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Tue Apr 15, 2025, 09:27 PM Apr 2025

The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His 'Legion' of Babies--and Their Mothers WSJ

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Musk has had at least 14 children with four women, including the pop musician Grimes and Shivon Zilis, an executive at his brain computer company Neuralink. Multiple sources close to the tech entrepreneur said they believe the true number of Musk’s children is much higher than publicly known.

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Musk’s baby-making project is relevant to his ambition for NASA, which he wants to move faster to go to Mars. He said on X that making people multiplanetary is “critical to ensuring the long-term survival of humanity and all life as we know it.”

In Musk’s dark view of the world, civilization is under threat because of a declining population. He is driven to correct the historic moment by helping seed the earth with more human beings of high intelligence, according to people familiar with the matter. His businesses are set up to serve the idea: The main objective of SpaceX is to build a rocket ship capable of getting to Mars, and his other companies, including electric-car maker Tesla, help finance the plan. Musk refers to his offspring as a “legion,” a reference to the ancient military units that could contain thousands of soldiers and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire.

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Musk has warned that “civilization is going to crumble” if people don’t start having more children, a view popularized as pronatalism in right-wing circles. The pronatalism movement is composed of people concerned about the birthrate and eager to implement policy and cultural solutions to the problem. Martin Varsavsky, a friend of Musk’s who founded a large chain of in vitro fertilization clinics in the U.S., said he has spoken with Musk about the risks of falling birthrates. “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.”

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The Tactics Elon Musk Uses to Manage His 'Legion' of Babies--and Their Mothers WSJ (Original Post) question everything Apr 2025 OP
He needs to make more booger eaters to save the world. Ziggysmom Apr 2025 #1
Shorter: Musk considers female humans nothing more than incubators to service his creepy worldview. Nt CousinIT Apr 2025 #2
Super short: Inbreds chowder66 Apr 2025 #3
So gross! he is the weirdest mofo of all, in this hell administration LymphocyteLover Apr 2025 #4
Planet of the Musks. Buns_of_Fire Apr 2025 #5
kick question everything Apr 2025 #6
The Handmaid's Tale. More question everything Apr 2025 #7

Ziggysmom

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1. He needs to make more booger eaters to save the world.
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 09:51 PM
Apr 2025

I loved it when the kiddo wiped his snotty fingers on Trumps desk. Shortly thereafter the desk got sent out for “Refinishing”.


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CousinIT

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2. Shorter: Musk considers female humans nothing more than incubators to service his creepy worldview. Nt
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 09:58 PM
Apr 2025

question everything

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7. The Handmaid's Tale. More
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 12:48 PM
Apr 2025

While she was pregnant, Musk had urged her to deliver the baby via caesarean section and told her he didn’t want the child to be circumcised. (Musk has posted on X that vaginal births limit brain size and that C-sections allow for larger brains.) St. Clair is Jewish and circumcisions are an important ritual in the religion, and she decided against a C-section. He told her she should have 10 babies, and they debated the child’s middle name.

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