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cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/Epsteinfiles/p/1724086/musk-busted-pleading-to-visit-pedo-island-in-epstein-files-for-wildest-party

Musk appeared to have attempted to arrange a meeting on the billionaire’s island when he was already a convicted sex offender.

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 70 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Look at the dates. This was AFTER Epstein was convicted as a sex offender and once everyone was distancing themselves.

Musk heard that he had a pedo Island from the news and he wanted to go.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

He was mad he wasn't powerful enough, nor rich enough to be invited to quite possibly the largest honey pot ring ever.

That's the real reason the files are not out yet. The rich and powerful are disgusting individuals.

[–] assembly@lemmy.world 73 points 5 days ago (4 children)

The way he asked was super cringy too. Like someone who has never been invited to an event before.

[–] giantripdrop@piefed.social 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If I could get just one message to Elon, that I know he would recieve:

No matter how much money you have, no matter how hard you try, no matter how many people you surround yourself with, you are a fucking loser. we all think that. The people that don't act like it, they think it too, but they want your money. But we all think it you creep.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Society suffers because some South African rich kid can't handle the fact that he's a humongous dork. It's absolutely wild.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And being a dork isn't even the problem. I'm a big dork. I like video games and computer nerd stuff. The problem is that incel culture overlaps heavily with nerd culture. Dorks with poor social skills think that it empowers them while it actually just exacerbates and reinforces their insecurities, and stops their emotional development.

His concept of "cool" never got past that 4chan edgelord phase, and he doesn't even realize how pathetically embarrassing it is.

[–] notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

This is so real. Dude lives perpetually in 2010 when most people thought he was Tony Stark, which he makes obvious today with his tantrums when anyone calls him out for what he truly is.

The thing that truly makes me sick about him is how much his buffoonery aids as a cloak to all the other billionaires we don’t know of and don’t talk about.

Great news! This is chat on everyone of his live streams

[–] nightofmichelinstars@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 days ago

That's how you know it's true.

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 32 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You just know that even in a party full of pedos, they'd all be like, "that guy is so weird and cringe. It's embarrassing to be here with him." As they all pat each other on the back and celebrate being pedos!

[–] DickFiasco@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago

When you're too creepy for the island full of pedophiles.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

This one is fake. Search FTW on the justice dept Epstein site. Its not one of the few occurrences of the word there. Actually saw someone last night post this and then figure out it was fake on their own on bluesky after an hour or so. So we're several hours behind them in fact checking apparently and daily beast is posting misinfo.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This one is fake

i don't think so?

Its not one of the few occurrences of the word there

which word? i checked a couple and they're there. eg, here is Musk planning a visit in January 2014.

daily beast is posting misinfo

it is irritating that they only provided a source link for one of the many mails they quote and have screenshots of, but i checked a few of the others and they do come up in the search.

[–] Asidonhopo@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I wasnt sure if I'd made a mistake so I went to https://www.justice.gov/epstein and you can keyword search, just put "FTW" and theres 17 results, none of which are the purported linked Musk email. Sorry, hes still in there plenty otherwise though.

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The "girls FTW" mail in that bluesky post is indeed fake, but the daily beast article linked by this post does not include that one.

It is noteworthy how the existence of a fake thing which can be debunked can cause people to assume that similar-but-real things are also fake 😭

[–] hayvan@piefed.world 8 points 5 days ago

Maybe they were worried that Melon is literally incapable of keeping his damn mouth shut.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

it’s pretty clear at this point that the Epstein files are leverage that the president has over a lot of people (weirdly including himself), which kind of also explains why they haven’t come out

He wanted to make sure the switch that gives him a boner still works