I feel like that’s probably the one thing a vehicle marketed as bullet-proof needs to be… like, actually bullet-proof.

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    Imagine being a billionaire in the mood to be generous and making a large donation… and that’s the best you can come up with. Giving 10 cars to the police. WTF.

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      This isn’t a donation, this is free advertising for Musk to have the police rolling around Vegas in his trucks.

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        And their business, the guys “up fitting” these cyber trucks. Which they ONLY “upfit” Tesla’s.

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      The police were probably about to open an investigation into said billionaire for child sex trafficking. Sadly, all of the evidence just suddenly went missing.

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        It wasn’t musk that donated them. It’s the owner of the business that “upfit” them, and for the record, they’re contracted to ONLY “up fit” Tesla’s.

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          So? Why are you telling me? I didn’t say it was muskrat. Nobody mentioned him in this thread until after I posted.

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            Cause I’m saying it’s simpler than that. It’s just advertising for the business to his clientele. That clientele would include right wing “back the blue” types that would love to own a truck that some unspecified swat type team trusts. But if they ever actually use these vehicles for that purpose, it’ll backfire.

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              No, you were telling me, a person that didn’t imply that it was muskrat, that it wasn’t muskrat. Then you make an unsubstantiated claim of who it was. The linked article doesn’t say he donated them. You didn’t provide any evidence for your claim beyond an implied, “Trust me bro.” So my perfectly reasonable conclusion is that you misread the article in the same way you misread my original comment.

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                  Where? All I see is,

                  The founder of UP FIT, the company that modified the Las Vegas police Cybertrucks, posted a hype video on Twitter showing off the work

                  That doesn’t mean that they’re the source of the money that paid for the trucks.

                  And you still have not addressed the fact that 👏I 👏did 👏not 👏say 👏it 👏was 👏muskrat.

                  ETA: The company is only mentioned three times in the article. The quote above, plus

                  According to the UP FIT Founder, the Las Vegas PD Cybertruck Doors Are Factory Stock

                  and

                  If the Las Vegas Sheriff and even the UP FIT founder thinks that Cybertrucks can stop bullets by default, there’s a reason for that.

                  So, no, it absolutely does NOT say

                  they were donated by UP.FIT.

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                    You need to calm down. At no time did I attack you or anything, but clearly you’re really worked up about it. It’s really not worth arguing with someone so emotional. I hope tomorrow is a better day for you.

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        How could something go missing when it never existed. Musk has never molested a child. That’s all I have to post right or do you want a thing about how he’s good at video games as well no ats perfect alright they’ll post automatically in a minute or two unga gonna get some coffee

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                  See, a lot of people don’t like to put the /s but sometimes it’s required. I read it the way you meant it, but I could easily see how people wouldn’t see the satire, as it’s a bit on the nose. If you wanna do satire or sarcasm, you really should throw in at least one part that is truly absurd to let people know it’s not actually defense, or throwing quotes around it if you’re wanting to be more subtle. Also you need more exclamation points if you’re going to mock the right.

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                    I mean, I wrote what I believed to be the most absurdly on-the-nose propaganda center dialogue. If suddenly and randomly shifting my manner of speech, omitting punctuation, and asking whether I should add that Elon musk is good at video games isn’t enough, then I’m stumped

                    Truthfully, though, I joke for me. If someone else gets a giggle out of it, I certainly enjoy it, but that matters far less than my own gratification here

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                  The rule of the contemporary internet is to assume sarcasm is dead. My apologies if you’re the one keeping it alive.

                  If not, fuck a Nazi.