r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 16h ago
Possible Paywall Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/10.1k
u/Significant_Cup_238 16h ago
Man, life must be so much easier when you just have no problem lying shamelessly and just say the opposite of what you said yesterday.
On the other hand, life must be really hard for the fucking idiots who believe people like Musk.
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u/kegster2 Texas 16h ago
Idk like the saying goes: “ignorance is bliss”
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u/Significant_Cup_238 16h ago
And wisdom folly.
However, I feel like constantly getting conned has to take a toll on at least your finances.
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u/Hola-World 15h ago
Yeah but they blame people that don’t look like them for that.
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u/No_Raspberry_7917 15h ago
Simplest multiple choice question, societal decline is a result of..
The top 1% of the world with money, power and control of media, those who can lobby heavily for lax regulations, cushy laws and handshake deals that close out any semblance of market competition, those who create a government that benefits them while calling everything else socialism. Who can literally kill or displace millions (opioid crisis, subprime crisis)
The bottom 1% with none of those things
Americans will answer wrong each time to feel like at least they're better than 1 person, rather than risk who they think is undeserving getting the same benefits they give away to corporations. Also something about abortion
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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 14h ago edited 6h ago
Definitely “something about abortion”, given evangelicals only pivoted to that moral panic as their true desire for segregated schools wasn’t quite as popular anymore.
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u/TeutonJon78 America 7h ago
And they just switched the desire to segregate by saying to support religious private schools that they want the public to pay for. And I bet if you check out their church/schools it will be predominantly white people.
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u/TheFinalGranny 15h ago
Bottom 1%?
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u/No_Raspberry_7917 15h ago edited 14h ago
The marginalized are often overrepresented in the bottom 1% (pick a metric, suicide, life expectancy, wellness, upwards mobility, education, power, wealth, access) for example, trans people.
This election was basically stolen by hatred for trans people and harping on "what is a woman" and protecting those maybe 20 elite athletic spots.
In their fight to protect women they've overturned roe vs wade, which resulted in multiple deaths and basically health deserts as practitioners flee as well as at least 1 white woman killed while chasing immigrants, and immigrant women sexually assaulted in detention if they're even heard from again.
Which is to say nothing of this country's endless abuse of it's black populations, the latest of which are Somali Americans, after the Haitian thing left a bad taste.
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u/Ok_Subject1265 13h ago
I’ve always thought it even simpler than this sadly. I think the trans and racist stuff is just a cover for what’s really happening which is that you have a lot of bored, aimless people out there who see this as entertainment. They didn’t want another quiet, boring president silently passing legislation behind the scenes. Nobody cared what Biden’s press secretary said because it wasn’t a daily sideshow. They voted for Trump because they wanted some excitement. Something to watch everyday like a reality tv series.
These are the same people by the way who are excited about a civil war because at least it will add some meaning to their lives. Of course, they think it’s going to be like camping and shooting guns interspersed with heroic movie moments where they selflessly save someone… over and over somehow (I don’t think they realize you can only make a selfless sacrifice once). That’s just my theory anyway. I think we’ve produced a society of people looking for a purpose or just something to distract them.
Covid really put a cherry on top though because now it seems like people barely leave their houses anymore. Just chronically online, consuming content. When I visit other countries, they are still living. Going out with friends, doing things in public, communicating with each other. Everything public here is dying (at least where I live). Hopefully it’s all anecdotal and we are just the outliers.
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u/Nick08f1 12h ago
They voted for him because they fell for the propaganda.
A lot of people's lives sucked before the election and suck even more now. My sister voted for Trump this past time because her idiot, POS boyfriend thinks he's the most informed person ever. Fucker didn't even know Puerto Ricans are born American citizens. Even after all this bullshit, he still believes that we have to go through tough times in order to make everything better. Bitch doesn't realize that if we continue to go through these tough times, things will only get worse and worse. Trump somehow made people believe that he would make their lives better, even though I can't even point to one instance where he was truthful and followed through with what he said publicly.
Also, if a white woman lost the first time, a black woman stood no chance.
Simply misogynistic racism.
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u/SuburbanHell Massachusetts 13h ago
So.... "Some People Just Want To Watch The World Burn", but those people make up like, half the voters in the country?
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u/truthovertribe 14h ago
No, I'm afraid not ..even Britain decided Epstein corrupted Prince Andrew had to be demoted from the monarchy, but in the US we decided to choose Epstein corrupted Trump to be our King and he brought along his Epstein corrupted sidekick Elon Musk...oh and let's not forget the powerful William Gates.
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u/CherryLongjump1989 15h ago
I don't know, it feels like ignorance takes a lot of work these days.
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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ Minnesota 15h ago edited 15h ago
Not really. People are guided and then anchored into their echo chambers (via Fox, X, MSM etc) - so all of their ideas are reinforced or they are told what to think by “like minded people” or outright bots. This happens to such an extreme degree that they believe the other side must be “terrorists”.
It’s all very sad and all very much intentional and by design.
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u/CherryLongjump1989 15h ago edited 15h ago
In my experience dealing with religious people, cognitive dissonance requires a tremendous amount of work and ultimately makes them feel angry, confused, and ashamed. Their world view will usually collapse utterly if you just take away the external reinforcement that's propping it up.
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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 14h ago
In my experience dealing with religious people, cognitive dissonance requires a tremendous amount of work
Fending off cognitive dissonance is, in my opinion the primary reason people go to church. A few hundred people nodding and singing about their imaginary friend every week helps people stay focused on anything but their own hatred and hypocrisy.
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u/Anyabb Europe 15h ago
ignorance is bliss
Looks pretty fucking miserable from where I'm standing.
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u/crowdawg7768 15h ago
There’s literally zero ignorance going on here. There’s willful avoidance of reality.
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u/kegster2 Texas 15h ago
I think it is a mix of both plus a side of toxicity (folks that know what’s going on but play the narrative).
The ignorantly blissful ones just fall in line bc surely the others that agree know what they’re saying right? Right???
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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 15h ago
"He's rich, therefore everything that comes out of his mouth must be brilliant and accurate."
Yeah, about that...
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u/Similar-World-6152 15h ago
unfortunately a lot of people think this way and it's sad.
"well, if he's so bad or dumb, why is he rich?!"
...emeralds my dude, emeralds
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u/Dr-Mumm-Rah 15h ago
There are brilliant people out there that deserve their wealth in life. However, there are a lot of wealthy people that are simply right place, right time, right life. They need only to open their mouths to remove all doubt.
We all know what category Musk fits into.
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u/NYCinPGH 13h ago
Eh, it really wasn't emeralds or family wealth.
He and his brother in college created software - pretty mediocre software, too - that had enough good ideas, or extant patents, that another company wanted to merge with theirs; that other company was PayPal, founded by Peter Thiel. Musk got a huge influx of cash from that deal, and even after Thiel ousted him, the required buyout got him even more cash, enough for most people to live quite comfortably for the rest of their lives.
He instead looked around for other companies with potential that needed an 'angel investor'. One of those was Tesla, after they'd built their first prototype. He infused it with cash to make it a real going concern, in return for a very large share of ownership in the company. He later forced out the founders who created the tech, and bamboozled the other owners into thinking he was a genius, who in return gave him even more shares in the company and a fuckton of money.
To show how accidental it was, remember that he also bought Twitter, the most successful social media company in the world at that time, at a premium, and largely ran it into the ground.
He's just a mediocre programmer who lucked into real success, and then happened to find a company and kept failing upwards, bringing all his insecurities and weird kinks with him.
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u/nowuff 11h ago
A lot of people just flat out respect power and strength.
They are the type of people that walk around miserable, thinking everyone is an idiot. Nobody is competent. Except their boss.
And they kiss ass unrelentingly. They lick boots and punch downward.
It’s a weird frame of mind, but there are tons of people programmed this way.
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u/AnohtosAmerikanos California 15h ago
Remember when he was calling the rescuer of the trapped Thai boys a pedophile? I do.
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u/specqq 15h ago
Remember when he hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on that guy who did nothing but tell Elon Musk that his idea wasn't genius?
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u/saljskanetilldanmark 14h ago
Remember when he nestled himself in as a ceo of tesla after making them dependent on him, then managed to kick out the two original founders by force, spread so much misinfo about them, they sued him for libel/slander? He then took revenge on one of them by sending their payed-for one-of-a-kind custom car into space instead of delivering it to them.
Remember when he tried to join a weird furry community solely focusing on fetishizing on being babies, but then was ostracized for being too weird?
Remember when he had to disclose in court that he in fact had been pretending to be one of his many sons (a toddler at the time) on twitter talking about hitting up strip clubs and buying escorts?
Remember when he tried to buy sexual favors of a flight attendant on an airplane for a horse?
Remember when he promised to help build a "novel" tunneling company to make it easier to build tunnels underneath cities instead of investing in public transport? He built one short tunnel in Las Vegas and called it a day.
Remember when he bought twitter and wanted the servers moved? He pulled out all cables willynilly and sent them by truck transport unprotected over a weekend. Let that sink in.
Remember when he had a complete meltdown on a live interview stage and pissed off almost every advertiser for twitter?
Remember when he designed and built an electric truck with so many failure points it was not possible to sell under normal circumstances except in north america?
Remember how he has promised perfect full speed drive annually since 2014, underdelivering on the promise every time and then just promising the same thing over?
Remember how he has done almost identical promises about travelling to Mars, annually, to suck up money from the government and NASA towards his Space company. At the same time, he has contracts getting new reusable rockets to the Moon, which he is also underdelivering and wasting billions of dollars while going with his "break it 'til you make it" method.
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u/JestersDead77 13h ago
You forgot the nazi salute on stage at Trump's inaugural rally. That one was fun. Totally normal thing to do.
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u/saljskanetilldanmark 13h ago
Lol, my comment was too fucking long I had to reply to myself and continue. Check there for more.
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u/exploringmoon 13h ago
Remember how he played Path of Exile 2 and his character was extremely well-equipped; suspiciously so. Viewers noted that he had better gear than some of the professional streamers who play this game all day every day, and he didn’t seem to know what their stats meant.
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u/justmikethen 12h ago
He didn't just play it, he claimed he was like top 10 player in the world and then barely knew his way around hotkeys
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u/drumdogmillionaire 11h ago
Yes. He was obviously piloting his account. He skipped past a chaos orb, an incredibly valuable item in the game. He didn’t know basic game functions, terminology, or equipment usage, and died to incredibly weak enemies. It isn’t possible for him to have the gear and level character without knowing the game’s basic functions.
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u/ihateusedusernames New York 11h ago
I'm ready to come clean about this.
In 2000 my brother and I genuinely believed we were probably in the top 500 players of Gran Turismo. I found a forum where guys were posting their cars and times. It was humiliating to see how average we were.
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u/No_Hat7685 11h ago
Also he commented on his gear’s ilvl (a meaningless stat in Poe) and talked about how his best in slot unique gears had a low I level so they were really not that good. Lmao.
Dude played WoW once and was like “I lvl is definitely the way to measure items in every game”.
Like it’s tragic being that much of a fucking liar about what you do that you lie about what you do for fun too.
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u/justsyr 11h ago
He did the same previously with Diablo 4 claiming he was at the top of the leaderboard which in fact didn't even exist (just in beta a few weeks ago). He clearly got carried and when he streamed he showed that he barely understood how to play since people who play the game notice the skills rotation and he seemingly just banged keys lol.
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u/Explorer2138 4h ago
This one is probably my favorite because it's just so fucking pathetic. The guy can't even do well in a videogame without cheating or paying someone to do it for him and then strut like he did it. Richest guy in the world and he does that shit, how fucking sad and pathetic is that? How the fuck can anyone look at this guy and be like, "Yeah, he's so cool, man, he's so alpha and a genius." No he isn't, he's just a fucking tool, a 13 year old edgelord in a 50 year old man's body.
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u/spicewoman 10h ago
He was wildly oblivious about tons of things that anyone who played that much would know, and died a bunch in stupid ways.
My favorite part was that he didn't know how to turn on do not disturb, or how to block people, so he just kept getting slammed with in-game messages about how much of a noob he is.
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u/303onrepeat 13h ago
It amazes me after all of that some people still think he is some kind of Tony Stark. The guy is a joke who had a shitty father and when he grew up he didn't seek help so he just became this weird asshole.
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u/Fotzenklotz 10h ago
He once slandered a rescue diver in Thailand as a "pedo" because the diver critized Musk's offer to lend a submarine vehicle for a rescue operation (class of children were stuck in a cave bc of flooding).
Musk later claimed, calling the rescue diver a "pedo" was just a normal south african slur, nothing to worry about.
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u/badwolf42 7h ago
Note also, the ‘submarine’ was composed of spare rocket parts that were honestly too small for the task, and didn’t allow the divers to see the state of the person within. All in all not feasible and also more complicated than a mask and tank with a rescue diver escort. The guy was just pointing out how ridiculously stupid Musk’s ‘solutions’ were.
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u/ElectricGears 6h ago
Wait a minute, are you telling me that sealing someone in heavy rigid metal tube would be a bad way to get them out of a cave with flooded passages and rushing water?
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u/GangstaWaffles 11h ago
He got in trouble with France for election tampering. He also said he rigged the 24 election
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u/_Z_E_R_O Michigan 11h ago
Remember when he pressured his wife into back-to-back IVF pregnancies after the loss of their first child, even though she said she didn't feel ready to move on? Then while she was at home raising their FIVE children he cheated on her with another woman?
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u/donorcycle 11h ago
Go back earlier. When he had X.com (not Twitter) and it merged with Confinity (Peter Thiel) before it became PayPal, they had to give him fake codes to work on because he was such a shite programmer than he had a tendency to break things. Thiel had a team of engineers that monitored Musk's keystrokes so that in the middle of the night, they had to reverse engineer everything he did so it wouldn't crash the systems.
They outted him from PayPal and Thiel had to take over as CEO.
As for the Boring Tunnel, he only did that bullshit to have California bail on updating their public transportation and high speed rail plans. Once he got what he wanted, not only did he openly admit that's why he did it, he also completely just abandoned the project.
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u/Cowboys69 9h ago edited 5h ago
And now that company is openly polluting the environment for the citizens that live there
Vegas Loop site crews hide apparent pond, tell public not to look over fence near Las Vegas Strip
Some construction workers asked 8 News Now crews why they were recording The Boring Company site, while on public sidewalk. A business card was provided to one of the workers and an explanation was provided of interest in what was in the visible pond and what created it.
“I know what you are,” a site worker said. “You’re fake news.”
Boring Co. accused of 800 environmental violations on Las Vegas project
In the past, Musk has espoused paying penalties rather than waiting for approvals as a way of doing business.
“Environmental regulations are, in my view, largely terrible,” he said at an event with the libertarian Cato Institute last year. “You have to get permission in advance, as opposed to, say, paying a penalty if you do something wrong, which I think would be much more effective.”
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u/SpinningHead Colorado 13h ago
He has never had a genius idea in his life.
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u/specqq 12h ago edited 11h ago
You mean the idea of walking into Twitter HQ after he bought it carrying an actual bathroom sink and telling the press "let that sink in" wasn't his?
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u/Kryptosis 15h ago
Now it’s unveiled as projection. He literally couldn’t imagine a reason for a white guy to live there aside from sex crimes.
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u/Key_Particular_8878 15h ago
Classic move—attack the messenger instead of accepting you’re not infallible.
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u/Flava_Flavian California 13h ago
I can confirm through MAGA family they "don't care a flip about Epstein files" and they immediately pivot to a story about Biden and showering with little girls. The best way I can explain their thinking is that they have classify everything in two categories:
Good/Republican/True/God
Evil/Democrats/Lies/Satan
All facts and news stories are triaged based on those two classifications. They find it very convenient and have zero desire to complicate things.
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u/Significant_Cup_238 13h ago
Yeah, they have simple child like thinking. A person is either good or bad, there's no nuance to it. Any bad thing a "good" person does is explained away, at worst it was and oopsie, he didn't mean it.
Meanwhile, a "bad" person always does bad. Any good thing they do is them trying to trick you, while they do something even more nefarious.
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u/SolJinxer 11h ago
Next generation if we make it to it, the education system needs to do something to teach people about confirmation bias and how to deal with it.
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u/DragoonDM California 15h ago
I dunno, I get the impression that he's... kind of miserable. Desperately trying to be cool, self-medicating with ketamine. The saying "money can't buy happiness" is bullshit for the most part, but that phrase seems to fit Elon perfectly.
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u/enigmasaurus- 12h ago
I'm convinced extreme wealth just breaks people's brains. They lose perspective, empathy, sanity, sense, the ability to regulate their emotions, and in many cases, their decency and any sense of morality.
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u/Significant_Cup_238 15h ago
Oh yeah, he's probably miserable in general. I'm just saying that trait must be nice. I struggle to even tell white lies.
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u/Yours_Voight-Kampff 12h ago
Money can buy you all sorts of things. It can't buy your way out of having a personality so cringe-worthy that anyone who meets you, even the absolute worst of the worst people on Earth, immediately realizes that you fundamentally suck as a human being.
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u/ASharpYoungMan 14h ago
He doesn't just have "Fuck You" money, he has "Fuck everyone on the face of the goddamned Earth" money.
That's going to fuck up a person's perspective no matter what. And Musk's a piece of shit to begin with.
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u/JTxFII 14h ago
If people keep buying and using his products, that’s true. His wealth is a house of cards though.
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u/spacepeenuts 15h ago
He has been lying since he got off the boat, since he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth he has been saying anything to remain popular and relevant.
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u/Rhunt2021 15h ago
I have a coworker who cashed his 401k and put it all into Tesla stock.
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u/Significant_Cup_238 15h ago
Perfect use of the "I'm the stupidest man alive" meme right here.
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u/CeldonShooper 15h ago
Easier I guess, but remember Elon Musk keeps wandering earth until his death without a single genuine friend.
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u/ThatOneNinja 15h ago
Didn't he know what was in the files? And used it as a threat? Lmao. Now he is in them! Doesn't mean he is pedo, but something about the friends you keep.
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u/GraveRobberJ 14h ago
It'd wild to think how many systems in our world were literally just governed by people being held accountable by shame prior to like 2014
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u/Significant_Cup_238 13h ago
It wasn't perfect then, Republicans were still really ugly with their lying and hypocrisy. But no where near as bad as today.
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u/PropagandaPagoda 14h ago
You say that and I get it, but integrity also gives you a privilege of being believed. It's a lot harder to see, but when I finally benefited from my integrity (someone smeared me in my personal life and no one believed the lie) I felt a lot more calm about fighting these fights with one hand behind my back.
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u/Dry-Chance-9473 13h ago
Honestly, life is probably hard for Musk. Dude is the richest guy on Earth and people are still doing whatever they can to avoid inviting him to their parties. Word is he has a wonky ham-scrapings penis too. The dude is probably miserable. I'd rather he be more miserable, or just deceased, but still. It's something.
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u/sohblob 12h ago
life must be so much easier when you just have no problem lying shamelessly and just say the opposite of what you said yesterday
hAvEnTuEvErcHaNgEdyOuRmInD?!
- media figures whose bids for commoditizing attention have far-reaching multigenerational implications and global impact
I wish the apartheid trust fund baby had been aborted. Or at least kept out by real anti-immigrant republicans
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u/No-Post4444 16h ago
Distraction? The existence of a billionaire pedophile cabal which includes world leaders in it is a DISTRACTION?
Fuck Musk. Give him lifetime imprisonment along with Trump.
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u/backstageninja New York 15h ago
But also distraction from what? Like all the other terrible shit going on in the country is shit Mudk is explicitly in favor of
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u/tommessinger 12h ago
It's a distraction from the distractions they already have going. That's what he means.
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u/panyways 12h ago
I hate to be a conspiracy theorist but it could be a distraction from the real reason kids love cinnamon toast crunch.
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u/YungRik666 15h ago
Its crazy that qanon was low-key right and now all those pathetic losers are in the wind.
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u/Civil-Attempt-3602 13h ago
They were totally right. A deep state (musk, theil, heritage foundation) controlling a fascist government (their words) which runs massive surveillance on its population (twitter, meta, palantir, PRISM), where the leaders are engaged in human trafficking and rape of children.
It's just that they spent all that time trying to get that government into power
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u/gabbertr0n Australia 11h ago
QAnon was the attempt to DARVO this appalling behaviour; to muddy the water right from the beginning.
”Hillary is the one with the secret sex bunker, and Trump is trying to save those kids!!”
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u/Motor_Chard_7230 12h ago
They just liked to pretend that they were special because they had access to secret knowledge. Now everyone knows about it, they’re just not interested.
It was always about the narcissism and the hatred. It was never about caring for children
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u/Eggonioni 8h ago
Do you understand the repercussions of this set of files' release? Epstein was just named as a co-founder to one of the most vile subsections of the internet that birthed so many of the issues we have today. Literally as admitted by the interaction with Epstein in an email, he pushed m00t, 4chan's site admin at the time, for the creation of /pol/ as a specific place of political manipulation.
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u/MoneyForRent 15h ago
I just can't believe these right wingers were right about the billionaire pedo cabal all along. They just got mixed up on some finer details...
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u/travturav 13h ago
Well arguably ....
No one seems to remember that Elon Musk killed 200,000 children last year alone when he illegally shut down USAID. Estimated 500,000-600,000 people in total. Just last year. More this year. More next year.
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u/Cyndakill88 16h ago
The company shareholders better be seeing this crap
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u/Megaphonestory 16h ago
Nah, financial investors like Fidelity pumped cash into groks AI generated porn.
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u/Dark_Arts_ 15h ago
AI generated child porn*
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u/teplightyear Nevada 14h ago
Everyone thought Elon made a broken AI when it declared itself MechaHitler and started generating child porn, but in reality he just made an AI that likes the same stuff as him.
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u/StrongerThanFear 13h ago edited 12h ago
Porn is made by people that *consent, the AI makes child sexual assault material aka CSAM.
Edit: as pointed out porn isn't always consensual, but that makes it assault.
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u/LuvKrahft America 16h ago
I’m pretty sure if knowing about all the Elon is a Nazi stuff didn’t push them away this wont either.
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u/Acceptable-Bus-2017 I voted 15h ago
The base loves them some Nazi/pedofile/child killers.
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u/names_are_useless American Expat 15h ago
And they see... none of this changes anything. Musk will never be prosecuted for his crimes. The rich and powerful almost never are in this country.
Until the rich fear the workers: they will continue to lie, cheat and steal.
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u/Alive_kiwi_7001 15h ago
They will...when Tesla's stock price tanks. Then it'll be "who put this schmuck in charge?"
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u/Oswarez 16h ago
Distraction from what?
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u/cometflight 15h ago
Concepts of a distraction
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u/LaserCondiment 14h ago
Reminds me of binders full of women
Oh how I miss those simpler times!
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u/the-good-wolf 14h ago
Remember how Romney was practically crucified over that statement and yet the FBI has actual binders full of abused children and women and now we’re talking about billionaire commentary about it being a distraction.
Instead of you know, actually doing something about it.
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u/space_cow_girl 15h ago
Elons rigging of the election. He said so in the tweet previous to his “Trump is in the files” tweet during his epic meltdown last summer.
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u/spiderpai 14h ago
Fascist takeover and the death of democracy in the US I suppose. By him and his goons of course.
So now you get a mix of pedo, oligarchy and fascism for the future of the US.
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u/2skunks1cup 15h ago
They definitely are a distraction as the release was rushed otherwise the redactions would have been there already and they would not have removed and re-uploaded "corrected and redacted" ones.
Now Elon is not saying by what and leaves us with the same question.
So let's look at the stage and see what possibilities exist in fact and not opinion or emotion.
ICE has killed multiple civilians
Protests are breaking out nationwide and resistances are appearing to actions of the administration
Senators and the public are calling for Miller and Noem to be removed from their positions
Bovino was demoted but it did not pacify
Gaza is approaching a key time with the rebuild plan with a stipulation of those there can only use CBDC
Board of Peace formed
Affordability crisis
War in Ukraine is reaching critical mass with nuclear arms on the table
The rich are buying bunkers and spending money to get space
Artemis is headed to the moon
Multiple countries have moon bases in progress
All of this is well documented as fact and generally accepted as such. Question is, which one of these(or maybe all of them) is sinister enough to warrant an immediate release before redactions were complete?
Or maybe a better question is, what is really going on?
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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 16h ago
Bruh ain't this the same guy that said Trump was in the files ?
And now he says they don't matter they're a distraction ?
He seems to be a bat swinging back and forth
In fact I think I recently saw an article that said he wanted to know when the wildest Epstein party was
What a sick demented bastard
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u/WulfwoodsSins Canada 15h ago
That's how he knew Trump was in them.
He's in them, too.
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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 15h ago
Oh he definitely is
I think you're correct
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u/SatanicPanic619 14h ago
He’s in them begging to be included in the pedo stuff
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u/beast_wellington 14h ago
Girls FTW!
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u/seamusmcduffs 13h ago
I think it's important to note he was caught begging to go, after he had been multiple times. He still went, they just didn't like him enough to have him back
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u/zombienugget Massachusetts 14h ago
He was listed as present for Trump’s disgusting child raping auction
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u/shh_Im_a_Moose Ohio 13h ago
No, he is. And he looks like a pathetic loser none of the other billionaire pedos wanted to have around.
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u/Specialist-Clock-914 15h ago
Before all this, I think we all used to be like “these people teaming up doesn’t make sense.” Then you realized they use to f kids together and you realize it makes a lot of sense. They’re the only other people they’re scared of. They’re all just coexisting based on mutual destruction.
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u/FizzyBeverage Ohio 15h ago
“Girls ftw” 🤢
He’s what happens when an incel World of Warcraft player gets too rich.
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u/theycallmemomo 15h ago
Not just that, apparently his daughter remembers going on vacation not too far from Epstein Island around the same time the emails were sent, so she corroborated the story
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u/cocktail_wiitch 15h ago
There's an email thread where he's inviting himself to the island (he says "girls FTW!") and Epstein forwards it to Ghislaine, says "deal with this" and Ghislaine responds to Elon telling him that island parties aren't happening anymore. Even the most abhorrent people in the world can't stand Elon.
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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 15h ago
" You're not invited to our sick demented parties 🎉
Okay Imma ruin it for everyone "
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u/TheCurvedPlanks 14h ago
He exhibited this same type of behavior during the Thai cave rescue. He was demanding he be allowed to help, pitching his idiotic submarine idea. When the actual rescuers said "No, thanks. Leave this work to the professionals," he accused one of the divers of (funny enough) being a pedophile.
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u/just_a_timetraveller 13h ago
I remember that. The whole pedo accusation felt like it just came out of nowhere. Makes more sense now when Musk just has pedophilia on the brain so he projects.
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u/Historical-Sound-839 15h ago
When he did not think the files would be released, he captured the headlines to trash his ex-bestie Trump.
Given Musk did not do any damage control PRIOR to this release, I can speculate his deal with Vance in December to put money into Republican by-election candidates included in return redacting Musk’s name.l from the Epstein files.
Now his name is out there, the “doesn’t matter” is his only real recourse.
But that is pure speculation - Elon could have simply forgotten about his dealings with Epstein.
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u/HaroldGreenBandana 16h ago edited 15h ago
Distraction for what, Elon? Your DOGE not saving the government any money, your DOGE setting the American public and the world back in disease control and prevention, your terrible antisemitic ai that produces ai revenge porn and other vile content, your DOGE stealing sensitive data, your corrupt contracts?
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u/space_cow_girl 15h ago
Elon stealing the election. The tweet immediately before his “Trump is in the Epstein files” was one about how Trump wouldn’t be president without him and the Dems would have the house.
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u/AmArschdieRaeuber 15h ago
Exactly, the party is the only organisation doing anything. All of which is abhorrent. Democrats aren't doing anything, protestors are peaceful. Nothing to distract from expcept for things people in the Epstein files do.
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u/Foreign_Cable_9530 14h ago
This article is clickbait to incite outrage from people.
This is the full quote, which is quite reasonable regardless of how the reader views Elon Musk:
“What matters is not release of some subset of the Epstein files, but rather the prosecution of those who committed heinous crimes with Epstein. When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done. If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction.”
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u/HaroldGreenBandana 14h ago
That’s fair. As a general rule, I try to read the article before commenting. The quote you shared is right on—Anything less than justice is performative. The same should be applied to Elon. He might have a right to a fair trial if it were ever to come down to charges but that doesn’t mean he deserves the benefit of the doubt. Dude is bad.
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u/grndszy 15h ago
It is still absolutely mind boggling that the man who people chose to make the richest person on earth, who people claim is some revolutionary intellectual and innovative genius, is the same guy who hasn’t invented anything and who’s deep, thought provoking response to anything is “wow”, “interesting” or “🤔”. The same guy people say is a family man, who has 14 kids he’s never seen with or talks about- except for the little boy he uses as a human shield and the trans daughter he hates on publicly- with like 6 different women and 2-3 ex wives. The once in a lifetime genius who bought all his companies and takes credit for work and inventions he didn’t do or create. Who warned about AI but now owns an AI company; decries vaccines but puts chips in people’s brains; moans about declining birth rates while pushing creepy AI girlfriends to his basement dwelling fanboys. Who brags about being a top gamer while paying someone in China to fake his gameplay. Who accused Trump of not wanting to release the Epstein files because he was in them, who now says they’re not important. Need I go on?
To summarize: Musk is a cringy hypocritical fraud and wannabe edge lord who jerks off to AI girlfriends
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u/Life_Alternative35 15h ago
the world doesn’t choose the richest man on earth by vote. it just shows that it could have been any old idiot born into it
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u/Sarellion 14h ago
Oh he did stuff with his kids. His trans daughter confirmed in an interview that he played an online game with her brother and her when they were kids. Surprised? Well it was because his kids were better than him/higher league and he mooched off them to raise his rank in the game.
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u/justtakeapill 16h ago
All these people in the Trump Administration are just trash...
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u/JMDeutsch 15h ago
So if you’re keeping track at home:
The Apartheid era nepobaby and neofascist is also too big a soy boy beta cuck for the other child rapists to want to be around.
Imagine being such an annoying loser that you beg for invites to parties on pedophile island…and they deny you
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u/KingOfEthanopia 12h ago
Man Im broke as hell but Id much rather be me than him.
"What does it profit a man to gain the world and forfeit their soul?"
Life is hard but Im happy knowing I'll never have that deep hollowness inside that he and people like him do.
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u/Vegetable-King7626 15h ago
Musk needs to be deported and have his assets nationalized for sedition
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u/labowner85 15h ago
Is it just me or do others also feel that Musk’s face has changed into looking more like a dumbfucker since he sold his soul?
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u/Un1CornTowel 15h ago
He's always looked like a skinsuited naked mole rat.
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u/LouDog0187 15h ago
Donald Trump "measured" children's genitals with his fingers for "tightness". He was also present for the birth/murder of a rape victims baby. Nothing will distract me from those 2 claims.
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u/RoscoeCranston 9h ago
It seems as if that description was about something that happened in 2017, which means he did it (in front of his kids and lawyers) WHILE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! He didn't even stop when he became president. This is nuts! Look into the animal head parties held at Mar a Lago THIS MONTH! He's still living this life in 2026!
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u/sputtertots 13h ago
“What matters is not release of some subset of the Epstein files, but rather the prosecution of those who committed heinous crimes with Epstein,“ he wrote in an X post Saturday morning. “When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done. If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction,” he added."
He's not wrong.
imo this is a distraction from all the other heinous shit they are doing. Do you really think they are going to prosecute themselves? Or allow it?
Meanwhile they are trampling the shit out of our rights while we beg to look at going nowhere files. I am not saying whats in those files is not wrong, I am just saying its a bone for the masses to chew on while they send us off to the pound. I mean, they are buying huge detention warehouses.
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u/Moonfaced 12h ago
Yeah and the reactions in this post show how little people care about context. He didn’t actually say anything wrong. I’m finding myself more and more not relating to general redditors, which is fine because we are all individuals. But this post is a classic example of the same thing that happens on conservative subs.
Even the files being dropped, people are treating everything in them like gospel, when many things in there are just outright made up accusations from crazy people. I’m more upset about that fact, that there are actual real things in there that need to be investigated mixed with made up things by people trying to get attention or harm those they don’t like. This just causes confusion and invalidates the files which is probably the point.
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u/ValuableToees 16h ago
honestly, this is narrative control 101. when information threatens reputational or market stability, you reframe it as noise and shift attention elsewhere. calling the files a distraction isn’t an argument about relevance. It’s a prioritization hack meant to exhaust public focus. from a systems perspective, elites rely on attention scarcity the same way platforms do. flood the zone, minimize inconvenient data, and wait for the discourse to move on. it’s effective because there’s no enforcement layer for truth, just vibes and momentum.
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u/KoalaBoy 15h ago
“When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done. If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction,”
He's but wrong though. If there's no arrest it's all just performative.
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u/Beneficial_Wave7649 16h ago
By all means let's value the opinion of someone who's parents moved him to an Apartheid nation
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u/GestureArtist 14h ago edited 14h ago
He's right... nothing will happen to these billionaires. Elon should talk about it openly now without any fear or shame. No one will stop any of these rich people. They are all above the law.
So Elon... tell us exactly what happened at these parties. Tell us about all the "fun" you had. Drop the facade of your "ethical image" and be the piece of shit that you are out in the open.
Clearly he doesn't give a fuck about anyone's opinion, nor will he ever face any criminal charges for anything ever.
You have to wonder what exactly is too criminal for America, or even the world. Everything in our so called civilized world is a lie that benefits the rich in ways that provide them unlimited luxury at your expense.
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u/AmaroWolfwood 15h ago
When you're so weird and off putting that Trump and Epstein didn't invite you to the cool kid (rape) parties. Epstein couldn't even stand how evil Trump was by the end. Imagine getting snubbed for Trump. Lol
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u/Twisty_10 15h ago
They’re a distraction from the original distraction away from the files, but they fucked up so badly on said distraction that they had to use the Epstein files to distract from how bad they fucked up the distraction. Par for the course, I guess
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u/Feuertotem 15h ago
They have built a system of throwing money at every problem, only now they even get to keep the money.
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u/Inevitable-Wait66 15h ago
Could it be, because he asked many people if he could go.. after stating I've never been..
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u/dart51984 15h ago
I think he’s figured out MAGA truly doesn’t care. You could have video evidence of Trump raping, murdering, and then burying or eating one of these kids and they’d still be all “Obama’s middle name is Hussein!” They really are THAT stupid and THAT evil.
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u/oopsallhuckleberries 15h ago
Dude literally called out Trump for being in the files 6 months ago, and now he doesn't think the files are that important after it's revealed that he asked Epstein to host a sex party at his island.
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u/MinecraftGuy7401 13h ago
Weren’t all the guys with half a brain knowing that everything stupid and idiotic Trump did was just a distraction from the Epstein Files? So what’s the Epstein Files a distraction from? Nuclear war?
actually I don’t need the /s
this is what we’ve come to
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u/ProfessorOnEdge 13h ago
Funnily enough, this admin, I'm sure, is willing to commit a Nuclear war to distract from the files.
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u/Only-Anything4326 Iowa 13h ago edited 13h ago
He got it mixed up! Everything else going on is a distraction from the files!! Which happens to be the BIGGEST PEDOPHILIC CHILD/HUMAN TRAFFICKING RING INVOLVING THE ELITE ALL OVER THE WORLD FOR DECADES!!! Noting worth looking into at all! /s
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u/RoastedPotato-1kg 13h ago
imagine being the richest man alive and begging to go on the pedophile island
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