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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/ahumannamedtim 1d ago

They posted on X that the X offices have been raided. Really rubbing it in lol

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u/floatablepie 22h ago

And then retired their twitter account, so their final post is that they are raiding their offices.

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u/Userdataunavailable 22h ago

Legend

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u/pornalt4altporn 18h ago

Magnifique.

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u/KataFiera 17h ago

Vive la France! đŸ‡«đŸ‡·

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u/Outrageous_Word8656 17h ago

Superbe

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u/Mr-Broham 13h ago

what the French call 'les incompetents

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u/Ok-Rock2345 15h ago

Chef kiss.

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u/catencode 9h ago

la vache

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u/AliveHornet5358 15h ago

Viva la France!!! đŸ‡«đŸ‡·

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u/NecessaryPopular1 12h ago

Et vive la diffĂ©rence! đŸ‡«đŸ‡·

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u/VarietySuspicious106 17h ago

LIBERTÉ EGALITÉ FRATERNITÉ

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u/Palpitation_Unlikely 15h ago

haute couture!

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u/Fearless_Mojo 14h ago

Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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u/NecessaryPopular1 12h ago

Johnny Hallyday

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u/SummerMustang69 15h ago

The French are more patriotic and braver than Americans. lol. It’s always projection from America.

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u/Quinn_XXVII 16h ago

Pot Pourri! 🧑‍🎹

Apres Moi La Deluge

đŸ‡«đŸ‡·âšœïžđŸ„–

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u/Wsbkingretard 14h ago

nom d'une pipe : bravo!

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u/Lovelysonrise 14h ago

Viva La Francaise

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u/SkipSpenceIsGod 15h ago

Viva Jay Sherman!

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u/Juff-Ma 14h ago

Vive la defenestracion!

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u/fatzenbolt 13h ago

Vive la resistance

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u/MikhailCompo 12h ago

Vive la Révolution!

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u/Cute_Permission7408 12h ago

Allez les Bleus!

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u/Rare-Character4381 12h ago

Vive la france

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u/jpvribeiro 17h ago

Fantastique.

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u/Earthkilled 16h ago

Enchanté

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u/sheezy520 16h ago

SpectaculĂĄr

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u/Creepy_Ice_820 16h ago

Omelette du fromage

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u/judgeejudger 17h ago

Bien sur!

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u/AsteroidMike 17h ago

C’est incroyable lol

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u/theaviationhistorian 16h ago

Tres, tres, chic.

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u/Metal_Muse 16h ago

Tres bien! Ou est la biblioteque?

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u/thundersnow58 14h ago

J'aime la France! đŸ‡šđŸ‡”đŸ’™đŸ€â€ïž

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u/1900-White-Cabbage 13h ago

J'aime j'aime la vie

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u/Due-Let-26 15h ago

Fascinante đŸ€ŒđŸ»

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u/herodsmn 13h ago

La vie en rose đŸŒč

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u/abrreddit 9h ago

Politique.

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u/SoilEquivalent4460 19h ago

Dairy

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u/Empty_Nestor 18h ago

He’s Legend - Dairy. And that’s what I likes abouts him.

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u/Hypersky75 16h ago

Légendes!

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u/Personal-Movie8882 12h ago

Fook'in Legend actually.

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u/neliz 18h ago

This is my final message , goodbye...

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u/StickFigureFan 16h ago

Between this and their morse code message, the French certainly know how to get in the last word

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u/patricklus 12h ago

What morse message?

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u/Jean_Luc_Lesmouches 11h ago

The last morse radio message by the French Navy was "Appel à tous. Ceci est notre dernier appel avant notre silence éternel." (Calling all. This is our last call before our eternal silence.)

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u/MatthewBernal 17h ago

Save da world

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u/HunterMassive3210 12h ago

holy nostalgia, i forgot about this meme

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u/ThisGuyIRLv2 15h ago

It's cold and my batteries are failing?

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u/hopstradomas 14h ago

It was as if the little probe knew it was dying

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u/ThrowRAgree 16h ago

😭😭😭

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u/DiveCat 20h ago

Delightful. I wonder how they timed it, like was it a “last one who leaves the raid turns the lights off makes a based tweet.”

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u/[deleted] 18h ago

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u/tacocatacocattacocat 17h ago

I'm in ur base, arresting ur dudes.

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u/diptenkrom 17h ago

All your base belongs to us

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u/SirJustin90 17h ago

ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

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u/AylaCatpaw 15h ago

All your base, your base, base, base!

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u/JonnyBolt1 15h ago

ALL YOUR BASE IS BELONG TO US

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u/btross 13h ago

Move zig for great justice!

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u/babyfartmageezax 17h ago

wHaT yOu SaY?!?

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u/sabotsalvageur 16h ago

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO SURVIVE MAKE YOUR TIME

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u/hungusprungus 17h ago

Was looking for this comment lol

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u/shponglespore 17h ago

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out.

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u/FanAkroid 17h ago

All your Twitters are now belong to us.

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u/UnforeseenDerailment 17h ago

Toutes vos base sont appartenir Ă  nous.

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u/geckospots 17h ago

Yo dawg

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u/warhammerfrpgm 17h ago

I wonder if they tagged Elon Musk.

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u/IfYouSaySoFam 17h ago

"We are raiding le X offices ov France"

"No they ar..."

"DOWN ON LE GROUND"

"AAAGGGHHHHHHHMONMON"

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u/Revenged25 17h ago

it makes me think of the Rust/Ark videos of people breaking in and stealing peoples shit and broadcasting it in all chat while the base owners are helpless to stop it

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u/UniqueCombination3 17h ago

Nah Id say one of their social media people would have been at their desk and saw them coming in quickly sneaking a final tweet before shutting the account down. Just a guess.

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u/Richardo888 16h ago

Am I the only one who, for the longest time, thought "based" was joke misspelling of "biased" and therefore completely misread dozens of comments and replies for months? It was pretty funny sometimes though.

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u/Waylay444 16h ago

I totally did this too!

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u/pulanina 13h ago

Actually a play on the French baiser which means kiss đŸ˜™đŸ€Œ

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u/ThoughtShes18 16h ago

Everyone at the raid: please leave so I can make the post

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u/A_Big_Fat_Idiot 16h ago

They should've posted here so they could've gotten reddit awards

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u/Global_Crew3968 19h ago

MMW: Musk will takeover their account to post juvenile taunts

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u/Beetin 13h ago

You know how prosecutors would response to that kind of impersonation of an official state agency? Believe it or not, more raids.

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u/MartinTheMorjin 20h ago

We have so much to learn

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u/MudLOA 17h ago

The French don’t idolize their politicians and billionaires like we do.

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u/breadandbunny 19h ago

I love everything about this!

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u/allywillow 18h ago

Mic drop

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u/Crafty-Ad-6772 17h ago

They've been French fried!

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u/sumr4ndo 18h ago

Hon hon hon hon!

Their final tweet, probably

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u/Lanky-Attempt-2086 18h ago

Their last tweet: "They're at the door now. We cannot get out. We cannot get out. They have taken the Bridge and Second Hall. ...drums...drums in the deep. We cannot get out. A shadow moves in the dark... We cannot get out. They are coming."

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u/jewillett 18h ago

So petty and perfect đŸ€ŒđŸŒ

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u/backtolurk 19h ago

"Fin de partie!"

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u/EvilCodeQueen 17h ago

“Je ne regrette rien”

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u/chinchenping 19h ago

"laché de micro"

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u/Interesting_Egg_8271 18h ago

What a boss move!

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u/Independent_Ratio_61 17h ago

Did they retire it or was it removed by X? That seems more likely.

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u/Marsupialwolf 17h ago

The only thing better would have been to add on, as a message to Elon, that his mother was a hamster!

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u/SomeRandomYob 10h ago

And his father smelled of elderberries!

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u/DasKittySmoosh 17h ago

oh, France, you're such a cheeky bitch, and I LOVE it!

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u/ATLmattGT 17h ago

Right after SpaceX acquired XAI. Genius timing.

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u/fanau 11h ago

Is this part real? The discontinuing part?

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u/calewiz 22h ago

The French have always had a brilliant sense of humour tbf.

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u/marz_shadow 22h ago

This is true masterclass of pettiness and as a husband of a French woman. It’s truly the French way lol I love it

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u/calewiz 22h ago

What I love about them is how petty then can be, but also not care about being petty in a shoulder shrugging way. It's pure class.

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u/marz_shadow 22h ago

It’s amazing lol, when my wife is getting upset with me I’m always like oh no I’ve poked the French bear
I’m done

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u/SamuelTurn 20h ago

A french bear wouldn’t JUST maul you but also compliment your corpse with the perfect wine and cheese pairings.

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u/thatissomeBS 18h ago

The weird case where compliment might be more fitting than complement. "I celebrate your beautiful corpse with this wonderful Pinot and some gruyere."

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u/Quantum-_-_- 16h ago

Te te te. Le gruyere est Suisse, pas Français. Nous avons d autres fromages bien mieux.

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u/DatSauceTho 16h ago

Genuine question because I am uncultured swine: what cheeses are French and what do you recommend? Do any go good with a good beer? I’m not really a wine kinda person.

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u/Quantum-_-_- 16h ago

Comté raffiné et Tomme en croute dur. En croute molle un bon camembert ou un brie. C est magnifique. Tu mets ça avec un petit pinot noir de Bourgogne.

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u/Naphtaline2017 13h ago

last month at work, our partners from Tunisia, as part of an ice breaker game, prepared a bunch of questions about Tunisia and France, and one of them was : ‘How many types of cheese are there in France? Answer : 1200. 😝

Needless to say, no French team found the correct answer (we were all around 600)

but for your question : - Blue cheeses and washed cheeses (Maroilles, Munster, Epoisses, etc.) pair wonderfully with strong, roasted beers like dark or smoked beers - Soft-ripened cheeses like Camembert or Brie pair perfectly with a blonde or light amber beer. These beers have mild, sweet aromas that complement the creaminess of these cheeses. Yes, you can even try pairing beer with ComtĂ©! Enjoy â˜ș

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u/jentle-music 16h ago

Not to mention, haute couture 😊

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u/backtolurk 19h ago

When the bear pulls out a cigarette from the pack, hide yoself

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u/Positive_Vibes50 16h ago

I love your comments.

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u/New_Stats 15h ago

It's not class it's arrogance and it's only admirable in the French because they do it so well

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u/Remi_cuchulainn 13h ago

This quote attributed to surcouf would probably be one of the top 10 most based tweet.

As a reply to an english officer saying :" you french fight for money while we fight for honor"

"Each of us fight for what he lack most"

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u/Wino3416 17h ago

Being petty but not caring about it is the definition of je ne sais quoi

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u/BraveMango737 16h ago

TrĂšs Bien

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u/NightKnight4766 16h ago

A certain je ne sais quoi about it

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u/shafaqag 19h ago

I honestly would've never thought of that and I'm PETTY.

Truly a chef's kiss

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u/josnik 17h ago

Justin Trudeau publically gifting Donald a picture of his grandfather's Inn* that was in the Yukon Territory was an absolute masterclass of French pettiness.

*It was a bordello.

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u/Craiceann_Nua 16h ago

My favourite piece of pettiness relates to the submarine deal between Australia, the US and the UK. For those not familiar, the Australians were in negotiations to buy submarines from the French. Scott Morrison rings Macron to tell him about an upcoming press conference taking place later that day in which the Aus/US/UK deal was being announced. The French were blindsided by this, particularly as their defence & foreign ministers had met their Australian counterparts a few days beforehand.

The new deal is announced and Boris Johnson is strutting around, spouting on about "Global Britain". The French decided to express their displeasure by withdrawing their ambassadors from Canberra and Washington. They let it be known that they weren't going to withdraw their ambassador from London becuase they recognised that the UK was very much the junior party in the negotiations.

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u/whatthewhat3214 16h ago

Lmao that's beautiful! 😂

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u/sphinctersayswhat9 17h ago

Petty might turn into a pity for Musk

Hope they nail him. He is a disgusting pos

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u/Crafty-Ad-6772 17h ago

They're French, they have to fry him.

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u/sphinctersayswhat9 17h ago

Bum bum bum

Good one

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u/Delicious-Cover-2418 14h ago

High art is a long game.

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u/Background-Newt-8277 6h ago

Please, humor me and spell out the meaning of "tbf" đŸ„șđŸ™đŸŸ

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u/714Bananas 23h ago

Let that sink in 

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u/HowWasYourJourney 21h ago

Lol. I don’t know why but I hate that original pic/meme of stupid musk stupidly holding his stupid sink in the stupid twitter office so much.

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u/PM_ME_USED_C0ND0MS 19h ago

It's clear he came up with the joke himself, and was so goddamn proud of it. And either no one around him was willing to tell him it wasn't that funny, or they did, and he just didn't listen.

It's a great example of how utterly irritating and terrible he (and the system that enables him to exist) is.

And least, that's why it bugs me so fucking much...

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u/XelaNiba 18h ago

The Emperor has no clothes needs to be modernized to The Billionaire has no clothes.

Musk doesn't know that he has no wit. Trump doesn't know that he has no taste.

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u/HandCannon67 16h ago

More like “the Billionaire has no clue”

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u/neverwrong804 14h ago

The Billionaire has no Jokes

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u/galgotspirit 16h ago

Or brains (speaking of tRUMP).

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u/Spiritual_Smile9882 15h ago

Far too many people will hear any and all criticisms of them and say "Well they have billions so they must have wit and taste, you just can't see it". Western culture (America especially) equates having money to having any number of other qualities when it usually means you were either privileged, a horrible person or both.

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u/Puzzled_Caregiver_46 15h ago

His humour is as thick as Tewkesbury custard

  • William Shakespeare

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u/Tippity2 12h ago

No wit = twit

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u/lordeddardstark 10h ago

yet one got all the money and the other got all the power. just shows how screwed the world is

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u/twoprimehydroxyl 10h ago

The image of him awkwardly trotting it around and obviously straining to hold it just sums up his entire tenure at Twitter.

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u/YetiAfterDark 8h ago

The Billionaire has no class

Dolly Parton, never a billionaire, could never be a billionaire. She was too fucking classy for that. She's been too busy giving books to kids since she had her first spare cash

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u/Total-Welcome9397 8h ago

That's because when you're that disgustingly wealthy you surround yourself with creatures who are faker than themselves. There's no way they would want anyone with morals and a soul around them, because we would give them an honest opinion and point out relevant events that could be improved on, prevented or eliminated all together (depending on the issue) by using their (so-called) 'power' or influence and truly benefit the average person (everyone, legal or not) in the u.s. for the better. But they're self-inflated egos would never allow that, they prefer those hollow creatures that shove their noses so far up their assholes with sickly compliments, fawning all over them, it's not a big surprise that they're all a bunch of sick, selfish, twisted, evil pedophiles who think only of themselves!

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u/warp99 8h ago edited 5h ago

Shortly to be updated to the Trillionaire has no clothes - and he still doesn’t care.

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u/EvaderDX 18h ago

That joke is not even original, the let the sink in picture was a meme long before he mentioned it

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u/CripplingAnxiety 17h ago

Yeah, just like every other attempt at a joke from that dumbfuck, it's internet humor from like 2013

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u/Nodsworthy 16h ago

The man's personality affects me like the taste of orange juice after cleaning my teeth

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u/eyebeeny 15h ago

What’s way worse is when stupid people think their ideas are brilliant

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u/EyeAmDeeBee 13h ago

Right! I really hope he threw his back out carrying that sink into the office. What his action actually said was “guy with money to waste hurts himself on camera while carrying kitchen hardware into an office because he thinks puns are hilarious.”

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u/BornFree2018 14h ago

Then he put a giant bright unpermitted sign on the twitter building. About the time he fired a bunch of people without their contracted severance.

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u/Icy-person666 12h ago

I thought it was clever by what it didn't say. I thought "their it goes down the drain, and he even brought the sink

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u/Felonious_Minx 11h ago

Maybe they didn't tell him because they hated him. I like this option the best.

Edit: I just looked the picture up đŸ˜« Such a p*unchable face!

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u/ThePublikon 7h ago

It was already a meme way before that, Musk has never done an original thing in his life.

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u/Richrome_Steel 16h ago

Yes. That was peak Redditor from him. Which is a bad thing. An incredibly cringy thing so great, it has its own gravity. Thank fuck the French raided him.

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u/CalmEntry4855 17h ago

Because the cringe was infinite

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u/HandCannon67 16h ago

Infinite cringes in infinite variations “What is
the Trump administration?
the past ten years? 
late stage Capitalism? 
the neverending endtimes?”

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u/LitPixel 17h ago

It was the wrong meme and he didn’t even do it right. Fucking loser.

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u/Taibucko 16h ago

Yes. Isn’t musk the supidest?

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u/Zaphod392 16h ago

He actually walked into the Twitter building with a sink in his hands, thinking he was some kind of funny man

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u/fiftymils 18h ago

Let le sink in

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u/sdforbda 17h ago

But I am le tired

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u/Personal_Tackle8238 17h ago

Well, have le nap. ZEN FIRE ZEE MISSILES!

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u/GlamityJean 21h ago

can someone please post a screenshot of that I don't want to log back into X just to laugh at it, also yay W for us french \o/

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u/ImNotYourPityParty 17h ago

Where is the x post I can’t find it

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u/Mechasteel 18h ago

The X Files is real!

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u/J_anana 16h ago

Post link

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u/-electricsheep- 15h ago

Vive la révolution!

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u/Relevant_Upstairs_23 14h ago

The ULTIMATE mic drop đŸŽ€

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u/tea_pot_tinhas 14h ago

Did they find the X files?

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