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I spent a few days with the in-laws for Christmas and in my down time did a deep, dark dive into #QElon’s ideology and motivations.

The shortest version I’ve come up with so far is that he’s in a billionaire eugenicist, transhumanist, white supremacist, anarcho-communist, Russian Cosmist science-fiction cult.

Unfortunately I’m dead serious about this.

This also offers a partial explanation for why he is a literal Kremlin propagandist. He and Putin are deeply aligned.
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In 2018, Elon Musk dropped by a SXSW panel and made a reference to Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian scientist who helped pioneer the Russian cosmonautics program. Tsiolkovsky was also a founding member of Russian Cosmism, who believed that humanity’s primary goal should be immortality and “interplanetarism.”

Tsiolkovsky also believed the only way to achieve this goal was widespread eugenics programs.
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#QElon constantly says how much he’s inspired by Tsiolkovsky and rocket scientist Sergei Korolev who was inspired by Tsiolkovsky too.

This has been looked on very favorably by Russian state media and Vladimir Putin.
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Tsiolkovsky was deeply supremacist and wanted to eliminate all “imperfect, useless and harmful forms of life” whether human or animal in the project of achieving a species of super-humans.
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Tsiolkovsky was deeply Russian Orthodox, to the point of being ascetic, and he was a Soviet who supported the Bolshevik Revolution.

The Bolsheviks were co-founded by Alexander Bogdanov, who became a rival of Lenin in the party. Bogdanov is thought by many to be the inspiration for the technocracy movement. And the Soviet Union itself has been referred to as a technocracy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

Bogdanov was also a science fiction writer who wrote a book about how a socialist technocratic government would take over Mars in case that sounds familiar.

And, he was an early promoter of blood transfusions as a fountain of youth. Until he died from one in 1928.

Another person very interested in this subject is Peter Fucking Thiel. #PFT
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/peter-thiel-wants-to-inject-himself-with-young-peoples-blood

The “Technocracy movement” was started by Howard Scott in 1936. It had hundreds of thousands of members in the United States and Canada.

One of the leaders of the movement in Canada was Joshua Haldeman, who was arrested on charges for it in 1940. Joshua Haldeman is Elon Musk’s grandfather.

In 2019, Elon Musk tweeted “accelerating Starship development to build the Martian Technocracy.”
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https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/longform/technocracy-incorporated-elon-musk

It should be noted that the central feature of technocracy, as defined by “Technocracy Incorporated” is the elimination of the “price system,” ie. money.

Of course, Elon Musk has been trying to disrupt the financial system for his entire career, including PayPal and his many adventures in pushing cryptocurrency scams.
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#QElon’s grandpa Joshua Haldeman, former leader of the Technocracy movement, got fed up with Canada’s “moral failures” by 1950, and moved his family to South Africa, two years after the racist, oppressive regime of Apartheid (literally, “apart-hood”) started.

The government of South Africa had been advertising it as a “whites-only paradise.” Joshua Haldeman’s daughter Maye, gave birth to Elon in Pretoria in 1971.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/world/africa/elon-musk-south-africa.html

Around the same time that Musk declared his admiration for Tsiolkovsky in 2018, Musk tweeted this: “If you must know, I am a utopian anarchist of the kind best described by Iain Banks.”

While this may seem wildly out of left field, it actually makes a sick kind of sense.
Iain M. Banks was an avowed socialist, who despised people like Elon Musk, and wrote a series of books about an anarcho-communist space-faring society called “The Culture.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture
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Iain M. Banks’s society, The Culture, who Elon Musk identifies with, like a technocracy, has no concept of money. It also has no laws, relying on a mostly harmonious relationship between humans, AIs and “drones” to keep order.

It is also a major literary example of transhumanism, because anyone in The Culture can modify themselves to be almost anything they want, including glands that produce mind-altering drugs and butterfly wings.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism

Transhumanism is a major feature of Russian Cosmism, as it calls for a “perfection” of the human race in order to bring about the holy grail of immortality.

Of course the most aggressive transhumanist of all is none other than Elon Musk who wants to implant chips in human brains in the next six months. The term “neural lace” that he uses comes from Iain M. Banks.
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https://fortune.com/2022/12/06/elon-musk-neuralink-staff-claim-rushed-brain-implant-trials-led-to-needless-deaths-1500-animals/

The race for immortality, of course, has burned a lot of Silicon Valley capital, including that of Elon Musk’s “pay pal” Peter Thiel. The Russian Cosmists turned it into a quasi-religion. And so did Silicon Valley, who started “The Church of Perpetual Life” that counts the founder of Russian Cosmism, Nikolai Fyorodov, as a “prophet.”

That’s why Elon Musk is desperately trying to distance himself from the “Western” version of transhumanism by validating 9/11-truther Luke Rudkowski.
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The ugly truth of Elon Musk’s transhumanist goals is that he is not making technology for everyone. He does not care about humans on here on Earth, because he has adopted the idea that the only thing that matters is the long term, which is destined to be “multi-planetary.”

That’s why he actively promotes “longtermism” which was proposed by William MacAskill in his book “What We Owe The Future.”
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https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/longtermism-the-stupid-idea-with

Longtermism is an incredibly naive idea that has been weaponized by people to do things like deny that climate science is trustworthy. It creates a rationale for all sorts of bad ideas.

For example, MacAskill believes we’ll be just fine if the earth heats up TEN degrees — which is obviously false and dangerous. He just thinks he knows better than scientists and lied about their approval.
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https://thebulletin.org/2022/11/what-longtermism-gets-wrong-about-climate-change/#post-heading

Turns out that MacAskill was also a mentor and ultimately business partners with Sam Bankman-Fried who said that he was getting super rich so that he could redistribute his money to projects that he believed would be good for everyone else.

In other words, he defrauded people of their money because he thought he could spend it better than them.
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/commentisfree/2022/dec/04/longtermism-rich-effective-altruism-tech-dangerous

Longtermism also inevitably leads to eugenics, which is a dark theme of almost everything in this thread. If you believe the only thing that matters are the people in the future, isn’t it your duty to make them as “perfect” as possible? Doesn’t that mean you should cull the population of people who will sully the gene pool?

This is why Apartheid-born Elon Musk thinks his followers should have as many babies as possible, but is also terrified of any more brown people in the country.
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