Vulgar Card Game Company Suing World’s Richest Man
As both the world’s richest man and most influential internet troll, Elon Musk has made more than a few enemies over the years, from rival CEOs to powerful politicians. However, he is now facing an unexpected legal challenge from one of his oldest foes, a company best known for creating a hilariously vulgar card game.
Cards Against Humanity, the company that manufactures the game of the same name, is now suing Elon Musk for SpaceX allegedly trespassing on its land near the Mexican border.
Cards Against Humanity Vs. SpaceX
Ironically enough, Cards Against Humanity’s latest legal gambit against Elon Musk began as an attempt to snub Donald Trump’s efforts to build a wall between the United States and Mexico.
Back in 2017, the company received $2 million in donations from its supporters with the promise to make it “as time-consuming and expensive as possible for Trump to build his wall” and bought land near Brownsville, Texas.
Now, they are taking SpaceX to court because they claim the company has encroached on this land without permission, clearing vegetation and pouring gravel; to fully restore the land, Cards Against Humanity says will take $15 million.
SpaceX’s Encroachment
While the lawsuit primarily targets SpaceX for the alleged encroachment, the company is also specifically targeting Elon Musk. They claim that he allegedly stole this land “without remorse or even explanation, as has become his public reputation throughout the world.”
They also cited a previous New York Times article claiming that even though Musk previously made a number of charitable promises to the county that houses SpaceX headquarters, those promises “have either not been fulfilled or have been made to further his own company.”
Damage Relationships?
Perhaps the most surprising part of Cards Against Humanity’s lawsuit against Elon Musk and his aerospace company is the claim that the use of the land could damage the relationship between the game company and its supporters.
They say that this use of land may imply to customers that the two companies have made an agreement, despite the fact that “nothing could be more offensive to Cards Against Humanity.”
Elon Musk Surprised
The lawsuit has taken many people by surprise, though it is not exactly shocking to longtime supporters of the company…after all, they have a long history of elaborate pranks made to slight political opponents, including Elon Musk.
In 2016, the company sold two different expansion packs for its card game, one labeled “Vote For Hillary” and the other “Vote For Trump.” No matter which one a customer bought, though, the proceeds were donated to Clinton’s campaign.
Cards Against Humanity PAC
Additionally, Cards Against Humanity formed its own political action committee (named, of course, the Nuisance Committee) and began taking out billboards with messages like “If Trump is so rich, how come he didn’t buy this billboard?” and “Donald Trump, he can’t read this, but he is afraid of it.” In 2022, they offered customers a discount if they successfully identified CAPTCHAs with “a**holes,” which included Elon Musk.
And in November of last year, the company launched its own parody social media site called Yowza. Users could only post that word, but the fact that the site was “guaranteed to be free of misinformation, hate speech and bad vibes of any kind” made it clear they were mocking Musk’s ownership and management of X (formerly Twitter).
Pranking Elon Musk
In other words, Cards Against Humanity has a rich history of trying to prank various right-wing figures, including Elon Musk.
Because of this, some have speculated that this may be more of a prank or political statement than a serious lawsuit. Either way, we have a feeling this vulgar card company’s legal challenge will only fuel Musk’s desire to get to Mars sooner rather than later.
Source: Forbes
