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Elon Musk married the same woman, divorced her, married her again, then divorced her again. And that is one of his more stable relationships.

Talulah Riley. Married 2010. Divorced 2012. Remarried 2013. Divorced 2016. Lay the timeline of his personal life out flat and a pattern appears that has nothing to do with bad luck. Partners cycle through on a schedule. Each one arrives as the great love and exits as a cautionary tale.

The tech press calls it the messy personal life of a busy genius. Take the genius framing away and you are left with a man who appears unable to stay in any relationship that requires him not to be the center of it.

He optimizes everything. Sleep, calories, factory layouts, rocket fuel. The one system he has never managed to optimize is the one where another human being needs him to show up as an equal.

A man can conquer markets and orbits and still lose every single time the other person stops being useful to the mission.

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@brutheon It did

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Elon Musk has promised that fully self driving Teslas are one year away, every single year, for almost a decade.

2016, a coast to coast autonomous drive is coming next year. 2019, a million robotaxis on the road by 2020. 2020, basically solved. 2021, 2022, 2023, the line never changes and the cars still cannot drive themselves unsupervised.

Real people paid real money for a feature literally named Full Self Driving, on the promise it was nearly here. Some of them are dead. There are documented crashes where the system was engaged and the car drove into things a sober human never would have.

This is not a visionary being early. Being early means you ship eventually. This is a decade of selling a product that does not exist by describing it in the present tense.

The most valuable car company on earth was built in part on a sentence that has not been true a single time he has said it.

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@therealray_007 true

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Grimes once had to publicly ask Elon Musk for help with their own child's medical situation. On the platform he owns.

Think about what that means. She is one of the mothers of his children. She has every private channel to reach him that exists. And she still ended up posting in public, because that was apparently the only reliable way to get the richest man on earth to respond about his own kid.

Their custody fight spilled across the same app he spent forty four billion dollars to control. He airs his version. She airs hers. The children sit in the middle of it while their father conducts a divorce in front of two hundred million strangers.

This is the man being sold to young guys as the model to copy. The work ethic, the empire, the vision. Nobody copies the part where your kids learn about your decisions by reading your timeline.

The empire is real. So is the wreckage behind it. They sell you one and hide the other.

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@Emperor_47 Yeah

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In 2018 Elon Musk tweeted that he had funding secured to take Tesla private at 420 dollars a share. It was not true, and the government proved it.

The funding was not secured. There was no deal. He posted a number that doubled as a weed joke, the stock exploded, and people made and lost real money on a sentence that was false. The SEC charged him with fraud.

He settled. Twenty million from him, twenty million from Tesla, and he was forced to give up his role as chairman of the board. A court had to put a supervisor between Elon Musk and his own keyboard.

This is the founder finance guys hold up as the model of conviction. The story they tell is bold visionary moves markets. The actual record is securities fraud that cost forty million dollars and a board seat.

When you do it, it is a crime. When he does it, it gets rebranded as disruption. The tweet was the same either way.

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@Web3_D1abl0 Why?

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@Jamebiggie 🤝

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A woman went public saying Elon Musk fathered her child quietly, then went silent the moment she asked him to actually be present for it.

Ashley St. Clair said she had his baby, kept it private at his request, then watched the same man who tweets endlessly about the importance of having children treat his own newborn like a logistics problem to hand to lawyers.

This keeps happening. Different women, same shape. He frames having children as a civilizational mission. Save the species. Out reproduce the decline. Then the actual children arrive and the mission energy disappears, replaced by custody arrangements and silence.

There is a word for treating reproduction as a scoreboard while outsourcing the raising of the kids. It is not visionary. It is the oldest selfishness there is, wrapped in a talk about the future of humanity.

He has more children than almost any public figure alive. Ask how many of them would say they actually know their father.

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@0xEinstein1 😅

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Elon Musk went on a podcast and described his own living daughter as dead.

She is not dead. Vivian Wilson is alive. She is trans, and in 2022 she went to court to change her name so she would carry nothing of his. When asked about it, Musk said he had been tricked into approving her care, and that the child he knew had been killed by what he calls the woke mind virus.

Sit with that. A man with more resources than almost anyone alive, who talks constantly about saving the human species by having more children, publicly disowned one of his own because she became someone he did not approve of.

She has said he was absent for most of her childhood and cold when he was present. That the estrangement was not a tragedy that happened to him. It was a choice he kept making.

He wants to populate Mars with his bloodline. He could not hold on to a daughter who was standing right in front of him.

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@GasMaxxer Lmao.

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@zebtey Yep.

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@ech0synth True.

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@bubblevans01 Yep.

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@audreyvicious2 True tho

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Elon Musk's first wife says he told her early in their marriage that he was the alpha and she should think of herself more like an employee.

Justine Musk wrote about it publicly years later. She married him at 22, gave him five children, and described a marriage where the rules were never about partnership. They were about control. She has said he wanted a trophy, then resented her for not behaving like one.

This is the part the founder mythology always edits out. The same intensity that builds rockets does not switch off when he walks through his own front door. The man who optimizes every system in his life was running his marriage like a company he held a controlling stake in.

People look at his life and see a genius who is simply too busy for normal relationships. The pattern says something colder. Person after person close to him eventually describes the same thing. They were not a partner. They were a function.

The world calls it focus. The people who actually lived next to it called it something else.

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@veehllian Intense af.

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@OxAurum Thats facts

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@ech0synth True.