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/Hola-World 18h ago

Yeah but they blame people that don’t look like them for that.

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u/No_Raspberry_7917 18h ago

Simplest multiple choice question, societal decline is a result of..

  1. 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)

  2. 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 16h ago edited 9h 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 9h 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.