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Cards Against Humanity filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s SpaceX for trespassing on its Texas land.
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The company says Musk and SpaceX are getting rich from property they didn’t get permission to use.
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The company originally purchased the land to muddle Donald Trump’s border wall plan.
The maker of one of the world’s most offensive card games says Elon Musk and his company, Space X, have offended it.
Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the humorous and often inappropriate card game with the same name, is suing Musk’s SpaceX for trespassing on its land in Texas, according to a lawsuit filed in Cameron County.
The company initially purchased “a pristine parcel of land” along the border to protect it from “Donald Trump’s very stupid wall,” Cards Against Humanity said in an announcement on Instagram on Friday. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Unfortunately, an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—snuck up on us from behind and completely fucked that land with gravel, tractors, and space garbage,” Cards Against Humanity said in its Instagram post, noting it is suing for $15 million and would split the winnings among the 150,000 original donors who facilitated the purchase.
The company, which is referred to as CAH in the lawsuit, accused SpaceX of trespassing on its property, creating a nuisance, and unjust enrichment off of the property, which “SpaceX has never asked for permission to use,” the lawsuit said.
Cards Against Humanity added in the suit that SpaceX began constructing “large modern-looking buildings” on adjacent lots and accused Space X of ignoring the property line, depositing gravel on CAH’s property, and storing construction vehicles on the property, too.
“Musk, by allowing his company to wrongfully operate on CAH’s Property, casts the shadow of possible association between him and CAH. Nothing could be more offensive to CAH nor more harmful to its reputation with its supporters,” the card game company said in the lawsuit.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cards Against Humanity obtained the land in a “stunt” to draw attention to billionaires who “ignore the rights and problems of regular people,” according to the lawsuit. While then-President Donald Trump campaigned for a US-Mexico border wall in 2017, Cards Against Humanity purchased a plot of land near the border with the help of donations from its supporters.
The goal was to create an obstacle for Trump’s border wall effort and to highlight the “hubris on the part of a high-profile billionaire who was more interested in his own aggrandizement than in the good of the people,” the card game company said in the lawsuit.
A spokesperson for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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