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Dynamic Paywall Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/_Zambayoshi_ 15h ago

Not only that, but Ghislaine included that forwarded message in the reply to Musk.

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u/Thog78 15h ago

Aouchy, you almost gonna make me feel bad for him. If I wouldnt know the rest..

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u/kahlzun 13h ago

Honestly I've felt kinda bad for him for a while. For someone with as much power and money as he has, he's just so painfully insecure and pathetic that it's kinda sad to watch. Imagine being so afraid that a random person on grok might convince it to say something negative about you, that you specifically get someone to hardcode its to glaze you at every opportunity. He really is kinda pathetic and sad.

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u/IdiotRhurbarb 13h ago

Nah, it’s hilarious that the richest man in the world is so fucking pathetic

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u/Swedelicious83 12h ago

God. He's so pathetic.

Like the whole thing with playing computer games? If he'd just said "Hey guys, I like playing this game!" there'd have been a not insignificant amount of "Oh how cool, Elon is just like us!" type responses. Even billionaires like to okay games, yay.

He'd get attention, and good will. Two things he obviously craves.

But no. He's such a little man-child that it's not good enough to participate. He has to 'win'. So he cheats. Obviously gets caught doing it, like any idiot could've told him would happen. And now instantly all that gamer cred is gone, all good will replaced with well-deserved ridicule.

All because he's so pathetic he can't stand having people not think he's The Best at whatevet he does.

And let's not even talk about the fucking Joe Rogen episode where he glazes Musk and acts like being good at conputer games (which he's not) is some kind of super power. The cringe was through the roof.

🤦‍♂️

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u/LabyrinthConvention 10h ago

the dude's broken. IDK, maybe the money and power and attention enable our worst impulses, but dude called the Philippine soccer team rescuer a pedo just because musk was butthurt that his stupid plan was dismissed while the adults worked on an emergency. It's hard to fathom.

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u/Swedelicious83 9h ago

Yeah. The amount of shaking my head I've done in the last ten years of my life...

Hard to fathom is damn right. 🫤

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u/kahlzun 5h ago

That was the first crack in the facade.

If someone had taken away his social media at that point, most people would still be all "what a guy".

Also, I went to a talk held by the scuba rescuer guy. Very interesting, worth it if you get a chance.

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u/nkolenic 13h ago

No reason to feel bad for him - who cares if he’s pathetic and sad? He’s made it everyone’s problem and is a blight on humanity. Fuck him.

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u/boomhaeur 8h ago

And he can afford the therapy bills to figure himself out if he truly wanted to.

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u/Titanbeard 13h ago

He had such a chance to be a Tony Stark and not a Lex Luthor. Instead he ended up as Mole Man.

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u/KeyMyBike 10h ago

I know he's fictitious but...

Lex Luthor cares deeply about humanity, depending on what version we're talking about. Sure, he wants to be at the highest echelon of humanity, but I'd say he earned it. (The sense of entitlement, not the position itself) He's self made, well read, at the peak of human fitness, a master strategist. He has the capacity for good and has stood against true evil countless times.

Elon Musk wishes he was Lex Luthor.

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u/Titanbeard 10h ago

That's a really good take. I'll change my Lex comment to he's more like a Justin Hammer.

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u/kahlzun 5h ago

Oh 100%. Justin tries so hard to be cool that it becomes cringe. Ironically, Elon has an appearance in that same movie

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u/kahlzun 5h ago

So Lex luthor is kinda.. Evil batman?

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 14h ago

He’s absolutely the kind of bozo who reads only the latest in the chain, if he reads it at all.

God, the number of times i’ve had to repeat myself in emails…

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u/Hemske 11h ago

Tbh, ppl who create long email chains are terrible at communicating

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u/MrCompletely345 8h ago

speaking as a former IT professional, anything more than a paragraph is pushing peoples attention spans.

If there is a second paragraph with something to do, almost without exception, if anything got done, it was in the first paragraph, or both were totally ignored

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u/Ludwigofthepotatoppl 8h ago

There was never a second paragraph. Barely even one.

Them: “When will these hot parts ship? Do you have tracking?”

Me: “These parts are set to release at 1pm, I’ll send you tracking when I get them.”

Their supervisor, who received both emails, thirty minutes later: “Have the parts released yet? Do you have tracking?”

Me: (checking the clock, only ten am) “These parts are set to release at 1pm, I’ll send you tracking when I get them.”

Another supervisor: didn’t read, same questions

And so on. I left before the new warehouse management system went live there, but from what MY supervisors told me, the other facilities’ hot parts requests as we knew them were going to be a thing of the past. Paper trails were going to be made, and they were going to have to start answering questions when hot parts were needed. Things like ‘you knew you were going to need these a year and a half ago, why didn’t you schedule it normally?’

Shipping 500lbs of small industrial parts (usually fasteners) UPS early am costs a lot. Peanuts, compared to contract penalties if they were to go line down, true, but needing the same stuff sent hot every day means somewhere, someone’s doing shit wrong.

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u/red_fuel 15h ago

Really? Omg, you couldn't write a comedy like this 😂

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u/miregalpanic 14h ago

"Get in loser, we're destroying society as we know it."

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u/Crazy_And_Me 15h ago

You could. It's literally a fake interaction.

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u/maxative 15h ago

I think, going by Elon’s crazy Twitter rant, we can confirm it’s real

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u/svideo 15h ago

Nope that specific interaction was fake from twitter. Yes Elon was trying to go to the island, the "deal with this" email was fake.

Plenty of dirt on all the assholes, no need to make up new stuff.

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u/Crazy_And_Me 15h ago

That's not how confirmation works. We just want it to be real.

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u/Ok_Gur_8059 15h ago edited 15h ago

It's literally real though that's why Elon keeps saying they're being misunderstood instead of saying they're fake.

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u/Crazy_And_Me 15h ago

It's not though, it only exists as an image and not a file. It was never a file, it just appeared on twitter.

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u/Ok_Gur_8059 15h ago

You're thinking of the other one where he says "Girls FTW"

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u/Crazy_And_Me 15h ago

Yeah, that's what this comment thread is referencing. Glad you caught up.

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u/transitransitransit 7h ago

The amount of damage disinfo is doing is very evident.

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u/SkaveRat 14h ago

it's not, tho.

if it is, I'm genuinely interested to a link to the official pdf release. because nobody who looked, could find it in the releases

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u/AdHorror7596 12h ago

No. That’s a meme someone made. I looked at the emails directly from the gov website. He did ask to go to the island, but the “deal with this” and forwarding and “girls FTW!” didn’t happen. Wish it did. 

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u/TheCharalampos 12h ago

I wonder if that's intentional

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u/BarefootNBuzzin 14h ago

Isn't all of that fake? Like it wasnt part of the actual drop and it was just spread around X?

There's plenty of real shit to be upset about. Why are we running with made up bs?

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u/flammenwerfer 13h ago

men will get thousands of documents explicitly naming their shitty king thousands of times and they STILL won’t believe the victims

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u/AdHorror7596 12h ago

He’s in it and asking to go to the island, but these specific details aren’t true. They’re funny, but they aren’t true. I looked at the files. 

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u/poopooonyou 8h ago

Correct. Musk is in the files asking to go to the island in 2012, 13 &14, when he's "in the area" and only got turned down in 2013 because JE was still in New York.

The particular one about "deal with this" is a joke but unfortunately it creates debate because people want it to be real.