He sided with the Dark side.
How cute. He thinks he is part of the resistance and not the thing being resisted.
Villains rarely see themselves as villains. The worst of them strongly believe that they are the good guys.
This is also missing the comment where in none of those movies was the richest man in the world a good guy.
Entirely seriously, I have been listening to many right wing Star Wars fans, since the 90s, make very serious arguments that the Empire were actually the good guys, that Agent Smith from the Matrix is actually a good guy just doing his job.
Also relevant to this: For a long while, Elon used JC Denton, the protagonist from Deus Ex, as his avatar on Twitter…
Somefuckinghow, entirely not realizing that he bears much, much more similarity to the main villain of Deus Ex, the uberwealthy deepstate oligarch Bob Page … who … concocts a false reality, regarding a pandemic, to mask the fact that he is covertly meeting with and buying influence of other prominent business people and politicians… all while also heavily investing in advancing AI tech, which he wants to proliferate everywhere.
Like 15 years ago, Elon was a major AI skeptic, considering its development potentially extremely dangerous.
Then he realized he could make money if he got AI (self driving cars) working, and just did a fucking 180.
Oh right Bob Page also pour gabillions of dollars into genetic research to grow the perfect super soldiers (JC and Paul Denton)… meanwhile Elon has … basically an artificial insemination/breeding kink that also almost certainly involves some kind of artificial genetic selection or manipulation during pregnancy, as … waaay too many of his kids come out AMAB compared to what you’d expect from the baseline of not doing that.
I have said this before: If you were to ask Elon to summarize his life story, he would tell you his whole life is basically a gigantic ‘revenge of the nerd’ plot.
He is the uber-incel.
I do genuienly believe he has Aspbergers (so now we’d say he is on the ASD spectrum) given how … just astoundingly socially awkward he is, goes ham into his hyperfixations (with billions and billions of dollars), is really, really bad at understanding and regulating his own emotions…
I am autistic as well and he is like me at 14 years old, just never actually grew up in terms of taking the time and therapy/counseling to learn how to interface better with neurotypical social norms, understand and accept yourself and how you are different…
Instead, he just wants people to think he’s cool, because he never fundamentally learned that… you gotta accept and love and define yourself first man, worry about what other people think about you second, you don’t and shouldn’t need to be loved or worshipped by everyone … you should be able to validate yourself.
On that level, it is so fucking sad and pathetic.
Reminds me of the line from a Metric song: All the gold and the guns in the world couldn’t get you off.
On another level: This man is a comic book supervillain evil CEO, and needs to be fucking put down or locked away before he just actually kills millions of people, either basically directly, or through astounding incompetence.
Sometime I wonder who elon is posting as now. He’s clearly addicted to it and we know he makes alts and impersonates people. Absolutely crazy this guy gets to run countries and run businesses. I feel like if there is no internet elons the creepy dude in the camero sitting outside the concert waiting for teenage girls to come out so he can give them drugs and try to date rape them.
If the 4chan posts that are purported to be Elon… actually are…
His latest persona is literally the AntiChrist.
… Normally a person like that ends up in an involuntary hold in a psych ward.
cocaine would explain his ability to post all day, plus the erratic paranoid behaviour, and ketamine while in public.
Well said! Glad to see you chose our instance :)
i believe he preferentially selects only his male sperm as insemination. he could be just on drugs, and he self-diagnosed which is not credible hes using to excuse his shitty behaviour.
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
You need to stop going to the 5th dentist for your obgyn exams.
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
Nah, the ending pissed them off. That series dropped like a rock.
Thank you for your candor.
…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.
Hunger Games - Resist oligarchy, enslavement and groteque forms of capital punishment for ancestral “crimes”.
Star Wars - Resist the fascist space dictator and the military industrial complex.
The Matrix - Resist authoritarian control, the obfuscation of reality, lack of bodily autonomy, and literal farming of our organs.
Divergent - Resist… cliques, I guess? I’m gonna be honest, everything I know about this series seems dumb to me. Maybe someone more informed and 10 years younger can make a better case than me here…
V for Vendetta - Resist actual factual old school fascists/Nazis, war crimes, concentration camps, human experimentation, total media control, punishment without due process.
Notice how none of these are “Resist governments that make me pay a progressive tax that limits the burden on lower income earners, that regulate industries to ensure worker, public and environmental safety, that seek to limit the influence money plays in our elections so that our representative democracy remains representative of everyone, not just the rich?” Because the shit you are resisting is the good shit, you dumb manchild fuck. It’s not the fucking same.
Divergent definitely doesn’t belong in that list. It’s like listing The Beatles next to The Monkeys; in regards to it being clearly derivative of the hunger games and the only real thing they have in common is they both made money.
The hunger games gets to stay only because v for vendetta pales in comparison when it comes to cultural relevance.
Monkees, but yes
I just noticed that the Beatles modified an animal’s name to add a musical term (beat) whereas the Monkees did the opposite, removing “key” from monkey.
never the purge, as musk would get purged, he would never qoute the rick and mortys episode of the purge planet.
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
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.
Stock price is a helluva drug
It’s still higher than it was 6 months ago, that shit needs to plummet more. I want to see it do into double digit territory, that’s where it’s true value is relative to it’s new outlook.
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.
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
Are you kidding me?
America is literally the Galactic Empire. The Matrix is literally capitalism. The capitol is literally America/Capitalism. I didnt watch the others.
Who if not the (almost?) richest man of earth is the king of capitalism?
I was going to say The Matrix was ackshually a closeted trans allegory, but it turns out it’s both (but also, whatever you want it to be, kinda).
Yeah, no. The Galactic Empire brought order to the galaxy (and a little bit of mass murder). The US has done far worse, and any good we were doing like USAID is being reversed by our small pp energy dictator.
The Empire blew up a planet.
I’m fairly certain Death Star and Death Star II are allegories for nuclear bombs dropped on Japan.
I have no source - just college lit classes.
The OG Star Wars is literally an allegory for the Vietnam War where the Vietcong are the rebels, with sci-fi nazi aesthetics (and space wizards). The USA is quite literally the Galactic Empire in that metaphor.
My kin here really tryin claim the Galactic Empire is worse than the USA?
Dont get me wrong, America has been committing crimes against their own and foreign people and holds a firm exploitative grip on the earth. But the Empire destroys planets, actively (not conveniently) exterminates people and enslaves them. They wipe out religions, and are an outright dictatorship for 20 years.
Weren’t buffalos shot to starve natives?
Did I say America committed no crimes? Don’t inflate my argument
You wrote that the difference was active and not covenient extermination. Is shooting buffalos only convenient?
Annihilating an entire planet is fine as long as there is order?
He didn’t actually see any of those movies. He just paid someone to watch them for him
asked critical drinker to do it.
He asked grok for a summary
He was busy roleplaying toddlers, ok!!!
No… those are all the literal meaning of metaphorical.
I bet his favorite band is Rage Against the Machine and he loves to sing along to In Bloom by Nirvana.
absolutely batshit crazy levels of delusion.
does the richest man in the world think… the “resistance” is… tech billionaires?
does he believe the group recklessly wielding sweeping executive powers, directing raids of homes and schools, imprisoning, threatening, black bag kidnapping dissenters off the street, and deploying the military to the borders… that they are the resistance?!
i know playing the victim is a standard gaslighting fascist rhetorical maneuver… but if he really thinks of himself as a “rebel” outsider. god help us. this man’s continued metabolic equilibrium puts us all in grave danger.
No one believes themselves to be villains. Hollywood has ruined everybody with their black and white delineations between “good” and “evil”. And of course, we as a whole have eaten up the lie; Musk claiming to be the resistance - in my eyes - proves this.
To be fair, one of the points of the Hunger Games was that the rebels were just as bad as the Capitol. Maybe that’s the resistance he identifies with.
This is what a lack of self awareness looks like i guess?
