I didn’t realize Elon had Canadian grandparents:

Musk’s maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, moved from Canada to South Africa in 1950 because he liked the newly elected apartheid government.

In the 1930s, Haldeman was the Canadian leader of a fringe political movement originating in the US, Technocracy Incorporated, that advocated abolishing democracy in favor of government by elite technicians but which took on overtones of fascism with its uniforms and salutes.

The Canadian government banned Technocracy Incorporated during the second world war as a threat to the country’s security in part for its opposition to fighting Hitler. Haldeman was charged with publishing documents opposing the war and sent to prison for two months.

I don’t like associating people with the sins of their ancestors, but Technocracy Incorporated sounds too silly to ignore.

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    Matter of public record, reported on by several outlets.

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      Sorry. Let me clarify. I’m not doubting that it happened based on what I know about Musk and… breeding.

      The what is really a “what the fuck? Why?”