Or we could continue to further our understanding by calling a rich cunt a rich cunt because he's a rich cunt like all the rich cunts but richer and cuntier.
Is Elon Musk the greatest visionary or the greatest snake oil salesman of our age?
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Or we could continue to further our understanding by calling a rich cunt a rich cunt because he's a rich cunt like all the rich cunts but richer and cuntier.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
This fucking billionaire dickhead just bought a major social media platform, so if we're living in some weird mish-mash of various dystopian scenarios, then he's literally part of the fucking problem.
He's thicker than pig shit.
bimble
floofy
I wonder how much of a role the pandemic’s played in enabling certain kinds of people (those with very limited prior experience of any curbs to their doing whatever they feel like) to imagine themselves as victims of a mendacious tyranny of anti freedom oppressors. As in, he was prevented from using his private jet in order to save the lives of some total strangers, must be a cabal of evil leftists at the helm etc. idk.
magneze
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Rumoured data breach of 400M Twitter users data. ie: everyone
Hackers reportedly leak email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users
Information posted on a hacking forum in ‘one of the most significant’ breaches of users’ email addresses and phone numbers
Being picked up by newspapers weeks later, but "only" 200m now.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
He's the Cadbury Flake of techbros
BigMoaner
We will all go together
Perhaps. I do genuienly think he feels that there are armies of LGTBQ/BLM folk wanting to eat men like him, purely because outright hatred of them is not tolerated in some places. I think he believes this purely because of the ecosystems he inhabits online. The rogan spliff episode I think made him believe that he was some sort of leader of the Broniverse. He simply has probably several right wing bees in his bonnet that bounce around all day, which he salivates at expressing. He is just your typical wreck of an online right wing shit poster, so locked into the dopamine feed that it's goign to take him enormous amounts of self control and insight to re-asses how he actually views reality.
And the Starlink system he owns is providing Internet access to various places in Ukraine affected by the war. Scary how much this wanker is controlling. Internet access, what you can say on one of the key platforms etc
bimble
floofy
I think the intersection is ‘have been made into movies so you don’t even need to pretend you’ve read them’.
RainbowTown
Well-Known Member
Wildly different dystopias they maybe, but they do have one thing in common. All of them owe a great debt to two much lesser known works that predated them and influenced all three: Jack London's The Iron Wheel and Yevgeny Zamyation's We. Both brilliant reads and well worth checking out if you're interested in that kind of dystopian-themed fiction.
gosub
~#
That's if you can find a copy....if musk is right most of them will have been burnt. Probably better off keeping taking the soma and doing your bit in the war against EastAsia and leave Musk to wrestle control from Ford
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DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
they're all routinely presented by people who read them in their teenage years as profound critiques of totalitarianism and/or communism. Thats the intersection.
Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
I wonder if Musk will ever ponder what being the world's richest person in a society that he thinks resembles the intersection of three dystopias means about him.
Yuwipi Woman
Whack-A-Mole Queen
Think of the evil he could achieve with his wealth if he's stupid as pig shit.
Ex: Trump.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
It's plucking bits from each novel and applying them to What's Wrong With The World According to Elon.
1984: Policing and manipulation of language. Unpersoning.
Brave New World: Pacification by distraction with trinkets, drugs and general amusements
Fahrenheit 451: The Maoist tendencies of the Wokeleft towards texts and history
But I seriously. The method of control in BNW is basically the polar opposite of that in 1984.
I know you know this, but it does really need saying.
That’s not an intersection, though, is it? They wouldn’t be in the central overlap of the Venn diagram of the three books.
I know you know this, but it does really need saying.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
And its only alphas and betas that require the soma and the pneumatic sex and the idle games. Gammas, deltas and epsilons are deliberately brain damaged clones.
8ball
AV REFUGEES WELCOME
No, it’s not an intersection as used in Venn diagrams - Dotty and you are dead right that it is a bit embarassing for the world’s most famous alleged rocket scientist to not seem to understand how Venn diagrams work (I can’t think of a diagram you would best use for the particular relationship described, but I’m quite tired - I think “you are here” could be done as a fourth set in a 3d Venn diagram with the intersection (involving all 4 spheres) representing Musk or the author’s view of the world right now, but I don’t think it would go over well on tinternet).
Tbh I’ve never had a use for Venn diagrams and have pretty much only seen them done for internet meme silliness. I think most people on looking at that pic would draw the same conclusion as me.
I get the impression these are generally re-tweets or forwards or whatever the expression would be - not things Musk has drawn himself. He likely glanced at it briefly and pressed a button. Much like when he wants to sack a department of a few thousand people.
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Yossarian
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Yeah, I don't think Musk spent more than a few seconds thinking about it, it's a meme that's been around for at least a few years with plenty of variations, all of which seem to fail as Venn diagrams.
tommers
Fuck it, it's fine.
Now you're getting it.
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