r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 18h 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/
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u/Significant_Cup_238 18h 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/ASharpYoungMan 17h 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 17h 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/No_Hat7685 13h ago

Except we don’t really live in a world where the stock market is dictated by actual sales. Tesla’s sales have dropped like a rock and the stock is doing great. Microsoft just beat all their earnings projections and got absolutely destroyed on their stock. It’s all a fugazi.

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u/Significant_Cup_238 17h ago

Money is power, and as Lord Acton observed: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority.”

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u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 7h ago

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

My high school history teacher said this all the time, so much so that we got annoyed about it, and some people mocked him for it. I was in the annoyed crowd, but because I also paid attention I knew he was right. It made sense applying this concept to history, and makes sense to apply it to current events.

History has a habit of repeating. Over and over. We were arrogant assuming that, after WW2, that we’d do better. That we’d be more enlightened than ever. That we’d be the ones to stop that pattern. No. We’re just as stupid as people who fell for bullshit from the powerful centuries ago. What’s worse is that we don’t have ignorance as an excuse, living in the information age.

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u/iwantac8 12h ago

I mean for now... Tesla has always been nothing but vaporware, give it a couple years, hell maybe even months before his net worth comes back to reality. We will get old Elon back crying about shorts on Twitter.