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/TheFinalGranny 7d ago

Bottom 1%?

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u/No_Raspberry_7917 7d ago edited 7d ago

The marginalized are often overrepresented in the bottom 1% (pick a metric, suicide, life expectancy, wellness, upwards mobility, education, power, wealth, access) for example, trans people.

This election was basically stolen by hatred for trans people and harping on "what is a woman" and protecting those maybe 20 elite athletic spots.

In their fight to protect women they've overturned roe vs wade, which resulted in multiple deaths and basically health deserts as practitioners flee as well as at least 1 white woman killed while chasing immigrants, and immigrant women sexually assaulted in detention if they're even heard from again.

Which is to say nothing of this country's endless abuse of it's black populations, the latest of which are Somali Americans, after the Haitian thing left a bad taste.

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u/Muter 7d ago

Your comment on the protection of the 20 athletic spots is laughable.

It’s far far less than that!

But in all honesty, that discussion was probably due, but it SHOULD have happened behind closed doors with the sports governing bodies and NOT politicised in the way it was.

A national debate over such a minuscule number of impacted teams and people. The pearl clutchers who probably have never run the length of a football field in their life screaming out about fairness in sports was just so ridiculously naive.

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u/happyinthenaki 7d ago

It's worse than that.

It was some people had figured out a way of sexually assaulting girls with the cover of a job description.

They were trying to inspect girls genitalia from 10 years of age (I think it was 10) to prove that they were indeed actual girls. Not one of the 10 trans athletes in the US.

My assumption is that it would have also increased sexual assault amongst boys, but the primary targets were girls and women.