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.

  • SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    2 days 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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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

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

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    “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”

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    2 days 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.

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    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.

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      In modern usage, the word “family” does not mean a group of people who share s common ancestor.

      Instead, it refers to one or more children and those adults who take full legal responsibility for raising and caring for them.

      If all Musk does is chuck money at his “baby mamas” but never actually spends any time caring for or speaking with or being a role model for his descendants, he’s not their father. He’s just a sperm donor with some money.

      (I don’t know if “carry them around as assassin deterrent” is enough to qualify. The only real people qualified to judge anyone’s parenting are the adults their children grow up to be.)

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.