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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums2024: Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone
From Futurism:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-government-testosterone
Elon Musk is doubling down on his growing extremism and bigotry by forwarding a theory that suggests women and low-testosterone men arent interested in the truth and should therefore be excluded from democratic governance.
The original post, which was retweeted by Musk and published by the paid blue check account Autism Capital, posits that people who cant defend themselves physically, which includes women and low T men, engage with the world through a so-called consensus filter that causes them to question not whether something is true but whether others will be OK with it.
This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus; if every screen they look at says the same thing they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believing it, reads the nonsense theory, seemingly screenshotted from the internet cesspool of 4chan.
Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective is this true filter, the post continues. This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.
Hegseth's new policy did not get pulled out of thin air. Tech bros have been discussing this nonsense for years.
wcmagumba
(7,178 posts)$ don't make brains...dat's for sure...
orthoclad
(5,454 posts)usonian
(27,595 posts)Famous quote.
durablend
(9,567 posts)Who made his kids by jacking off into a specimen cup.
harumph
(3,642 posts)Delarage
(2,670 posts)But maybe not this time (at least not at the top of the ticket).... With a misogyny at an all-time high and much work to be done.
Aristus
(72,861 posts)They're born into wealth, and somehow think that makes them "High-T".
orthoclad
(5,454 posts)Not their fault. It's society's fault.
adding /s because the world is too weird not to
sop
(20,244 posts)Grown up Elon doesn't strike me as someone who could defend himself physically either. Maybe that's why Low-T Musk surrounds himself with armed bodyguards.
DBoon
(25,340 posts)... we might have been spared the scourge of this power mad billionaire.
Midnight Writer
(26,118 posts)All of that youth and fight training and he still got whipped by a 63-year-old businessman?
That would seem to indicate, according to these experts, that he himself is Low Testosterone.
AStern
(1,011 posts)He has always been an obnoxious punk.
orthoclad
(5,454 posts)a pole tax?
mb40
(24 posts)A lunatic like Musk has to be taken seriously when he spouts this nonsense because politicians like Trump want his campaign money on their side.
His theory is wrong but ironically his followers will agree with it and consider themselves alpha males.
A lot of (self-designated) "alpha" males voted for Trump, follow social media and display a very high level of group think/herd mentality. I see them blindly accepting ICE statements for instance (because they hate immigrants) and swallowing all the incel garbage. They are not free to think because they are so afraid of losing their "alpha" status by not conforming.
DoBW
(3,454 posts)like he smokes it or something? //snorts it through a pecker?
Prairie_Seagull
(4,945 posts)There is something wrong with you.