21h ago
If that's true, he can just offer them a bit more money to protest for him? Problem solved.
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u/MagnusThrax 21h ago
Pretend "Raffles" where the chair of the young college Republicans JUST SO HAPPENS TO WIN.....
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u/CorporateCuster 21h ago
Bro, paid or not, protestors are allowed to protest. Paid BOTERS is illegal though.
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u/TheWhyteMaN 21h ago
So fucking tired of people saying “literally” so often.
It Figures Elon abuses that word too.
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u/Noobzoid123 21h ago
Where do we sign up to be paid protestors? Shouldn't be hard to find the source right?
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u/kelpkelso 21h ago
Is it illegal to put laxatives in someone’s food? If this man ate at an establishment I owned he’d be getting the run’s. Id hope everywhere he went someone would be doing something to inconvenience this man.
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u/EggnogThot 21h ago
This subreddit is just Yahoo and BuzzFeed news circa 2016. "Elon SLAMMED by man on Twitter" and you open the link and it's the most milquetoast takedown you've ever seen in your life. I'm happy this kind of stuff makes you feel better in your day to day but come on guys, get real
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u/Kill3rT0fu 21h ago
Liberals should start going to pro-Trump events under cover and saying things like "How long is this thing because I'm only being paid to be here until 3." And offer to do video interviews and when asked for opinions, say things like "I don't really have an opinion, I'm just here because they're paying me"
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u/notmyfirstrodeo2 20h ago
Anything conservatives/right wings accuse someone without any proof, is usually admitting they are doing/planing the same thing.
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u/scriptingends 1d ago
He’s now so unlikable/unliked that if he wants to keep buying votes he’s going to have to do it quietly. His public endorsements will have a negative effect on a candidate.