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DBoon

(25,342 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 05:49 PM 22 hrs ago

2024: Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone

From Futurism:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-government-testosterone

Elon Musk is doubling down on his growing extremism and bigotry by forwarding a theory that suggests women and “low-testosterone” men aren’t interested in the truth and should therefore be excluded from democratic governance.

The original post, which was retweeted by Musk and published by the paid blue check account “Autism Capital,” posits that “people who can’t defend themselves physically,” which includes women and “low T men,” engage with the world through a so-called “consensus filter” that causes them to question not whether something is true but whether “others will be OK” with it.

“This makes them very malleable to brute force manufactured consensus; if every screen they look at says the same thing they will adopt that position because their brain interprets it as everyone in the tribe believing it,” reads the nonsense theory, seemingly screenshotted from the internet cesspool of 4chan.

“Only high T alpha males and aneurotypical people (hey autists!) are actually free to parse new information with an objective ‘is this true’ filter,” the post continues. “This is why a Republic of high status males is best for decision making. Democratic, but a democracy only for those who are free to think.”


Hegseth's new policy did not get pulled out of thin air. Tech bros have been discussing this nonsense for years.
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2024: Elon Musk Suggests That Government Should Be Replaced by Dudes With High Testosterone (Original Post) DBoon 22 hrs ago OP
Musk and others with similar thoughts are straight out of a loony bin... wcmagumba 21 hrs ago #1
But apartheid-era slave labor makes $$$ orthoclad 18 hrs ago #12
NUTS!! usonian 21 hrs ago #2
This from someone durablend 21 hrs ago #3
Like Prezident Comacho. harumph 21 hrs ago #4
I'm ready for some High-E leaders Delarage 21 hrs ago #5
It's a pathology with these meatheads. Aristus 21 hrs ago #6
affluenza. orthoclad 18 hrs ago #11
Growing up Musk was routinely attacked and severely bullied, he ended up in the hospital after one severe beating. sop 21 hrs ago #7
If they had antibullying programs back then... DBoon 20 hrs ago #8
I believe even senior citizen Scott Bessent whipped him. Recently. And Elon is "trained in martial arts". Midnight Writer 19 hrs ago #9
He was beaten up because he mocked a classmate whose dad committed suicide AStern 18 hrs ago #13
Instead of a poll tax orthoclad 18 hrs ago #10
The danger of money influencing politics mb40 18 hrs ago #14
what?...high on testosterone? DoBW 18 hrs ago #15
What, you don't like us and you want to tax us more! Prairie_Seagull 18 hrs ago #16

wcmagumba

(7,180 posts)
1. Musk and others with similar thoughts are straight out of a loony bin...
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 05:55 PM
21 hrs ago

$ don't make brains...dat's for sure...

Delarage

(2,672 posts)
5. I'm ready for some High-E leaders
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 06:15 PM
21 hrs ago

But maybe not this time (at least not at the top of the ticket).... With a misogyny at an all-time high and much work to be done.

Aristus

(72,871 posts)
6. It's a pathology with these meatheads.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 06:27 PM
21 hrs ago

They're born into wealth, and somehow think that makes them "High-T".

orthoclad

(5,471 posts)
11. affluenza.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 09:01 PM
18 hrs ago

Not their fault. It's society's fault.

adding /s because the world is too weird not to

sop

(20,259 posts)
7. Growing up Musk was routinely attacked and severely bullied, he ended up in the hospital after one severe beating.
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 06:30 PM
21 hrs ago

Grown up Elon doesn't strike me as someone who could defend himself physically either. Maybe that's why Low-T Musk surrounds himself with armed bodyguards.

DBoon

(25,342 posts)
8. If they had antibullying programs back then...
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 07:42 PM
20 hrs ago

... we might have been spared the scourge of this power mad billionaire.

Midnight Writer

(26,121 posts)
9. I believe even senior citizen Scott Bessent whipped him. Recently. And Elon is "trained in martial arts".
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 08:00 PM
19 hrs ago

All of that youth and fight training and he still got whipped by a 63-year-old businessman?

That would seem to indicate, according to these experts, that he himself is Low Testosterone.

AStern

(1,012 posts)
13. He was beaten up because he mocked a classmate whose dad committed suicide
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 09:17 PM
18 hrs ago

He has always been an obnoxious punk.

mb40

(24 posts)
14. The danger of money influencing politics
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 09:22 PM
18 hrs ago

A lunatic like Musk has to be taken seriously when he spouts this nonsense because politicians like Trump want his campaign money on their side.

His theory is wrong but ironically his followers will agree with it and consider themselves alpha males.

A lot of (self-designated) "alpha" males voted for Trump, follow social media and display a very high level of group think/herd mentality. I see them blindly accepting ICE statements for instance (because they hate immigrants) and swallowing all the incel garbage. They are not free to think because they are so afraid of losing their "alpha" status by not conforming.

DoBW

(3,456 posts)
15. what?...high on testosterone?
Fri Jul 17, 2026, 09:24 PM
18 hrs ago

like he smokes it or something? //snorts it through a pecker?

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