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by astrange 200 days ago
> Musk was born in South Africa to a wealthy diamond mine owner (Dad)

This is something like ~4 steps away from what happened, to the point it's not true at all. (He was a part owner in an emerald mining operation in another country, it wasn't his main business, and they were middle class.)

Btw when I say from Northern England, I mean by descent, not where he grew up.

Not that I want to get into defending him since he's killed 600k people this year.

> and is a ‘confirmed non believer’ per his own public statements.

That's as Anglican as it gets. It's like a version of Protestantism you're not supposed to believe in.

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Cite? I’m just going off publicly available info. If Wikipedia and everything else I’ve read is that far off, I’d love to hear it!