Warner Crocker
“America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump.”
Workers Say They Were Tricked and Threatened as Part of Elon Musk’s Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
#politics #ElonMusk #Voting
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/
Michael Wyman
@WarnerCrocker that sounds more like human trafficking than a get-out-the-vote effort.
Warner Crocker
@mloxton Because he’s creepy, weird, abusive, a drug abuser, and too full of his own self regard, thinking his money will always protect him. It might. For a time. History proves those who fly to close to their own sun, typically crash at some point. The rest of us just have to suffer until it happens.
Matthew Loxton
@WarnerCrocker
Why does everything this guy do end up creepy and weird and abusive?
Like, ok, if you want to pay people to go knock on doors and promote something, sure, it's kinda gross and unsafe, but normal.
But then flying them in, hauling them around in a U-Haul truck, and threatening them if they don't meet abusive quotas. That takes it from unsafe to abusive, from gross to creepy
DetLionsFan1
@WarnerCrocker Elmo - I mean Elon Will throw you off of Twitter if you’re not kissing the ring for Donald Trump. This is my first day on this site, I have to start over and figure out how to use this one.
Warner Crocker
@DetLionsFan1 Welcome to the land where Mastodons roam!
DetLionsFan1
@WarnerCrocker thanks for the follow, can you tell me which icon to tap if I wanna follow somebody on this site? I’m so glad you followed me. That was easy. You’re my first. ✊
MaybeMyMonkeys
@WarnerCrocker does anyone think Elon spends his own money
JimJoe
@WarnerCrocker News is not dead, people just want honest facts. Anyone writing the facts and keeping communities and nations transparent will get the business.
Resist
@WarnerCrocker “First prize is you meet the big guy. Second prize is a red hat. Third prize is you have to pay your own hotel bill.”
neonharbinger
@WarnerCrocker That this and other important election news keeps getting put behind paywalls makes me fucking rage. Elon's out here basically trafficking and definitely abusing people, and Wired is limiting who finds out because capitalism. My god. If anyone needs to view anything, pop archive.ph/ in front of the article's URL.
Jonathan
@WarnerCrocker Elon needs to be tossed in jail and his assets nationalised
tleekeene
@WarnerCrocker #musk really that stupid? Kidnapping?
Beachhart
@WarnerCrocker @mloxton it's worth remembering where he came from: apartheid South Africa. His father literally made his fortune from conflict emeralds illegally harvested.
Musk is a gangster, and he acts like it.
amazing_booknerd
@WarnerCrocker and were these dumb people dumb enough to do this?
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