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.

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.

smh Tom Morello talks so much about politics these days you'd think he has a degree in it

This reminds me of people who accuse Star Trek of being too political also.

He also says he loves the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which is extremely anti-corporate and portrays every AI as flawed, an asshole, or both.

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.

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."

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.

So basically Cypher.

I always thought the two pills looked like DayQuil and NyQuil.

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.

True, but Musk never broke down his worldview. He was a shitty apartheid kid, he is a shitty bigot adult

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.

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".

https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53692435

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.