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[–] GoobyMcMooby@lemmy.zip 194 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Why are all these fucking weirdos like he, Epstein, Musk obsessed with having the most progeny? Fucking malignant narcissists.

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 105 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's natalism and it's a wierd and (you nailed it) narcissistic ideology.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 36 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

There's also a strong white supremacist aspect to natalism. It's a form of racial eugenics.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 day ago

QUESTION:

Why are all these fucking weirdos like he, Epstein, Musk obsessed with having the most progeny?

ANSWER:
They are...

Fucking malignant narcissists.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

They literally think they are part of a Master Race and that their magic jizz will create a future line of ubermensch.

It's esoteric fascism.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 13 hours ago

It begs questions that have only bad answers.

[–] Nomad@infosec.pub 44 points 1 day ago

Its called white supremacy. They want more white babies to be born.

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it possibly an extension of their "line goes up" mentality? Or is there a possibility they're moving towards something more nefarious? 100 kids seems like a lot to try and manage if you're actually acknowleging them as progeny and distributing your wealth among them.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're a billionaire, that's 10M dollars given per child assuming no taxes

[–] Doubleohdonut@lemmy.ca 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking of the logistics to set it up initially, but yeah to billionairres its probably easier to hire that out or something.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 18 hours ago

Trusts don't pay inheritance tax, and LTD companies don't pay capital gains. Loophole's everywhere, by design

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago

Or is there a possibility they’re moving towards something more nefarious?

The Khashoggi killing had roots in a cutthroat Saudi family feud

The cutthroat scheming within the House of Saud over the following years matches anything in the fantasy series “Game of Thrones.” The fallout extended to the United States, China, Switzerland and other countries, as the two most powerful clans of the royal family jockeyed for power. As the tension increased, the royal court around Mohammed bin Salman, the new king’s favorite son, even dared to try to kidnap a member of the Abdullah faction in Beijing in a brazen operation in August 2016 that reads like a chapter in a spy thriller.

MBS, as Salman’s son is known, became increasingly anxious and aggressive toward those he considered enemies. Starting in the spring of 2017, a team of Saudi intelligence operatives, under the control of the royal court, began organizing kidnappings of dissidents abroad and at home, according to U.S. and Saudi experts. Detainees were held at covert sites. The Saudis used harsh enhanced interrogation techniques, a euphemism for torture, to make the captives talk. They were forced to sign oaths that if they disclosed any of what happened, they would pay a severe price.

This real-life drama was described to me in a series of interviews by prominent Saudis and U.S. and European experts, in the United States and abroad, in the weeks since Khashoggi’s death. These sources had firsthand knowledge of events but asked not to be identified because they involve sensitive international matters. The information was checked with knowledgeable U.S. sources to confirm its accuracy. It helps explain the vortex of rage and lawlessness that ultimately sucked in Khashoggi, a Post Global Opinions columnist, when he entered the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2.

Here’s the bottom line, for U.S. and Saudi experts who have reviewed the intelligence findings: Khashoggi was murdered by a team sent from the royal court in Riyadh, which was part of the rapid-action capability that had been organized 18 months before. Khashoggi’s provocative journalism and his ties to Qatar and Turkey had offended the increasingly autocratic crown prince, who issued a “bring him back” order in July 2018, one that wasn’t understood by U.S. intelligence until three months later, after Khashoggi’s disappearance in Istanbul.

[–] Thorry84@feddit.nl 10 points 22 hours ago

They believe in eugenics, they are the worst of the worst.

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago
[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

Not the distribution of the wealth to the mass we want.

[–] Justas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

They have a breeding kink and the means to realise it. You are kink shaming them.

/s before the rest of the downvotes arrive.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago

Must be something with psychopaths, for all I know about it was very important to have many children.

Stronger primal instincts maybe, and not augmented by responsibility or fear or love.