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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/64658637

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[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 36 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Talk about clickbait,.what a total nothing burger this video is.

Elon implied to his gullible girlfriend he influenced the election.

in real life, It's public information how much money he paid to buy the election. This video is not, in any sense, news.

[–] sh__@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I hate how everyone instantly jumps to conspiracies these days. Especially when you don't need conspiracies to openly see all the terrible crimes those people have done out in the open.

[–] imeansurewhynot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Conspiracies: Trump fake electors plot, Jamal Khashoggi assassination, Gretchen Whiitmer kidnapping plot, Project 2025. Groups of people secretly plotting and executing harmful or illegal acts occur regularly.

People should be aware of conspiracies supported by solid evidence. In this video, on the contrary, there is no evidence and no point figuring out what she means anyway.

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 24 points 10 hours ago

Yeah he was openly illegally buying votes. It's pretty likely he was funding some of the voter suppresion and disinfo campaigns too.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 14 points 8 hours ago

He says that he has 10 000 lasers in space, refering to his satellites

There's no doubt in my mind that Musk helped Trump influence the '24 election, but his brain is really fried, and I like that she put that quote out front, effectively saying: take everything with a rock of salt.

[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 34 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

They’re all full of shit or traitors or both. They need all their devices, bank accounts, associates, communications heavily investigated and made public.

It does correlate with Elon’s kid saying all that creepy stuff in the White House.

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

It wasn’t the White House. It was the Tucker Carlson interview.

“They’ll never know”

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/s/ZTer3NHxo3

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] rafoix@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 hours ago

I didn’t want to but it isn’t easy finding that video. Almost as if they’re deliberately making it go away.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 7 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

He's like 3yo. He's repeating what he overheard his daddy say. And his daddy is raising him to be a media attention whore just like him and his ilk. doG I feel so sorry for this child.

Also, Fucker Carlson. He's the worst with his smiling "I'm just asking questions, you know"

[–] halfapage@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

his daddy is raising him

doubt

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Holy shit that kids laugh is evil as fuck.

[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Where do you think they learned that from?

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 21 points 10 hours ago

If this ends up actually amounting to anything, everyone owes all the folks who were insisting this was the case in Nov. 2024 and getting told to shut up a big appology.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Did she say that Elon has space lasers? Because then the US is prepared for nuclear war and can take down ICBMs.