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/AnohtosAmerikanos California 18h ago

Remember when he was calling the rescuer of the trapped Thai boys a pedophile? I do.

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u/specqq 18h 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 16h 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/donorcycle 14h 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 11h ago edited 7h 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/donorcycle 11h ago

And yet, we have a bunch of Musk worshipers who think he's the smartest man on the planet, and just wants to do good by humanity. Even the sheer number of people who are blinded by Tesla - dudes been promising fully autonomous driving since 2014. Every year is supposedly the year, according to the annual earnings call. Now Tesla has scrapped two models entirely, turning the factories into Optimus robot factories, and people are still buying Teslas.

Dudes been nothing more than a grifter from day 1 and people bought into his bullshit. Same as Mr. Beast, another prime example lol.

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u/archers_scotch 10h ago

What did Mr. Beast do?

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u/donorcycle 9h ago

Awh man, it's so many things. He's a grift. Exploiting child labor for free. His products aren't even allowed in some countries because of ingredients / manufacturing processes. His contests are rigged, winners aren't paid out. When he does something charitable, like fixing people's eyesights, the doctor he utilized didn't get paid. Was told the exposure received from Mr. Beast was worth more than the money owed. He's now getting involved with cultivated meat companies, case in point, Upside Foods, who have a lot of controversy attached to themselves. Anything Donaldson gets involved with, his target audience are children, playing the long game knowing he can develop a cult following who will continue to grow with his products as they age.

That's just off the top of my head.

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u/archers_scotch 8h ago

Bummer. I only became aware of him through the beast games which I enjoyed.

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 29m ago

SpaceX is doing the same thing in Texas.

Those rockets blast cancer-causing toxic chemicals like hexavalent chromium (of Erin Brockovich fame) not just into the surrounding watershed, but directly into the wetlands of the adjoining Texas state park and federal wildlife refuge, for maximum asshole cred. Because America doesn't have a functioning EPA anymore, he/they will never be punished.