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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil

www.independent.co.uk

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Pilot dies after plane carrying nearly 200kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in remote Brazil

www.independent.co.uk

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Pilot dies after plane carrying 180kg of SpaceX-branded cocaine crashes in Brazil
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Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/34031000

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

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    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. 😕

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      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.

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

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        It’s for his basic bitch business major execs

    • AllHailTheSheep@sh.itjust.works
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      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
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        I used to put Mario stickers on the mushroom bags that I never sold.

        Defo not sponsored by Nintendo

        • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
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          So you say… We all know how Nintendo would deal with snitches

    • Zahille7@lemmy.world
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      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.

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

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    Musk switching away from Ketamine?

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
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    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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    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.

  • Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz
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    SpaceX W H A T

    • Psythik@lemmy.world
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      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

      • Friendlybirdseggs@sopuli.xyz
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        Oh phew

    • humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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      The plane was registered to Zambia

      checks out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa–Zambia_relations

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    Foreshadowing for the next launch.

  • Jhex@lemmy.world
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    oh no, Elon’s weekly supply!!

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    Phew, at least the SpaceX branded ketamine got through.

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      🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    How do they know it’s a fake spaceX packaging? Seems legit to me.

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    Wow! I wonder what will happen to those 178kgs of cocaine they found!

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      It wouldn’t even surprise me if some of the 150kg of cocaine went missing.

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        Someone really ought to take care of the 120 kg of cocaine.

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          80 kilos of cocaine is quite a lot, it really should be disposed of safely.

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            good thing 40 kilos is exactly what fits in the evidence room

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              Now, to find out who was going to receive those 20kg of cocaine

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                All got burned with the plane on crashsite

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                  Just like the weed we found sir, it was also burned, in very small portions.

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    Well there goes Elon’s Doordash. Definitely not getting that $10 tip now.

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      This is ridiculous.

      Elon never tips.

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        Not entirely true, he’ll tip if you carry his baby to term. Sometimes he’ll even tip in horses.

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    Federal police are still investigating whether the aircraft was involved in drug trafficking

    Um…

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      finally an article that’s oniony beyond the headline

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      Maybe it was just for personal use

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        Musk’s personal stash

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        • Kash Patel on Epstein trafficking girls
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        Looks like a whole weeks supply. He’ll be devastated

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          those tweets are not going to hit the same spot without this

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      It was headed to a Coca-Cola factory. They are adding it back along with real cane sugar.

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      It was medicinal cocaine!

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        i mean, the dental industry goes through it pretty fast. or was that the opthamologists

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          I’ll have to ask my eye doctor about cocaine eye drops

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            iirc it’s to immediately staunch bleeding during eye surgery. or oral surgery. maybe both! as you can see all i remember is that cocaine drops exist as legit medicine

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      Just Teddy still funding those wars in South America.

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    I remember when a business jet packed to the gills with cocaine crashed and when they investigated, it turned out to be owned by a CIA shell company and previously used to shuttle people to Guantanamo for torture after an extraordinary rendition

    https://asnc.flightsafety.org/wikibase/321868

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      Wow, the CIA sure is serious about fueling their parties INVESTIGATING DRUG LORDS

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      I thought no fucking way they found over 7000lb of cocaine on a little business jet but yeah, that Gulfstream could probably barely take off with that much on board. That’s one badass airframe.

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        Maximum payload is 1.5t but the fuel payload is 12t so 3t of cocaine barely scratches it

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        !bitchimaplane

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      Oh my god still? Cocaine isn’t cool anymore. Fent is more profitable to move. What the hell? Was The Deserter right?

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        Cocaine production in latin America has never been higher, it’s dropped the price by huge amounts and now they are looking outside the USA to sell since the USA decided to kill their own economy.

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          Right but is it still the CIA moving it? And if so why?

          Again, its not cool anymore. I don’t think it’s the most profitable thing. Why?

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        You don’t have to move fent. You can make it locally. The fent is usually mixed with other drugs, a little bit of cocaine could be laced with a whole lot of fent and then sold as pure cocaine to maximize profit.

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          Oh. I know fop was importing it?

          Yeah but cocaine is neither cool nor the most profitable thing anymore, so I was kind of just asking ‘wtf CIA?’

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            Truth be told I have no idea what’s actually popular now, but when fentanyl hit the scene, for years it was being mixed into other drugs as a cheap filler that would also make the drug more potent, faster acting and more addictive.

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