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I am more and more convinced that it was projection when Musk called the diver that rescued children for e pedo when he criticized Musk for being in the way when Musk tried to make a stunt out of the rescue mission.
that was probably my turning point on the guy, if not earlier. As soon as I saw how he handled all of that, it reeked of rich arrogance. He didn't do jack shit and made it about himself and increasing his net worth.
Yeah same. Before that I didnt think much of him (just wasnt as aware of him as a person) and then after that whole diver pedo incident I was like "wtf? What kind of mature response to a diving crisis in a third world country"?
And after that I just kept watching from a distance as he did infrequent but stupid stunts (like sending a car into space; you may as well light a few million dollars on fire in front of some poor people and say "look how rich I am".
And after that I just thought the guy was a twat. Until his government days, and now I fucking despise the cunt and cant wait to hear about his downfall in his friends' tabloid rags online.
Tbf when they sent the car up they were required to send a test payload anyway to certify the rocket for commercial use. If it wasn't a car it would've been the equivalent weight but as a block of lead or steel.
I wonder if there's something about being a billionaire that just drives you to pedophilia. Maybe when you already have so much money that you can effectively do whatever you want, and you know that people like you don't ever face justice? Maybe sleeping with minors is like the ultimate taboo, the thing you do simply to fundamentally show how different you are from the common rabble. You can fuck 12 year olds and get away with it. Maybe it's a sick thrill to people who otherwise have very little novelty or joy in their lives.
Indeed, there are two major factors. The first is that the human brain is built to adapt it's baseline to your context, which means that for you and I eating a $15000 dinner made by France's best chef would blow us away, but if you get to eat like that everyday at home... it suddenly becomes just as normal as whatever sandwich you ate last week, and I don't mean "Yeah it's still mind blowing, but you want something else", it quite literally gets re-normalized so that first taste will never be achievable again. So billionaires go around wasting the experience of everything they can buy: food, comfort, travel, fame, competitions... and sex, and then they crave the next thing they haven't tasted yet, the more difficult to find, the more restricted, the more hidden, the more illegal... the better.
The second factor is that you don't get to be a billionaire if you're not a sociopath. There's simply no other way, anybody with a sliver of empathy would not be able to become one, which also means they're extremely likely to see abuse as valid if it's for their own benefit.
The combination of both factors, together with the money necessary to escape the consequences, is a pedophilia machine.
I think it's your second factor that's most relevant.
Nah, you can look up the sex offender list in your area and see plenty of non-wealthy people. Money is just an enabler. But yeah, I'm sure part of it is "always been this way and now they can act on it" and part is "I've paid all the supermodels I want, I need something new". Kind of like the Saudi princes and all the really fucked-up stuff they do.
There's wealthy and then there's wealthy. How many billionaires are on the sex offender registry? You don't really reach "above the law" levels of wealth until you start reaching that level.
That sounds like something that could actually be true.
He did appear in the Epstein files a bunch.