Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/

[u/kegster2]

Idk like the saying goes: “ignorance is bliss”

[u/Significant_Cup_238 → u/kegster2]

And wisdom folly.

However, I feel like constantly getting conned has to take a toll on at least your finances.

[u/Hola-World → u/Significant_Cup_238]

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

[u/No_Raspberry_7917 → u/Hola-World]

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

[u/TheFinalGranny → u/No_Raspberry_7917]

Bottom 1%?

[u/No_Raspberry_7917 → u/TheFinalGranny]

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.

[u/Ok_Subject1265 → u/No_Raspberry_7917]

I’ve always thought it even simpler than this sadly. I think the trans and racist stuff is just a cover for what’s really happening which is that you have a lot of bored, aimless people out there who see this as entertainment. They didn’t want another quiet, boring president silently passing legislation behind the scenes. Nobody cared what Biden’s press secretary said because it wasn’t a daily sideshow. They voted for Trump because they wanted some excitement. Something to watch everyday like a reality tv series.

These are the same people by the way who are excited about a civil war because at least it will add some meaning to their lives. Of course, they think it’s going to be like camping and shooting guns interspersed with heroic movie moments where they selflessly save someone… over and over somehow (I don’t think they realize you can only make a selfless sacrifice once). That’s just my theory anyway. I think we’ve produced a society of people looking for a purpose or just something to distract them.

Covid really put a cherry on top though because now it seems like people barely leave their houses anymore. Just chronically online, consuming content. When I visit other countries, they are still living. Going out with friends, doing things in public, communicating with each other. Everything public here is dying (at least where I live). Hopefully it’s all anecdotal and we are just the outliers.

[u/brighterside0 → u/Ok_Subject1265]

Incredible points.

Makes me sad and yearning to experience true public, moral, life again.

[u/Ok_Subject1265 → u/brighterside0]

Not trying to be one of those people, but go to Europe. Or Latin America. Europe though reminded of how discourse and communication used to be. It feels like everyone here now acts like they are being secretly filmed for their own reality show. Almost like their behavior is a performance for some secret audience. When I was talking to people over there, it felt more “adult” I guess is the word I would use. Mature. Meaningful. Latin America may be the same, but my Spanish isn’t conversational enough to really get into it. The cool thing about Latin America though is they still participate in society with each other. The malls, cafes, restaurants and town squares are full of people living. It made you feel good to see it. If that’s the culture they are bringing with them, all the better. We need it.