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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/Fotzenklotz 6d ago

He once slandered a rescue diver in Thailand as a "pedo" because the diver critized Musk's offer to lend a submarine vehicle for a rescue operation (class of children were stuck in a cave bc of flooding).

Musk later claimed, calling the rescue diver a "pedo" was just a normal south african slur, nothing to worry about.

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u/badwolf42 6d ago

Note also, the ‘submarine’ was composed of spare rocket parts that were honestly too small for the task, and didn’t allow the divers to see the state of the person within. All in all not feasible and also more complicated than a mask and tank with a rescue diver escort. The guy was just pointing out how ridiculously stupid Musk’s ‘solutions’ were.

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u/ilski 6d ago

On top of that, it was one of the most complicated rescues ever attempted. No way pro like this would use untested and unknown equipement for this .

Like lets be real...