• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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        Stop taking the autonomy from these women. He isn’t raping them (that we know of). The only victim is the poor kid that will suffer.

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          The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

          Coercion is rape.

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            Someone making money directly through Nazi Twitter gets no sympathy from me when its fuhrer turns his ire against them.

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            Is there something stopping her from having a job like a normal person instead of making money on Twitter? She doesn’t have kids, she can do whatever else she wants. At some point, you have to admit that staying where you are is a choice you’re making.

            From the WSJ article this article is referencing:

            Fong didn’t move forward with Musk because she pictured having children in a more traditional nuclear family, but confided to a few friends about the approach—including St. Clair, whom she knew as another conservative social-media figure—and how she worried that turning him down could hurt her earnings.

            Once Musk learned that Fong disclosed the request to others, he chided her for not using discretion, according to the people, and unfollowed her. That contributed to a fall in her engagement, and her earnings declined.

            Taking money/resources away from people who don’t follow along is what Elon does. She knew that beforehand and made the choice not to have a kid with him with that knowledge in mind. Elon tried to coerce her and she dealt with the consequences of refusing.

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      Well apparently he doesn’t do that, news outlets are saying that all of his kids are from ivf.

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    When she didn’t sign the NDA, the payments were reportedly slashed, and eventually cut again to $20,000 a month.

    Oh no! Only 20,000 dollahs!? That poor woman must now be living on water and bread for the rest of her life!

    Listen, I get it - Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he’s an asshole for that, but the cry story is just bleh.

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      Jesus fucking Christ, your mentality right now is that hush money is okay. You’re saying that because she’s getting a lot of money she shouldn’t complain.

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        hush money is okay.

        Weird how I said “Musk is using his money to manipulate people and he’s an asshole for that”, and you completely ignored it…

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      He promised $15m and $100k / month. Would you honestly sleep with Musk and carry the weirdo’s kid for any less? I’d need $20k/mo just to have dinner with the guy once.

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          I gave up my top tech career for about that amount, I’m privileged enough to do so. So absolutely yes. Check my post history where I burned bridges with xAI lol.

          This lady is probably being lambasted through the media as a whore, death threats, legal risk, etc. So yes just to meet with the guy and put my life at risk I would abso-fucking-lutely need a shit ton of cash. Musk is one of the most dangerous people alive.

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            Yeah, at the very least she needs security and lawyers. 20K is little enough to endanger her life.

            …On the other hand, she’s an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

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              ….On the other hand, she’s an influencer farming attention. And not in a good way. That cuts a lot of my empathy short.

              How the hell is exposing weird shit an evil person says and his bribes to give you hush money “farming attention?” You’re victim blaming.

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                Look at her social media posting history. Look at her published book:

                BRAVE Books and Ashley St. Clair partnered to write “Elephants Are Not Birds,” a Christian, Conservative children’s book that tackles the topic of gender identity. In the book, children will learn that boys are not girls, and Elephants Are Not Birds.

                I retract/regret what I said… I didn’t mean to victim blame. This sucks for her and she doesn’t deserve one bit of it, nor does her abuser deserve any sympathy. She deserves empathy.

                But she also appears to have made a living peddling (IMO) hate far and wide. I am struggling to express/process how I feel about that… it’s a tragic irony, I guess? And frustration at that whole ecosystem she was in (which Musk is at the very tippy top of).

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          yeah, because some of us have a conscience and will remember his disgusting behavior for the rest of our lives.

          not everyone has morals as loose as yours.

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            Now that’s not fair. Not everyone has the privilege to flip off Musk in that scenario. I do but most wouldn’t. I don’t blame Woht24 or any of the women Musk lured in.

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    Holy shit if these people get anymore cult like they’re going to move to South America and kill themselves.

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    Well now I’m starting to think that 4chan account might actually be his, how fun!

    A Nazi who thinks he’s the Antichrist. What a fuckin world

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      Who “Christians” put in power, fucking delicious irony, what a bunch of ignorant, hateful assholes.

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        I know right!

        Can’t say I’m surprised. Honestly, the Zionist Evangelicals who keep trying to start the Apocalypse would probably be happy.

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        Who “Christians” put in power, fucking delicious irony, what a bunch of ignorant, hateful assholes.

        That part is straight out of the Bible too

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    The report said Musk sent Fong a direct message asking if she wanted to have his baby — despite never having met her in person. Fong confided in friends about the advance, and once Musk found out, he unfollowed her, and her X earnings reportedly nosedived. At the peak of Musk’s engagement with her posting, she apparently raked in $21,000 over a two-week stretch on his platform.

    That’s kind of messed up

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    I could not possibly be more surprised by anything. You could tell me that the sun is hot and that would be more surprising to me than this.

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    I am not surprised. Elon is an accelerationist who believes that the next social turmoil will definitely be coming. But since it is going to happen, he thinks it is better if it comes sooner rather than later.

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      That’s thiels shtick too,.but they know the end is coming so they built compounds in other countries once the masses turn on them

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    Is it weird to anyone else that he just assumes his “legion” of children will follow him unquestioningly?

    My dad keeps giving me stock “tips” (my stepsister works at a gold mine and he keeps telling me their stock’ll go up any day now despite the mine not being in operation yet 🙄) and I haven’t even followed through on that.

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        That was a mistranslation, stepdad is saying his daughter is a gold digger and she ain’t messing with no broke… no, you know what, fuck Klanye, those lyrics should have been generally understood as a red flag.