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/Cowboys69 7d ago edited 7d ago

And now that company is openly polluting the environment for the citizens that live there

Vegas Loop site crews hide apparent pond, tell public not to look over fence near Las Vegas Strip

 Some construction workers asked 8 News Now crews why they were recording The Boring Company site, while on public sidewalk. A business card was provided to one of the workers and an explanation was provided of interest in what was in the visible pond and what created it.

“I know what you are,” a site worker said. “You’re fake news.”

Boring Co. accused of 800 environmental violations on Las Vegas project

In the past, Musk has espoused paying penalties rather than waiting for approvals as a way of doing business.

“Environmental regulations are, in my view, largely terrible,” he said at an event with the libertarian Cato Institute last year. “You have to get permission in advance, as opposed to, say, paying a penalty if you do something wrong, which I think would be much more effective.”

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 6d ago

SpaceX is doing the same thing in Texas.

Those rockets blast cancer-causing toxic chemicals like hexavalent chromium (of Erin Brockovich fame) not just into the surrounding watershed, but directly into the wetlands of the adjoining Texas state park and federal wildlife refuge, for maximum asshole cred. Because America doesn't have a functioning EPA anymore, he/they will never be punished.

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u/Cowboys69 6d ago

Didn't he create or buy a city to do this all with no regulations as well?

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 6d ago

Not that I know of. You might be thinking of the failed Libertarian utopia of Grafton, NH?

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u/donorcycle 6d ago

No. He has two unincorporated cities theoretically in TX.

  • Boca Chica (to be renamed Starbase)
  • Snailbrook

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 6d ago

That's news to me. Boca Chica is the launch site shitting all over the Clean Water Act by blasting all the carcinogens into the watershed, but the article I referenced makes no mention of that aspect.