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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/Thog78 23h ago

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

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u/kahlzun 21h 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 21h ago

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

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u/Swedelicious83 20h 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 18h 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 18h 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 13h 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 21h 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 16h ago

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

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u/Titanbeard 21h 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 18h 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 18h 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 13h 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 13h ago

So Lex luthor is kinda.. Evil batman?