Ah yes the “family values” party here to yet again “save the children” from librul strangeness.

📽️📽️📽️

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    St. Clair claims she was offered $15 million and a monthly payment of $100k to stay silent about their relationship and their new son, who has been named “Romulus,” the newspaper notes.

    Musk is the scum of the earth (and I’m a man), but I think even I’d carry his baby for cash like that.

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    We should really keep talking about how Elon is the real president and Trump is just the secretary.

    Use words that they understand, like pointing out how Musk is still having kids and it’s been 19/20 years since Trump was able to sire a kid. In the MAGA world, doesn’t that show how much more deserving Musk is and that Trump is used up?

    Something to get them infighting and destroy themselves from within.

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        Nah, secretary would hurt trump more because he most likely thinks it’s a woman’s job, so trump is a secretary of the president

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      It’s not a winning move I think. The deeper, much more intractable problem is that this administration is culturally aligned with its voters, and the other party is not.

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      Elon is just another member of the trans national crime syndicate that masquerades as many national governments.

      Im not sure anyone is in charge of it, and its most likely a gentlemans agreement between its leaders to divide the world up into territories amongst its members,

      but if anyone’s in charge of it, its not Elon or Trump, its Vladimir Putin.

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    Still, Musk, like other billionaires, does seem to be obsessed with his own longevity, as can be seen by his ever-expanding family line.

    Seriously, does anyone but a few historians know what Rockefeller or Carnegie look like? Most of the US don’t even know who our former presidents were, much less what they looked like. In one or two generations, they’ll be footnotes at best. That goes for you Bezos, Dorsey, Zuck, Bannon, Stone, etc. No one cares about you.

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      We remember Rockefeller and Carnegie because of the public works they funded. If Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg want to be remembered, build some libraries.

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        Do we know what they look like though? Do we know much about 2 or 3 generations back about our own family? Some people know their names but that’s about it.

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          You know their name. Just about everyone reading your comment knows their names as well. Further, when most people hear their names the first thing that pops into their head is something positive and prestigious, not the awful things they did to make their fortunes. Many of their descendants are still wealthy and powerful to this day. It doesn’t really make much difference if people spend time looking at their portraits.

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            In 2 generations, you’ll know who Bezos is? I’ll bet there are teenagers that don’t know who Steve Jobs is.

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              In two generations well probably be banging rocks together in a irradiated hellscape and Ill hopefully be long dead.

              Creating an enduring positive legacy takes effort, and neither Jobs or Bezos really made an attempt. Guys like Musk and Gates are making that effort and are likely to be remembered, although I think its pretty unlikely Musk will ever be able to restore a positive connotation to his name.

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                Musk’s effort if it can be called as such is and has been entirely commercial in nature. A for-profit company is not a positive legacy. Ford may have made cars relatively cheap and available but he doesn’t have the positive legacy of Rockefeller or Carnegie scale. Similar with Edison who is becoming more known as the ip thief and asshole that he was. Musk bought companies/ got bought by them, he really hasn’t invented anything. He had some lines of code in his original X which got bought by PayPal just in case as it was attempting similar payment processor things. Musk’s only real chance for a positive legacy via his current stuff is to actually do human Mars travel via SpaceX. Tesla isn’t self driving and is well behind competition, known for recalls and shitty quality nowadays. SpaceX is still relatively cool but we know he’s not in charge there, Starlink could be cool but it’s also terrible for actual earth telescopes. Twitter, xAI, and that medical torture company are/will be shitshows

                The bill and melinda Gates foundation and the Zuckerberg and channing foundation are things that have at least some positive impact though gates keeps funding carbon capture tech instead of better greenhouse gas reduction/nature preservation.

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          If not for portraits on money, would we all easily remember what Washington, Lincoln, et. al. looked like?

          I’m sure part or maybe most of the reason the titans of industry ‘s portraits don’t live in most of our memories is because there were much fewer photographs of them taken. I’m sure I have an order of magnitude more photographs of my child on my phone, then existed any photographs of Rockefeller.

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            Does anyone care though? Have you ever discussed family history with a teenager? That will let you know how it’s going to go. Younger generations don’t care, just like I didn’t care when I was in high school. There are going to be exceptions, but they won’t be household names. Do you think most teenagers know who Steve Jobs or John Belushi is?

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              Your metric of “does anybody care?” being what teenagers know is really not relevant. Teenagers know jack all about anything.

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                This is my last comment.

                Teenagers are the black hole of information. If you’re not a household name to them, you will not move on to the next generation. That’s how people disappear as household names in 2 generations.

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    All violence aside I’m really curious how inheratance works out for all those kids

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    asked to be a sperm donor for a high-profile Japanese influencer. “They want me to be a sperm donor. No romance or anything, just sperm,”

    Interestingly, one of my favorite AV films has a title that translates more or less into, “No romance or anything, just sperm”

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    I wonder how many times he’s sold his sperm at the sperm bank? Seems like it would be simpler and he wouldn’t owe child support.

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    “Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet,” said Varsavsky. “Elon believes that a country is not the geography, a country is the people.”

    Speaking to an audience at an investment conference in Saudi Arabia last year, Musk laid out the urgency of the matter. “I think for most countries, they should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem they need to solve. If you don’t make new humans, there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter,” Musk told the crowd over a live video.

    Possible translation: “I’m going to need many, many future slaves and test subjects for my Neuralink brain chip that will be able to read your minds and maybe even allow me to take control of your minds and bodies whenever I want. Also, I need to blast lots of controllable people to Mars. Many of them will probably die. Pilgriming is hard business, after all.”

    Can’t believe how out of touch this sick fuck is. “Have more kids!!” Ya, ok buddy. Maybe when you make housing available and affordable. Maybe when you make it easy to have a life at home and not completely beholden to tenuous corporate interests optimized to squeeze all of someone’s life and soul out of them. Maybe when you start to actually give a fuck about the future health of this planet, so if someone decides to bring new life into existence, they’re not debilitated by guilt at having forced someone to live in the hellish future you’re fabricating.

    “Without babies there’s no future, every problem becomes secondary to the problem of not having people on the planet”

    Instead, how about “With the perception of there being a really shitty future, or possibly no future, people will conscientiously refuse to bring more people into existence because they don’t want to be responsible for their childrens’ horrible and untimely deaths.”

    I, for one, would feel like a complete piece of shit if I were to reproduce today because, sorry kid, the shittiest, most hostile sociopathic people happen to be in charge now and I don’t foresee that changing anytime soon…barring, of course, an extinction event you would have no chance of surviving.

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    He’s a plague on the world all by himself (and all the doctors he pays to make his children).

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    my guess is 45 kids. he has at least that many. like what do you call a legion? a few dozen? a few hundred?