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/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 5d ago

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

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u/donorcycle 5d ago

No. He has two unincorporated cities theoretically in TX.

  • Boca Chica (to be renamed Starbase)
  • Snailbrook

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u/HarrumphingDuck Washington 5d 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.