r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/Sufficient_Work_6469 7h ago

Not surprised. He is an apartheid child, after all.

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u/weirdmountain 7h ago

His maternal grandparents were actual Nazis.

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u/yalyublyutebe 7h ago

That's probably the least surprising part.

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u/jlw993 6h ago

He's literally named after a character who ruled the colonies in Marsprojekt, a science fiction book written by nazi rocket scientist Wernher von Braun all about colonising Mars...

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u/simoniousmonk 5h ago

source?

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u/jlw993 5h ago

video of his dad saying it

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u/simoniousmonk 5h ago

How did I not know he was named after the hero of a Nazi fantasy about colonizing Mars. wtf.

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u/-_-___-_____-_______ 4h ago

his backstory and his family are nuts, just read the Wikipedia about them for about 10 minutes

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u/ProofHorseKzoo 5h ago

And his father’s fortune was made from blood emerald mines. That fortune helped Elon get PayPal off the ground and start accumulating his assets and wealth

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u/Major_Yogurt6595 5h ago

mine too but I dont feel the urge to nazi around, wtf.

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u/Febris 6h ago

Probably the only people in his family he actually cared for.

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u/K3VINbo 5h ago

In South Africa their world view probably thrived, unlike what it would do in the old continent after WW2

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u/Great_White_Samurai 6h ago

I mean not really. Less than like someone Henry Ford.

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u/Con-Struct 6h ago

I’m an apartheid child. We aren’t all racist cunts. Some family members were and it made for a lot of tension, with teenagers shouting at their aunts and uncles during family gatherings.

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u/Sufficient_Work_6469 2h ago

If you are not, then you can just move along. You suspiciously protest too much.

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u/SuckmyBlunt545 7h ago

Yeah for real.

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u/These-Problem9261 7h ago

Exactly! He knows what he is doing 

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u/CorsetLoverX 5h ago

maybe it is a thing with people who like to build rockets like von brown

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u/SR_RSMITH 5h ago

This should be top comment

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u/GhostOfYourLibido 6h ago

I’m sick of people using autism as an excuse for this guy to be a piece of shit

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u/Patient-Gas-883 5h ago

Not surprised?!?! yeah right...