• MushuChupacabra
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    1782 months ago

    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.

    • @coyootje@lemmy.world
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      972 months ago

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

    • Bonus
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      302 months ago

      Not even if it was with a turkey baster.

        • @Infynis@midwest.social
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          152 months ago

          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
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            392 months ago

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

          • gonzo-rand19
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            232 months ago

            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.

  • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    1052 months ago

    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

  • @blattrules@lemmy.world
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    1002 months ago

    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.

  • @LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world
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    982 months ago

    Hi, I’m Leon! But you can call me the neo-nazi kid :D

    I’m a proud white guy from South Africa (14 y/o in spirit).

    I’m currently trying to fuck up the world and spread my genes hoping to be the new Hitler some day!

    Do you want to have my kid? Haha just kidding. Unless…

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    612 months ago

    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.

    • FarraigePlaisteaċ
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      52 months ago

      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
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      22 months ago

      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
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    592 months ago

    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

  • @A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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
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      332 months ago

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

      • @Revan343@lemmy.ca
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        222 months ago

        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
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        112 months ago

        I know right!

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

  • @trashboat@midwest.social
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    512 months ago

    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
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      2 months ago

      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.

  • @Olhonestjim@lemmy.world
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    512 months ago

    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.

    • @douglasg14b@lemmy.world
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      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
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        202 months ago

        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
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          22 months ago

          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.

      • @Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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        22 months ago

        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
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          62 months ago

          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
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            52 months ago

            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
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                  22 months ago

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

                  Applying pressure to the middle class just topples the cards

              • @Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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                22 months ago

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

                • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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                  32 months ago

                  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
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                  12 months ago

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

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

              • @MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
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                12 months ago

                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
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                  12 months ago

                  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.

            • @Zorque@lemmy.world
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              12 months ago

              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.

    • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      132 months ago

      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.