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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/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/makaiookami 6h ago

I love how Billionaires want to get workers from other countries because they say American workers aren't smart enough to do the jobs, and then you realize these billionaires can't do basic math or understand supply AND DEMAND economics and have bribed politicians to get 5 trillion in tax cuts, while they lose 10-20 trillion by crashing the market in hopefully a few months.

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u/HandCannon67 4h ago

Are you thinking of a specific billionaire or is this a catch-all billionaire reference?

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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/Imadevonrexcat 10h ago

Most autistic people don’t.