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Elon Musk issued a curt rebuke of ketamine abuse allegations after a viral clip of his erratic behavior at a dinner recirculated online.

The clip—taken in March during a visit to Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf club in New Jersey—shows Musk balancing spoons at a dinner table while one of his baby mamas, Shivon Zilis, watches in silent concern.

At the time, X user and “retired army medic” Molly Ploofkins tweeted the clip with the caption, “Musk playing with his silverware while tripping on ketamine at Bedminster.”

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[-] [email protected] 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Everyone likes to laugh at Turnip and Muskrat for being, talking and acting like idiots ... which they are ... but enough of a country voted to have this clown in office, who then selected this unelected monkey to run their country.

Who's the idiot in this scenario? The idiot doing idiot things .... or the people who made it all possible and allowed the idiots to gain power?

It's going to take a lifetime for me to look at an American as anything ressembling intelligence.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago

I'm an American, and it's going to take me a lifetime to look at America as anything resembling intelligence.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That's the thing and something I've noticed for many years and in meeting many Americans.

The majority of Americans I've met in person were good wholesome people and most of the time I couldn't tell the difference if they were American or Canadian (unless they had a strong accent from the American south).

It's when you start talking about politics or religion that things seem to fall apart. There's a strong Christian 'identity', it's certainly not religious ... cult like but not religious.

But in the mix are good natured people with good natured ideas of politics and inclusion .... but the loudest most obnoxious ones always seem to win out.

I've done my best to not paint all Americans as selfish, ignorant, self absorbed, hateful individuals .... but in light of everything that is coming out of the US government, which should represent the ideas and attitudes of a country ... it is getting harder and harder to like America or Americans.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Mate, the ones I went to school with knew about Thailand, knew about Singapore, but couldn't point out Malaysia to save their lives.

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