Richest man in the world, with unchecked power in the government, thinks he’s the resistance?
it’s almost as if he’s a textbook narcissist and actually completely incapable of self analysis
Last I checked, in all of those, the resistance tried to save as many people as they could, and didn’t think empathy was weakness.
This is also missing the comment where in none of those movies was the richest man in the world a good guy.
Is Musk actually operating under the belief that the literal government is “the resistance” or is he just pretending? I think he might be delusional enough to actually believe it
…Does he think that the Alt-Right is the Resistance? They’re definitely the system, they’re the exact opposite of Punk Rock
There’s nothing “alt” about the party that controls all three branches of the federal government. They’re just the right.
The “alt” was a misnomer, to attract young adults that still haven’t forgotten the will to censorship of conservatives, so alt-right influencers made it seem like the left were the real censors, because a video game feminist said “maybe we should write better female characters”, and a shitty atheist scientist “destroyed her with facts and logic” (yes, that’s where the right appropriated that phrase).
Was it Dawkins? I half think his goal in life is to make atheists look like assholes.
It was Philip Mason, or Thunderf00t, a crappy YouTube scientist.
This is what makes Elon’s Post funny. He calls to action against himself.
Yes, and if you pop into conservative spaces for a lurk, you will unironically see them saying they’re the real inheritors of punk rock.
This is what happens when basic political science isn’t taught, guys like Elon have no idea that socialism (the left) is fundamentally about expanding democracy to our economic systems.
Man the dude is so so close to understand what a douche he is and yet completely misses the point
It’s like watching a marksman with good aim shoot in the entirely wrong direction.
More like a blind guy on a merry go round accidentally hitting a near bullseye
I realized just how dense this motherfucker is when he said his favourite book is the Player of Games which as an aside presents Fully Automated Luxury Gay Communism as the superior system (which Musk clearly bypassed or more likely never read). He just literally always identifies with the resistance movements without a hint of introspection or deeper thought because of his main character syndrome.
Musk does a better job at disputing the lie of capitalist “meritocracy” than most anti-capitalist critics ever could.
Agree here. I feel like Elon Musk and his ilk shouldn’t be allowed to enjoy any of Iain Banks’s works, since they are ideologically so opposed to everything he’s demonstrated himself to be in favour of. But really I’m probably making excuses for myself – I just don’t like it when people I think are c***s enjoy things that I enjoy, whilst remaining c***s
Did you intend to write “c****s,” but the markup put your comment in italics/bold instead?
Formatting tip - if you put a backslash “ \ “ before the asterisk, it ignores the normal command to italicize/embolden. The markup commands on Lemmy are similar to those on Reddit (though not identical; Lemmy doesn’t break links as often as Reddit does.)
D’ya know, I did, and I was assuming the convention that asterisks wrapped in non-white space wouldn’t mark-up, and only now that you mentioned it do I see how it rendered. Thanks! I’ll edit
I never told CEOs were better people or anything but I thought that they were somewhat competent. You might not be the smartest but there has to be some abilities, right?
Elon made me realize how silly I was. Money. Money is all difference. There might be smart CEOs but certainly there are very very dumb ones.
this usually when elon starts sober up from his drugs, just before he takes more.
The best scene in Star Wars was when Darth Vader was curled up at the Emperor’s feet crying and whining that he was the cool rebel really.
I bet his favorite band is Rage Against the Machine and he loves to sing along to In Bloom by Nirvana.
Lmao, no one watched divergent
Some girls who were tweens in the 2010s are really upset with you right now.
But doctor, I am tween girl in the 2010s
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
You need to stop going to the 5th dentist for your obgyn exams.
Nah, the ending pissed them off. That series dropped like a rock.
…I did. Nothing groundbreaking, but decent enough to have on a side screen while flying around collecting herbs in WoW.
Then again perhaps the herbs were more interesting, now that I think about it…
Probably the 2nd best YA fantasy movie adapted from a book in its era. I’ll never not be disappointed by The Giver, but I think they had a hard task to accomplish. É
…Divergent literally killed the trend my dude.
It probably did, but not before it got a couple sequels*. The other YA adaptations were just that bad.
*Their ambitious part one of the final movie was a terrible decision though.
Thank you for your candor.
you are almost there Elon keep straining those cells and you will get it soon
That’s from August 2024. Then he didn’t have the same power.
I would love to know if he still sees himself as a rebell. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42766191 Him leaving politics because of the left criticism suggests that he thought he was fighting the good fight.
I would agree if he wasn’t publicly voting Republican at that point, which he was. By midterms 2022 he had publicly stated that the Democrats were the party of hate and division and that everyone should vote Republican. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_activities_of_Elon_Musk
It would be interesting to see him fake being progressive again, say “it was all a joke” and deliver a non-apology in hopes that his EV sales pick up again.
Jokes on him. The hate doesn’t stop till he’s broke or dead. Preferably both.
He should have changed Twitter’s name to Gaslight.
