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.
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.
Gates after his PR rehab, that is. Society seems to be forgetting just how universally hated that guy was.
After the antitrust deposition where he came across as petty, arrogant, contemptuous — and clearly guilty — he disappeared for a while and returned with perhaps the greatest PR transformation of all time.
The hilarious part is, he absolutely had the same PR team that the Gates and Jobs and Buffetts had.
And at some point in the Trump presidency, he just straight up threw them to the curb. Fired the lot of them, or at least stopped listening to a word of advice they gave. And he just started going on rants, tangents, and showing who he really was for all the world to see.
Nobody will ever know for sure, but best guess is his addiction to Twitter drove his need to be acknowledged and accepted by the general populace. He was a rockstar, and he got off on that feeling.
Wait what? How is Gates seen positively? Microsoft was the worst tech company under him and did so much awful stuff …
God that is so much not what Gates is about and has ever been about. Even the veneer isn't selfless, I don't mean people are fooled I mean they don't even bother looking at the top level. Because even the pr doesn't hide that it's all about profit and handouts to corporations.
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 😂😂😂
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.
“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/
The most stereotypical drag band aren't conservative? What a shocker
Did they not see the music video for that song where a rebellious kid using the power of rock rebels against his authoritarian father? Turning into the effeminate-looking singer of the song in the process, a song by a band named twisted SISTER? Said father who is heavily implied to be a former US Marine?
Yeah that's about as "Traditional American Values" and "Pro-Conservative" as a black lesbian burning down a Chic-Fila-A on June 1st with a molotov cocktail made from a bottle of Bud Light (It's not very Left Wing, but the brand triggers the fuck out of Righties) while making out with her transgender undocumented immigrant girlfriend, who had a perfect 15 inch girl-cock boner the whole time, because she is non-op and does not desire Bottom Surgery nor feel she should get a procedure that would be more effective on someone who actually does have dysphoria down there... She does however hope to have implants some day, and will look into it after gaining citizenship via marrying her black lesbian lover... However said Black Lesbian Lover gets SSI on account of being epileptic and cannot marry anyone without it harshly affecting her benefits and jeopardize her already vicarous living situation, so the wedding is off until they can find a lawyer to show them the right loopholes.
Oh dear God help me this is becoming a short story......
(Not a threat or call to arms, please do not burn down any establishments chicken or otherwise, voting for Biden will be enough, thank you)
smh Tom Morello talks so much about politics these days you'd think he has a degree in it
I love when I learn things from sarcasm.
He attended Harvard University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Morello
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.
Ivanka is not stupid at all, this is a dangerous thought process that because someone is attached to ineptitude they themselves most too be inept. She's manipulative and often plays the dumb pretty girl because people buy it and it is at times very very advantageous.
Disgusting
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.
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.
He's Veppers.
MAGA fools needed 4 seasons to understand that The Boys is making fun of them.
Didn't a lot of republicans also get mad after season 3‽
It's very easy to read Billy Butcher as a right wing reactionary vigilante, because he's written as a caricature of an 80s/90s action hero.
It's easy to read Homelander as a Woke, Soy, Cucked establishment liberal because - early on - that's exactly the role he fills.
The show has gone downhill as the (relatively thin) subtlety in the narrative has worn away. By season 4, they were all but branding "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy" on people's heads, in a show that originally did at least pretend to struggle with morality in what amounts to a guerrilla war.
That's before you get into the compulsive need to make gross out humor the Cruz of every episode.
It is very easy to miss that Butcher is ping-ponging between:
- Tough guy that uses people.
- Guy with high morals that values friendships.
- A father in a fundamentally broken relationship that is out of reach.
People might easily miss these when he says oi cunt as a distraction.
Also, it might be easily missed but all his using of establishment and grinding against it, while championing people might get lost on people. Butcher does his oi cunt I shoot ya gobba off with a shooty-shoty, it is bong o'clock way too much so the fact that he is closer to a redfash might get lost on people. Also because actual redfash historical figures are rarely portrayed as anything but a dumb baddie.
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".
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."
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?
The part in Matrix 4 where theyre like "do I really have to spell it out for you? We have to do this again?"
I guess I'm going to have to watch the whole series again.
🤌
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.
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.
Wow that's a bombshell piece of trivia, can you imagine if Smith said yes? Thank god it turned out this way.
To prove I am not making this up:
https://people.com/movies/why-will-smith-turned-down-the-matrix/
The term “Agent Smith” within the movies would become very confusing.
Roger, Roger. What’s our vector, Victor?
Also the Red Pill in the movie is literally estrogen. The Wachowskis based it off perscribed estrogen pills for trans women in the 90s.
So Maga idiots saying "take the red pill" today are literally saying they want to be women.
Imagine ‘escaping the matrix’ only to end up supporting capitalism and the overall status quo.
So basically Cypher.
"You know, I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss."
The Red Pill was literally Estrogen, it comes in green now, but came in red then
I always thought the two pills looked like DayQuil and NyQuil.
This was my head (cold) canon as well.
Give me the fish oil pill and I will get back to you…
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
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.
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?
True, but Musk never broke down his worldview. He was a shitty apartheid kid, he is a shitty bigot adult
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.
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.
The Matrix being predicated on a climate disaster is also entirely lost, along with nonconformity in general.
Also AI is evil although that was like the main plot point
People need to stop using that dumpster site.
You are implying that not all corporate American controlled sites are dumpsters..
Original meme was based, but so vague it just validated everyone who reads it
Can someone explain to me how The Matrix was a protrans allegory as the post claims. I've seen the movie many times and I don't remember anything to that effect.
Basically, the Wachowskis (directors) are trans. The trans aspect was only one part of the film, but the idea is basically that your body in the real world (sex) is separate from your identity in the matrix (gender) and the character Switch (who has a male body but is a woman in the matrix) is maybe the clearest example.
The Wachowskis themselves both say that there is a strong trans element in the Matrix while Lilly Wachowski also says she doesn't know "how present my transness was in the background of my brain as we were writing".
There's also a ton to the whole "Mr.Andresonnnnnn" "My name is Neo" recurring bit. While you could read it as anyone asserting a chosen identity over a given one in a broad sense, it was written by two trans folks. It's meant to be dead naming.
It's really well done. Teenage cis me (still cis, no longer teenage), picked up on precisely zero of that. Like Lilly said, some people, the people struggling with that, definitely did which is awesome. I think media like this can go a long way in cutting through some of the shitty narrative and "othering" that goes on in favor of the more universal truth: an individual is the one with final say in who and what they are. I'll never really understand being trans, I've never felt out of place in my given assignment, but your damn right I can understand being pissed about being forced to call myself something I know I'm not.
It always seemed that simple to me. I'm also really glad folks got a power fantasy with this coding. Sure, a grounded character drama might help some people feel seen, and that's cool. But you know whats cooler? Fucking kung-fu mastery and godamn flying.
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435
I actually don't recall the anti-capitalist message, beyond the implication that office drones are just exploited human capital in a endless life of drudgery-
Oh, wait, I see it now.
When agent Smith tells you to take the red pill don't trust him 😆
I always wondered what would happen if you took both pills.
I hate when people say they want to build up their belief system on critical thought and analysis... But they are religious or conservative idiots. Like come on.
“Logically we can…”
I hear this all the time as well. It’s so absurd as if basing their bullshit on conservative ideology and the Bible makes it logical.
Then they will claim Christianity is not a religion, but "fact".
Fun fact: Switch was literally supposed to be a trans person that was male in the Matrix but female in the real world.
Yep, we were talking about that elsewhere. I said I'm not normally a big fan of doing things like digitally replacing an actor, but if they found a way to do that in some sort of 'special edition,' I'd be okay with it.
And nobody would really care about that. Most people don't care if a character is trans. They care about badly written characters that defy all logic.
They don’t care about the kungfu either. They’re mostly in it for the guns.
But if you’re dumb (or intellectually dishonest) enough, you can co-opt anything.
I seriously doubt that Elon understands the concept of kung fu, either.
What if I told you the phrase "what if I told you" is not in any of the matrix movies.
True
that takedown hit harder than any of the actual fights in the franchise
Elon Musk: Trump is doing the critical thought and analysis for me, but I did the rest of that.
Where is the trans element? I'm aware that the directors are but I cannot recall anything obvious in the film.
originally Switch was supposed to be trans but, you know, 1999 and it was too early for that as the Wachowski sisters stated. The red pill in the movie was literally modelled after the perscribed estrogen people that trans women took in the 90s (which makes the whole "red pill" thing today really funny). Theres' also the whole "dead name" thing but that's up for debate.
I think someone that didn't make it into the movie cannot be cannon. The red pill thing is there but its really really subtle. Enough to be debatable. I'm not aware of what you mean by "dead name" in the context of the movie. It's not shocking that a movie made in 99 didn't really touch on that issue.
Leon proving once again that even a massive retard can become rich.
