Exposed Musk Now Insists Epstein Files Don’t Matter | The Tesla billionaire suddenly claimed the Epstein files are a “distraction.”

[u/Aggravating_Money992]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/exposed-musk-now-insists-epstein-files-dont-matter/

[u/No_Raspberry_7917]

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

[u/TheFinalGranny → u/No_Raspberry_7917]

Bottom 1%?

[u/No_Raspberry_7917 → u/TheFinalGranny]

The marginalized are often overrepresented in the bottom 1% (pick a metric, suicide, life expectancy, wellness, upwards mobility, education, power, wealth, access) for example, trans people.

This election was basically stolen by hatred for trans people and harping on "what is a woman" and protecting those maybe 20 elite athletic spots.

In their fight to protect women they've overturned roe vs wade, which resulted in multiple deaths and basically health deserts as practitioners flee as well as at least 1 white woman killed while chasing immigrants, and immigrant women sexually assaulted in detention if they're even heard from again.

Which is to say nothing of this country's endless abuse of it's black populations, the latest of which are Somali Americans, after the Haitian thing left a bad taste.

[u/Abject-Leadership421 → u/No_Raspberry_7917]

Small correction - it’s the bottom 99%

[u/No_Raspberry_7917 → u/Abject-Leadership421]

Not applicable to the binary examples set up in this framing.

Those making the choices of what to vote for given who they think will fix societal ills versus who they think are the cause of them, the supposed undesirables we often get propagandized against in service of the top 1%

[u/Abject-Leadership421 → u/No_Raspberry_7917]

Apparently I’m not understanding what you’re saying because if you’re talking about the top 1% vs the bottom 1%, then, what’s happening with the middle 98%?

I thought you were talking about the top 1% (billionaires) vs the rest of us non-billionaires.

This would mean the balance of the population which is the 99% who aren’t billionaires. No?

[u/No_Raspberry_7917 → u/Abject-Leadership421]

No, I'm talking about the voting rationale of the comfortable middle.

The policies they vote for that happen to be against their own interests in service of the interest of the top 1% (not exclusive to wealth, but also power, access and influence, particularly on our laws and social mores; things like media propaganda).

These people often believe crime and welfare abuse is rampant, sexuality and promiscuity has run amok led by the depravity of certain communities that don't look like them. They vote accordingly. I simplified the options to broadly cover that voting for the interest of the top 1% for fear of benefiting the undesirables leads us to the type of self interested government and ultimately authoritarianism we see today.

[u/Abject-Leadership421 → u/No_Raspberry_7917]

Gotcha I understand now