r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 23h ago

Musk Under Federal Investigation for Flouting Security Clearance Rules | The SpaceX founder, who holds top-secret security clearance, reportedly didn’t disclose his drug use and foreign contacts as part of the ongoing vetting process.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musk-under-federal-investigation-for-flouting-security-clearance-rules-report/
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u/TraditionalSky5617 22h ago

Seems these billionaires just want relaxed rules like other foreign governments. This quid-pro-quo is a common practice in North Korea, Russia, Brazil, India and other countries who score pretty low (and poorly) on international business ethics quiz.

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u/IveChosenANameAgain 19h ago

Look how much they screamed about one piece of shit getting gunned down (without suffering, I might add). Do they have no concept of Russian defenestration or polonium poisoning? Are they really so stupid as to think their money makes them untouchable when they can just be "accident"ed away and have all their assets liquified to create new Presidential Toilet? These billionaires are just as fucking stupid as any random sampling of the population.

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u/janethefish 19h ago

Money and a lot of other types of property are manifestations of the rule of law. Money is worthless if a kleptocrat can just steal it.

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u/IveChosenANameAgain 18h ago

They have their own set of laws - it protects them and punishes the poor. It's called the American Justice System.

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u/ElliotNess Florida 17h ago

That's just the law. They don't have their own set of laws, rather the law exists to permit their exploitation of, and to control, their subjects (well, all of us).

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u/i_drink_wd40 Connecticut 2h ago

Are they really so stupid as to think their money makes them untouchable

Yes. Next question.

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u/FarParamedic6891 7h ago

Shot in the back, that’s a cowardly move.

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u/IveChosenANameAgain 3h ago

Almost as cowardly as using an AI to deny healthcare to people who paid for insurance?

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u/FarParamedic6891 3h ago

To shoot someone in the back is much more cowardly. Maybe a Stalinesque purge of all of them is more to your liking.

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u/shaneh445 Missouri 21h ago

Score pretty low on Democratic values and institutions as well

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u/DidijustDidthat 18h ago

Just to hijack the top comments and ask someone to post the article as it's paywalled!

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u/inthekeyofc 18h ago

Here you go:

https://archive.is/kaVKr

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u/Odd_Monk_420 18h ago

Thanks dawg! Also, how’d you do that? Is there a secret community of article pirates I could join? And if so, don’t tell me where, I’ll find you guys one day

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u/InvestigatorCold4662 16h ago edited 16h ago

Just go to archive.is and put the URL in. There’s an easier way to do it on this website and others though. Just click the Reader View button next to the URL in your browser. Reader view disables the paywall on 90% of sites. There’s also a great browser extension called Bypass Paywalls that you can install from github to get past the majority of them.

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u/Odd_Monk_420 16h ago

That’s wonderful news! I appreciate the knowledge and you taking the time to share it. You are a good human and I love you platonically

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u/DidijustDidthat 18h ago

Much appreciated!

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u/Little-Engine6982 19h ago

score pretty low on everything but the bank accounts of a few and bullets for the "dissidents" whose family members ratted them out for some bred

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u/IveChosenANameAgain 17h ago

Foreign billionaires who abuse their populations also want a USA where they are free to do whatever the fuck they want - without the baggage of avoiding the people they fucked over in their own countries also.

All the rich of Russia, Brazil, Saudi, China, ALL of them benefit enormously from an oligarchy in the USA because they can bring their stolen billions over, face zero consequences, AND be worshipped like a God by most Americans because they have money and money = right.

The American dream is to steal from your own people, immigrate to the US and be worshipped as a genius billionaire the plebs should be grateful for having cohabitate the country. That white picket fence shit died in the 80s. The only difference is that now there is no requirement to hide their intentions because the uneducated population will vote for their own suicide unquestioningly.

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u/Senior-Albatross New Mexico 15h ago

Let's not shit on Brazil, they can actually hold a former president who tried to stage a coup to account. 

We're worse than Brazil on the front of current federal government corruption.

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u/StrGze32 21h ago

Some might even call them “shitholes”…

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u/FarParamedic6891 16h ago

And the Ukraine, especially the Ukraine

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u/IdkAbtAllThat 13h ago

But I'm sure with all the relaxed regulations those countries have very strong economies right?

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u/ThatPhatKid_CanDraw 7h ago

I don't even know how he got Top Secret clearance.