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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

oh no, Elon's weekly supply!!

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 28 points 6 days ago (5 children)

It can be one of three scenarios IMO:

A: Elon is being particularly dumb and actually produced and distributed drugs with his logo.

B: The Trump Regime created and planted these drugs to manufacture a reason to prosecute Elon.

C: Some drug distributor is a huge fan of SpaceX, or wants to deflect investigation away from their other operations.

...the world being the way it is, all three seems pretty damn plausible to me. 😕

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

D: They're branding their coke the same way that MDMA pill pressers will stamp real logos on their product to market it (without permission, of course). They usually don't do this with coke, but it's not unheard of.

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"our spacex cocaine will get you high AF"

straight rocket fuel

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

I remember this from Pablo Francisco's Mitsubishi Ecstasy story hehe

[–] AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

definitely c. you ever seen shitty weed packaging thats an obvious reference to Rick and Morty, trump, etc? looks like that culture has made its way to cocaine now

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I used to put Mario stickers on the mushroom bags that I never sold.

Defo not sponsored by Nintendo

So you say... We all know how Nintendo would deal with snitches

[–] ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al 8 points 6 days ago

I assumed it was elons personal stache for parties and shit

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

I figure it's a bit more like option C, with a bit of knockoff mentality going on. You know how you can find pictures online of super cheap knockoff merch from like China or some African countries? That's what I'm thinking is going on here.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Probably C. Elon would be more into ketamine than cocaine.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's a week's supply for his basic bitch business major execs

[–] SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

in other news: are mitsubishi and tesla involved in global ecstasy sales?

[–] godfish@lemy.lol 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I personally have a theory that they are indeed supplying pill manufacturers with high quality presses.

Most high quality pills (not talking about contents) I have seen beeing confiscated in night clubs are branded with car or fashion brands.

So maybe they are targeting people when they have a high happy hormone output.

Like: woah that mitsubishi is making me feel soooo great and suff.

Oh god the new Tesla's are so strong.

Sounds like something marketing departments would get off on.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It’s easier for drug manufacturers to appropriate brands than to come up with their own. Car and luxury brands are common, but so are other brands like Netflix, characters from comics, cartoons, video games, etc. The manufacturers need an easily recognizable and memorable design.

Check out this database for examples. https://www.drugsdata.org/

[–] godfish@lemy.lol 5 points 5 days ago

Even Netflix is in on it then. Its bigger than i thought

[–] npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago

I thought I was clicking through to a satire site. Da fuq is this.

[–] MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago

Plane full of drugs crashes. Police are still investigating if it was involved in drug trafficking... what?

[–] justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

What a major click bait

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Musk switching away from Ketamine?

[–] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The cocaine is going to straighten him out and making him more normal.

[–] Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

MDMA pills are often branded with various logos from all sorts of companies and IPs (without permission, of course), so I imagine it was something similar to that.

a pile of "Orange Teslas" MDMA pills

[–] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Orange teslas were great. Not seen them in about 6 six years though.

Foreshadowing for the next launch.

[–] LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

I love how they have to note it was "fake space x packaging." I don't believe that for a second. This was probably elons weekend stash and he is going to be quite upset.

[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This would actually make a lot of things start to make a lot more sense compared to any non cocaine related explanations. If it is real, it's definitely not just Elon.

Kash Patel? Stephen Miller?

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