Elon Musk is a product of a state organized as a permanent hunt of humans. Apartheid South Africa ran on pass laws, racial registries, and a security apparatus whose daily work was pursuing a racialized population through the streets.
He did not observe from outside. He did not change late in life. His maternal grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, chose it very intentionally and arguably helped lead it that way.
Haldeman fled Canada after being arrested as an enemy of the state, a supporter of Hitler, and went to help build apartheid South Africa, and by the family’s own account was “fanatical” in support of apartheid and sympathetic to Nazism.
The man apparently most heavily influencing Elon Musk from his early life was a conspiracy theorist with a thesis: that apartheid South Africa was destined to lead “White Christian Civilization” against an International Conspiracy of Jewish bankers controlling, in his phrase, the hordes of colored people. Great replacement doctrine, written down a generation before the term existed.
The family posture toward their vision of the hunted is on record in Errol’s own words. Flying private aircraft over the territory, he described the people below as wild humans among the wild animals and the many things that can kill you. That is the worldview Musk absorbed before he could advocate for it himself. The hunted are not people. They are fauna, a danger to be managed from above.
And then in 1988 when apartheid was faltering, under pressure from USAID and other external actors, Elon Musk was saddled up with bags of cash from his family’s ill-gotten fortunes and left first for Canada on his mother’s citizenship, reaching the United States in 1992, where he is reported to have worked without authorization. PayPal turned apartheid wealth into untraceable American tech equity and kept the human hunting framework intact.
When anyone today asks what Musk does on social media, the honest answer is that he reproduces the social logic he has always adhered to, the logic behind his abrupt migration in 1988. Identify a population. Mark it as threat. Point the crowd and say, hunt.
The pattern is consistent because the ideology is inherited, not improvised. He amplified the great replacement directly, telling its proponents in 2023 that they had spoken the actual truth.
He campaigned for the AfD, told Germans to set down what he framed as excessive past guilt, platformed Alice Weidel, and used the largest megaphone on earth to push a party under Verfassungsschutz observation closer to power. And the rhyme is hard to miss. His grandfather fled Canada for South Africa, to help lead apartheid, after his own movement was banned and he was arrested for running it.
We have to admit that the sequence in Belfast is far from novel conduct. It is a pattern, the second performance of a script Musk already ran in the same country, with the same frontman, Tommy Robinson, nearly two years earlier.
July 2024, Southport, three were murdered. A false claim spread that the killer was a Muslim asylum seeker. Musk engaged Tommy Robinson, then posted to a clip of the spreading violence that civil war is inevitable. Across the riots he posted 46 times and generated 808 million impressions, and Amnesty concluded his platform played a central role in the Southport violence; CCDH concluded no individual did more harm than Musk in Belfast.
no individual played a bigger role in spreading this content on X than Musk himself
It was the sixth time since October that Elon Musk had forecast civil war in Europe. The result of his provocation was exactly what we all know results from it, mobs targeting Muslim and migrant communities, arson at hotels housing asylum seekers.
June 2026, Belfast. A stabbing. The same Tommy Robinson issues the call. Musk amplifies with the identical grammar he used in 2024, the two-exclamation-mark endorsement: protest repeatedly and loudly. He reposts material reading millions must go and writes about murderous migrants beheading people. The result on the ground this time was unmistakably the South African hunt logic of masked men going door to door, “Foreigners get out,” burning homes they believed housed immigrants.
Door to door. That is the literal act of hunting. Not metaphor. Men moving through a city looking for members of a marked category to find and burn out. A hunt for migrants is the thing that physically happened in the street, and Musk’s amplification stood upstream of it for the second time in the same jurisdiction. A man who sounds the same call at the same target twice is no innocent bystander to the hunt he summons. The crowd heard him, and the crowd hunts.
Or to put it another way, we have no evidence he has ever said do not hunt, or called upon people to stop the hunt, even when he’s being accused of being the one instrumental in calls for it. The calls for calm came from the police service, the victim’s family, and politicians across the parties, never from Elon Musk.
