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
He should have changed Twitter’s name to Gaslight.
Does Hunger Games, Star Wars, and the Matrix all incorporate a plot of “good guys win, get complacent, government goes back to fascism and they have to defeat it again only it is harder this time around because they are old and people question if doing the same thing again will lead to the same results?”
Do fashy things and the left will attack you. That is just how it is. Dude is such a child.
Did musk actually post that? First time I want to post something he posted.
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.
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?
He didn’t actually see any of those movies. He just paid someone to watch them for him
He asked grok for a summary
He was busy roleplaying toddlers, ok!!!
asked critical drinker to do it.
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 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.
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.
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?
No… those are all the literal meaning of metaphorical.
How does this guy not understand he’s the villain?
It’s actually a great example of the difference between movies and reality. In most movies the evil people “know” that they are evil, they want to be evil. In reality evil mostly comes from people thinking they are doing the “right” thing, which has to be done, while ignoring their empathy or being incapable of empathy.
When you have so much money that nobody else matters to you and you become the only character in your story.
He’s the hero in his own mind, in the sense of: “I’m burning down society to the ground to rebuild it better for all! Can’t people see that?! Don’t they realize what I’m trying to do for them!!!” Of course he doesn’t have enough awareness to realize people can’t see that through the smoke and flames of everything burning around them.
I don’t think he doesn’t know he’s evil, that’s why posts like this fall fall so flat, he doesn’t believe his own lies.
sycophants. The answer is sycophants. Always being told you’re right messes up your brain.
also the amount of drugs he takes.
He’s playing stupid to convince his base they’re the resistance
Because media illiteracy is almost a prerequisite for being far right wing
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
…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.
This is what makes Elon’s Post funny. He calls to action against himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
