Musks grandfather……
And Trump wants Greenland and Canada……
Same same….
Elon Musk's grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was a "radical conspiracy theorist," the Atlantic reports.
Haldeman was convicted in Canada for his involvement in a technocratic political movement.
The movement believed an authoritarian group of tech-savvy overlords could solve the world's problems.
Elon Musk's grandfather, the late Joshua Haldeman, spent his time ranting about minority groups he didn't like, speculating about a global conspiracy led by shadowy figures (read: Jewish people), and joining the cause of technocracy.
According to a deep dive from the Atlantic on the life of Haldeman, the Canadian chiropractor was a "radical conspiracy theorist" who spent the beginning of his career as part of a group known as "Technocracy Incorporated."
Howard Scott, man with his hair slicked back and wearing a suit stands up and addresses a crowd seated at a long wooden table.
Howard Scott, the founder of Technocracy, in Los Angeles, California. Bettmann via Getty Images
The movement had a bizarre set of principles: They believed that the world should be run by a totalitarian regime of engineers and scientists based in North America; that these tech overlords would solve all of society's problems; and that people only had to work 20 years before retiring.
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The party, founded in the 1920s, gained popularity during the Great Depression and at one point had more than half a million members in California.
The organization also referred to people as numbers (apparently, Musk's grandfather was 10450-1) and sometimes added Xs to their names. Followers donned identical gray clothing and cars and greeted each other with special salutes, the Atlantic found. A newspaper cited by the magazine said the group gave off "the tone of an incipient Fascist movement."