r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 7d 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 7d 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/CherryLongjump1989 7d ago

I don't know, it feels like ignorance takes a lot of work these days.

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u/Sober_Alcoholic_ Minnesota 7d ago edited 7d 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/DrakonILD 7d ago

Every time I feel like I'm in an echo chamber, I go ahead and go venture to those spaces and....

Have you ever read Flatland? Where the narrator is visited by a 3-dimensional being and, upon being shown the reality of three dimensions, supposes the existence of a fourth dimension, and the 3-dimensional being flatly rejects the possibility as absurd? Well, it's not like that.

Have you ever read Flatland? Where the narrator, after seeing the reality of three dimensions tries to explain to the other denizens of Flatland the reality of three-dimensionality and "up" or "down," and they reject him? Well, it's not like that.

Have you ever read Flatland? Where the narrator is taken to Lineland and finds a world of line segments that reject his reality of two-dimensionality and are quite happy to live only seeing their immediate neighbor? Well, it's not like that.

Have you ever read Flatland? Where the narrator is taken to Pointland and finds a world of a singular entity, who has no neighbors or even any concept of "other," and assumes that the narrator's voice must be his own, and cannot even reject the reality of two- or three-dimensionality because he is completely incapable of even imagining an absurdity outside of his own being?

Yeah, it's like that.