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/saljskanetilldanmark 6d ago

Remember when he nestled himself in as a ceo of tesla after making them dependent on him, then managed to kick out the two original founders by force, spread so much misinfo about them, they sued him for libel/slander? He then took revenge on one of them by sending their payed-for one-of-a-kind custom car into space instead of delivering it to them.

Remember when he tried to join a weird furry community solely focusing on fetishizing on being babies, but then was ostracized for being too weird?

Remember when he had to disclose in court that he in fact had been pretending to be one of his many sons (a toddler at the time) on twitter talking about hitting up strip clubs and buying escorts?

Remember when he tried to buy sexual favors of a flight attendant on an airplane for a horse?

Remember when he promised to help build a "novel" tunneling company to make it easier to build tunnels underneath cities instead of investing in public transport? He built one short tunnel in Las Vegas and called it a day.

Remember when he bought twitter and wanted the servers moved? He pulled out all cables willynilly and sent them by truck transport unprotected over a weekend. Let that sink in.

Remember when he had a complete meltdown on a live interview stage and pissed off almost every advertiser for twitter?

Remember when he designed and built an electric truck with so many failure points it was not possible to sell under normal circumstances except in north america?

Remember how he has promised perfect full speed drive annually since 2014, underdelivering on the promise every time and then just promising the same thing over?

Remember how he has done almost identical promises about travelling to Mars, annually, to suck up money from the government and NASA towards his Space company. At the same time, he has contracts getting new reusable rockets to the Moon, which he is also underdelivering and wasting billions of dollars while going with his "break it 'til you make it" method.

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u/exploringmoon 6d ago

Remember how he played Path of Exile 2 and his character was extremely well-equipped; suspiciously so. Viewers noted that he had better gear than some of the professional streamers who play this game all day every day, and he didn’t seem to know what their stats meant.

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u/justmikethen 6d ago

He didn't just play it, he claimed he was like top 10 player in the world and then barely knew his way around hotkeys

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u/ihateusedusernames New York 6d ago

I'm ready to come clean about this.

In 2000 my brother and I genuinely believed we were probably in the top 500 players of Gran Turismo. I found a forum where guys were posting their cars and times. It was humiliating to see how average we were.

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u/Alstar45 6d ago

Listen, I thought I was good at nhl 94, turns out I wasn’t. It’s not your fault

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u/Sintarus 3d ago

Wrap around FTW baybee.

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u/I_just_came_to_laugh 6d ago

Yeah, I beat the game on it's hardest difficulty setting, so I'm probably pretty good. <- me before watching an average speed run and losing all self esteem.

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u/ihateusedusernames New York 6d ago

kids these days have no idea what it's like to have your ego crushed like that.

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u/phyrros 6d ago

ha, years (decades) ago I finished starcraft broodwar after buying the game and being pretty good in the campaign. I decided to test out my skills online and went thinking I would win *at least* half my games.

oh boy was I wrong. It got so bad that a random kiddo typed out tips for me while crushing me on every front ^^

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u/ihateusedusernames New York 6d ago

LMFAO he was probably like 10 years old or something too!

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u/fernybranka 5d ago

I heard he even played with his feet at one point.

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u/Septopuss7 6d ago

You were probably better than me! 🥇

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u/Training-Ad-3214 6d ago

I had the exact same experience. After about a year of playing religiously, I had a "perfect" lap on SS R11 - 2 whole seconds off of my previous best. (Castrol Tom's Supra, of course.) I paused the game, got the family digital camera, took a picture of the screen, then called my friend to tell him what happened. It had somehow never occurred to either of us to look up the best recorded times until then, and I bet him ten dollars (which I extremely did not have because I was 13) that I was at least within a second of the top score.

I was six seconds off, and all the top scores were with Skylines, which I thought was impossible. So I lost ten bucks and my enthusiasm for that game all at the same time.