Yep, Gates era billionaires had the good sense to maintain a vaneer of selfless philanthropic personality where each interaction with public was carefully crafted by PR experts. So the general public didn't know who they really were as actual people.

But Musk landed on the scene and showed the world that billionaires are as stupid as—if not more because they are out of touch with the reality—as the regular person.

How about when a republican Tweeted:

"Bummed to learn that @deesnider, the man with the perfect song written decades ago about the attack on traditional, conservative American values… “We’re Not Gonna Take It” is riding the train in the wrong direction. How could it be that he sang for us but now fights for them?

And Dee Snider:

You think i wrote a song in support of "traditional American values"? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! You funny.

smh Tom Morello talks so much about politics these days you'd think he has a degree in it

I'm facing a dilemma here.

On the one hand, I believe Ivanka and Elmo are both devious enough to take the message of someone they despise and use it for themselves.

On the other hand, both are probably too stupid to understand the message in the first place. The old malintent vs. incompetence problem.

To be fair, I also never interpreted the message of these movies in this way; but on the other hand, I was about 13 when the movie released here, and I can't remember referring to any of the movie's elements since then, less so to use them as allegories. While impressive in a technical way back then, they never had such a lasting impact on me.

He also says he loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is extremely anti-corporate and portrays every AI as flawed, an asshole, or both.

I started reading that series recently. I was aware that Elon is a fan and named multiple SpaceX modules after Culture ships. Absolutely blew my mind and made me realize how dumb he is, since The Culture seems like the opposite of everything he stands for. Plus some very pro trans messages IMHO.

Former Republican speaker of the house Paul Ryan said he was a RATM fan. The same guy who gave people Ayn Rand novels as Christmas gifts.

Tom Morello's perfect response: "Paul Ryan Is the embodiment of the machine our music rages against."

I guess I'm going to have to watch the whole series again.

I still use red pill to mean estrogen and if a misogynist tells me he took the red pill, I congratulate her on starting her transition.

I always thought the two pills looked like DayQuil and NyQuil.

So basically Cypher.

I don't normally advocate for such things, but I would not complain if a "special edition" version came out where Switch was digitally altered to be a different gender in either the Matrix or reality.

True, but Musk never broke down his worldview. He was a shitty apartheid kid, he is a shitty bigot adult

He's like conservative the Star Trek fans who chime in any time someone (even here on Lemmy) talks about Star Trek promoting diversity. They don't even notice that literally every Star Trek cast has been diverse, let alone the fact that they live in a socialist utopia with a progressive moral code, because all they care about is pew pew space battles.