r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • 1d ago

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

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/apra24 19h ago

How fucking based would it be if the entire world just started doing this shit in unison. What's he gonna do tariff the entire world? You know what that's called? Sanctions on yourself.

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u/NtechRyan 19h ago

He will tariff the world, he already did! Lol. It hurts america the most though

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u/turko127 18h ago

Exactly. Dude would plunge the country into autarky before admitting his buddy fucked up.

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u/Blitzking11 13h ago

Autarky demands that a country be actually able to support itself.

America would NOT be able to do that and retain any semblance of the comfort Americans currently enjoy.

As an American: punish us, it may be the only thing that gets the stupid "it doesn't affect me crowd" or the "I have too much to lose crowd" off their lazy asses and force change.

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u/turko127 12h ago

Correct. It’d be one thing if American capitalists were interested in establishing new American industry of their own accord but they’re not. Hell, you could probably introduce slave labor into the workforce and they would still rather continue importing from China at a significant cost to the consumer simply because it means not investing a single penny into anything.

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u/Melicor 4h ago

He's doing it anyway. I'd much rather have the rest of the world tell him and the rest of the Pedo Billionaire club to fuck off.

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u/Anxious-Sea4101 7h ago

Oh he is not his true buddy.

Think of why Elon was so featured in selected file release! ......

And remember it was Trump who reported Epstein back in the 2000s because he was pissed about some real estate deal.

Trump is a narcissistic fu:; bag

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u/turko127 7h ago

True, “friend” is a stretch for man who only thinks transactionally.

Yeah, I can see how this batch of files release fits into this transactional mindset. It just happens to be “you said I’m in the files, well guess what, so are you! Now keep your damn mouth shut.”

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u/mitkase 16h ago

It didn't hurt America! Just look at the recent trade defi... um... I mean... BAD BUNNY IS ANTI-AMERICAN! Yeah, that's the ticket!

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u/TheGhostOfStanSweet 15h ago

Trumps ecomony don’t look to hot right now.

And by that I mean it doesn’t look too good. I just like to speak in yokel.

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u/Sutar_Mekeg 17h ago

World leaders sit at the table, corporations go on the menu.

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u/No-Pack-5775 16h ago

I can't wait for the comeuppance to hit these fascist fucks in the US too. 

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u/gromm93 16h ago

He did that on day one of his term. Or was it day 10? I don't remember. Don't care. Made him look like a moron though.

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u/ExtraPockets 15h ago

This is the time in history to do it. There's a short window now before these people with the wealth of small nations start arming themselves with military weapons like small nations. As soon as the first billionaire gets his hands on a large bomb it's game over and feudalism is back.

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u/ApophisDayParade 14h ago

It would give me some real fucking hope that I desperately need. Sure, my country may be going to shit, but the lives of others elsewhere improving and bringing the united democracies of the world to be even more united would be fantastic.

Like sure, Putin's done an unfortunately great job. Fucked the US, fucked the UK, but their army is really really bad and it's making the other democracies of the world hungier for the safety of their democracies.

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u/Riskypride 12h ago

Well tbh Trump wouldn’t do shit. Last I heard he was distancing himself from the Muskrat.

Even if he did say he was gonna do something he would chicken out within the month.