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
this usually when elon starts sober up from his drugs, just before he takes more.
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.
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
asked critical drinker to do it.
He asked grok for a summary
He was busy roleplaying toddlers, ok!!!
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?
Because media illiteracy is almost a prerequisite for being far right wing
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.
He’s playing stupid to convince his base they’re the resistance
sycophants. The answer is sycophants. Always being told you’re right messes up your brain.
also the amount of drugs he takes.
…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.
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
