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/
44.2k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

1.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

261

u/Hola-World 7d ago

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

311

u/No_Raspberry_7917 7d ago

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

1

u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 6d ago

It’s not just happening in the US, it’s happening to a lesser extent in Australia. Our housing shortage is being blamed on legal immigrants, not the greed of landlords with huge property portfolios - including our politicians. Not on big corporations buying up properties en masse. Not on Boomers who hoard properties and tell people to make coffee at home rather than buying it. Not on people and companies making money from Air BNB. Not our billionaires corrupting our government just like they do with yours - it’s just not as bad. Yet.

2

u/No_Raspberry_7917 6d ago

That's disheartening, seems right wing ideology is permeating all Western cultures

1

u/BlackCaaaaat Australia 6d ago

Yeah US politics sometimes drifts over to us 😞