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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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JHound · 15/02/2025 20:28

OswaldCobblepot · 15/02/2025 14:29

The way he behaved over the cave incident tells me all I need to know about this man.

What cave incident

Serpentstooth · 15/02/2025 20:09

If it were simply a preference when choosing a mate, its unlikely anyone would call him a nazi. It's all the other stuff. He's a man with serious issues and the potential- and apparent desire - to control the lives of millions, not least those of wives and children.If you met him in the pub and he invited you to breed with him, I think you'd run away. If you had any sense.

Mila6464 · 15/02/2025 20:08

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?!

You are supposed to pass on your genes in a family, not using women like random bits of meat, however much money you have

Scrubberdubber · 15/02/2025 20:01

racoonsinbins · 15/02/2025 19:24

Call me old fashioned but I thought the norm was having kids with someone you loved and respected and thought you could share your life with rather than assessing their genetic possibilities.

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Love is great but if a dude told me a bad genetic disease ran in his family (example Huntington's disease) I wouldn't want to have children with him.
And yes I'm aware this is going to sound very vain and shallow but I turned down a lovely guy because he was my height (I'm 5"1 and I hate being a short ass) and I didn't want my children to be super short I wanted to water down my own shortass genes.

So yeah I'm not a musk superfan and there's many valid criticisms to be made of the man but calling him a nazi because he has children with good looking intelligent women is bullshit.

I mean maybe he is a nazi he did do that salute a few weeks ago but the above reason was bullshit and not the first time someone's been accused of "practising eugenics" for having some kind of standard around who they reproduce with. Personal preference and all.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 15/02/2025 19:59

I've never been 'very weirded out' although sometimes I have been 'positively perplexed' and occasionally 'grossly gobsmacked' and briefly, once, I was 'doubly dumbfounded' but I found that a dry sherry abated the stress and everything became calm again.

Until the weirded out bastard started off again.

Turmerictolly · 15/02/2025 19:54

It's sad the way he's parading his 4 year old son about publicly. The mother, Grimes, seems to be very upset about it but is helpless to stop it. Hadn't he withheld contact for 6 months with their two children? It's plain sight abuse.

Serpentstooth · 15/02/2025 19:54

Speculating, who would Trump's convict militia support? Would they support Mr Musk? I think so, he's in line with their thinking, even more than Trump is.

TY78910 · 15/02/2025 19:49

CerealPosterHere · 15/02/2025 19:38

This. He hasn’t “freed speech”. Hes just changed the topics which can be discussed on X. Changed the algorithm for what gets promoted and what disappears.

Neither Musk nor Trump like free speech. Hence the banning of AP reporter from the Oval Office and air force one because they won’t call the Gulf of Mexico the gulf of America. They said failure by the AP to speak this fact means they can’t be trusted and that AP spread misinformation 🤣

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This.

only today DP was saying how much X has changed. It used to be full of his sports news and relevant accounts he actively followed and now it’s US politics and crap he would never read before.

TY78910 · 15/02/2025 19:46

FancyRedRobin · 15/02/2025 18:35

When I look at how he produces babies like they are a product and the regressive moves in relation to abortion and contraception in America, I think we should be worried about our American sisters and ourselves.
Women are broodmares in their eyes.

A very bad sequel of Handsmaids Tale

lifeonmars100 · 15/02/2025 19:40

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 18:47

Yes I cant wait, it will blow up like no ones business.

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It is going to be like the biggest battle of the meanest of the mean girls

CerealPosterHere · 15/02/2025 19:39

Serpentstooth · 15/02/2025 19:30

Mr Musk owns Free Speech. Paradox? When the inevitable fallout between Mr Musk and Bigly occurs, I'm unconvinced that Bigly is going to win. That will be problematic. Anyone remember that '2 Tribes go to War' video?

I’m looking forward to this day. Musk will crucify Trump at some point, he will certainly know where the bodies are buried.

CerealPosterHere · 15/02/2025 19:38

user9876543211 · 15/02/2025 18:29

This is the problem with X under Musk. It's created people who are so happy they can dump on trans people to their hearts' content, they're happy to overlook the stream of lies, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, anti-semitism, misogyny, facsist-curious, nazi-lite (and non lite) and ablism that proliferate over there. His algorithm pollutes brains.

And Elon's such a big fan of free speech right up until he doesn't like it or his widdle feelings get hurt and then it's threats, doxxing and cancellation.

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This. He hasn’t “freed speech”. Hes just changed the topics which can be discussed on X. Changed the algorithm for what gets promoted and what disappears.

Neither Musk nor Trump like free speech. Hence the banning of AP reporter from the Oval Office and air force one because they won’t call the Gulf of Mexico the gulf of America. They said failure by the AP to speak this fact means they can’t be trusted and that AP spread misinformation 🤣

Serpentstooth · 15/02/2025 19:30

Mr Musk owns Free Speech. Paradox? When the inevitable fallout between Mr Musk and Bigly occurs, I'm unconvinced that Bigly is going to win. That will be problematic. Anyone remember that '2 Tribes go to War' video?

TheFormidableMrsC · 15/02/2025 19:26

FancyRedRobin · 15/02/2025 18:37

Also I think we can all see that Trump is scared of him and somehow compromised by him, nothing else explains the circus in the Oval Office the other day.

I agree. Trump just sat there as if he had no power. Very weird.

racoonsinbins · 15/02/2025 19:24

Scrubberdubber · 15/02/2025 16:37

I mean I'm not even a fan of musk but moaning about this had always struck me as complete bullshit should he choose his baby mummas to be as ugly and unintelligent as possible to prove he's not a nazi/practising eugenics? Maybe throw some Huntington's disease into the mix, if you don't want to you're a nazi. I'm sure if we all did that the world would be a better place

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Call me old fashioned but I thought the norm was having kids with someone you loved and respected and thought you could share your life with rather than assessing their genetic possibilities.

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 18:47

TooBigForMyBoots · 15/02/2025 18:44

It's only been a few weeks, give it time.

This is going to be the most bigly great and totally terrific split of the century. And I, for one, am looking forward to it.Grin

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Yes I cant wait, it will blow up like no ones business.

TooBigForMyBoots · 15/02/2025 18:44

NotTerfNorCis · 15/02/2025 18:24

That's what I thought initially, but now I'm not sure. He seems to be in the same position with Musk as he is with Putin. Puts up with anything. There was that performance in the Oval Office the other day, where Musk's son apparently told Trump he wasn't the President. Trump was just sitting there nodding and smiling.

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It's only been a few weeks, give it time.

This is going to be the most bigly great and totally terrific split of the century. And I, for one, am looking forward to it.Grin

GreenBlueYellowPink · 15/02/2025 18:39

If you read his wiki info, he had a messed up
childhood. No wonder, just from the little we know, he’s such a psychopath. No excuse of course, he’s vile.

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FancyRedRobin · 15/02/2025 18:37

Also I think we can all see that Trump is scared of him and somehow compromised by him, nothing else explains the circus in the Oval Office the other day.

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FancyRedRobin · 15/02/2025 18:35

When I look at how he produces babies like they are a product and the regressive moves in relation to abortion and contraception in America, I think we should be worried about our American sisters and ourselves.
Women are broodmares in their eyes.

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Bloom15 · 15/02/2025 18:32

@NotTerfNorCis - that is a sobering thought

wordler · 15/02/2025 18:31

LilacLilias · 15/02/2025 14:37

I have been saying he has Lex Luther vibes for so long!!! Glad someone else also thinks this 😆

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He’s a Bond Villain in the flesh. Down to the satellites circling the planet.

user9876543211 · 15/02/2025 18:29

Toseland · 15/02/2025 17:12

I was really pleased when he created X and freed speech. People, especially women, were being banned for years for the most ridiculous things and some of the moderators he ousted clearly had warped political agendas.
He could be the ultimate baddie, but I suspect that accolade will go to some of the secretive billionaires we don't hear so much about; the Pritzkers, Strykers and Gills.

This is the problem with X under Musk. It's created people who are so happy they can dump on trans people to their hearts' content, they're happy to overlook the stream of lies, propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, anti-semitism, misogyny, facsist-curious, nazi-lite (and non lite) and ablism that proliferate over there. His algorithm pollutes brains.

And Elon's such a big fan of free speech right up until he doesn't like it or his widdle feelings get hurt and then it's threats, doxxing and cancellation.

NotTerfNorCis · 15/02/2025 18:24

Bloom15 · 15/02/2025 18:03

Trump will get sick of Musk soon - he won't want to be seen as Musk's lieutenant! Whether Musk will go quietly is another matter...

That's what I thought initially, but now I'm not sure. He seems to be in the same position with Musk as he is with Putin. Puts up with anything. There was that performance in the Oval Office the other day, where Musk's son apparently told Trump he wasn't the President. Trump was just sitting there nodding and smiling.

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 18:21

LifeExperience · 15/02/2025 17:03

That was in North Dakota, not the whole US, and the measure has merely been proposed and is unlikely to get out of committee.

No wonder so many MNers think we Americans are crazy. People only read the headlines.

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Has to start somewhere, is America not spilt between Republicans and democrats