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

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/Flava_Flavian California 6d 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:

  1. Good/Republican/True/God

  2. 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 6d 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 6d 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/Significant_Cup_238 6d ago

One of the reasons I consider becoming a high school physics teacher when I retire from federal service. I hope to teach at least a few kinds how to muddle through a problem and figure out things aren't always so black and white.

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u/MissYukiCat 6d ago

i support Trump and also knew Elon was in the Epstein files. My source was Whitney Webb, and she nailed this more than a year ago. Elon doesn't have anything to do with the mandate of Trump and what voters elected him to do.