Musk Father of Many Children - US Should Embrace Extreme Breeding, Fear Childlessness, ProNatal, Eugenics
- 'He has already fathered many children. Now Musk wants all of the US to embrace extreme breeding,' The Guardian, Nov. 19, 2024.
Trump’s billionaire best friend wants young people to ‘fear’ childlessness. He’ll be right at home in an incoming administration set on rolling back reproductive rights
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Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate for people to laugh at his crass jokes, he reportedly has a weird habit of trying to donate his sperm at every opportunity – including, according to an October New York Times report, an incident where he offered some spermatozoa, as casually as you might pass the salt, to a married couple “he had met socially only a handful of times” during a Silicon Valley dinner party.
Musk has denied offering sperm to strangers over supper. But it would be in keeping with his creepy breeding fetish: Musk is desperate for people in developed countries to have more children and has himself fathered at least 12 children with three women. (One of the children has since sadly died.) He’s become one of the most famous faces of a growing pro-natalist movement – one with an unsettling overlap with eugenics and deeply misogynistic ideas.
Musk is obviously entitled to his obsessions. The problem is, now that he’s Donald Trump’s BFF, he actually has the opportunity to embed his obsessions into policy. While much has been said about Musk’s role in the proposed Department of Government Efficiency, it seems likely that the billionaire wants influence over more than just budgets. He seems to want a say in Americans’ sex lives as well. On Sunday, Musk replied to a tweet about declining birthrates by tweeting: “Instead of teaching fear of pregnancy, we should teach fear of childlessness.”
What sort of lessons would that entail? Teaching people that while a woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth – and maternal mortality rates are increasing in the US – it’s childlessness you should be afraid of? It’s easy for Musk, who will never have to carry any of the children he’s so keen on having, to be blase about pregnancy risks: he can outsource them all. Still, you’d think he might be more sensitive to the issue considering the musician Grimes, with whom he shares three children, almost died during her pregnancy with son X Æ A-12. That led Grimes and Musk to use a surrogate for their next child.
Now that he’s Donald Trump’s BFF, he actually has the opportunity to embed his obsessions into policy...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/19/he-has-already-fathered-many-children-now-musk-wants-all-of-the-us-to-embrace-extreme-breeding

Historic NY
(38,862 posts)How many will hate him, so far one. He keeps them in his collection in a compound he built to store them.
appalachiablue
(43,525 posts)House of Roberts
(5,978 posts).0000001 children. (Give or take .00000001)
scarletlib
(3,535 posts)How are ordinary people supposed to support all these children without living in abject poverty? I don’t think we can expect any help from the government.
appalachiablue
(43,525 posts)riversedge
(75,127 posts)Beautiful little boy but geeez--what a name that he has to grow up with!
Trump’s billionaire best friend wants young people to ‘fear’ childlessness. He’ll be right at home in an incoming administration set on rolling back reproductive rights
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Elon Musk and his son X Æ A-12 in 2021. Photograph: Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Time
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/19/he-has-already-fathered-many-children-now-musk-wants-all-of-the-us-to-embrace-extreme-breeding
tanyev
(46,137 posts)Fathering? Not so much.
2naSalit
(96,475 posts)The best thing that could happen right now is for that POS to overdose on one or more of his "party favors".
evemac
(216 posts)Timeflyer
(3,104 posts)Birth as many babies as you want with your own oh-so-special equipment, then go start that Mars colony (and don't come back).
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Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)There is no "birthrate decline"; the global population has literally DOUBLED in my lifetime.
What Melon Husk and his cult are obsessed with is WHITE birthrates...
appalachiablue
(43,525 posts)valleyrogue
(2,010 posts)People generally are living much longer hence the population increase. Also, big families are completely incompatible with women's rights. Women's opportunities have also contributed to birthrate decline, which is real.
Blue_Tires
(57,596 posts)But like I said, this is all about spawning more white children...