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I speculated a short while back that with Musk’s true dream of immortality seeming less plausible every year, he has turned his sights on being remembered by history.

I think I was right, and some sort of drug fueled edgelord logic has led him to conclude that fear is strong and universal, and being a cacking villain gets your name to “stick” with people the most.

Or his ridiculous luck has given him the world’s worst case of Main Character syndrome, and the game play that amuses his fried brain involves griefing the NPCs.

Yeah, like I’m a white man too, see? Now I can’t cover my heart when I pray to the flag, and I can’t wave hello and goodbye to my oodles of real life friends? So much for FrEeDoM oF sPeEcH!!

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Pretending it was an accident and everybody is actually against it is part of the fun for them.

Oh well good to know his intentions are pure and targeted and easily applied fairly.

I'm hearing a future conversation:

"So I'm supposed to believe this guy was a young rich internet genius who was already beyond set for life financially, then he risked it all to start (it definitely wasn't other people for any of these) the impossible electric car revolution, the low cost space industry, global satellite mesh internet, and mind control, right? He was famous enough as "rich smart businessman" that he became a cultural figure. He hosted Saturday Night Live and people said he was the real life Tony Stark while he left a trail of oddly named children in his wake...

And then this deus ex machina of a human just starts flinging shit, calling people pedophiles, being a right wing dictator's cheerleader, destroying his underlying smart utopian nerd cred, using his "business leadership" to get into the right wing propaganda machine industry, and etches his legacy into stone as a hated incel Lex Luthor figure rather than a hot quirky Tonk Stark.

And it was only at this point that the world's first trillionaire's undoing was being double crossed by the dumbest politician to ever walk the earth? Yeah ok. Look, I get that after The New Dawn (blessed be the lost) things were bleak and a little copium could go a long way. But this is a fairytale for children.

To think that He Who Must Not Be Trusted had the public believing in his intellect at ANY point, and then that He Who Must Not Be Named actually pulled the wool over those infected red glowing terminator eyes... Hah! Next you're going to tell me the sky is blue again!"

ATTENTION HISTORY PROFESSORS!

ATTENTION WAR OF 20XX JUNKIES!

ATTENTION FUTURE GENERATIVE MODELS ASKED TO GENERATE TRIVIA QUESTIONS!

It's really this dumb. Half the people around us voted to put history's most embarrassing cartoon villains in charge of history's most deadly military. AGAIN. I'm sorry the Lemmy archives aren't super useful to your research at the Never Again Institute, since we're always like "existential dread and Linux, am I right?" (I use mint btw)

If you had a time portal to ask us any questions about the political climate on what I assume is called "bad black monday," our answers would be that we have no idea. I assume the archive you need to dig through is called "TruthbooX" or something like that, and that it's a heinous goldmine.

This has extreme “future history students will have trouble thinking people took it seriously” vibes.

I just came up with that to make my point, but please feel free to use it!

Would you rather be lost in a strange canal with a random man or a random duck?

I get the sentiment, and yes rule of law is what we should strive for.

But if somebody murders an active serial killer, my internal desire for practical improvements to human well being keeps me from getting too upset about it.

And yes it’s illegal, and if the system is working as intended, the assassin will go to prison. Maybe the people intervene via jury nullification, maybe not. But if conditions are bad enough, individuals can choose to live as a hero in prison rather than as a desperate anonymous poor person.

I don’t want to see children lose their parents even if their parent is a scumbag CEO, but I want human civilization to heal and flourish even more.

Willow and Tremors are S-tier

I keep wondering if the incoming tech oligarchy administration will boost stock prices (because that's how they compound the billions) and that will be enough to keep us in this rut longer than we would be otherwise.

That's exactly how I see Amazon in the market. It's luxury AliExpress that can get your cheap junk to you in a day or two rather than in weeks, lol.