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[–] 238 points 2 years ago (11 children)

We should be lauding Elon Musk for dispelling the notion that the wealthy have any inherent superiority to anyone else. He keeps proving it over and over and over.

Thank you Elon, for being yourself and proving, once and for all, that anyone can be a billionaire, all you have to do is benefit from the exploitation of apartheid.

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  • [–] 102 points 2 years ago* (10 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 197 points 2 years ago (61 children)

    This reminds me of that guy who declared he wouldn't be listening to Rage Against the Machine anymore because Tom Morello had become too political 😂😂😂

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  • [–] 137 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    the man with the perfect song written decades ago about the attack on traditional, conservative American values

    Ah yes, the famously conservative hair metal singer whose stage getup was just shy of a drag performers. How could one forget this pinnacle of conservative values.

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  • [–] 42 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    “Ms. Gore claimed that one of my songs, ‘Under the Blade,’ had lyrics encouraging sadomasochism, bondage and rape. The lyrics she quoted have absolutely nothing to do with these topics. On the contrary, the words in question are about surgery and the fear that it instills in people. … I can say categorically that the only sadomasochism, bondage and rape in this song is in the mind of Ms. Gore.”

    -Dee Snider at the PMRC Congressional hearings.

    https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dee-snider-on-pmrc-hearing-i-was-a-public-enemy-71205/

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  • [–] 56 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    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.

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    [–] 93 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    This is the same guy who loves Iain Banks' Culture novels while somehow remaining oblivious to their strongly leftist and anti-capitalist stance, and just sees "cool spaceships go pew pew". He's a complete moron.

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  • [–] [S] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] 69 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    MAGA fools needed 4 seasons to understand that The Boys is making fun of them.

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    [–] 62 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    This is like the video of Trump folks blaring Rage Against The Machine screaming "Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!", and not seeing the irony.

    Or the people bashing Tom Morello for "getting political".

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  • [–] [S] 60 points 2 years ago

    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."

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  • [–] 60 points 2 years ago

    Conservatives telling you to escape the matrix and join them is always the funniest shit, because like grandpa, have you thought about how few people basically shape your entire worldview right now?

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The part in Matrix 4 where theyre like "do I really have to spell it out for you? We have to do this again?"

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

    What if I told you...

    ... that the Wachowskis first contacted Will Smith to be Neo, but he turned it down as he was working on Wild Wild West at the time?

    But uh yeah, it is absurd and infuriating that 'red pill' now means "become a misogynist douchebag scam artist bullshit guru to maximize profits" in a movie series that is entirely about defying the world as constructed by orientation around the profit motive.

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    [–] 40 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Imagine ‘escaping the matrix’ only to end up supporting capitalism and the overall status quo.

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  • [–] 39 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The Red Pill was literally Estrogen, it comes in green now, but came in red then

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They really should have made Switch change gender when they were in the Matrix. As it was, they being the only one to wear white in the Matrix, it was a good other option but it would have made for a better story if it was able to be the way the writing suggested

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What if I told you that breaking down your entire worldview and building it back up from the ground up can still result in shitty beliefs because you refused to look inward and work on yourself and you’re still a shitty person?

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He’s too dumb to understand that his politics suggest he should hate it.

    But if he was smarter, he might have better politics, and therefore not hate it.

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The Matrix being predicated on a climate disaster is also entirely lost, along with nonconformity in general.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People need to stop using that dumpster site.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Original meme was based, but so vague it just validated everyone who reads it

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