• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Elon, a pedophile? The guy who, out of absolutely nowhere, accused the guy who saved all those kids from certain watery death of pedophilia?

    Wait… No… He couldn’t be projecting. Who could have seen this coming? Certainly not nearly all of us… Not nearly every single person with critical thinking skills.

    No… We’re all mistaken.

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      2 days ago

      Elon, the guy who sent multiple incredibly sad emails all but begging “please let me come over and party on your child sex island Mr Epstein I promise I’m cool”? That Elon?

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        The response was hilarious though because Epstein was clearly creeped out by Musk. “We don’t have parties anymore”

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      Elon, a pedophile? The guy who, out of absolutely nowhere, accused the guy who saved all those kids from certain watery death of pedophilia?

      Wait, I don’t think think I heard about this one, what happened?

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        17 hours ago

        In 2018 a bunch of boys got trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. It was a big story on Twitter, as people tried to figure out how to save those boys. Elon Musk weighed in that he had ordered SpaceX to repurpose a rocket into a boy-saving device that would traverse through the narrow tunnels, pick up a boy, and return to safety.

        A British cave explorer said that nah, that’s not gonna work Elon - I’m gonna dive into the cave with extra oxygen and get the boys out. Elon got livid and called the cave explorer “Pedo guy” on account of him being British, into cave exploration, and living in Thailand. Cave explorer then proceeded to save the boys, and Elon was mad that he didn’t get to send space rockets into a narrow cave passage.

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          Well, it wasn’t a rocket, it was at least not as crazy as that, it was some more vaguely credible looking mini-sub enclosure.

          It was still stupid, as the diver explained manipulating a still-big, inflexible mini sub through the cave system was not going to work nearly as well as just having scuba gear.

          Elon wanted to save the day and got all pissy that his idea was rightly called out as stupid, even if folks were willing to risk waiting for SpaceX to come save the day.

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          14 hours ago

          Oh my God. I’d heard the first part of this story, but not the second. Elon Musk really finds a new low every time I turn around.

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            13 hours ago

            It’s funny because a lot of people cite this exchange as the time when it finally clicked for them that Elon is a grifter.

            Makes me wonder if Trump’s cult possess a similar invisible red line, or not?

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            12 hours ago

            After being called on it, he even hired a PI to try to find proof that the guy he randomly called a pedophile happened to be coincidentally a pedophile. He just had a dude investigated based on nothing to blindly hope his insult was somehow prescient.

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    2 days ago

    The good news is that this could be a sweetheart deal because he sang like a canary.

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      He could have stood up game names and produced evidence. None of them will face justice.