Recent protests against Tesla, coupled with public discontent over Elon Musk's influence, signal growing accountability demands from US taxpayers. Musk's response to these protests was defiant; he labeled protestors as 'villains' and hinted at governmental investigations into them, framing dissent as violence. This rhetoric is concerning, especially as it aligns with shifts in federal policies regarding protests and dissent. The formation of an FBI taskforce by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate vandalism of Tesla vehicles raises alarms about the government acting in service of corporate interests.
Whether Tesla protestors will face the same threat of being disappeared is anyone's guess, but it's a jarring signal given the US state's increasingly cruel stance toward immigrants, students, and critics.
Those are the real villains here... We're gonna go after them, and the president's made that clear, we're going to go after them, the ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda, we're going after them.
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