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Does the world’s richest man really believe that the West might be saved by the same sexual practices found in a Chinese imperial court?

Elon Musk allegedly has at least 14 children with four separate women.

Musk is also allegedly building a series of properties – a baby compound some are calling it – to house his various families.

“A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilisation faces by far,” he tweeted in 2022. “There’s really no time like the present. Just have kids. You won’t be sorry. It’ll work out.”

If all these pronatalists want legions of children, perhaps it’s time they started being better fathers.

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It’s way creepier and unethical than a harem.

If all he was doing was basically paying women to fuck him, that would be maybe unsavory but not terribly weird.

He’s promising to pay women to bear his children, but uses artificial insemination if they agree to it. Then he sends them an NDA and if they won’t sign he claims the baby isn’t his.

[–] bfg9k@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

God that's so pathetic

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

He also pays extra for a procedure to make sure the child is always male. That's part of the reason why he hates trans people, he can't accept one of his children turned out to be female.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Because of course his kid being trans is somehow about him, that's what being a narcissist is all about

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Republicans, and the right more generally, have always been hollow shits. "In-groups to protect and out-groups to bind", as they say. They're the worst people and should be removed from power.

They're infuriating. They don't want abortions, but they don't want sexual education or contraceptives. They want a stay at home parent, but they don't want to have wages high enough to support that. They are like children screaming they want to eat their birthday cake but don't want it to go away. We need to stop taking them seriously and instead put them down for a nap.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 29 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sorry.

Go back to the 1960s. Ronald Reagan had divorced his first wife to marry a hot blond bimbo. People said that Conservatives would never elect such a wild rake. All Ronnie had to do was throw them some red meat and suddenly a Hollywood pretty boy who'd skipped WW2 became a Founding Father.

[–] FloMo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago (3 children)

I got curious so I did some searching:

Wyman divorced Reagan in 1949, Reagan married Nancy Davis in 1952

So not entirely accurate to say he divorced his first wife to marry another (by some accounts, Wyman divorced him and moved on).

That being said, fuck Reagan all the same.

[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 months ago

Reagan did borderline rape a 19 year old aspiring actress, promising to get her into meetings with producers, a week before he married Nancy Davis.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

The point is that in the 1960s a divorced man was considered suspect.

[–] WarmRegards@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Ronald 6 Wilson 6 Reagan 6

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Throat GOAT Nancy Reagan was a hot blond bimbo?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 23 points 4 months ago

It isn't even a fun harem. No dancing ladies or neat see-through clothing, just an IVF jar and a botched penis implant.

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We still pretending that republicans stand for anything?

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

They'll stand upside down on their heads if it gives them a better shot at licking their fuhrer's diseased taint.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

“Family Values” is just a stand in for Anti-LGBTQ or even Anti-Interracial relationship. Like you see the words “family values” on dating profiles of conservatives below the “looking for” section, even on profiles of multi divorced people. Basically it’s just code for “only bigots apply”

[–] Grizzlyboy@lemm.ee 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem is you thinking it’s possible to reason with these voters. They howl family values but vote for rapists, pedophiles and convicts. Musk only started using his child after the killing of the POS exec, because now he has a human shield.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

As if he’s brave enough to leave his ~~house~~ ~~mansion~~ ~~fortress~~ Soviet-chic bunker without a dozen goons sanitizing his environment.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 7 points 4 months ago

Look, if a partner wants to stay home, cook, clean, have and take care of babies and the other wants to work and is all consensual, fine.

I don't see any people lining up for that life though.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago
[–] Kompressor@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh they're just teeing up to bring back a particular modern revelation that was super epic and cool and not totally fucked up, weird, sick, depraved and entirely self serving to the personal desires of the few. Classic human shit to be honest. Genetics is gonna come back swinging hard on these dipshits thankfully it has a knack for correcting this sort of thing

[–] VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Hey, everyone knows it's way better for one man to have scores of wives than for – gasp – two men to be married

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

This guy is worried about birth rate but isn't ivf daughters? Women are substantially more valuable then men when it comes this.

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

It looks hypocritical.

[–] Punchshark@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

Muskrat needs someone to pump his dick up for him

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Why musk and not directly trump?

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 0 points 4 months ago

Oh musk and trump should totally try to make babies. Naturally trump will be the daddy.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

In the future movies will be treating related to musk like related to hitler.