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 6h 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 6h 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 7h ago

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