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cytg111

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Has he OD'ed yet? No? Thats too bad. Anyway.

The math on this moron is fabulous, keep cranking out kids and be surprised when one of them turn out to be not cis. I mean this is a logical conundrum of epic proportions and to be honest I dont think he has it in him to really take it in. He simply lacks the wiring. Empathy I am talking about empathy.

Go suck Ketamine Elmo. Please.
 

Brovane

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And this is all going to be in an interview


You would have thought that Musk had learned something about the effects of cruelness on children from what he experienced as child living with his father. It is good that Vivian has a support from her mother. This part I think is important for people that think that it is easy for minor's to start treatment for Gender Dysphoria, it isn't easy and there is a lot of steps to go through before a minor can even start hormone therapy. This is in CA, a state that is very liberal.

Wilson said that, in 2020, when she was still a minor at 16, she wanted to start treatment for severe gender dysphoria but needed the consent of both parents under California law. She said that her mother was supportive but that Musk initially wasn’t. She said she texted him about it for a while.

“I was trying to do this for months, but he said I had to go meet with him in person,” she said. “At that point, it was very clear that we both had a very distinct disdain for each other.”

When she eventually went and gave him the medical forms, she said, he read them at least twice, once with her and then again on his own, before he signed them.

“He was not by any means tricked. He knew the full side effects,” she said.

She said she took puberty blockers before she switched to hormone-replacement therapy — treatments that she said were lifesaving for her and other transgender people.

“They save lives. Let’s not get that twisted,” she said. “They definitely allowed me to thrive.”

She said she believed the requirements to obtain such treatments remain onerous, with teenagers pressured to say they’re at extreme risk of self-harm before they’ll be approved. She said she felt judged by Musk and Peterson, in the Monday interview, for not being at a high enough risk in their eyes.
 
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K1052

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You would have thought that Musk had learned something about the effects of cruelness on children from what he experienced as child living with his father.

This would require a level of introspection and self reflection that he most certainly does not possess. If he learned anything from his dad it was mostly how to be like him. Believing everybody else is wrong all the time and you are right can have definite some advantages if what you want to do is actually technically achievable. It can also have a lot of disadvantages as your worldview, interpersonal relationships, and family relationships can be a total disaster because you become basically delusional. The Ford parallels are really remarkable and in the pantheon of very successful assholes who I would not piss on if they were on fire they share rarified air.
 

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This would require a level of introspection and self reflection that he most certainly does not possess. If he learned anything from his dad it was mostly how to be like him. Believing everybody else is wrong all the time and you are right can have definite some advantages if what you want to do is actually technically achievable. It can also have a lot of disadvantages as your worldview, interpersonal relationships, and family relationships can be a total disaster because you become basically delusional. The Ford parallels are really remarkable and in the pantheon of very successful assholes who I would not piss on if they were on fire they share rarified air.

Word! Somehow the revelation that Musk is the kind of dad who would mock or belittle his own children for “acting like a sissy” does not shock me at all. Glad one of his kids stood up and spoke out
 

cytg111

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If a kid of mine turned out to be a serial killer I would help her hide the bodies... This little bitch cant handle having a trans kid.
 
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Brovane

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Word! Somehow the revelation that Musk is the kind of dad who would mock or belittle his own children for “acting like a sissy” does not shock me at all. Glad one of his kids stood up and spoke out

I think you would find this is more common that anyone would want to admit. One of my step-father's often used lines while growing up was "Stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about". There is probably plenty of other children who grew-up in the 70's and 80's who heard that same line. My wife would just get smacked in the face with a wooden spoon by her mother. We both made the commitment that when we had children to not be like our parents.
 

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If a kid of mine turned out to be a serial killer I would help her hide the bodies... This little bitch cant handle having a trans kid.
My oldest child IS two-spirit trans. If they were an actual serial killer I would be the first one calling LE to turn their murdering ass in!
 

cytg111

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My oldest child IS two-spirit trans. If they were an actual serial killer I would be the first one calling LE to turn their murdering ass in!
Odd. If a kid of mine was a serial killer I'd seem him jailed.
Yea well. Unconditional love is unconditional. I think most parents will aid there children *no matter what*, fuck your rules, if they're actually put in that situation.
 

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iRONic

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Yea well. Unconditional love is unconditional. I think most parents will aid there children *no matter what*, fuck your rules, if they're actually put in that situation.
Mmmmkay

Every one of my children that are old enough to understand right from wrong (because that's the way they were fucking raised) know that I would be the first one to do that if they ever cross that line.
 

cytg111

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Mmmmkay

Every one of my children that are old enough to understand right from wrong (because that's the way they were fucking raised) know that I would be the first one to do that if they ever cross that line.
This is not the thread for this but it's a puzzling question to me :).
Which do you love more, your son or society?
 

cytg111

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You know, Elmo is doing Bernie Sanders work here. Maybe not in the states but definitely outside of. At this point he is not only tanking his business, he is tanking US reputation on a global scale. Everyone looking at this moron thinking :

"Maybe billionaires *is* a bad idea".

Elmo circulating disinformation on Kamala on Twitter:
 

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There's a consistent pattern, I guess, in the way these super-rich elite guys try to pump out as many progeny as they can (Musk and Boris Johnson both come to mind), while not actually putting that much effort into personally raising them. They seem to outsource all the difficult stuff to their baby-mothers, or even the paid "help". Then they seem to have a tendency to end up estranged from their own kids.

At the same time the likes of Vance express contempt towards any woman who has failed to fulfil their duty to reproduce. it's all quite unsavory. As if they are preoccupied with trying to fill the future with their genes (which not caring so much about the social aspect of parenting). Much of this seems to trace back to that "effective altruism" bollocks, that Bankman-Fried was involved in. Has there ever been an intellectual movement so misleadingly named? "Insane egotism", would be a better title for it.

Also amusing how consistently wrong the guy is.




Last December, one of the world’s wealthiest men, with public pretensions to being an intellectual, took the stage at a hard-right festival in Rome named after a character from a 1980s children’s fantasy film, and delivered an astounding streak of falsehoods.


The world’s population will be “one tenth of its current size” within three generations, he claimed. In fact, it is predicted to rise to ten billion. The birth rate, he said, “is maybe half the replacement rate”. Actually, it is above replacement globally. “Farming and cows do not have any meaningful effect on the environment,” he said. “Objectively, this is true.” Objectively, it is not. Methane is the second-biggest anthropogenic greenhouse gas and cows account for about 15 per cent of it. More than once, the host stopped Elon Musk to ask if he meant what he was saying. When he said the low birth rate meant there might not be “enough people to work” in a company in Italy, the host pointed out this was in 50 or 60 years at the earliest. “I think it’s even sooner than that,” replied Musk.
 
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That has long the path of many rich men, sire offspring and hand them off to be raised until they're old enough to be more tolerable to be around. Raising children is women's work anyway.
 
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