731
u/CodeElectrical4593 1d ago
Definitely Elon doesn't understand science fiction. He's literally part of the system and think he's the resistance
214
u/killrtaco 1d ago
My man, you are Darth Sideous in this scenario. Sit down!
107
u/Agreeable-_-Special 23h ago
Dont insult sideous like that. That guy was axtually a genius and competent.
45
u/onlyaseeker 19h ago
Elon would cut his own leg off if he tried to use a lightsaber.
20
u/Agreeable-_-Special 19h ago
Nah, he would do an episode IV luke but activate it and blame everyone else
10
7
15
u/Citizen_Graves 20h ago
Elon is one of the deformed Sidious clones from episode IX and he escaped from his oversized formaldehyde jars
5
u/CastlePolyethylene 14h ago
I would argue he’s more like Dooku in this scenario. He’s a pawn who thinks he’s a leader.
6
u/Brandavorn 12h ago
Well Dooku was actually a really good Jedi before falling to the dark side. There is only one character Elon could be: Nute Gunray.
39
28
14
u/Random-sargasm_3232 20h ago
How is a spoiled little piss baby meant to understand anything?
I am becoming convinced the earth is a giant gameshow observed by inter-dimensional beings and this is the end result.
"Show me what you got"
10
u/lothar525 16h ago
He’s a sociopath. He probably doesn’t understand the message of these movies because it’s impossible for him to empathize with the characters. He can only comprehend movies on a very basic level.
5
u/a55whoopn 17h ago
I wish people understood these people aren’t stupid or confused. They’re deliberately misleading and accusing the other side of what they are doing
1
1
u/Ozymandiiass 13h ago
Maybe his Movie guy briefed him about these movies but left the part of powerful people being the order.
1
1
u/iuliuscurt 10h ago
I think it's reality that he struggles understanding... I don't know the proper word actually, because to struggle requires an attempt
1
u/JCkent42 9h ago
He watched the cyberpunk dystopian future of Blade Runner and only noticed the fashion sense.
1
495
u/HarryBossk 1d ago
He's so convinced he's smart
143
u/illgot 1d ago
drugs will do that to a person
67
u/BantamCats 1d ago
Money is the druggiest drug of all
7
u/Dpek1234 17h ago
Nah, its just that people that arent addicted to it dont become the richest in the world
-102
u/Open-Source-Forever 1d ago
He’s smart, but he sure ain’t wise
80
u/Illinois_Yooper 1d ago
I’m not convinced he’s smart, just a lucky asshole with enough charisma to charm people.
51
u/biteme789 1d ago
I don't understand how. I find him utterly repellent; every time I hear him speak, I just want to do something I won't say because I don't want to get in trouble (again).
8
u/StraightG0lden 21h ago
I don't know if he's always been that bad and just kept quiet or if something along the way has knocked some screws loose, but 15 years ago the majority of people actually liked him. Now though the answer is that he's got enough money that people will tell him whatever he wants to hear in the hopes they'll get a big check.
27
u/infydk 1d ago
just a lucky asshole with enough charisma to charm people.
Mostly just having a small emerald mine to buy people out of their companies. The man got thrown out of paypal in favor of Peter Thiel, a man with even less charisma.
His claim to fame is quite literally his brother starting zip2 with funds from his dad and getting 7% of the buyout due to stock options.
He's never been anything but rich.
-47
u/Open-Source-Forever 1d ago
Wisdomless intellect is often indistinguishable from idiocy
28
u/infydk 1d ago
The surest way for anyone to realize what a dumbass Elon is is to hear him speak about something you know about.
Which just means he hasn't spoken about a damned thing you know about yet.
-1
u/Open-Source-Forever 16h ago
I was referring to how all his failed tech startup attempts can basically be summed up with "you could, but you shouldn’t"
107
u/So_spoke_the_wizard 1d ago
Elon lives in a make believe world where he's the resistance. He hasn't and never will figure out that he gave his soul to the evil empire.
58
u/523bucketsofducks 1d ago
No, he knows. He just thinks he's smart enough to convince everyone he isn't the bad guy. He's realizing that isn't true.
5
u/a55whoopn 17h ago
I don’t know why people don’t get by now that they’re not stupid and are very deliberate in misleading people to believe the other side is guilty of what they themselves are doing.
He knows he’s a fascist. He knows what side he’s on
61
u/EquivalentAcadia9558 1d ago
Bro would sell out and kill his associates just to taste an imaginary steak I think
20
u/PM_ME_YOUR_ROTES 1d ago
He'd fire everybody on the Nebuchadnezzar then not be able to figure out how to work the chair to get back in because he just shitcanned the operators.
1
114
u/Initial-Shop-8863 1d ago
He's a filthy-rich little white boy born and raised in South Africa, and he thinks he's part of the resistance?
2
u/iuliuscurt 10h ago
He never took the midnight train going anywhere. He probably never took a train, maybe that's why that loop thingy was pure fantasy
61
u/insightmiss 1d ago
Resistance normally doesn't win a presidential election during somewhat democratic process and doesn't receive the powers during peaceful handover. Trump keeps runing for the presidency, even after he won and it is time to actually be a president, quit a blame game and assume responsibilities. Mask takes after him, I guess.
31
32
u/DanDrungle 1d ago
What does he think he’s resisting?
22
u/Milly_Hagen 23h ago
If I had to guess.... probably "the woke agenda!" or some bullshit he's concocted in his own mind.
9
u/CatLvrWhoLovesCats66 22h ago
That's what he said in regards to his transgender daughter. That seems to be the windmill he is tilting at.
1
43
u/Responsible-Love-896 1d ago
Obviously Elmo either hasn’t watched the movies, or , and more likely, it doesn’t comprehend the story and the characters portrayed.
7
24
u/evil_illustrator 1d ago
So in Star Wars, a con man tricks the Republic into a fake war to put himself in power permanently. All of the politicians become scared to speak out against the emperor for fear of retribution.
And a group of resistance fighters stops the empire and kills the con man.
Elmo sees himself in the resistance group? He'd be the fucking tie fighter manufacturer.
14
u/CatLvrWhoLovesCats66 22h ago
Space X would have gotten the Death Star contract. "But I employ millions."
1
17
u/JennyPaints 1d ago
Nor did any of those movies involve the resistance imposing huge new taxes, trying to buy elections with million dollar checks, or disappearing people.
15
u/flufflogic 22h ago
He watched Hunger Games and didn't understand the Capitol was the rich aristocrats detached from the working class.
He watched Star Wars and didn't realise the Empire was rich and powerful capitalists united behind a corrupt leader.
He watched Terminator, Robocop and The Matrix and somehow missed it was technocratic money men without morals who were the issue.
Hell, he probably read Ready Player one and forgot he'd be the corporation trying to seize the Oasis, not the plucky Parzival trying to save it.
As my wife put it, he wants people to think he's Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk while he runs Arasaka.
He consumes pop culture. He understands none of it.
10
u/autfaciam 1d ago edited 15h ago
The fact that Elon thinks the president (aka the world's most powerful man) and the world's richest man (who paid hundreds of millions to elect the president and talks shit about a lady because she gives billions to help people) are the "resistance" is all you need to know about the man.
13
u/wellgolly 1d ago
i constantly wonder how the wachowskis don't lose their minds
•
u/threesilklilies 3m ago
Did you see Lilly Wachowski pop off on Elon and Ivanka when they were tweeting about "taking the red pill"? 👩🏻🍳😘
10
u/Foxiak14 23h ago
The Matrix and V for Vendetta were both directed by the Wachowski sisters, who are trans. Just gonna point that out for the guy who said that "the woke mind virus killed his son".
10
u/your_fathers_beard 1d ago
It's ridiculous how many people post this shit and are wholly unaware. Like they still ramble on about the deep state when their goons control all 3 branches of government, and have had majority control for like 50 fucking years. In the last 25 years they've gotten two guys elected despite getting less votes. Republicans are So. Fucking. Stupid.
8
7
u/jkst9 1d ago edited 1d ago
Oh let's see the antagonists are the rich oppressors in the hunger games, authoritarians in Star wars, machines that control everything you do in the matrix, been a while since I read divergent but I remember one of the big antagonists were racial purists, and I never saw v for vendetta so can't say anything about that
I noticed a weird trend with the ones I did see though, that Elon would side with the antagonists
8
u/ArmchairCritic1 1d ago
You are not the resistance Musk. You are the richest man on the planet who owns a social media company and is helping the president of the United States remove others freedoms. You whinge when people don’t buy into your cult of personality.
You are so YA bad guy coded it’s ridiculous.
Oh, and people didn’t watch Divergent, as evidenced by how that series of movies never actually got to end.
6
u/PhantomDelorean 1d ago
It is funny how often you side with the group the us government would describe as terrorists in media.
6
u/kananikui3 1d ago
He watched all of those and thinks he is on the aide of good. Delusion is strong with this one.
5
5
u/Hypercane_ 1d ago
He's talking to MAGA right? Cause if he's referring to the Democratic voters I don't think he realizes he's Ben Mendelson in rogue one
3
u/NecessaryIntrinsic 1d ago
When I saw this the first time I assumed he was confessing that he was the bad guy.
4
4
u/Awkward_Bench123 1d ago
Holy shit, I didn’t see the Elon moniker. I thought he was trash talking Elmo. Is ok, tomorrow, everyone will despise Elon immediately after the opening bell on Wall St
4
u/badgersprite 21h ago
It’d be really funny if Suzanne Collins, George Lucas, The Wachowskis, Veronica Roth and Alan Moore all came together and put out a new series entitled “To Be Explicitly Clear, Fuck Elon Musk”
3
u/NotDescriptive 23h ago
Dude doesn't realize that Trump is basically Sutler and he's Creedy.
I think it's time for a V for Vendetta rewatch.
3
u/Bart2800 21h ago
I'm seeing the current progress of affairs and I'm thinking 'see, I was right to team with the resistance'.
Why does he even think he's the resistance?
3
u/boogie_tuesdays 14h ago
Elon stole this post, fuck you Elon
SOURCE: https://x.com/MrMatthewTodd/status/1764597733061431330?t=xFURyov50YyiVbT_-X1KPg&s=19
3
2
2
2
u/tarapotamus 1d ago
The K is eating his fucking dumb ass nazi brain away, but that's the thing with dumb people; they're so fucking stupid that they think everyone else just gets easily confused and believes anything someone says because that's what they do and they're literally incapable of fathoming otherwise.
2
1
1
u/GoNutsDK 23h ago
All of those movies are surely about how fascism is actually good right...
What a fucking idiot this pathetic waste of life is.
1
u/GodlikebeingfromHELL 22h ago
I don't think he actually watched or genuinely understood those movies..
1
u/GodlikebeingfromHELL 22h ago
I don't think he actually watched or genuinely understood those movies..
1
1
1
u/Laleskalamales 21h ago
I've always been more of an Empire supporter myself, and generally a fan of FICTIONAL VILLAINS ....however the real-life villains like elmo here ...... 😐
1
1
u/Umbra_Draconis 20h ago
This demented fool doesn't understand he's not the resistance... I never thought lobotomy was a solution until this guy showed up...
1
1
1
u/Tuxo_Deluxo 19h ago
I think it would be waaaay cooler to be a stormtrooper and travelling the galaxy shooting at stuff and never a tually killing anything :) id just purposefully miss anyway unless it was life or death.
1
u/grumblesmurf 18h ago
Should people in the US form a resistance? Most certainly! Would it be to side with Musk and Trump, the rich morons trying their best to destroy the country? Most certainly not!
1
1
u/PuzzleheadedWalrus71 18h ago
That message is clearly for the idiots that voted for, and stand by him and trump.
1
u/nandospc 17h ago
Man, give me a break. You're like Freezer in Dragon Ball, and you won't even help the Z Fighters in the TOP at the end like in the anime 🤦♂️
1
1
u/weirdchili 16h ago
Like Darth Vader calling himself the resistance and then crying in the corner because people take the piss out of him
1
1
u/Featheredfriendz 16h ago
The nine most dangerous words in the English language are : I’m a billionaire and I’m here to help you.
1
1
u/ergonomic_logic 15h ago
He didn't understand the resistance at all.
How did he even become the richest man in the world? Make it make sense!
1
1
1
u/VeronaMoreau 15h ago
What's interesting though is that the post he screenshotted, IIRC, was about either BLM or Palestinians.
1
u/Worst_Comment_Evar 14h ago
He knows that science fiction is written by people, though, and usually in response to things that are occurring in society? So, then he knows that absolute power has always been at odds with the society at large.
1
1
u/Disillusioned_Pleb01 14h ago
Some on X, the social medial platform he owns, likened the gesture to a Nazi salute, though others disagreed.
In response, the SpaceX and Tesla chief posted on X: "Frankly, they need better dirty tricks. The 'everyone is Hitler' attack is sooo tired."
Musk, the world's richest man and a close ally of President Trump, was speaking at the Capital One Arena in Washington DC when he made the gesture.
"My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilisation is assured," the 53-year-old said, after giving the second one-armed salute.
1
u/Successful-Willow-16 14h ago
Ok but I have to say ... and listen I agree with the sentiment ... but acktually... Plutarch Heavensbee turns out to be one of the richest men in the world of Hunger Games and he apparently started the revolution now so...
1
u/Bumper6190 13h ago
More irrelevant banter from the fading Musk! If you are so smart, why are your businesses Trumping?
1
1
1
1
u/EtchAGetch 12h ago
Star Wars villain is Palpatine, who took a democratic Republic and turn it into an Empire. From the wikipedia
Palpatine's story was inspired by real-world examples of political strongmen and democratic backsliding during the rise and rule of dictators such as Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Adolf Hitler.
I don't think Musk is flexing like he think he is...
1
u/Brandavorn 11h ago
Hunger Games: He would be in Capitol at best, in District 1 at worst. Nothing to do with the resistance. Probably loses most money or is killed after capitol is taken.
Star Wars: Probably the manufacturer of the TIE defender in Rebels, whose factory was magnificently blown up by the rebellion.
Matrix: Some stupid billionaire who funded the AI that ended up enslaving humanity. Dies by his own creation probably.
Divergent: One of the eugenics genetic engineering guys, whose actions led to humanity turning to shit. An investor of course, not a genetic engineer.
V for Vendetta: Probably Creedy. Thankfully, ideas are bulletproof, while he was not.
Yeah, I don't see the resistance in here. If he wants a resistance, I am sure he would be on the receiving end of it.
1
1
1
1
1
1
u/Wild-End-219 9h ago
Hey Elon, are any of the people in the resistance at the head of the government in any of those movies? Or do you have to think that way because you fabricated a narrative in your head to justify being akin to Count Dooku?
1
u/HaveFunWithChainsaw 8h ago
Funny coming from Elon who is sided with antagonist and would continue doing so in every of these movies.
1
1
u/OptimisticSkeleton 7h ago
You know, it’s really not Elon’s fault. How could anyone be a good person with that much money? Nobody should be allowed obscene profits in a time when infrastructure is crumbling and people everywhere are in need.
1
u/Responsible_Ad_8628 7h ago
Elon lost the plot so long ago. His ketamine-addled brain can't keep track of his rising villain arc.
1
1
1
1
-2
u/dick_taterchip 14h ago
If the richest guy on the planet is saying that's whats happening in those terms if believe him, his ear hits circles mine don't. But I'm sure your government loves every single individual snow flake.
-20
u/offensive-not-bot 1d ago
In star wars many people who ruled entire planets as king this, queen that, sided with the resistance. They ruled planets so they were the richest person on the planet.
5
u/sloppybuttmustard 18h ago
That’s true, however we live here in reality where the richest man on the planet is essentially the richest man in the universe, to our knowledge.
0
u/offensive-not-bot 10h ago
Yes we live in reality. The post quoted fiction. So I responded with fiction, then was responded to with reality. Which is kind of silly isn't it?
1
u/Cheap_Search_6973 13h ago
They ruled planets so they were the richest person on the planet.
That might be how it works in reality but star wars is fictional, they don't have to be rich to rule
1.3k
u/Wadd1eDoo 1d ago
He also never noticed that most of those resistances are made up of multicultural, multiracial, and for Star Wars, multispecies organisations.