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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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Sevenamcoffee · 15/02/2025 16:26

lifeonmars100 · 15/02/2025 15:41

perhaps he should learn to knit or crochet! That might take his mind off world domination 😄

He has a whole compound in the desert only full of unfinished crafting projects.

Moulook31 · 15/02/2025 16:26

Changingplace · 15/02/2025 14:07

His immense influence over an entire country as an unelected person is something we should all be bothered about. If you’re disinterested in democracy then there’s plenty of other threads to post on.

Exactly. His influence is frightening.

yassos · 15/02/2025 16:25

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:13

It is but how is that a reflection on EM?

TBH he seems to be doing a lot of good with his DOGE initiative and using his profile to speak out on issues around the world - the UK child rape and sexual abuse gangs for one.

What’s to hate about that?

Many unelected bodies and rich people influence politics - the have been concerns about the WEF, Bill Gates and George Soros to name but a few, and IMO they might be much more dangerous that EM. He’s pretty open about what he’s doing anyway.

Are you for real, Christ 🤦🏻

CraneBeak · 15/02/2025 16:25

LauraNorda · 15/02/2025 14:00

Why are you bothered? Is your own life so dull?

I don't find the fact that one of the richest men in the world, who also is now empowered to make government decisions in the US, treats women as objects to produce babies with "dull".

In Claire's case he also has arrangements to stop her from accessing her own children.

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:25

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:13

It is but how is that a reflection on EM?

TBH he seems to be doing a lot of good with his DOGE initiative and using his profile to speak out on issues around the world - the UK child rape and sexual abuse gangs for one.

What’s to hate about that?

Many unelected bodies and rich people influence politics - the have been concerns about the WEF, Bill Gates and George Soros to name but a few, and IMO they might be much more dangerous that EM. He’s pretty open about what he’s doing anyway.

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.

OffMyDahlias · 15/02/2025 16:21

OswaldCobblepot · 15/02/2025 14:29

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

Agreed, before his tirade I thought of him as an eccentric but well meaning billionaire. After I realised he’s actually not that well meaning.

racoonsinbins · 15/02/2025 16:16

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 15:55

It was on America Newsweek published yesterday, Republicans proposed to ban morning after pill...

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

SleekBlackCat · 15/02/2025 16:13

BlusteryLake · 15/02/2025 15:57

That is untterably grim.

It is but how is that a reflection on EM?

TBH he seems to be doing a lot of good with his DOGE initiative and using his profile to speak out on issues around the world - the UK child rape and sexual abuse gangs for one.

What’s to hate about that?

Many unelected bodies and rich people influence politics - the have been concerns about the WEF, Bill Gates and George Soros to name but a few, and IMO they might be much more dangerous that EM. He’s pretty open about what he’s doing anyway.

BatchCookBabe · 15/02/2025 16:09

YANBU @FancyRedRobin There is something very worrying and odd about Elon Musk and everything he stands for, and how he and Trump are trying to take over the world. Sounds dramatic, but they fucking are! Confused DH and I call them Doctor Evil and Goldmember. All the satellites Musk keeps sending up, trying to buy/dominate other peoples countries, trying to get rid of anyone who isn't white, trying to stop abortion altogether, loathing people who are gay, thinking they rule the world... Terrifying! I am soooooooooooooo glad I don't live in America! Shock

WooleyMunky · 15/02/2025 16:08

He was (is) a pathologically lonely child...

HotTake · 15/02/2025 16:04

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:02

What relevance is it if he is ND?

Exactly. Like it makes it any more palatable that he's a narcissistic arsehole, to say the least. Even if he's ND, that isn't what has made him the evil pos that he is.

Serpentstooth · 15/02/2025 16:03

Banning the morning after pill? I think it's time to ban man's favourite stress-reliever and maybe boxes of Kleenex? Just think of all that unfertilised sperm going to waste every day, struggling little potential geniuses flushed away every hour of every day, no chance to reach the destiny the Good Lord intended. It's an outrage, they've been given no chance of life. Shame on you, Republicans of America, bring on the Wankers Ban. You know its the next logical step. Perhaps you could introduce the Dominic Cummings Eye Test to prove it's working?

soupyspoon · 15/02/2025 16:02

What relevance is it if he is ND?

BlusteryLake · 15/02/2025 15:57

KimberleyClark · 15/02/2025 14:54

His dad has two children with his own stepdaughter. He married her mother when she (stepdaughter) was three and stayed married to her for 19 years. Beyond grim.No wonder Elon is like he is with that example.

That is untterably grim.

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 15:55

racoonsinbins · 15/02/2025 15:47

Do you have a source for that?

It was on America Newsweek published yesterday, Republicans proposed to ban morning after pill...

HotTake · 15/02/2025 15:53

He may or may not be on the spectrum but he has not been diagnosed as having ASD. He self-diagnosed himself (it's written in his biography). As someone who claims to like facts and not self ID, I'll wait till he's diagnosed by a medical professional before I take it as "fact" that he is autistic. It's not like he doesn't have the money to buy do that.

LauraNorda · 15/02/2025 15:53

MrsMurphyIWish · 15/02/2025 15:30

“droning”, “whinging” - misogynistic verbs.

Stop trying to silence voices against “Mr Musk”.

What about 'complain', 'grouse', 'gripe', 'moan', 'carp', 'mither', 'bellyache'? I suppose all those are 'misogynistic' too, just because someone is saying something you don't like or want to hear?

I don't want to silence anyone. You continue yelling at the clouds if you like. It's amusing.

takemenowcountry · 15/02/2025 15:51

He has ASD and was genuinely massively bullied as a child, and lost himself in all these grandiose science fiction fantasies.

Sadly, his trauma did not heal.

As he acts like the public stereotype of a "mad genius" people think he is one (especially as he is a white man from a rich family).

He's the master of PR not science. Even his various baby-mothers are part of the racket to get him in the headlines.

Even adopting the name Tesla - Musk sees himself as some misunderstood genius. But Tesla was quietly doing the science he wanted without much external reward.

He's definitely intelligent and does some interesting work(I enjoy seeing the rockets do their thing).

But a lack of humility and people being too subservient to his wealth means that he didn't take the time to just sit and be thoughtful and focus on doing one thing well.

Part of his success is he knows how to play the mob and the media, but he doesn't actually respect himself or the people who gravitate to him.

Reminds me of Citizen Kane.

If he really believes in all these things he says he could easily follow through.

With his wealth, he could buy an island with perfect conditions (probably a few), populate it with blonde, slim, intelligent people who meet his definition of what PROPER humans should be.

He could give them unlimited laboratories and educational and scientific facilities.

Call it the Alpha X Ray Zen 557883 Tribe.

They don't need to see any of the ugly, stupid, woke plebs.

Then - of course - once he's got rid of all the horrible Muslims and woke people destroying everything, his Alpha Tribe would have amazing scientific results and live in perfect harmony.

Elon Musk himself SHOULD be able to produce amazing results once his Aryan intelligence stops getting bullied by brown people.

(isn't he just randomly latching onto brown men on X now, no connection, and asking them to sue him so he can play the victim?).

Surprise surprise....he won't do this 😂

MrsMurphyIWish · 15/02/2025 15:50

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.

“Gripe”, added to the list of misogynistic verbs.

IsEveryUserNameBloodyTaken · 15/02/2025 15:48

sparrowhae · 15/02/2025 15:16

Do you know what is utterly fascinating with this thread and certain others. Some of you are what you hate. Some of the replies are so disturbing and not based in any fact.

Absolutely.

racoonsinbins · 15/02/2025 15:47

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 15:40

He is very very strange person, I see there planning on banning the morning after pill in America now

Do you have a source for that?

LauraNorda · 15/02/2025 15:47

TooBigForMyBoots · 15/02/2025 15:42

Why are you bothered about what we talk about? Is your own life so dull?Wink

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.

IcedPurple · 15/02/2025 15:45

His children are almost all male, aren't they?

I wonder if that's coincidence or choice.

yassos · 15/02/2025 15:44

Clocloxx · 15/02/2025 15:40

He is very very strange person, I see there planning on banning the morning after pill in America now

Woooaaahhhh…. fucking hell. That’s insane. My God.

TooBigForMyBoots · 15/02/2025 15:42

LauraNorda · 15/02/2025 15:10

Of course you can speak out but whingeing about a foreign government you have zero impact on when we have enough problems of our own is totally pointless.

Why are you bothered about what we talk about? Is your own life so dull?Wink

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