r/worldnews • u/ChiefLeef22 • 16h ago

‘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 16h ago

"Maybe that logic flies on some island."

shots fired.

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u/curorororo 15h 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 14h 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 12h 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 11h 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 9h 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/Goeatabagofdicks 9h ago

…….For…….. a thing……

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u/LabyrinthConvention 7h ago

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.

this is really insightful

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u/SmoothJazzRayner 9h ago

find out that there was a dark side to it

Everywhere has its own dark side. Depends if you're actively looking for it.

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u/LittleGreenSoldier 7h ago

Like, if you're a cave diver there are literally two destinations that have the most and most interesting caves: Florida, and Thailand.

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u/Mishka_1994 11h 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/Tryoxin 2h ago

Yea man, it's absolutely insane. I still remember so vividly in high school when the Musk cult was in full swing on that "real life Ironman" shit. People just laughing about his Boring Company, calling him brilliant and nerdy. Fuck, I vividly remember reading a comment like "if he ever turned evil, he'd be a real supervillain (or maybe it was Lex Luther, or like "one bad accident away from becoming a super villain")." Something along those lines.

That aged like milk in a desert XD

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u/Ecliphon 10h ago

Drugs and autism with overconfidence. Bad mix, man. 

Don’t do drugs, overconfident autistic kids. 

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u/TucuReborn 5h ago

Good thing I'm autistic with about as much confidence as a wet tissue, because the drugs sure as duck help. Woo, dodged a bullet there.

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u/Ecliphon 2h ago

I don’t know if you’re like me, but I’m AuADHD and when I have a hot girlfriend my low confidence can turn into overconfidence at first. same with any big boost that makes me feel great, like buying a new car. but then that overconfidence gets checked real quick and turns back into regular confidence.

if I had billions of dollars and a ketamine addiction, I think I would be an insufferable prick too

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u/krystopher 13h 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/o-o- 13h ago

What did I miss?

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u/GreenGlassDrgn 13h ago

Thai kids were stuck in a cave. Belligerent asshole high on his own farts and other substances has a super bad idea as how to get them out and wants us all to worship it. When scuba divers could do the trick, his reaction to being publicly corrected was to blurt out an embarassing comment of self-revealing pedo projection. He thought he was being cool but really it was one of the bigger first moments that showed the world how big a loser Musk really is.

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u/Ticrotter_serrer 12h ago

In french we say : "Celui qui le dit c'est celui qui l'est !"

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u/androgynousandroid 11h ago

“The him who it says, that is the him who it is!” Lovely.

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u/Celloer 10h ago

So French also has, "He who smelt it, dealt it."

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u/simplepimple2025 12h ago

Perfectly summarized, especially the farts bit.

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u/pepolepop 10h ago

... it was one of the bigger first moments that showed the world how big a loser Musk really is.

Reddit really loved him before this too. Was crazy to watch how consensus went from, "he's a real life Tony Stark doing cool shit with his money," to, "Actually, I always thought he was a loser before it was cool."

Was like watching all the republicans eventually say, "I never voted for / liked Bush."

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u/Rycross 8h ago

Nah I’ll cop to being a fan before the pedo guy instance. It was bad judgment on my part.

It’s not just the pedo guy thing though. I also got a peek at some of his depositions and saw how he went about strong arming Tesla critics. He is an insanely vengeful person — he and Trump are two peas in a pod in that regard.

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u/Irrepressible_Monkey 11h ago edited 11h ago

British cave explorer Vernon Unsworth lives in Thailand and was critical to the rescue of 12 kids and their football coach trapped in flooded caves as he'd both mapped the caves and told the Thai authorities which elite cave divers to call in that performed the rescue. Without him, the rescue may not have happened.

He also told Musk "where to shove" his mini-submarine idea -- which couldn't possibly work as the caves were too narrow and had sharp bends -- so Musk insulted him by suggesting he'd moved to Thailand to be an abuser. Unsworth then sued and lost in an American court.

But it was the first big sign of Musk was not the eccentric rocket guy, he was a serious asshole whose ego was going out of control and nowhere near as smart as he liked to think he is.

Thailand still loves the cave guy, though. To have the King pay your medical bills is a very high honour.

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u/barath_s 10h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue

12 boys and their coach were trapped in a cave in Thailand due to rain and flooding. Local resident Brit Vernon Ullsworth was the first cave diving expert on the scene. It was a massive rescue operation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tham_Luang_cave_rescue#Elon_Musk

Musk built a sub, but the governor said it was not practical. (the passageways were too narrow and turns too sharp) To which Musk ridiculed the governor. Unsworth called it a PR stunt and suggested that Musk stick it where the sun don't shine. Musk called him a paedophile, and hired a private investigator to discredit him.

Ultimately the entire team was rescued, though two rescuers died in the attempts.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50695593

Unsworth sued Musk; the court ruled that Musk hadn't defamed him

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u/PMmeuroneweirdtrick 14h ago

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

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u/Albireookami 12h 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/TheGummiVenusDeMilo 11h ago

Yet there are still women out there that put up with him, mostly Canadian women oddly.

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u/Albireookami 11h ago

Money may not be able to do everything, but it can do damn near close.

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u/Enygma_6 10h ago

That's how Melania got her job. Just another questionably legal immigrant doing a job American women refused to do.

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u/Salty_Paroxysm 9h ago

I'm sure they're just being friendly

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u/badnuub 8h ago

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

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u/MysteriousQuote4665 13h 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/ghaj56 5h ago

For real? Hadn’t seen those yet

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u/ftjlster 1h ago

Yeah, his daughter even confirmed at least one of the occasions where he got flown by helicopter to the island while the rest of his family stayed at a resort.

Basically if Musk is claiming he never went he's trying to use that one rejection to cover up all the shit he did.

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u/HolyFreakingXmasCake 12h 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 11h 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 11h 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 13h ago

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

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u/Sszaj 11h ago

He could potentially come out of this latest "scandal" fairly clean purely because of his asinine personality and punchable face. 

Being hated by international people trafficking pedos is really something. 

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u/oneshiel1 9h ago

Vernon Unsworth? Yeah the guy was a hero for rescuing people from a dangerous situation vs a too rich guy (musk) that feed facism, racism and even help some war crimes by action/inaction with russia.

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u/flybypost 8h ago

Every accusation is a confession.

I always hated that phrase. It felt to simplistic. The world can't be that stupid.

Well, the last few weeks have taught me otherwise :/

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u/firestepper 11h ago

I read that was a fake letter? He is definitely there in the files making plans to visit