WSJ Drops Shock Exposé on Elon Musk’s Alleged Attempts to Impregnate X Influencers — ‘To Reach Legion Level Before the Next Apocalypse’

https://www.mediaite.com/news/wsj-drops-shock-expose-on-elon-musks-alleged-attempts-to-impregnate-x-influencers/

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Rooskie91@discuss.online · 246 pts · 1y (8 replies)

Holy shit if these people get anymore cult like they're going to move to South America and kill themselves.

KingGordon@lemmy.world · 133 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Dont threaten me with a good time.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 1y
  • Elon fans, probably
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 1y

Man, we should be so lucky.

chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y

I'll buy the Flavor-Aid.

NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

This is just normal to people that grew up around evangelicals. Those nut jobs are everything they hate, but pump out kids as a way to be immortal.

huppakee@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Well, good news:

The Journal article notes that Musk has attempted to get all the various members of his “harem” to congregate in a compound that he recently had built in Austin, Texas. However, most of the women seem to have expressed disinterest in this (https://gizmodo.com/it-certainly-looks-like-elon-musks-legion-of-kids-is-bigger-than-anyone-imagined-2000590199)

  1. he won't ruin south-america

  2. his "harem" is not giving up without a fight

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

trying to be a mormon,

arrow74@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y

I'm not even Christian, but I'm starting to believe this guy is the anti-christ

MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 182 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Sounds like the kinda guy you want in charge of all of America's sensitive information.

The important thing is that he's not batshit insane.

foggy@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 1y (2 replies)

You can tell because of the way that he is.

ayaya@lemdro.id · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's pretty neat!

Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 170 pts · 1y (2 replies)

14 kids and no family.

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 89 pts · 1y

Even his AI generated kids hate him

blacklisted@lemmy.org · 5 pts · 1y

💯☝️

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 127 pts · 1y (23 replies)

I'm not going to have a lot of sympathy for anyone who lets that guy put his dick in them.

coyootje@lemmy.world · 99 pts · 1y (10 replies)

Well apparently he doesn't do that, news outlets are saying that all of his kids are from ivf.

RedPostItNote@lemmy.world · 91 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Kyrgizion@lemmy.world · 78 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Since Leon and Zuck killed factchecking, there is nothing stopping me from believing this.

RedPostItNote@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y (3 replies)

If he denies it I think he should just show us dick. SHOW US YOUR FREAK DICK ELON

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

Put it up on the board next to hunters, and give mtg a laser pointer.

lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

POST HOG POST HOG POST HOG POST HOG OR STFU YOU FUCKING WEIRD LITTLE CREEP

RedPostItNote@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

If I can get someone to yell this at this mother fucker I will die happy

nomy@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

Probably but Azealia Banks is a bit insane and I doubt she's ever had more than a passing (positive) interaction with Grimes.

Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y (2 replies)

People are saying it’s because Elon was born intersex and the male gender affirming surgery they had rendered his pecker non-functional. People are saying this a lot.

boonhet@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y

Tremendous people, the best people.

huppakee@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

Would explain a lot

Bonus@lemm.ee · 30 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What about a stress ball, a 9-iron, and a jar of mayo?

Thassodar@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I see you're also familiar with Dirty Mike and The Boys

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Bonus@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
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thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Fore!

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml · -55 pts · 1y (6 replies)

I, too, love victim blaming

CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Stop taking the autonomy from these women. He isn’t raping them (that we know of). The only victim is the poor kid that will suffer.

Infynis@midwest.social · -8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk's engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

Coercion is rape.

chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz · 39 pts · 1y

Someone making money directly through Nazi Twitter gets no sympathy from me when its fuhrer turns his ire against them.

gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com · 20 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is there something stopping her from having a job like a normal person instead of making money on Twitter? She doesn't have kids, she can do whatever else she wants. At some point, you have to admit that staying where you are is a choice you're making.

From the WSJ article this article is referencing:

Fong didn’t move forward with Musk because she pictured having children in a more traditional nuclear family, but confided to a few friends about the approach—including St. Clair, whom she knew as another conservative social-media figure—and how she worried that turning him down could hurt her earnings.

Once Musk learned that Fong disclosed the request to others, he chided her for not using discretion, according to the people, and unfollowed her. That contributed to a fall in her engagement, and her earnings declined.

Taking money/resources away from people who don't follow along is what Elon does. She knew that beforehand and made the choice not to have a kid with him with that knowledge in mind. Elon tried to coerce her and she dealt with the consequences of refusing.

bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 3 pts · 1y

I mean, sue him using his case against advertisers as a basis.

frostysauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Elon tried to coerce her and she dealt with the consequences of refusing.

Reread that a few times...

OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml · 106 pts · 1y (7 replies)

The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby — despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

That's kind of messed up

threeganzi@sh.itjust.works · 48 pts · 1y (3 replies)

How do you make $21,000 on twitter?

CluckN@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Premium Xitter subscriptions and Elon artificially inflating your numbers.

threeganzi@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Oh, so you can make money if you make popular content?

CluckN@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Yeah it’s like YouTube views but imagine it only counted people who were paying for YouTube Premium.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What a fucking loser.

nomy@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 1y

"I'm sorry I showed you my penis. Here's $250k, please don't tell anyone." - Skum Leon

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

She should go elsewhere

LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 1y (4 replies)
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · -18 pts · 1y (3 replies)

*Elon

the_tab_key@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y (1 reply)

*possiblyleon127

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 1y

I'm bad but the bar is in hell (or 1940's Germany)

Dorkyd68@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

SpElLChECk* a joke you don't get

blattrules@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 1y (16 replies)

So this guy has time to be CEO of twitter, spacex, xai, starlink, tesla, boring company, head of DOGE and still has time to try to hook up with thousands of girls online? Something tells me CEOs are pretty useless if you can be running that many companies each week.

schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business · 40 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Yeah it's more hilarious: he's not hooking up with anyone, this is pure turkey baster going on.

Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Apparently Elmo was intersex at birth and the surgery to try and affirm male gender left whatever junk he had quite inoperable. At least people are saying this is the case.

domdanial@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 1y

Who even cares if rumors are founded? We're just asking questions.

LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Source?

Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

People are saying.

In the immortal words of Foghorn Lghorn,

“It’s a joke son.”

Or maybe it isn’t

ihatefascist@lemm.ee · 35 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't forget he also doubled down on being in the top10 of PoE2 (which is ruled by nolife players that play 16 hours a day) yet he had the time to do that, I can't understand why anyone would ever trust a word coming out of his mouth ever. Pathological liar with a massive ego, hopefully the target of the next Luigi

blattrules@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Haha I did forget about that already.

PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social · 16 pts · 1y (3 replies)

He doesn’t “hook up” with them

It’s ivf

He’s incapable of having sex. His penis is damaged

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Source on that? I'll believe you but I'd love to read up on that.

Also, he can do all that and more because he's a drug riddled junkie. Won't be long now till he overdoses

frostysauce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Unfortunately it is very difficult to overdose on ketamine.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

That's disappointing

Isn't is used though in anesthesia? I thought it was quite dangerous, actually

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Did he add methamphetamines to his drug cocktail?

blattrules@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

“Meth-and-ketamines”

frostysauce@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Well, he fancies himself a Nazi and Nazis certainly fancied meth.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Everyone fancies meth when it was available and people still yearn for it.

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Pretty broad brush there, friend.

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network · 83 pts · 1y (1 reply)

dear saint luigi: please please please end musk. and as many of his acolytes as possible.

Grimy@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y

But when they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up, and said to them, “Those who are without a billion among you, let them be the first to lay the basket and fasten the frame for the blade.”

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 1y (18 replies)

Elon needs to die for the good of the human race

lemel@lemmy.ml · 34 pts · 1y

He and Trump. The world would be a much better place.

brax@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Him and the entire MAGA cult. Toss them all in a Tesla to the sun

VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Don't need to toss the Tesla that far for it. Seven or so stairs should suffice hahaha.

brax@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Yeah, but then you have to deal with the environment impact. Just toss them in the sun. Lol

Crikeste@lemm.ee · -39 pts · 1y (13 replies)
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pressanykeynow@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Do I get it right that you suggest killing children because you want to see some shithead cry?

deepfuckingdumb@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (5 replies)
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Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Hitler had no known offspring. His relatives did, and those children decided to not have children so Hitler’s line would die out.

boonhet@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Tbh if they're not direct descendents, his line is already gone. Otherwise, where do you draw the line? Is my 10th cousin 11 times removed part of my line?

huppakee@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I can imagine if Hitler was you uncle for example, you might consider your potential children part of his line.

boonhet@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

They're really not, but if the people involved are filled with extreme disgust as they probably are, I can see how they might see it differently.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Destroy All Humans so Hitlers species is wiped out.

Banana@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1y

He has a trans daughter that fuckin hates him, I dont think it's fair to kill the kids who had no choice in the matter, maybe the rest of them will hate him too.

P0rkduck@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

What the fuck?

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Probably a right wing troll

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

No, killing children is bad

Inb4 you say something stupid about abortion like a lazy troll

DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 1y

Calm down Joffrey Baratheon

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 1y

Vivian Wilson deserves to live. Just because she has a shitty excuse of a father, doesn't mean that his sins are hers to inherit. It is a choice of the children whether their parent's beliefs live on.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It must be said again.

There are no good billionaires. Every one of them is doing stupid shit like this while people starve to death, in public or in secret.

FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Even minding one’s own business while the world is as it is could be considered evil, with those kind of resources at their disposal

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Even the likes of gates and warren aren't good. Gates has been criticized by making it took expensive for those countries

HelluvaKick@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 1y (4 replies)

This is giving The Office "I want to have 100 kids so I can have 100 friends and no one can say no to being my friend." energy

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It’s really not funny TBH, it’s all tied to his views on eugenics (or whatever euphemism is used) and frankly horrific visions of the future he shares with a few lower profile billionaires.

HelluvaKick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

It's not, but I'll make fun of him every chance I get bc he takes it really personally apparently.

NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Meanwhile, there's his daughter that absolutely hates his guts

HelluvaKick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

She's an icon imo

jared@mander.xyz · 55 pts · 1y (2 replies)

A legion of children that hate him👍

SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 30 pts · 1y (1 reply)

He doesn't give a shit, them loving him isn't his goal

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Organ harvesting is his goal.

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Well now I'm starting to think that 4chan account might actually be his, how fun!

A Nazi who thinks he's the Antichrist. What a fuckin world

jabeez@lemmy.today · 33 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Who "Christians" put in power, fucking delicious irony, what a bunch of ignorant, hateful assholes.

Revan343@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 1y

Who "Christians" put in power, fucking delicious irony, what a bunch of ignorant, hateful assholes.

That part is straight out of the Bible too

A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

I know right!

Can't say I'm surprised. Honestly, the Zionist Evangelicals who keep trying to start the Apocalypse would probably be happy.

ace_of_based@sh.itjust.works · 51 pts · 1y (5 replies)

What. THE.

FUCK.

TangledHyphae@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 1y (1 reply)

https://archive.md/DNH8o

I put it on archive.md for anybody that couldn't see past the paywall like myself. (Sorry for the hijack but I wanted to see it quickly.) I'm not sure how everyone else is managing to read it for free tho.

Tja@programming.dev · 4 pts · 1y

"journalism these days is so shit"

blacklisted@lemmy.org · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

He is feral as fuck.

I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Trap. Neuter. Release.

LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
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trashboat@midwest.social · 50 pts · 1y (7 replies)

This… might just be the craziest thing I’ve read since the election

Someone should totally try to catfish him, though. Sounds like it wouldn’t be all that challenging

TacticalCheddar@lemm.ee · 31 pts · 1y (5 replies)

This… might just be the craziest thing I’ve read since the election

We so far have:

  1. Trump turning the White House in a Tesla dealership
  2. Trump putting tarrifs on penguins, but not on Russia
  3. US warplans leaked because someone doesn't know how to use his phone
  4. The US becoming a crypto bro.
  5. The US looking to invade Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland while also looking to extort the rest of the fucking planet.
  6. The US stealing the Gulf of Mexico from Mexico.

Just to name a few. We are only 4 months into his term people. I'd say Elon humping everything that moves is just a regular tuesday.

huppakee@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y

I'm not disagreeing, it is in a lot of ways just a regular Tuesday, but just read this. It is much much crazier than Musk humping everything that moves. https://gizmodo.com/it-certainly-looks-like-elon-musks-legion-of-kids-is-bigger-than-anyone-imagined-2000590199

trashboat@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y

A lot of that stuff is tragic and hard to believe, and I agree with you that all of it happening at once is completely crazy. But to me this article illustrates a more granular and fundamental level of Elon’s psychology that’s deeply messed up. Though of course I can’t say I’m surprised that he behaves this way behind closed doors

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

4 months into his term people

Uhh what? He started in end of January.
Its been 87 days or about 3 months. If we were to say how long he has left in his presidency it wouldn't be wrong to just round up still and say 4 years.

lodion@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

His term has covered 4 months so far... Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 1y

Jan 20th to to April 17th

burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee · 46 pts · 1y (13 replies)

As if his sorry assed genetic material should be passed on. Why do all nazis assume they're the "superior race"?

Witchfire@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y

Because being white is the biggest accomplishment of their life

That's not a compliment

KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

If you have to beg and bully people into fucking you, you're not part of anything superior.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 6 pts · 1y

"Please like me, everyone."

  • Musky
KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

And he's lying to these women. He keeps the ones he wants and doesn't give a shit about the rest.

Droggelbecher@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Not to be a spoil sport but rating how good it bad ANY genetic material is always feels icky to me. If we want to fully move away from eugenics, we need to stop its narrative even in case of garbage humans like musk, too.

hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 1y

I respect your position but have to disagree.

Trump, Musk ,and probably most of their circle come from families that have a strong inclination towards psychopathy. While there surely are ecological causes for this the probability of genetic causes supporting this are high.

Capitalism and before that feudalism has positively selected psychopaths for centuries. It’s time we stopped breeding people incapable of empathy.

3laws@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Valid. Musk is garbage, his DNA has nothing to do with it & pivots from the main point; garbage people like him deserve no pity.

KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Inbreeding usually returns pretty 'icky' results as far as genetic damage is concerned.

Krauerking@lemy.lol · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Humans best trick is lying to themselves.

KulunkelBoom@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

I've come to consider it a species glitch. More on this later.

Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Because they have nothing going for them. So they look at an old portrait of some long dead white dude who actually did something nice (like make music they never listen to, or wrote poetry they never read or understand) and say that this is all belongs to them.

NostraDavid@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It already passed on 13 times...

qarbone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Still doesn't mean it should've.

Olhonestjim@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 1y (41 replies)

Declining population, my ass. There were less than 4.5 billion people on the planet when I was born. That fash-hole is only worried that white people will represent a minority of the future population. Nothing more.

Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y (2 replies)

If they Thanos snapped all non-white people on the planet, I guarantee you, the French, European Spanish, Irish, and others will suddenly be non-white and be enslaved to do former jobs. They will insist they dress differently and even tattoo them from infancy to insist they are very genetically different from 'proper' whites and thus are only fit for slavery.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

No points for guessing. The Irish and the Spanish have already been considered "not white" at points in recent history. So have the Italians.

Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y

There is a long and storied history of western and northern Europeans hating Italians.

douglasg14b@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (37 replies)

Decline population is an actual thing...? Not defending this asshole or anything but your statement is seemingly based off of a lack of information.

Birth rates in many developed countries are incredibly low well below maintenance levels. Meaning that aside from immigration the population in most developed countries is actually going down quite rapidly.

Which given the way our societies and financial systems are structured generally means some form of disaster for those countries if such decline occurs.

There's even a pretty good recent video talking about what this looks like in South Korea

Blue indicates below replacement levels:

WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Well, we're going to have to figure out how to level off or shrink our population eventually. Might as well do it now while there are still some wild animal species that haven't gone extinct.

MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

A lower population isn't that bad. It's just that the transition when you have a very large old population and a small young one is very difficult.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Watch this video, ignore the clickbait sounding title:

https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk

It completely changed my view on that.

Basically, without high birth rates, countries are totally screwed. Immigration (which skews young, from high birth rate countries), has softened that issue for the US, hence you don’t hear about it as much here. One can wave their hands and say "elder care and the economy will be automated in the future," but that’s wishful thinking if you ask me.

Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical. Honestly we’re ridiculously inefficient now; there’s a lot of low hanging fruit to pick. And we can use much higher technology to address that.

The_Decryptor@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Figuring out how to more efficiently house/care for a glut of humans farther in the future is way more practical.

Our government's started means testing care services due to the projected costs and loss of tax income as the population ages and costs increase.

It doesn't help that the only form of economic management they do is offer tax cuts, they're getting less and less tax out of an already declining share of the population.

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Damn, Africa FUCKS.

dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Decades of the Catholic church demonizing birth control methods and claiming condoms cause AIDS will do that do a continent.

douglasg14b@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

No... Not really. This happens to literally every country as it develops.

Africa is experiencing Stage 2 of the Demographic Transition Model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition

rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

For those that haven't seen it, this is a great digestible video of the problem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBudghsdByQ

Bloomcole@lemm.ee · -5 pts · 1y (28 replies)

Still one billion in 1804
two billion in 1927
three billion in 1960
four billion in 1974
five billion in 1987
six billion in 1999
seven billion in 2011
eight billion in 2022

Already too many for my taste.
And no to all, don't react with irrelevant "there's enough food for..." or Malthusian bla bla

rumba@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y (27 replies)

And no to all, don’t react with irrelevant “there’s enough food for…” or Malthusian bla bla

So, don't bother you with the downside of what's actually going to happen? What's in the middle of happening? You're just going to do a little cherry-picking, then tell us don't bother you with facts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBudghsdByQ

You can already see it in real time by looking at the demographics in South Korea and Japan. The only reason the numbers are offset is that a few countries are still net positive enough to offset them.

Our great-grandkids are in for one hell of a ride. If we let it drop enough, they'll be in forced breeding situations.

Bloomcole@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y (26 replies)

A world with a lot less people sounds like a dream TBH.
No overcrowded cities, no chasing animals of their land or destroying it for resources, etc..

rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y (20 replies)

your great grandkids living in total economic collapse. peachy

HelluvaKick@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Infinite growth was never gonna last forever.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Carefully planned level sustainability wasn't off the table. No one even tried.

Applying pressure to the middle class just topples the cards

GrosPapatouf@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That's a capitalism problem, not a demographic one.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Then why are communist countries also seeing the same problem?

MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

If you can get even low quality robots that can provide some amount of elder care, even if it's just reminding them to take prescriptions and helping them walk, then you can drastically reduce the economic problems. there will be massive shortages of basic CNA and nursing home care workers.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Caring for the elderly is unfortunately a very small piece of the pie. A small number of CNA can handle a pretty decent number of elderly, in a facility.

Of course, we (corporate) stretch those CNA as thin as possible.

Automation in every industry that we're so worried about being our undoing will soften the blow.

It's possible that nanny bots could eventually help ease daycare costs.

Problematically anytime somebody creates something that reduces financial cost for someone else, They usually end up charging them significant amounts for it. Those inexpensive elderly care robots will end up being subscriptions and have planned obsolescence. Everybody's got to get a piece of that pie.

Bloomcole@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y (10 replies)

You sure have a sunny outlook.
And it's really going great now with all those people and their economies

rumba@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1y

My outlook is based on studies, and this crap is studied a lot. and also on readily observable evidence.

It's dire, and it's not based on my opinion.

Zorque@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

The only reason to believe it would be better with less people is delusional fantasy.

The problem isn't population, it's policy.

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Are you dense?

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FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

You just said you would murder me....so, yes?

Zorque@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

Cities aren't generally overcrowded because they have no other choice, they're overcrowded because cities typically offer the best opportunities. If the population were to drop three quarters overnight, people would flock to cities.

Land use is also about want, not need. We don't have to do it to sustain our population and its growth, it's just the cheapest (re: most profitable) option.

gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com · 42 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is it weird to anyone else that he just assumes his "legion" of children will follow him unquestioningly?

My dad keeps giving me stock "tips" (my stepsister works at a gold mine and he keeps telling me their stock'll go up any day now despite the mine not being in operation yet 🙄) and I haven't even followed through on that.

Alteon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Which...uh....Au mine are we talking about?

Enkrod@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y

That was a mistranslation, stepdad is saying his daughter is a gold digger and she ain't messing with no broke... no, you know what, fuck Klanye, those lyrics should have been generally understood as a red flag.

uawarebrah@sh.itjust.works · 39 pts · 1y

What did I just read why does this dude exist

cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 37 pts · 1y

Godofdirt@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 1y

If ever a man needed to be stripped of his power and influence

Jhex@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They way he treats his kids, he is building a legion to hunt him down

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

I'd watch that show.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

1 serves as. A human shield at all times, only until he gets too old the rest are his organ bank replacements. And he only wants male offspring

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 29 pts · 1y (12 replies)

what's with billionaires and wanting to have so many bloody babies

rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 32 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Weird Nazi cult pseudoscience based on the science of natural selection - they actually think they are superior and have superior genes therefore it's in the best of the species that their "superior" genes propagate as widely as possible.

varyingExpertise@feddit.org · 15 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Weird, one would assume that guy owns a mirror in at least one of his mansions.

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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

i mean he is kinda hot. look at dem color choices in that outfit

huppakee@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Even matches the colour of his teeth, o my

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 1y

some serious heroin chic right there

Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Greed is a very survival based mindset. The more you have, the better your chances of survival is.

Once you’ve fully given in to greed, your mind starts thinking more primitively overall.

So having the most money and children is their idea of success.

Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

That is not even remotely true about greed. Cooperation betters your chances of survival.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

https://archive.today/SgKyD

weird headline, great article and interview about this

huppakee@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The Math That Says Egalitarianism Is Possible

You don’t have to be entirely pessimistic about the future of wealth inequality.

By Brian Gallagher, August 11, 2021

In case anyone wonders

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 2 pts · 1y

Like I said, the headline is a little misleading. The interview discusses the "hawk vs cooperation" thing.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

SEX

They probably can't have normal relationships so they turn to physical ones

vga@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I find it weird that he can be like that and still be alive. Does he bring security to absolutely everywhere he is?

WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It's easy to forget just how much money a billion dollars is, let alone hundreds of billions.

You could hire three hundred people at a very generous salary of $250k/year. 8 hour shifts, that gives you 100 people guarding you 24/7. That would $75 million/year. You could do that off the investment income from a single billion dollars. Pay them the salary more typical of a security guard, like $50k/year, and Musk could be surrounding 24/7 by one hundred thousand security guards, and it would cost him $15 billion/year. He has enough wealth to afford that if he really wanted to. The man could take a cue from ancient Rome and commission his own army if he wanted to.

We need to eliminate billionaires. No one should have this type of power.

drmoose@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

He also wouldn't even pay that and syphon money from his companies as business expense either way.

ellypony@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Nasty ass loser. trifling ass hentai addict type thought process. I've known life-long basement dewllers, they could NEVER be caught acting like this. They're mostly just awkward and sweet with mild social impairment. Then again none of them are billionaires LMAO. It must be the entitlement of people like this.

You know that image of the greasy neckbeard guy with the ugly hat who lives in his mother's basement? The one that floats around in everyone's head at the idea of a 30+ year old man living alone with his mother. That guy will be getting mad pussy. That guy will find genuine companionship with a human. All because they don't see others as receptacles for procreation.

All of the images, and memes, and greentext horror stories; all of the stereotypical caricatures of creeps. None of that could have prepared me for this. None of them fit the boot. I have never had the hairs on my neck stand up like I just did reading about that.

This guy is the King Kong of creeps. The final boss.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

I’ve known life-long basement dewllers, they could NEVER be caught acting like this.

Yeah, I wouldn't do that.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y

For my part, I just assume that I wouldn't be fun, and simply stay away from other humans when possible. I can't really enjoy being a protagonist of romance VNs anymore, because I am aware of how unlikable I am. Reality intrudes on fantasy, turning the dream into a nightmare.

As a dweller, I would like more basement to keep me and humanity separated, never to see each other again.

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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I am not surprised. Elon is an accelerationist who believes that the next social turmoil will definitely be coming. But since it is going to happen, he thinks it is better if it comes sooner rather than later.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

That's thiels shtick too,.but they know the end is coming so they built compounds in other countries once the masses turn on them

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If you have watched The Fallout TV series, the billionaires might be on to something. Or rather, the writers know something that we don't!

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

4400 was another show like that. the premise was the scientists from the futures was trying to change the course of history by "abducting people form random timelines, and bestow them with superhuman abilities and send them back all at the same time through a "meteor ship", it was to stop the oligarchs, i assume who have squandered and build a enclave a perfect cities for themselves and kept everyone out in a slum-mad max future.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Would be awesome to see all of his businesses fail to the point he can't cover his child support.

vxx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Who says he pays it?

airportline@lemm.ee · 25 pts · 1y

He’s such a weird little creep

ericatty@infosec.pub · 25 pts · 1y (6 replies)

How many heirs fighting in courts all over the world does it take to redistribute a multi-billioniare's wealth through court fees, lawyer fees, accountants, penalties, etc until none of them are supreme-wealthy anymore? Just never work again wealthy.

Even if some of them don't really want it, they could still find lawyers to fight on contingency and let them drain the wealth. Then donate whatever they might eventually get, if anything.

For example, Anna Nicole and her late husband's son effectively fed lawyers for years and years. Michael Jackson's estate has been tied up in litigation for decades. And Mike had 3 kids, Anna one surviving kid.

With over a dozen and counting Leon kids, and a ton of potential other types of suits incoming from world-wide plantiffs, it'll be interesting to see how that estate eventually gets drained and dispersed.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 30 pts · 1y (5 replies)

His money is basically incomprehensible to how we regularly think. If he hired a law firm to work on each case 24/7 for the entire year at $5000/hr, and then even if each inheritance case took 20 years and he had 50 children suing him simultaneously it'd cost him billions--but he'd still have hundreds of billions left. Fuck billionaires

S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

I think net worth is pretty different of what real assets he may have which is what his descendants would inherit theoretically. But still ot eill be a truckload.

huppakee@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Wait so 24*7*365*5000*20*50 is less then what this man owns??

= $306.600.000.000

Damn.

edit: the * mssed with the formatting, by the way crazy fact, the lawfirm in this case would bill 1.226.400 hours per case/child.

FragrantGarden@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Even smaller, 24x365, drop the 7 in your equation since that just tells us to bill all 365 days of the year

huppakee@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

A lol, thank you, IANA mathematician obviously. Well to keep the math correct, we could say the lawfirm had 7 people work the case 24hrs 365 days a year.

But damn that man is rich

Azzu@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

The 7 people is already implied by 5000$/hour to a firm. It's possible, but no single lawyer charges 5000$/hour.

PanArab@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hopefully they all end up like his daughter.

huppakee@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y

At least one good thing to come out of this guy 🏳️‍⚧️

amadeus84@lemm.ee · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It will be a fine day when he has an OD on stage.

FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y

There are over 3,000 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth exceeding $16 trillion.

mysticpickle@lemmy.ca · 24 pts · 1y

LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 24 pts · 1y (1 reply)

God and I thought the plot of the Fallout TV show was absurd with the "Bud's Buds" shit but it's literally real

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

They had to find inspiration somewhere...

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 24 pts · 1y

My contempt for this man has reached levels previously thought far outside the realm of possibility.

VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 1y

We're in dire need of some italian plumbing.

NostraDavid@programming.dev · 16 pts · 1y (16 replies)

When she didn’t sign the NDA, the payments were reportedly slashed, and eventually cut again to $20,000 a month.

Oh no! Only 20,000 dollahs!? That poor woman must now be living on water and bread for the rest of her life!

Listen, I get it - Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he's an asshole for that, but the cry story is just bleh.

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (6 replies)

Yeah, at the very least she needs security and lawyers. 20K is little enough to endanger her life.

…On the other hand, she's an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y (5 replies)

….On the other hand, she's an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

How the hell is exposing weird shit an evil person says and his bribes to give you hush money "farming attention?" You're victim blaming.

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Look at her social media posting history. Look at her published book:

BRAVE Books and Ashley St. Clair partnered to write "Elephants Are Not Birds," a Christian, Conservative children's book that tackles the topic of gender identity. In the book, children will learn that boys are not girls, and Elephants Are Not Birds.

I retract/regret what I said… I didn’t mean to victim blame. This sucks for her and she doesn’t deserve one bit of it, nor does her abuser deserve any sympathy. She deserves empathy.

But she also appears to have made a living peddling (IMO) hate far and wide. I am struggling to express/process how I feel about that… it’s a tragic irony, I guess? And frustration at that whole ecosystem she was in (which Musk is at the very tippy top of).

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JackbyDev@programming.dev · 2 pts · 1y

How does one say they've been the victim of something without drawing attention to themselves??

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GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y (1 reply)

yeah, because some of us have a conscience and will remember his disgusting behavior for the rest of our lives.

not everyone has morals as loose as yours.

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JackbyDev@programming.dev · 7 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Jesus fucking Christ, your mentality right now is that hush money is okay. You're saying that because she's getting a lot of money she shouldn't complain.

NostraDavid@programming.dev · 0 pts · 1y (1 reply)

hush money is okay.

Weird how I said "Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he’s an asshole for that", and you completely ignored it...

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y

Accusing the victim of making this a "cry story" is fucking insane.

TronBronson@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y

Ah yes make money exploiting people, use it to exploit people, so glad we're too enlightened to tax these people or bind them to our laws.

glebyglobster@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y (6 replies)

this has to be satire, there’s no way

MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

We've already had reports of him propositioning employees for sex for money. You don't think he considers everyone on Twitter his property?

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

He try to buy off one of the girls he sexually harassed by offering her a horse once

CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al · 4 pts · 1y

Mate. I honestly shuddered reading your comment. Mainly cos it's fucking true

NutWrench@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y

Musk is another one of these rich, eugenics idiots with a breeding fetish. It's even creepier because his dick doesn't work anymore thanks to botched penis surgery. All his kids were conceived through artificial insemination.

ellypony@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

It is absolutely not satire. It's a drooling nethandreal with no higher order thought than "sex sex mine mine!"

brucethemoose@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

This is a known mindset among Silicon Valley uber wealthy.

rumba@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Looking at his current kids, I don't think they're going to form up as HIS legion....

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

He wants to also have a harem of females in Texas complex

PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social · 9 pts · 1y

This guy needs to be compost

Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 1y

Good. Increases his chances going out early by patricide.

LandedGentry@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 1y
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 1y

lololol satire writes itself these days

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

"WSJ is woke now"

TripleIris@lemmy.wtf · 7 pts · 1y

I could not possibly be more surprised by anything. You could tell me that the sun is hot and that would be more surprising to me than this.

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fishos@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

If you click through the linked article you discover WSJ is paywalled.

peoplebeproblems@midwest.social · 7 pts · 1y (5 replies)

Lmfao Jesus Christ that's not eugenics that's

What is that?

limelight79@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Arrogance?

boonhet@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

It's eugenics.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 1 pts · 1y

driving a chainsaw through -

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 1y

Rape?

P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

He thinks he can get to Genghis Khan levels, and his DNA will last forever.

SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I have the impression that Musk wants to be the 'Black Goat with a Thousand Young'.

NostraDavid@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y

There's a supposed 4chan tripcode that calls itself "The Antichrist" !SATANZ0Gpo. I read a ton of their comments, and I'm convinced it's actually Elon Reeve Musk. Is he just schizo-posting? Maybe. Maybe it's an imposter. Maybe...

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Looks like the Envy homunculus

RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

OK Rupert, Now do Fox News too.

Aatube@kbin.melroy.org · 4 pts · 1y

an article by david gilmour

Asswardbackaddict@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Is this guy on drugs?

Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 1y

Bruh that man is literally the ketamine-entity. Why do you even ask?

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

Yes, he does ketamine out in the open other drugs behind the scnes

meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I will only refer to him as "The inseminator" from now on

Fedizen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

"Sperm Jar" might be more apt.

Ledericas@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y

He's the person in that SVU episodes where the lawyer is obsessed with impregnating woman, but doesn't take care of them

amadeus84@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y

Sounds like someone you want to give the keys to every secret the US has. Smart man.

Formfiller@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Gross

nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 1y

Well. I certainly didn't have "Murdoch turns on a right-wing billionaire" on my 2025 hellscape bingo card.

iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

spreading like cancer