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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

“The matrix.” Dude, you are a billionaire. You hang out with billionaires, and the most powerful public officials in the world. You are the matrix. Fuck off with this gaslighting fake-populist bullshit.

When assholes like Musk and Friedman say garbage like this, they are advocating for taking away people’s power. People as collective wield power through government. They want to, instead, concentrate power in a small ruling elite class of oligarchs. It’s fundamentally un-democratic, and un-American.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every person that buys Tesla supports this fascist loser.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I saw a lovely bumper sticker on a Tesla the other day "I bought this before we knew Elon was crazy"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

More specifically, he is a billionaire who once thought that AI could be extremely dangerous if developed improperly...

... and has lately developed AI improperly, gotten into feuds with other people developing AI, is currently attempting to build an army of economy tier androids as well as literal fucking brain chips so that humans can be cyborgs some day soon.

He would easily fit into the early timeline of The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix, you know, as one of the emblematic vain and greedy narcissists who set the downfall of mankind into motion.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Elon would read this and still think he's Neo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He has zero self-awareness. When Elon found out that his then-girlfriend, Grimes, was going to voice a character in the game Cyberpunk 2077, Elon showed up at the developer's studio, unannounced, requesting that they make a character for him to play the voice of, too.

Nevermind the fact that Cyberpunk 2077 is a game about fighting corrupt billionaires and their mega-corporations large enough to employ their own private armies and instate their own governments, the leader of which wants to live forever by means of transferring his consciousness into a chip that can be implanted into a brain. Elon recognized absolutely none of the irony in the situation. Never once did he realize he was already in the game, except they named him Saburo Arasaka.

Oh, he also brought a gun with him. He showed up unannounced, with a gun. I wish I was making this up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

So... when I played Cyberpunk 77 around a year ago on my PC, I did a whole bunch of edits to config files.

I found some interesting stuff like hidden debug menus, hidden UI options menus, I tweaked a bunch of engine parameters to optimize view distance and object detail and lods, and I altered some root character model paths.

I realize this will sound incredible, as I have no proof after my PC was stolen...

But Elon's face is in the game, same way Allahnah's hair is, Keanu Reeves's face is.

Elon specifically only ever shows up as a possible face model for the cops, the NCPD.

I have no idea if this is still in the game files, as its possible that I could only see it because I messed around with root character model file paths to get more variety from random male and female npcs.

Funnier still: Elon's face is always paired with a balding male hairstyle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's even weirder, because it was a flintlock - likely because you don't have to actually register those in California, and Elon is paranoid about interacting with the government in a way that isn't begging them for cash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh he's a neo- alright.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

vain and greedy narcissists who set the downfall of mankind into motion.

You mean like those dedicated capitalists who are navigating Boeing into the ground?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like something a terminally online incel would come up with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

That these cretins are still clinging to their fucking Matrix / red pill metaphor like a decade after the Wachowskis came out as trans should tell you everything you need to know about how much internal sense any of their ideas make.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder how he squares the circle of the fact that The Matrix was written by two trans women.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Red pillers always try to deny that their chosen metaphor is really a metaphor for coming out as trans.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Steady and ever increasing doses of ketamine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't know if he's had a rational thought in the past decade, if that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Conservative policies in any dimension of society are hostile to great swaths of the population affected by them.

The only reason people support conservatives is because of culture war bullshit, which is used to brainwash them by constantly making them afraid of each other.

No one sensible should be voting conservative under a late-stage capitalism scenario, which is where we are

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm still baffled by how 'deregulation' isn't an extremely alarming word, not just in the current year or era, but overall.
Not to mention that in the current context only rich people want deregulation & it's clear why (to pollute more, hurt workers through wages and work conditions more, pay less taxes, and to be able to deal with competitors as they wish with monopoly being the actively pursued goal).

The chances of over-regulation hurting the people are really small.

Over- or under- regulation isn't the same as good or bad regulation. You can have good and bad regulations both in the sense of standards and methodology, as well as in the sense of bad implementation.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Fuck consumers workers and the environment, more PROFITS baby!!

For some reason Republicans can't see that regulations tend to happen when companies fail to act responsibly in favor of profits.
Deregulation of financial markets caused the financial crisis, because the markets exploited it for new "tricks", that were irresponsible.
Deregulation of consumer protections clearly harm consumers, and the same with environment.
There are also standards regulations that stimulate competition, and greatly increase industry efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Those morons hate regulations, but refuse to by foreign stuff because it "isn't as safe and well made as American made"...you know, where we have tons of regulations....

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Not just that, they is an underlying racist bias to that. That Asian made products from overseas are cheap because they care less or have less pride in their work than American made. They think that we as Americans for some reason have a greater baseline pride that permeates through everything made here.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

We have regulations because, spoiler, things used to be unregulated and they fucked up enough people demanded the government set some fucking rules.

The regulations weren't in the founding documents of the country. They came to be as the industries started exploiting and killing people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Yes, lets let companies deregulate. Boar's Head is only killing a few people with listeria, imagine the hundreds they'd kill with fewer regulations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Walking brainrot.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LOL, motherfucker still thinks he's Neo! 🤣

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Instead he's the Merovingian, an annoying poser who's an obstacle for actual heros.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Look at this MF, he was weird before Vance made it even more uncomfortable

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've been saying for a while that the giant covid bailouts for businesses are exactly what will happen if trump is re-elected. He's so afraid of not being able to say "best economy ever" he'll drive up inflation to make failing megacorps slightly more profitable to shareholders insatiable greed.

If you think house prices are unaffordable now, consider how much extra money rich people will throw around after another round of tax cuts for themselves.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Fuckyoufuckyoufuckyou.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Fascist appropriating culture to promote their fascist agenda is nothing new.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No culture of their own, so they have to beat up leftists in dark alleys looking for loose artistic styles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"We deregulated. The economy went down. The Matrix meddled, yet again!"

You can't win with these idiots. They could put their dick in a blender and still blame a feminist activist they'd never met.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This fucker would look at the DMV and fire 90% of the staff to improve efficiency. Also it's now called DMX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Y’all gonna make me lose my mind up in here

New DMV/DMX theme song

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Deregulation? We hardly regulate our megacorps at all. That not good enough?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Found the matrix right here guys.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

“I wish you could go into Washington for a week and be the head of the committee for making government smaller,” Fridman said.

Ah a small government guy, I see.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

When he says 'the matrix', he means 'the interests of the average worker'.

Remember, this is the same guy trying to sue to the National Labor Relations Board out of existence, because things like workplace safety and overtime pay and not having racist workplaces are inefficient.

Also... fucking what, he talked with Trump about how to reduce the national debt?

Ok 1, thats almost certainly just going to translate into auesterity, ie, dovetailing with Project 2025 to gut a whole bunch of government agencies...

2... Trump has expanded the national debt more than any other President in history, and is so astoundingly economically incompetent he wants to remove all (?) taxes and replace this with a 20% across the board import tariff, which would basically detonate the economy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Remember, this is the same guy trying to sue to the National Labor Relations Board out of existence, because things like workplace safety and overtime pay and not having racist workplaces are inefficient.

This is a guy who was willing to compromise workplace safety simply because he doesn't like high vis colors. Who fired an entire department that was in the middle of work that's critical to the future of the company, simply because he was upset that their boss tried to argue that they shouldn't gut the team arbitrarily.

Efficiency I can understand, it's a rational priority to pursue. Elon is a mentally unstable weirdo who either doesn't care how much damage he does to the business, or is so disconnected from reality that he can't really understand what he's doing.

He's not just a typical corporate scumbag doing greedy things. He's basically an aspiring Bioshock villain. If he was half as competing as he thinks he is, he'd be ruling a dystopian nightmare city on Mars by now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Elon is a mentally unstable weirdo

That's why he and Trump are buddies. Birds of a feather...

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