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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 205 points 2 months ago

How the fuck can Elon Musk claim to be a Trekkie? When he is against everything Star Trek stands for?!
The psychological dissonance of that man is insane!

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 159 points 2 months ago

He also claims to love the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a book series where technology corporations are absolutely loathed and every AI is either a broken or an asshole or both.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 72 points 2 months ago

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes." '

[-] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 27 points 2 months ago

Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came."

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[-] positiveWHAT@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

And I think he has endorsed The Culture books, which also is kinda Startrek on steroids. Omg that universe is amazing.

[-] sundray@lemmus.org 24 points 2 months ago

Given Musk's prejudices, that surprises me -- especially since in The Culture being transgender is extremely uncontroversial. (Hell, even the spacecraft are permitted to determine their roles and choose their own names; meanwhile Musk is desperately trying to wrench Grok into his own image.)

[-] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Musk's target audience are liberal, West Coast, technocratic, white or upper caste Hindu, brogressives and techbros - men (and the occasional token woman like Elizabeth Holmes) who give lip service to equality and talk a good game about social justice, and then go home to their gentrified neighborhoods and beat their wives. The kind of people who vocally celebrate the anti-capitalist ethic of Burning Man and then spend the burn in a luxurious private compound with dozens of servants and sex workers getting high off their ass while artists perform for them like Venetian nobles patronizing Renaissance painters.

His target audience are precisely the people who would name drop the Culture when promoting their latest startup but revert to moralizing about "traditional Western values" the instant someone actually behaves like a Culture member.

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[-] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 23 points 2 months ago

He also said the Cybertruck is "what Bladerunner would drive".

he doesn't actually know a fucking thing about sci-fi.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Like every Conservative, he either knows fuck-all, or only has a surface-level knowledge, about art. It's why they think a socialist like George Orwell would write books defending their ideals or that songs like "Born in the USA" are patriotic.

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[-] Naura@startrek.website 44 points 2 months ago

What I think is that because they are incapable of empathetic thought, the message gets lost.

TNG’s Time’s Arrow, DS9’s Past Tense, VOY’s Life Line are all just made up stories to them. No human condition there.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 19 points 2 months ago

I think this is indeed it, unfortunately.

To such sociopaths incapable of empathetic thought, Star Trek is awesome because future and technology and winning battles. So if you’re a tech bro and you’re winning (money) and pushing technology forward regardless of the costs, and everybody knows who you are because of it, well then you must be an awesome human that’s winning at life! Because obviously good life = victorious life.

[-] Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago

It's a common theme. There are a lot of conservatives who are still somehow fans of Star Trek because they the lack media literacy needed to figure out that they're values are not shared by the good guys on the show.

[-] rtxn@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Remember how conservatives think that Rage Against The Machine is on their side. There's no delusion too great after that.

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[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 25 points 2 months ago

I think he didn't really get that "Picard gets a neurological link to the Borg" == "not good"...

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[-] Daxtron2@startrek.website 19 points 2 months ago

The same way so many idiot fans seem to think star trek is "too woke" now lol

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[-] HonorableScythe@lemm.ee 122 points 2 months ago

Musk wants the Terran Empire, not the Federation

[-] Damage@feddit.it 26 points 2 months ago

His profile picture does depict him wearing armor after all

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 23 points 2 months ago

People fail to realize that we're in the mirror universe and the universe Star Trek exists in is the unattainable utopia.

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[-] BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works 96 points 2 months ago
[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 months ago

Robert Picardo is an absolute treasure.

[-] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 19 points 2 months ago

So I hate to tell you this, but I'm pretty sure Robert Picardo is a hologram...

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[-] pyre@lemmy.world 67 points 2 months ago

fucking poser. every piece of media you claim to love is a protest to your entire existence.

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[-] phx@lemmy.ca 65 points 2 months ago

Yeah nothing says "I support a post-scarcity economy" like a bunch of billionaires

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

IMO if you're a billionaire and stay a billionaire, you're incapable and unworthy of being called altruistic. Nobody needs a billion dollars. Nobody even needs a tenth of that. There should be a $1 million annual asset cap on all income sources, full stop. Everything else should go to social services, infrastructure, etc. and NOT person or military anything.

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[-] BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 65 points 2 months ago

Second step: abolish capitalism, and by extension billionaires, and give everyone free healthcare and education.

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[-] zcd@lemmy.ca 44 points 2 months ago

Please state the nature of the emotional emergency

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[-] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Finally, a self-driving car with actual intelligence.

[-] TychoQuad@lemm.ee 42 points 2 months ago

For those that don’t know, the Johnny-Cab self driving taxis from this movie are voiced by Robert Picardo

[-] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What?! Awesome!

And since I had to double check if I remembered right, the film is Total Recall

Edit: Looking closer, I can see the family resemblance between JohnnyCab and EMH.

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[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago

So annoying how this guy gets credited in DIS.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Yeah, but by Mirror Lorca, so that does cushion the blow.

[-] Daze@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago

Everything makes sense when you realize our Elon Musk is a Terran.

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[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I watched this wayyyy after Musk turned evil and I thought it was really good foreshadowing that maybe Lorca isn't the best guy.

I don't think that was intentional... But it did genuinely make the twist better for me

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 2 months ago

Musk would de-Tuvix Tuvix and then also shoot Tuvok and Neelix once they were separated.

[-] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 months ago

That is the type of burn that requires a broom and dust pan instead of a cream.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, Elon.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

That's my The Doctor. Sorry, Dr. Who fans.

[-] hOrni@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

The only thing this shit stain knows about Star Trek is that the doors slide to the side.

[-] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Kes please get a dermal regenerator for that burn

[-] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

Even though this is a perfect retort, the 42,000,000 impressions v 1,400 really is the dystopian part. No one who uses the billionaire's site saw it or will see it.

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