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To be very weirded out by Elon Musks reproductive choices

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FancyRedRobin · 15/02/2025 13:16

I think he's up to twelve or thirteen children now with no sign of stopping and seems to have a very transactional approach to impregnating a series of women (presumably through IVF). It really speaks to looking at women as baby machines.
The colossal ego he has about maintaining his bloodline is so noxious.
I'm worried someone like him is so influential.
We'll be in the handmaid's tale before long.

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soupyspoon · 16/02/2025 10:59

HotTake · 16/02/2025 10:32

The eldest is supposedly trans and has disowned him because of the way he was treated. Thoroughly unpleasant man.

Yeah, he actually said in one interview that his eldest is dead. Seems like he disowned that child too because he doesn't recognise/acknowledge the trans child as his child anymore.

Ironically the young person is probably 'trans' due to the dysfunctional and traumatic upbringing and likely ND (if its true that dad is ND), these are the usual comorbidities.

HotTake · 16/02/2025 10:57

He's lobbied for white South Africans to come to the US on asylum. I doubt they're not going to be treated like your regular asylum seekers if they come.

HotTake · 16/02/2025 10:56

He is only concerned about declining birth rates in Western countries.

Actually, it's the declining birth rates of white children. He might be the next Hitler.

thepariscrimefiles · 16/02/2025 10:54

NinaNobody · 15/02/2025 14:31

I can't help but like him. I can understand why he wants to pass on his genes and it's not like he can't afford them?!

Yuck, passing on his apartheid loving, white supremacist, sociopathic, narcissistic genes? No thanks.

thepariscrimefiles · 16/02/2025 10:48

Also, judging by the number of sons he has, it looks like he also used sex selection.

He is a natalist and a white supremacist so this is not surprising.

HotTake · 16/02/2025 10:32

The eldest is supposedly trans and has disowned him because of the way he was treated. Thoroughly unpleasant man.

Yeah, he actually said in one interview that his eldest is dead. Seems like he disowned that child too because he doesn't recognise/acknowledge the trans child as his child anymore.

soupyspoon · 16/02/2025 10:04

sparrowhae · 15/02/2025 23:35

How can declining birth rate not be a threat to civilisation? I say this as someone with no kids myself. I agree with him on that statement. That isn't weird.

He is only concerned about declining birth rates in Western countries.

LastNightMyPJsSavedMyLife · 16/02/2025 10:02

Has he approached you Op with a view to you carrying his child? Thought not. Put your energy into your own children and let him get on with his.

TY78910 · 16/02/2025 09:46

I agree with @Cornishclio

Having 13 children with different women, via multiple routes such as surrogacy is unhinged. Whatever the reason behind this is, it's not out of love and desire of a big family life. Many of those kids are estranged. There are threads on MN where women are being slated for wanting a 4th child and get criticised for contemplating this so how can we think that Elon's actions are anything but sinister? He doesn't have to say in those words exactly 'I am a Nazi and want to save the population by building a superior race' but we can all read between the lines (his weird salute thing followed by his appearance and a German far right event two days later and tweets about population) and draw the conclusion.

Cornishclio · 16/02/2025 07:28

*@sparrowhae
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Okay but lots of people are saying what think he means, where has he actually said this?

Having thirteen children with three different women reportedly using IVF sort of gives a clue as to what he is trying to do especially when he is talking about rapidly reducing birth rate. Smacks of trying to repopulate the world with his own genes. That isn't normal behaviour.

Trailing that little 4 year old around to meetings with him also is strange. He doesn't want much to do with the older ones who are trying to distance themselves from him as they form their own views. The eldest is supposedly trans and has disowned him because of the way he was treated. Thoroughly unpleasant man.

FancyRedRobin · 16/02/2025 01:12

TemporaryPosition · 15/02/2025 20:49

If it helps OP, they can already pretty much artificially gestate lambs, so it won't belong before they're on to humans and then women won't have to do the reproductive labour. Maybe just harvesting tissue/eggs whatever to get things started, but women will be free from having to have children!! 💅

We'll have E-lamb Musk arriving any day now.

Or Elon Mutton...

Poor sheep

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sparrowhae · 16/02/2025 00:03

Cornishclio · 15/02/2025 23:50

@sparrowhae There is a body of thought that says the world is over populated and that can lead to lower living conditions, overcrowding, scarce resources and social unrest. A higher population needs more housing, more infrastructure, increased use of natural resources which are finite anyway. So even though birth rates are declining this is not necessarily a bad thing.

My worry more is Elon Musk means that the birth rate is declining in western developed countries with white people particularly. This smacks of genocide and not a million miles away from Hitlers thinking in the 1930s. Why does he think we need lots of mini Musks with the same bigoted, sexism and racist views as him.

Okay but lots of people are saying what think he means, where has he actually said this?

Cornishclio · 15/02/2025 23:50

@sparrowhae There is a body of thought that says the world is over populated and that can lead to lower living conditions, overcrowding, scarce resources and social unrest. A higher population needs more housing, more infrastructure, increased use of natural resources which are finite anyway. So even though birth rates are declining this is not necessarily a bad thing.

My worry more is Elon Musk means that the birth rate is declining in western developed countries with white people particularly. This smacks of genocide and not a million miles away from Hitlers thinking in the 1930s. Why does he think we need lots of mini Musks with the same bigoted, sexism and racist views as him.

sparrowhae · 15/02/2025 23:35

Cornishclio · 15/02/2025 21:12

He is very strange and claims declining birth rate is biggest risk to civilisation. No doubt he is trying to create his own white, privileged bloodline. Goodness knows why any woman would want to procreate with him given he is the most sexist, sinister man if reports about him are true. I am not surprised him and Trump have joined forces. Both two of a kind. I am just glad they live over the other side of the world to me.

How can declining birth rate not be a threat to civilisation? I say this as someone with no kids myself. I agree with him on that statement. That isn't weird.

beencaughttrollin · 15/02/2025 23:05

He's a misogynist and an anti-black racist and the shit his whispers in Trump's ear reflects that. You decide what if anything you want to do about that. Personally if I were living in the UK I'd be speaking up in favour of Ukraine, NATO, and South Africa.

GoldPoster · 15/02/2025 23:01

WhatATimeToBeAlive · 15/02/2025 14:07

Because the planet doesn't need that many additional human beings on it.

That’s why he wants to go to Mars

Allswellthatendswelll · 15/02/2025 22:59

I just read an article in the Times about him and X (the kid in the oval office). It's creepy af. Apparently X is his emotional support child and he's not that interested in the other kids. He just takes X everywhere like a weird mascot.

OswaldCobblepot · 15/02/2025 22:23

Butchyrestingface · 15/02/2025 20:31

The one where he accused one of the British rescuers of the Thai boys trapped in the water-logged cave of being a paedo. Think it was around 2018.

Yes that's the one. He said it out of spite because the authorities decided not to go with his hairbrained rescue plan. I don't think he gave a monkey's about saving the boys, his motivation was to be seen as the big hero. Wanker.

TemporaryPosition · 15/02/2025 21:24

HotTake · 15/02/2025 20:45

I hope all the children he's creating turn out to be much better humans than their parents and the opposite of what he intends for them to do with their 'superiority'.

Better humans?

Cornishclio · 15/02/2025 21:12

He is very strange and claims declining birth rate is biggest risk to civilisation. No doubt he is trying to create his own white, privileged bloodline. Goodness knows why any woman would want to procreate with him given he is the most sexist, sinister man if reports about him are true. I am not surprised him and Trump have joined forces. Both two of a kind. I am just glad they live over the other side of the world to me.

Serpentstooth · 15/02/2025 21:00

I hope you're not casting aspersions on the supremely superior genetic heritage of Mr Musk himself? A man of such superior intellect that he pays, reputedly, a minion to play a computer game in his name so that he can brag about his high score. A man whose stepsister is now his stepmother. A man who scores so highly on the 'Am I a Misogynist?" Chart, all his own work. A man from apartheid South Africa, who has suggested white Afrikaaners should be given asylum in USA due to 'persecution' in SA. A man who openly encourages the Far Right to thrust towards power by persecuting the nearest visible minority. A thoroughly odious individual who writes reality to his own preference day by day. Who wouldn't want more of the same?

TemporaryPosition · 15/02/2025 20:49

If it helps OP, they can already pretty much artificially gestate lambs, so it won't belong before they're on to humans and then women won't have to do the reproductive labour. Maybe just harvesting tissue/eggs whatever to get things started, but women will be free from having to have children!! 💅

HotTake · 15/02/2025 20:45

I hope all the children he's creating turn out to be much better humans than their parents and the opposite of what he intends for them to do with their 'superiority'.

HotTake · 15/02/2025 20:36

The women are more questionable for "breeding" with the questionable gene pool that is the Musk family though. It doesn't only work one way. Unless "rich and white" is enough and all it takes to create a superior "high IQ" race.

The pp seem to be deliberately obtuse because no one has an issue with "preference". That's not the point nor why it's seen as 'eugenics'. Cba to even explain when it's obvious.

Butchyrestingface · 15/02/2025 20:31

JHound · 15/02/2025 20:28

What cave incident

The one where he accused one of the British rescuers of the Thai boys trapped in the water-logged cave of being a paedo. Think it was around 2018.