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Remember in the hunger games when Katniss unvolunteered and let Prim die because Snow was mean to her.
(lemmy.world)
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.