So, I'm obligated to be that guy.
A big part of the Hunger Games plot was Katniss wooing rich donors into backing her underdog campaigns, first as a contestant and then as a true revolutionary.
Mon Mothma was a mega-wealthy Corriscant socialite who built an underground financial network capable of financing the rebellion.
And those are just the fictional reflections of real historical revolutionary struggles. Class Traitors are a pivotal part of any anti-capitalist narrative and for good reason. A rebellion marches on its stomach.
Musk is still a coked-up ego-maniacal dipshit. But the idea that you just need a bumper crop of angry poor people to revolutionize a society has an extensive list of empirical refutations.
I'm 14 and this is deep
You watched Star Wars and sided with the resistance
Sided with the group against the politician who manufactured threats to rile up their base enough to vote him limitless power in government that he used to make himself forever emperor and turning the democratic Republic into a xenophobic, fascist authoritarian society which draws loose parallels with nazism? So much to the point that when declaring himself the emperor, Padme outright says "So this is how democracy ends..."
You're goddamn right I sided with the resistance in that regard
It's hilarious that Republicans/Conservatives see themselves as the resistance. Like when did helping people and trying to provide better lives for the needy and taxing the rich and corporations become "radical"? I'm thinking they don't actually know what a lot of these words mean. We already know they have no understanding what "woke" means, unless they do and they just don't care, which could also be true.
One of the richest men in the world calling the Trump campaign a resistance is kind of ironic.
Au contraire, mon frere, in most of these movies the VILLAN was the one with power and unlimited resources. Just. Like. Elon.
And Elon - you have cited movies designed to manipulate the audience into siding with the rebels, not the oligarchs. Y'all want a better metaphor from pop culture? Try The Sopranos, Dexter, or the SAMCRO bunch - they're truly amoral shitbags designed to appeal to the downtrodden masses. So go murder Big Pussy, wrap his corpse in a carpet, and dump him in the bay. That's how you get people to cheer for you.
With apologies to all the Big Pussies out there who are about to get whacked by Elon's populist quest. (Cause he reads this thread.)
One of the most delusional people of our time.
Man-child is the richest man in the world and still has to conjure up conspiracies and shadowy cabals to excuse why he doesn’t have even more.
This is how rich people see themselves tho, and it's important to pay attention to that. They all think their a small cadre of radical hold outs fighting an evil government trying to exercise over regulation. They think they're the rebels from star wars.
It's always cringy when right wingers compare fictional movies to real life scenarios. Especially when they're the type that doesn't trust THE MEDIA. Like b*tch, this ain't even pretending to be real. Then they pretend to be experts on American history but they can't find any real life events to compare it to. Glen Beck was big on this
What a weird, clueless little dweeb
It's almost as if we don't live in a fictional universe, Elon, yet you still try hard to be the villain.
The tool doesn’t have the self-awareness that billionaires are petty, wealth- and power-hoarding tyrants needing to be resisted against, and he’s one of them.
King of actively stoking a civil war
The funny thing is that the resistance in The Matrix was pro-trans as is The Matrix (a trans allegory according to the writers)
The lack of introspection is astounding.
Probably comes down to "B b but gubment bad."
When you clap for netanyahu but think you're the resistance.
Someone should tell him what happens during real revolutions. Let’s take the French Revolution for example…
Being the richest manchild in the world is the new punk!
Our most successful sociopaths, aka market Capitalists, literally own the means of state violence through the governments they bribe and own.
They are the evil empire, oh the irony.
Don't worry, muskrat. We are siding with the resistance.
Could've been Batman.
Instead he's just a bad man.
He fails to see exactly THAT in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Sweet, Justin Hammer wants his own resistance. Resistance from normal human behaviour, I suppose.
Our favorite resistance guy
What Elon is too dumb to understand is that he's not the resistance. He's not not the resistance. He's a wobbly Jenga block in the middle of the tower that's one bad move away from dragging everyone down with him.
I'm sure zorg there thinks he is the resistance because of all the resistance to his bullshit.
Everyone thinks they are the good guys except for some edgy kids. Whether they are is a matter of philosophy and personal grudges. Ultimately though it doesn’t matter. Winners take all and reshape history as they see fit. Good and bad is a quantum concept but when you construct the world from little quantum molecules it loses the microscopic properties.
No one is really good. But then no one is really bad either. No more than a tiger killing an Antelope is bad. Of course Christianity tries to convince us that we have some kind of free will and are different from animals but it is all grandiosity. We function in a way we are hard coded to. When function of one goes against the others it’s called crime and such element is removed so that our program can be continued.
Good and bad are human inventions meaningless in the vast cosmos or even on a level of geopolitics. Even on a level of single government they are mostly just slogans to mobilise voters. No politician was ever burdened by these definitions because they cannot be if they ever want to shape the whole country.
History is ripe with sociopathic assholes as heroes and role models and well meaning empaths as villains. Well no wonder the assholes in question shaped it itself.
Fascists' ability to miss the point is Infinite.
I think he's doing too much Ketamine and was in the k-hole again. The richest man in the world thinks he's "the resistance". Against what? Himself? The best satire writes itself I guess. It's clear that he's just trying to let people believe he's on their side. But when it comes to workers rights, naaahh not part anymoree lmaaoo, only enough for edgy posting on "X" (Twitter). Then the poor people can f themselves. Or his family with the mines in africa, he comes from a rebel household. But when a family member is not like what the social expectation was 50 years ago then she will be banished and badmouthed. He's the one fighting against the system, the rich corrupt elite .... oh wait. Idk how you can reach this level of delusion. Maybe he really didn't consider the safer use rules while doing k and overdid it
May a bear catch and fuck that guy forever.
How can Democrats be "the resistance" and in control of the most powerful nation on Earth? Seems to be a contradiction.
