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Does Musk not remember what happened the last time he accused someone of being a "pedo"? Though US courts will be more sympathetic to him than UK ones were.

Oh, and we all know what it means when someone is publicly fixated on finding / bringing pedos to justice, right?

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> "what happened the last time he accused someone of being a 'pedo'"

You mean absolutely nothing? He won that trial

Vernon Unsworth sued in the US and lost. His lawyer was Lin Wood, who went from losing what seemed like an easy case, to proposing some of the more batshit legal theories of the 2020 election.

But Musk won, on the basis that he was making a joke. IANAL but I have to think that legal precedent that he jokes by calling people pedos means he can now call anyone a pedo with impunity.

I think it's safe to say Lin Wood is not a good lawyer.

With Roth now though it's clearly not a joke.

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