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To be very weirded out by Elon Musks reproductive choices

260 replies

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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sparrowhae · 15/02/2025 16:56

Some of you are really creepy.

sparrowhae · 15/02/2025 16:55

anonymous98 · 15/02/2025 16:45

Ironic, considering he's no oil painting himself

@TY78910 Where? I'm no fan of his but where would he say that?

TooBigForMyBoots · 15/02/2025 16:54

LauraNorda · 15/02/2025 15:47

Not bothered at all. Gripe as much as you like. For all the good it will do you. My life? Just getting on with it as normal.

You normally insert yourself into conversations to gripe at folk? Did you do this before your irony bypass or is it a specific Musk thing?😅

learr9 · 15/02/2025 16:49

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 15:31

Dominic Cummings seems like Mother Theresa in comparison

Apparently Dominic Cummings now works with Elon Musk/other Silicon Valley tech.

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:48

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:45

You’re being rather disingenuous and I think you know it.

Im not. I work within this area and I can tell you that this is happening day to day.

anonymous98 · 15/02/2025 16:46

Ang3leyes · 15/02/2025 16:29

I dont know what you expect us to say. It’s not nice but he’s autistic so he doesn’t see things in the same way, maybe this is how his autism effects him. he’s doing something right, he’s richer than our wildest dreams

He was born rich

anonymous98 · 15/02/2025 16:45

TY78910 · 15/02/2025 15:30

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere before that he chooses to breed with 'beautiful and intelligent' women to populate the world with a 'supreme DNA'. Which just adds to his recent Nazi and other far right behaviours. Just a really nasty guy.

Ironic, considering he's no oil painting himself

Oldglasses · 15/02/2025 16:45

So what if he's autistic or neurodiverse in some way, that doesn't excuse him being a nazi sympathiser. Maybe Hitler was neurodiverse, but that's not going to exuse the holocaust.

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:45

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:42

Depends how you describe 'cover up'. There are grooming gangs up and down the country but little to no action is taken because the girls cant or wont disclose, or they're viewed as 'trouble', its exactly the same, simply different ethnicities of perpetrator and victim

You’re being rather disingenuous and I think you know it.

LakieLady · 15/02/2025 16:44

I'm weirded out by Elon Musk full stop, tbh. I think he's positively dangerous.

TY78910 · 15/02/2025 16:44

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

Sorry… but are you saying that if we chose to have kids without disabilities the world would be a better place? Because that’s really f*cked up.

It’s not entirely about his choice of woman to procreate with, it’s more about the public announcement of the why and the intention to breed ‘superior’ humans.

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:43

Toddlerteaplease · 15/02/2025 16:38

I can't believe that he thinks taking young children into a meeting with world leaders is acceptable.

At the end of the day America is a banana republic but with money. Thats all. Absolutely zero statesmanship.

Oldglasses · 15/02/2025 16:42

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 like him? Why?

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:42

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:37

I don’t think there was a massive cover up about those which is why there was a massive scandal about those that were.

Depends how you describe 'cover up'. There are grooming gangs up and down the country but little to no action is taken because the girls cant or wont disclose, or they're viewed as 'trouble', its exactly the same, simply different ethnicities of perpetrator and victim

Haroldwilson · 15/02/2025 16:41

I'd be willing to bet he believes in the great replacement theory and thinks white strongmen like himself should outbreed people with darker skin.

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:38

yassos · 15/02/2025 16:25

Are you for real, Christ 🤦🏻

Very happy for you to elaborate and yes, I am very real.

Do you think I’m a bot or something?

Toddlerteaplease · 15/02/2025 16:38

I can't believe that he thinks taking young children into a meeting with world leaders is acceptable.

ColourlessGreenIdeasSleepFuriously · 15/02/2025 16:38

Ponoka7 · 15/02/2025 14:24

We need fairly healthy babies and if their parents live in safe countries, are solvent and they can access education, they are the human beings that we are short of.

These are the sort of children with a massive carbon footprint who are destroying the planet.

Scrubberdubber · 15/02/2025 16:37

TY78910 · 15/02/2025 15:30

I'm pretty sure I read somewhere before that he chooses to breed with 'beautiful and intelligent' women to populate the world with a 'supreme DNA'. Which just adds to his recent Nazi and other far right behaviours. Just a really nasty guy.

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

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:37

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:25

He isnt talking out about child rape and abuse gangs in the UK. He is speaking out about one demographic of child abuser.

Theres plenty others, of different ethnicities. But he isnt speaking out about those as well.

I don’t think there was a massive cover up about those which is why there was a massive scandal about those that were.

Alaimo · 15/02/2025 16:35

Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. "I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee." "If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."

Great guy!

www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a5380/millionaire-starter-wife/

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:32

ElleneAsanto · 15/02/2025 16:28

He seems to show personality traits, such as rigid thinking and lack of empathy, that are prevalent in ASD people. That wouldn’t make him a great choice (combined with other factors e.g. family history) for being in a position to affect the lives of millions of people.

I think my point is, he may have those traits becuase he is ND, or he may not have ND but he has those traits.

Its irrelevant. No you're right of course he isnt the best choice for leadership and influence over society and humanity but he has those traits regardless of any diagnosis (which he doesnt appear to have). however it has come about, his personality is hugely flawed and destructive. ND or not.

Ang3leyes · 15/02/2025 16:29

I dont know what you expect us to say. It’s not nice but he’s autistic so he doesn’t see things in the same way, maybe this is how his autism effects him. he’s doing something right, he’s richer than our wildest dreams

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 16:29

racoonsinbins · 15/02/2025 16:16

Thanks - looks like it's been voted down. But terrifying never the less.

Definitely.. next they will be trying to ban birth control

ElleneAsanto · 15/02/2025 16:28

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:02

What relevance is it if he is ND?

He seems to show personality traits, such as rigid thinking and lack of empathy, that are prevalent in ASD people. That wouldn’t make him a great choice (combined with other factors e.g. family history) for being in a position to affect the lives of millions of people.