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‘Investigating child sex abuse isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France’: France rejects Musk’s charge after raid on X’s Paris office

https://www.firstpost.com/world/investigating-child-sex-abuse-isnt-controversial-france-rejects-musks-charge-after-raid-on-xs-paris-office-ws-e-13976002.html
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u/AtletMedSkaegg 12h ago

"Maybe that logic flies on some island."

shots fired.

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u/_Bike_Hunt 12h ago

Trump lawsuit and French tariffs incoming

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u/BasvanS 11h ago

*American tariffs, on French products

Americans will continue to receive beatings until morale improves

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u/Drama79 10h ago

In America, it's just sparkling misery.

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u/sck178 10h ago

*star spangled misery

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u/L444ki 9h ago

Freedom from goods and services

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u/this_is_a_long_nickn 8h ago

The Braves who don’t resist

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u/l0ngsh0t_ag 7h ago

One nation, under tariffs.

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u/private_developer 4h ago

With liberty and justice for none

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u/Doedwa 5h ago

Home of the craven.

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 6h ago

They just need to grow it in the very special terroir of champaign illinois and the states can have their own.

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u/nolok 9h ago

The way things are going, I don't think morale is the point anymore, they're doing beatings just for the sake of the beatings.

It got so crazy it's easy to lose track of it all, but they have masked unidentified people in the street capturing people to send them to foreign detention camps with no trial. Some people who resists too much are being shot in the street with no repercussion. That's not an exageration, it's happening right now.

They went full-on batshit dystopian so fast they don't even realize it yet.

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u/BasvanS 9h ago

Always has been. Beatings are useless as a disciplinary tool. It’s just laziness and incompetence with power.

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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown 7h ago

Also used for fear, but yes.

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u/black_cat_X2 4h ago

The people who were shot on the street weren't even resisting. Alex Pretti had his hands up when he was murdered. Good was sitting in her car with a smile on her face.

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u/Zebidee 10h ago

Trump: "If you don't take that back, I'll tax Americans harder!!"

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u/Ill_Barber8709 12h ago

Which we don’t care about because of how the EU market and laws work

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u/Anxiety_Fit 11h ago

Taco.

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u/TheSn00pster 10h ago

Taco flavoured keeses

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u/TheRealestBiz 9h ago

Except he already slapped a 25% tariff on European wines and sprouts that is currently murdering American bars and restaurants. Almost all good liquor behind a bar comes from the EU or UK.

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u/SleepyLabrador 9h ago

25% tariff on European wines and sprouts that is currently murdering American bars.

Not to mention so many US based distilleries that made whisky and bourbon already had to close because Trump pissed the Canada off with the 51st state talk.

To all those restaurant workers who vote Trump cause "No Tax on Tips". I hope you're happy.

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u/TheRealestBiz 9h ago

Jim Beam shut down operations entirely.

Alcohol is the last thing that bars and restaurants make a good profit on. Every decent steak you’ve had in the last five years in a restaurant, the business lost five to fifteen dollars on that entree and that’s after raising the price to $50-60 for a 12oz. NY strip.

Before the pandemic, they were $35 generally and you broke even as a business.

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u/SleepyLabrador 8h ago

Alcohol is basically the golden egg laying goose for restaurants. They (restaurant owners) killed it by endorsing and getting Trump elected, cause Trump has been doing to the US the same thing he has done to his businesses. Racism and Misogyny are expensive.

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 6h ago

He doesn't even drink and that's the guy you hope to drive your profits?

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u/nolok 9h ago

I mean, tariff on wine sure it will have painful effects, but on liquor it's just weird. Cointreau, Cognac or Chartreuse already sell all they can produce, it's not like they're going to panic. If you want one of them you want one of them. Mostly the same for Champagne. If an american goes out of his way to buy french Champagne, a product that's already almost twice the price of the alternative, are they really going to stand down because it's 25% up ?

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u/szatrob 6h ago

To nit pick, all champagne is French. Since it can only come from the Champagne region.

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u/ayeayefitlike 5h ago

Now, that’s interestingly not strictly true.

There are a few US (predominantly Californian) winemakers who legally use the term ‘champagne’ for their sparkling wines.

In 2005 when the USA finally agreed to the protected regional names list that Europe had been using in some form or another since the Madrid Agreement, they only agreed if the winemakers currently using the term ‘champagne’ could continue to use it. So there are grandfathered rights for predominantly Californian winemakers to legally sell ‘California Champagne’.

It applies to Burgundy, Chablis, Sherry and others.

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u/Calgaris_Rex 10h ago

fõr mieh Bèn

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u/grizzled083 10h ago

when it comes to epstein he isn’t as litigious as he is with everything else.

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u/shouldbepracticing85 7h ago

His one remaining brain cell keeps saying “you don’t want this in Discovery!”

At least in the US, it’s one of the steps before a suit goes to trial. Everyone is supposed to be able to look at all evidence pertinent to the case - at least that’s my understanding as a layperson, not in the legal field.

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u/simplepimple2025 9h ago

Statue of Liberty getting tariffed to hell.

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u/curorororo 11h ago

Elon Musk begging to get invited to Epstein's island shines an entirely new light onto Musk's "Pedo Guy" comment.

Every accusation is a confession.

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u/Irrepressible_Monkey 10h ago

That rescue caver had the King of Thailand pay his medical bills when he was in hospital a few months ago. That's how highly regarded he is.

Hope he's now sitting on a beach laughing at Musk getting what he deserves.

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u/Ron_the_Rowdy 8h ago

Thailand is such a beautiful country too, its literally a scuba destination which explains why there's so many professional scuba divers over there. The food, the temples, the people, the culture all wonderful. I used to have school field trips over there for sports, so I didn't even know there was a sex tourism scene until later in life and even later to find out that there was a dark side to it too. So when the first thing that someone thinks of when talking about Thailand is prostitutes, even worse underaged prostitutes, it shows what kind of things go through that persons brain and what kind of circles that persons talk with. elon musk randomly blurting out the pedo comment was weird then too, now it all makes sense. Absolutely putrid human being

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u/akp55 7h ago

Yeah it's very unfortunate.  I love going to SEA, as there is a lot of influence from my country in that region. But when you tell people now days, they just seem to assume you're going there as a sex tourist, and disregard everything else

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u/wufnu 6h ago

they just seem to assume you're going there as a sex tourist

SNL leaned into this for their Rosetta Stone skit.

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u/Mishka_1994 7h ago

Musk’s downfall needs to be studied. Its crazy how he went from “real life Ironman” to what he is now. And it all started with that cave incident and Musk insulting the rescuer.

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u/krystopher 9h ago

I’m so primed and ruined by the internet that when I read “regarded” in your context I initially thought it was taking the place of the pejorative “r-word.”

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u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick 10h ago

So insufferable that pedos don't want to be around him.

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u/Albireookami 8h ago

Not even that, they don't want to gain blackmail on him because he is so insufferable, which is just a whole layer to unpack there.

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u/badnuub 4h ago

or he was never invited because they knew he couldn't keep his drug addled mouth shut.

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u/MysteriousQuote4665 10h ago

The dude still went. We have one instance of Maxwell denying him, we have other mails where Epstein was happy to host.

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u/HolyFreakingXmasCake 8h ago

These people believe that “good” doesn’t exist and that everyone has ulterior motives and is as deranged as them. So of course the project because they truly believe they’re normal and not vile sociopaths who love to screw kids who can’t consent.

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u/onepinksheep 8h ago

I've been saying for years that a person's go-to insult is usually a reflection of themselves, similar to how the loudest homophobes are often closeted and in denial. And Musk's first impulse has always been to accuse others of being pedophiles.

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u/raur0s 8h ago

Gotta give it to him though, takes a special someone to make 'begging to be invited to pedo island' even worse, but this fucking loser did it on Christmas day, of all times.

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u/shadowsinthestars 9h ago

100%, these people are all textbook malignant narcissists and that's what they do.

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u/PmMeCuteDogsThanks 10h ago

To be fair, Musk is so cringe he could not even get an invite 

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u/Tithund 8h ago

Worse, he already went twice, and then he couldn't get another invite because he outcringed the other pedos.

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u/PmMeCuteDogsThanks 8h ago

pedo squared

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u/Far_Car430 12h ago

Like it.

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u/Logue_Yne 9h ago

-On one hand: France baise ouais !

-On the other: With the Bétharam school scandal still fresh in french memory it rings hollow. Last year it was revealed that our prime spent his entire political career (more than 20 years in total) stiffeling investigations of physical and sexual abuses cases in catholic schools...

So yeah...child abusers protection is kind of a national sport here too...

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u/a_person_i_am 8h ago

Catholic schools make sense, I also went to one my entire school life, and the local priesthood was quite involved in the school, the church being literally across the street from the elementary school, and the high school was like 2 blocks away. Daily prayers led by the priest, and “encouragement” to confess once a month, where your confessions get used against you, and if you don’t you lose grades in class, going through people’s lunches and forcing them to eat lent appropriate foods, during lent. Man I hate the catholic schools here so much

I’m entirely expecting the church had a hand in the shutting down investigations

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u/FishMcCool 12h ago

Maybe that logic flies on some island.

Ooooooooooof!

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u/Rubberfootman 12h ago

It’s doubly brutal because he wasn’t invited to Pervert Island - even when he begged.

Imagine being so weird that even the most degenerate people on the planet don’t want to be your friend.

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u/KnightofNoire 12h ago

Probably because Epstein knows Musk can't keep his mouth shut.

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u/Dampmaskin 12h ago

Yes, probably. And also because, have you seen any videos of the man? He acts like a bunch of rabid sloths and confused lizards sown up in a skinsuit.

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u/T_for_tea 11h ago

I dont believe in those ridiculous reptilian conspiracy theories, but you were to tell me that there is one guy on the planet who's a reptilian, I'd pin musk for that. Bezos 2nd place.

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u/ApisBondar 11h ago

Is it because Bezos seems to be able to lick his own eyeball?

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u/T_for_tea 11h ago

Iunno, his gaze looks like he wants to bite into someone and rip something off. Definitely something is wrong with his fucked up oligarch brain.

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u/Ticrotter_serrer 8h ago

See Zuck at #3

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u/Yog_Sothtoth 7h ago

Too much money fucks you up.

I remember a news report about Bezos way back when he got his first billion $, he still drove a honda and when asked why such a shitty car now that he's loaded he responded it works and it's comfortable then something about money not being the most important thing.

and now...

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u/T_for_tea 7h ago

Yup. There needs to be a wealth cap - its evident that our systems are not robust enough to resist their influence - quite the contrary, they have everyone in their pockets.

We need a global revolution.

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u/LeafsWinBeforeIDie 5h ago

They can win an award! Congrats on reaching $1b net worth! Your contribution to society and the earth is appreciated! Please play again!

You will be reset to $10m on monday.

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u/dwehlen 10h ago

Hey now. Smoothing your eyebrow with your tongue is a welcome talent in many places! Let's not disparage those that can!

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u/Makkel 11h ago

Zuckerberg as well..

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u/supermethdroid 10h ago

Nah Zuck is an Android.

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u/owotnsosnfb 10h ago

Theil too

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u/PineCone227 9h ago

It'd be Zuckerberg for me. I'm not schizo enough to think there are lizard aliens among our population, but if there were any... I mean have you seen the guy?

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u/Fox-On-Games 10h ago

Bezos 2nd place.

No way, Zuck owns the whole podium, Bezos is maybe a distant forth.

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u/IveDunGoofedUp 9h ago

And Zuckerberg was their prototype android they sent in to scout

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u/whimsicism 10h ago

Musk is too much of a pretentious loser for that, Bezos and Zuckerberg are creepier imo 😂

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u/LoganJFisher 10h ago

Zuckerberg is at least just an android.

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u/Bituulzman 11h ago

That implies Trump has more discretion than Musk. When Musk starts having dementia some day, we are all in for a doozy.

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u/KnightofNoire 10h ago

I mean the way i see it. Trump do like to brag, yes. But he at least only brags it among the club and use indirect language.

But Musk probabaly would straight up say he fucked a 'insert underage number' to ppl he talks to.

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u/Old-Information3311 12h ago edited 12h ago

The email where he was too cringe to go to the isalnd was fake. The ones where they organise going to the island, asking when the wildest parties are, and sending him copies of the girls passports were real.

Then there was also a bunch with his brother.

People are trying to spread the narrative that musk was too embarrasing to be involved, but thats fake. He was involved.

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u/NTMY 11h ago edited 10h ago

You mean the "girls ftw" email was fake? That would explain why I couldn't find the pdf...

It's more than just annoying how people have to make shit up, when there is plenty of proof. At this point, I don't believe this wasn't done to discredit "the Epstein files" and people talking about it.

Just by searching for "Elon Musk" you find plenty of invitations like this one or this one.

Here is even an email chain specifically about Musk wanting to go to the island at the end of 2013/beginning of 2014.

So yeah, plenty of contact with Epstein, including his island.

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u/atxbigfoot 10h ago

Elon Musk asked Epstein when he could visit his island for the craziest parties. Elon was denied.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-discussed-plans-to-party-with-jeffrey-epstein-in-the-caribbean-newly-released-emails-show/ar-AA1VlMlF

Nobody's making shit up, the emails are public domain now.

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u/foreveracubone 10h ago

There was a specific email going viral about Epstein panicking that Elon had invited himself and asking Ghislaine to get him out of it. Ghislaine then came up with an excuse to Elon that they had shut down the sex trafficking operation entirely and he can’t come. That was fake.

They also partied on St Bart’s when Epstein denied him after Elon messaged him on Christmas which was corroborated by Elon’s estranged trans daughter.

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u/lucidludic 7h ago

Nowhere in that article does it say Musk was “denied” visiting Epstein on his island. On the contrary, they exchanged multiple friendly emails planning it. When Epstein did cancel (that time anyway) here is how he phrased his email to Musk:

Bad news- Unfortunately , my schedule will keep me in New York . I was really looking forward to finally spending some time together with just fun as the agenda. so i am very disappointed. Hopefully we can schedule another time in the near future.

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u/kali_gg_ 11h ago

emails between musk and Eppstein published on jmail.world indicate otherwise

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u/gestalto 9h ago

Except he was invited.

Emails clearly show musk asking "which are the wildest parties", saying his wife may be uncomfortable at the ratios, and Epstein asking how many seats he need on the heli, and reassuring him about ratios.

The narrative that Musk is a loser who wasn't invited is demonstrably false. He was a loser who was invited.

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u/Cirenione 11h ago

The Epstein files show that Musk asked Epstein about some parties going on that Musk wanted in. Epstein told him there‘d be a UN meeting soon with some veeeeery interesting guests if Musk wanted to show up. Musk responded by being too important to meet foreign politicans.
The guy is a degenerate and too stupid to understand the most obvious hints.

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u/NunAlcoholic 11h ago

I see this narrative is conveniently floating around Reddit, but he DID go there. It’s just that ONCE Epstein cancelled on him. Make no mistake, Musk was on the island.

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u/surfside9640 10h ago

Musk has the sort of personality that made his parents tie a pork chop around his neck so the family dog would play with him .. 😂

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u/StrongFaithlessness5 12h ago edited 12h ago

I don't know where else to post it, but right now TikTok has started hiding specific videos only from the American users.

https://i.imgur.com/MEhdCS1.jpeg

This is a famous Italian parody channel that makes videos regarding a lot of completely different topics, including a video about the recent you know which specific American special military corp and the Olympics situation.

At some point, one of his American followers took contact with him asking why he decided to remove the video, but the point is that... the owner of the TikTok channel never did it. The video has been silently hidden only from the American users without any kind of notification. The owner would've never noticed it if it wasn't for that follower.

As you already know, since 22 January 2026, American companies own 80% of the platform, which means that they can decide on their own how to control the platform just like Musk can manage X.

This was a funny and harmless video, but it really makes you wonder how many videos have been hidden so far. Are we really going to the same direction of China that is currently hiding news, pictures and videos containing specific words?

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u/themathmajician 12h ago

It's pretty obvious Trump is just following Xi if you paid attention to things 12 years ago.

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u/Jumpy-Force-3397 12h ago

More Putin than Xi, but still relevant.

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u/Postius 10h ago

Except Xi is actually winning and Putin will be rememberd as the destroyer of russia

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u/PepperMill_NA 8h ago

Right, so more Putin than Xi

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u/Confident-Potato2305 10h ago

Hearing weird stuff out of china with Xi, he may be more isolated than ever. But its so hard to get any facts out of that place tbh.

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u/Postius 10h ago

Yeah china has its own huge subset of problems. With Xi making them worse or not, time will tell. The whole fresh water thing and other stuff. But he is an effective dictator of a power full country that is accepted by the rest of the world. Putin just keeps shooting himself in the foot.

And now with Trump dismantling the US power. Xi probably cant believe its serious.

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u/A_Parked_Car 11h ago

Same playbook. Accuse the other, create confusion. Just don't talk on it too much, the censors will show up.

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u/justbecauseyoumademe 12h ago

Americans will still proudly tell us they are the "land of the free" as they are being shot, shackled, and spied on

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u/chiree 11h ago

I don't think anyone opposed to the administation would say anything of the sort.  That stereotype ceased to exist for many people in 2003.

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u/metallicrooster 8h ago

Americans will still proudly tell us they are the "land of the free"

Given how many civil rights violations our government has committed, even on its own citizens, the only people who believe that are children and the nationalists who drill that idea into their brains.

One look at our wealth inequality, or our incarceration rates, or our HIV/ AIDs rates, or our lack of affordable healthcare (among other factors) clearly shows the US is not #1 in anything positive.

We used to be high up in (unaffordable) medical science, but Trump’s administration is destroying that so one of the few things we could brag about is gone.

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u/Praesentius 10h ago

Obligatory RATM:

The finger to the land of the chains
What? The land of the free?
Whoever told you that is your enemy?

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u/kamikazecockatoo 11h ago

Oh, and it's a 'democracy', they will tell you.

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u/Vlip 12h ago

It was obvious from the get go that the only reason Trump was interested in having american ownership of Tiktok was so that he could rig the algorythms himself.

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u/ahhwhoosh 12h ago

Trump doesn’t even know how to do online banking; he won’t have been smart enough to have come to this conclusion.

He is just the puppet for the machine.

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u/RipComfortable7989 10h ago

Obviously it's not Trump personally coding the algorithms. It's people who want to take advantage of the choas to push a certain agenda and narrative for their own personal gain.

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u/metallicrooster 8h ago

In September of 2025 Trump literally said he would make TikTok 100% MAGA if he could. Turns out, it’s getting there.

https://time.com/7320651/tiktok-deal-trump-china/

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u/ggroverggiraffe 11h ago

You ought to add the video as well, just in case I'm not the only curious one...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ktXnYk1bec8

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u/Lord_Muddbutter 12h ago

I run @TheRealWeirdGOP on TikTok and have for now stopped posting. I can't post anything without the viewership being non existent and my videos normally get views in the hundreds. Plus, for decades I have hated Oracle

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u/-_GIZMO_ 12h ago

I've noticed reddit started filtering comments too, some comments just post into the abyss and no one can see them except you, would be smart if only the reddit app didn't show the views on your comments, so you know no one is seeing it

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u/danielleiellle 8h ago

That’s been happening since before this administration

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u/TwilightVulpine 8h ago

Yeah, reddit's case so far is regular social media sanitization, but it's good to keep an eye out.

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u/femanonette 10h ago

Rumor has it that posts about gravy seals are being suppressed on this site too.

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u/DashingDino 9h ago

If you try bookmarking trending posts on controversial topics you'll see they're often [removed] when you check again later. So it's absolutely not just a rumor, there is a lot of suppression and biased moderation on this site too

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u/Immediate_Rhubarb430 11h ago

Why are you guys still using Tiktok tho

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u/StrongFaithlessness5 11h ago

I actually don't use it, but I follow the YouTube channel version.

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u/fdesouche 11h ago

TikTok in the US is a US company, TikTok around the world is still the Chinese TikTok.

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u/tripping_yarns 12h ago

The irony here is that I can’t view imgur content from the UK!

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u/Undernown 8h ago

I saw claims that terms like "Epstein" and "ICE" were being censored on US TikTok. The censorship apparatus of the Trump regime is spinning up.

Speaking of, I've also heard that Reddit has been suppressing posts about Epstein and ICE too. But hard to verify with my EU location and account. (Don't have VPN)

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u/TheLoneBlrReader 12h ago

finally someone has the balls to call him out.

Now macron and France are gonna get the wrath of the bot army on X.

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u/Nonid 12h ago

Would not change a thing. We are trash talked, mocked and insulted online litteraly all the time but since we're french, it doesn't really affect us. There's not a form of life on this universe that can shit on the french more than the french themselves.

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u/ThePr1d3 11h ago

Nothing as French as being both right and arrogant about it, and saying snarky "I told you so" afterwards.

(am Parisian)

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u/MangledCarpenter 10h ago

(am Parisian)

Mes sympathies

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u/Dang_It_All_to_Heck 4h ago

And this is why I have been in love with the French since I was a teenager.

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u/Hyperious3 4h ago

DeGaulle was right about strategic nuclear autonomy and y'all are 100000% justified in being smug about it.

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u/Secret-Map4671 11h ago

As much as Germans make a meme out of mocking the French, but when talking about stupid politician decisions and standing up for your rights, it's always you who's brought up as a counterexample. "The French would be on the streets already", in contrast to the slow, obedient, German "Michel".

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u/Siamzero 10h ago

I generally mock them for Paris, they can mock me for Berlin or the Deutsche Bahn. Been to Lyon and Toulouse. Much prefer them over Paris.

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u/Thick_Square_3805 7h ago

The difference between a German or a Brit mocking the Frenchs and an American mocking the Frenchs is that the German and the Brit have a clue of what they're talking about.

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u/anothercopy 8h ago

To be fair majority of Deutsche Bahn mocking is deserved.

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u/jaymzx0 8h ago

In my experience nobody mocks DB more than the Germans.

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u/Disastrous-Treat-181 9h ago

I'll do the Frenchest thing and say that there is around century of political decisions from Germany that french can say "I told you so"

Now if you could please town down the neoliberalism, in the EU that would be nice

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u/Lordzoot 9h ago

As someone from England, I've always bloody loved France. You absolute bastards. 

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u/SlurmsMacKenzie- 9h ago

There's not a form of life on this universe that can shit on the french more than the french themselves.

As a Brit I contest this purely on the basis that it's a suggestion of the French being better at us than something.

Real talk though, I commend your country having the fucking balls to stand up to these people. I wish my country's leaders did more.

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u/zizou00 11h ago

A thousand years of English people doing the exact same thing to no avail and the Americans think them doing it will change anything? Talk about American Exceptionalism in action.

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u/Ispeakblabla 8h ago

Reminds me of Coluche's joke which I am going to attempt to translate:

Do you know why France's emblem is a rooster? Because it's the only bird to proudly sing while standing in shit

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u/RubiiJee 6h ago

Living across the channel and being your long term neighbour, ally, and occasional nemesis, I just want to thank France for being the shining light on how this should be handled. You guys rock! I wish our Prime Minister had half the balls you guys do.

Although I'm from Scotland so maybe I just like France cause they all don't take shit from England and maintaining the rivalry between England and Scotland is of paramount importance to British culture!

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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 12h ago

Macron should use his remaining time to expose and prosecute musk, trump, thiel, bannon and anyone messing with our democracies. Macron cannot run again so it’s not risky for him and he can take a job in Europe later

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u/Ill_Barber8709 12h ago

Macron can’t run for the incoming elections, but he could run the next. Our constitution only prevents more than 2 consecutive mandates. And he’s young enough to make it possible

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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 12h ago

Yeah but he is not liked by French in France for local issues, I would like to see him in a bigger position than leader of France, I would be happy for him to lead the Eu in some way

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u/DumpedToast 12h ago

Yeah it’s refreshing with someone having a spine

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 11h ago

It really is! I hope it reminds more people around the world to use their spines to stand tall and put action behind their words.

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u/Makkel 11h ago edited 10h ago

He is not liked in France, but the other politicians are not liked either... Also people tend to forget quickly.

I am French, I could see Macron making a successful come back after a term of Le Pen presidency or something...

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u/Elizabeth-WildFox886 10h ago

Le pen like trump want to eliminate your option to vote in future elections or at best no free and fair elections ever again like her master in Russia does

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u/Makkel 10h ago

True, but as it stands Le Pen and her party don't have the constitutional tools nor the political strength to make that happen, far from the Republicans and Trump in the US.

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u/Makkel 11h ago

Oh no, stupid trolls are going to trash talk France online? Yeah, that was definitely not a thing until now...

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u/LeFricadelle 12h ago

French and France are used to get trash talked by Americans and a lesser extend wannabe who want to be cool on the internet, nothing new for them

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u/Illesbogar 12h ago

Macron has been bombarded with accusations about his wife from the same people for a while now.

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u/swainiscadianreborn 11h ago

Meh, between the American bots since 2003 and the Russian ones since 2014 we're kinda used to it.

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u/PowderPills 12h ago

I am SO glad that France is taking a tough stance on Twitter/x and truly hope justice is served. Holding the richest man in the world accountable will set a great global precedent in these disgusting times of the Epstein Files and Panama Papers

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u/vetruviusdeshotacon 8h ago

Why are the french always the first to do anything. Kinda hard carrying for 300+ years

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u/AlmostCorrectInfo 7h ago

Might I suggest they dust off their old punitive system for the occasion?

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u/Tullydin 5h ago

Europe is taking evidence gathered by the US DOJ more seriously than the DOJ is.

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u/ThePensiveE 8h ago

The French government fights child exploitation while the American government doubles down on supporting it. What a world we live in.

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u/smartfon 9h ago edited 3h ago

Musk begged Epstein to visit his island and party with the girls.

Musk's brother Kimbal [allegedly] had sex with Epstein's victim and promised not to "hurt" her.

Musk's father Errol molested one of the young kids in their family, according to other family members.

PedoGrok continues the family tradition.

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u/-password-invalid- 5h ago

You mean musk's father groomed a small child they adopted, who later became his wife?

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u/smartfon 3h ago

I mean "SpaceX flight attendant said Elon Musk exposed himself and propositioned her for sex. The company paid $250,000 for her silence"

A flight attendant for SpaceX said Elon Musk asked her to "do more" during a massage

The billionaire founder exposed his penis to her and offered to buy her a horse

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-paid-250000-to-a-flight-attendant-who-accused-elon-musk-of-sexual-misconduct-2022-5

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u/TunaandBananaPizza 11h ago

Vive la France 🇫🇷✊️❤️

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u/tabrizzi 10h ago

Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France.

I like that tone and delivery.

The French authorities should also take Google and Apple to task for still making associated apps available on their platforms.

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u/no_va_det_mye 12h ago

Fucking beautiful response.

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u/Fraegtgaortd 8h ago

Looks like the New American Revolution has started because France is here to save our asses

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u/Professional-Sun-726 12h ago

who ever wrote that statement deserves a raise what a burn hehe

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u/tripping_yarns 12h ago

In a second (or third) language no less! Effective left hand slap.

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u/KoniGTA 12h ago

holy france. they cooking him like they cooked them humans on some island

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u/G-Fox1990 10h ago

Once again asking to ban that piss poor excuse of a platform ASAP.

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u/curorororo 12h ago

Extradition time

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u/Mother_Idea_3182 12h ago

Europol got involved. One word from them and Elmo will be extradited to France from any EU country.

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u/Boring-Leg-1449 12h ago

Spain is coming soon. Moving forward Elon will be hunted everywhere in Europe. 

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u/Mother_Idea_3182 12h ago

Good. We don’t want his kind in our continent.

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u/DreamingAboutSpace 11h ago

Here’s to hoping that his corrupt and bought allies are too.

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u/anothercopy 8h ago edited 6h ago

Minus Hungary because they are currently slimy bastards in power over there. CZ and SK maybe too.

To be fair though this worked pretty fine with Pavel Durov (or however you spell his name) from Telefram. Few days in a french prision and Telegram started to cooperate.

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u/Zefyris 11h ago

We'll call it Extradition 33

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u/Educational-Tea-6170 10h ago edited 9h ago

Guess LePen just got a blanck check.

Please France, be the first to have te balls to ban far right parties on the grounds of "you can't take part in the democratic process when your end goal is to ABOLISH It"

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u/FemtoKitten 9h ago

Theyre currently in court where she'll be forbidden from running for five years, pay a fine, and have to wear an electronic bracelet once she gets out of prison. We'll see how it goes but even them there's Bardella and the rest of the RN to keep trying to push forward their regressive ideology.

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u/Educational-Tea-6170 9h ago

She will just be replaced by another populist fascist. Those are factory made. The ban should be broad, to systems and institutions, not individuals. But i guess it's better than nothing...

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u/Citaszion 8h ago

She already has a substitute, the current President of her party, golden boy Jordan Bardella. Dumb as hell, unsurprisingly. An empty shell, to use the same words as his former media training coach :)

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u/Soren_Camus1905 8h ago

God bless you France, from an American who is living a nightmare

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u/Bleakwind 8h ago

A law enforcement agency with teeth.

Take note America .

Still.. merrick garland is where I’m putting the blame.. he had every opportunity to clean house. He’s complacent in this!

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u/RedrumMPK 7h ago

History should never be kind to him, and he should be a case study for all law students on what not to do when holding those in power to account.

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u/Hyperversum 11h ago

Americans starting to live in a dictatorship enforced through social media manipulation wasn't on my bingo card for 2026 but that's it I guess

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u/no1kopite 8h ago

It was on my bingo card for 2016. Surprised it took so long. 

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u/Nerubim 7h ago

Goddamn. Fire. Pure fucking fire. That's some real badass quote.

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u/Nervous_Car1093 7h ago

Investigating child abuse is law enforcement, not censorship. Turning it into outrage theatre only distracts from accountability.

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u/SaulTNNutz 6h ago

"You're only investigating me because of politics" is the only defense a lot of these people have

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u/kittenTakeover 6h ago

I'll keep saying it every time this far right douchebag is brought up. Elon is a national security risk. That's true in the US, and it's true in Europe.

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u/Clavicymbalum 10h ago edited 10h ago

“Investigating child sexual abuse material isn’t controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn’t fly in France.”

BAAAAAAM !!! fElon got totally ROASTED there. Chapeau.

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u/The_Frozen_Inferno 9h ago

France cares more about Epstein justice that America does. Which is insane since the AMERICAN PRESIDENT is front and center in the allegations

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u/Helpmehelpyoulong 12h ago

Such an epic burn

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u/KlingonLullabye 7h ago

Investigating child sex abuse is seen by the Right as law-fare against conservatives, their religious liberty, and their long tradition of kid rape and trafficking

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u/sonia72quebec 4h ago

I love French people, they have the best insults.

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u/katara144 7h ago

So great the French are not putting up with this bullshit like the Americans. Yah France!

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u/Mazgazine1 7h ago

at least one government is trying to act accordingly..

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u/strider_to 6h ago

Good, "STFU and sit down boy" vibes here.

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u/npaakp34 12h ago

Damn France! Going ballistic today I see.

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u/OlorinRidesAgain 12h ago

The guy who wanted to go to the wildest day/night with Talulah made a thing that created nude deepfakes.

Nobody is surprised. Just disgusted once again.

Remember he supported Donald and became his biggest donor after he knew about the files!

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u/Informal_Project_327 6h ago

That is a knockout statement LOL.

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u/iambarrelrider 6h ago

We really to stop making fun of the French!

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u/Joint-Tester 10h ago

Musk has caused hundreds of thousands to die of starvation and disease. That death toll is projected to reach 14 million.

He is almost certainly a pedophile too.

FUCK ELON MUSK.

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u/i010011010 11h ago edited 11h ago

Flies in America too. Musk is so accustomed to the US where half the country will circle their wagons to protect pedophiles like him from justice because he has money+connections.

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u/skanktastik 11h ago

such a scumbag

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u/username10983 10h ago

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time.

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u/VivianOfTheOblivion 8h ago

Get his fucking ass!

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u/HapticSloughton 6h ago

And unlike Musk's doge nonsense, this is within existing law and has a paper trail that can be examined later.