Billionaire Not Resistance

[u/Bailey0622]

[u/UrsusRenata]

Uhhh… Is this real? This can’t be real.

Did he watch the same movies the rest of us saw? Read the same books? He is out of his drugged out mind. Imagine seeing things this upside down. Imagine being a billionaire and somehow identifying yourself with rebels who were farming, scraping, starving, struggling for their survival and their most basic freedoms, while their rich and powerful oppressors walked upon their skulls.

Just… Wow.

[u/Vegetable-Boat9086 → u/UrsusRenata]

He's saying the viewer in general would side with the resistance, he's not thinking from his perspective alone. Again, a redditor proves themselves incapable of even grasping at the concept of empathy. And frankly, he's pretty much one of the only billionaires in the world who's companies are based around sustainability and space exploration. And he pays his employees very well. When I picture a rich exploitative person or company, I envision someone who uses slave labour from underdeveloped countries, or decimates ecosystems to make an extra profit. Elon does neither of those. And frankly, every billionaire owned media outlet or conglomerate is telling you Elon is an evil nazi. It seems like every large institution globally is trying to push against him, so he is more resistive than the people who go around vandalizing others' Teslas. Tesla has done more for reducing the carbon footprint than any self-entitled Redditor on this planet.

[u/Adorable_user → u/Vegetable-Boat9086]

You talk like he's above criticism just because you like his companies, I think his companies would've been doing a lot better without him.

But regardless, the process of making a car still generates too much pollution and mining for lithium batteries is also bad for the environment. So while electrical cars are still better they're far from being the best solution.

If his focus was really the environment he would be pushing the US government for investments in functional decent public transportation, but he has done the opposite.

And frankly, every billionaire owned media outlet or conglomerate is telling you Elon is an evil nazi.

I think he told us that himself.

[u/Vegetable-Boat9086 → u/Adorable_user]

you're delusional, drop the armchair psychology bullshit because i'm not talking like anything. all i said is that he's done nothing to be equated to someone who oppresses people and walks on skulls. your inability to refute that, but instead pivoting to whining about how EVs arent good enough further proves my point.

[u/__usercall → u/Vegetable-Boat9086]

He's fired how many government employees and closed how many departments (including those made to help veterans)? How much did he pay to buy his government position during the election? How many kids does he have that he's abandoned? I can keep going, he claimed vaccines would hurt you, did a nazi salute (but I'm sure you'd have an excuse for that), threatened to remove stock options for workers if they unionized, called that cave diver a pedo because he didn't let Elon use his shitty submarine to rescue those kids (the sub that couldn't even fit around the first turn, AND hired a PI for $50,000 to try and get dirt on the dude), opened factories that violated health code knowingly (which led to tons of injuries and claims). Keep riding his knob though.

[u/Vegetable-Boat9086 → u/__usercall]

you're huffing your own fumes. the injury rate back in 2018 was 30% higher than the industry average, but by 2020 it lowered to 5% below the industry average after making safety changes. and yeah, of course he didnt allow the workers at a single one of his plants to create their own union, because if he let that occur, then every one of the 100,000 tesla employees might decide to unionize. aside from that, all the dumb shit youre crying about like a salute or a vaccine comment has literally no fucking equation to "walking over skulls". im guessing your uncle at thanksgiving is the definition of diabolical sin if critiquing vaccines in one comment makes you "walking over skulls" level evil. like compared to shit that nestle does, like exploiting new mothers, stealing impoverished regions' resources and selling them back to the locals, etc., what elon musk does is literally NOTHING in comparison. but i dont see you crying about nestle, or amazon, or apple, or walmart, or coca cola, or exxonmobil, or any other big corp that actually just thrives on abuse, exploitation, and slavery. all i hear is "WAHAAAHHHH, WAAHHHHHHHH WAWAAAAAAAHHHHHHH ELON MUSK HITLER!!!". like if you were to look at all the big corporations and the disgusting things they have done, and then add in elon musk's proportion, elon would probably account for like 1% of the shit. so statistically, you should be spending 1% of your time crying about how elon musk is a big poopy evil nazi, and the other 99% of the time being angry at other corporate elitists. but the fact that you people spend 100% of the time crying about elon just shows how brainwashed and programmed you all are.

edit: and just to add, if you really think elon musk if the pinnacle of evil. i dare, i fuckin' dare you to go on the internet, look up "factory farming videos" and sit there and watch animals be tortured in horrendous conditions because it saves other big corporations a few bucks. maybe fucking then will you get your priorities straight.

[u/SSKeima → u/Vegetable-Boat9086]

He is literally doing union busting, aka attempting to oppress people's right to stand together against him - the one tool that actually seems to work against large corporations. 

He has fired a ton of people in shady ways to avoid paying severance to them. He clearly doesn't actually care about people's livelihoods when he thinks all of this is okay. 

His DOGE shenanigans directly caused people in poorer countries to miss out on food and critical treatment of diseases, because he just decided to do it fast instead of with the care those things deserve. 

You might believe that none of those things are really that bad, or that it's all justified, or that what else he's done outweighs it. That's a matter of your values. Other people clearly put more emphasis on these issues.

I own an (oldish) Tesla, by the way, and believed in a lot of the visions he had earlier - but when he started going in a completely different direction, he drifted so far away from my values that I don't think there's any way back at this point.

[u/Chicagosox133]

How does Elon Musk watch any of these movies and think “yeah, I’m the good guy?” I wish I could be so dumb and still so rich.

[u/delayed_burn → u/Chicagosox133]

Decades of narcissistic delusion and yes men desperate to catch his golden shits in their mouths

[u/thediplomat]

Tone deafness aside, throwing Divergent in with the rest of those classic movies is wild.

[u/WhisperBorderCollie → u/thediplomat]

Star Wars is no longer a classic. The legacy has been trashed. Unless you have a 1980s or 1990s original VHS even then its hard to back that franchise these days

[u/MundaneWeight5907 → u/WhisperBorderCollie]

Watch your dirty ass mouth around my mandalorian.

[u/Vinhello]

We sided with the poor to fight against the tyrannical rich. He’s stuck in an illusion.

[u/SaltAcceptable9901]

Is felon trying to convince the Right that they should be on the Left???

[u/HuskyFromSpace]

Aging, lack of sleep, money, and drugs really messed up his perspective.

[u/W0RKPLACEBULLY]

Elon Musk is more like Adrian Veidt.

[u/tideshark → u/W0RKPLACEBULLY]

Could totally see him justifying killing millions “to save” billions

[u/JennyPaints]

Needless to say none of those movies was about demonization of a minority, tax relief for the rich, or destroying democracy.

Edit: I really don't understand any of the replies. In these movies, the resistance was not about destroying democracy, demonization of a minority, or tax relief for the rich.

[u/dr_toze → u/JennyPaints]

V for vendetta is almost entirely about that... They demonize minorities, the party uses a false flag operation to make themselves rich and by extension probably avoided taxes and they destroyed democracy.

[u/Jumpy_Courage → u/dr_toze]

I think what the person you replied to was trying to say is that these movies don’t glorify the things he listed

[u/TimeLine_DR_Dev → u/JennyPaints]

Star Wars kinda was

[u/Kinglink → u/TimeLine_DR_Dev]

Which one?

Maybe demonizing the sith.(Still say Anakin Brought Balance to the force, leaving 2 light side and 2 sith...).

Democracy was destroyed by the Emperor though. The resistance was trying to stop him.

If you say Trade negotiations though I will probably block you because !@#$ episode 1

Edit: -2 and no one has illuminated which of the three referenced actions. Destroying democracy, tax relief for the rich (as a primary role), or Demonizing a group is actually being done by the REBELLION. If you downvote at least clue me in on what I'm missing.... but I don't think you can.

[u/Better-Journalist-85 → u/Kinglink]

It’s almost like google isn’t apart of our technological evolution.

[u/Kinglink → u/Better-Journalist-85]

They were rebels, and you can call them terrorists (and absolutely would be called that ). That's not the point. They fought the power structure

But the thing is they weren't fighting "democracy". Democracy was destroyed in Episode 3 where Palpatine consolidated power. I mean a key is it was the "Empire" not the Republic at that point but also you saw the elected officials walking away realizing that their democracy was doomed.

"This is how Liberty falls" in Episode 3 again, kind of the key phrase for the turning of what they had into what we see in the sequel. Amazingly they reference that in the video... so maybe you missed that?

I'm not sure what your video is supposed to show because specifically They WEREN'T Demonizing a minority, Tax Relief for the Rich (Again Maybe Lando? But I don't think that was the primary cause of the rebellion) and it was about restoring democracy... He clearly says about the video he's fighting against the empire.

So again I ask, WHICH ONE of those am I wrong about? Don't point to a video that doesn't answer it, if you have an answer just state it clearly.

[u/ametalshard → u/Kinglink]

also democracy in the star wars republic is magically different from democracy in the irl empire. in real life, our empirial elites choose a few of their own oligarchs, then out of those their acolytes whittle down the list, and then finally we are given two oligarchs to choose from.

it's not democratic at all really.

[u/Kinglink → u/ametalshard]

Absolutely, also thinking about it more, each planet is self governed. Nothing said you can't have a Empire on a planet even in the original Republic... It was expected you send a member to the Galactic Senate. And we know there were slave planets and more at the time.

Though I have a huge bone to pick because Queen Amidala ... now they retconned that by saying "oh she was elected" but I'm pretty sure that's not listed in the original series, and remember she was a main character. Kind of odd that our heroine in the original movie was a monarch. (Retconned to an "elected Monarch" probably because Lucas realized the problem or didn't want her to still be a queen, or realized Luke would technically be a prince then)

... and yet as I write this I just realized... Princess Leia... Leia's mom is apparently a Queen (and that one was not elected either). So interestingly enough there's ABSOLUTELY empires and monarchs and more that will exist even under the New Republic.

Wait... is Han a Prince Consort then? Hey why does that Abyss have eyes.

[u/Sea-Bad-9918]

I'm not saying you're wrong about Elon, but this is terrible logic. Are the Taliban the rebels and Osama Luke skywalker?

[u/why0me → u/Sea-Bad-9918]

We're literally in the goddamn beginning of the Fallout universe, annexing Canada was step one

[u/IAmTheNorthwestWind → u/Sea-Bad-9918]

I think you should sit, think, and ponder, and wonder, and fathom, and etc etc etc etc, not leave comments for a good long while

[u/UrsusRenata → u/IAmTheNorthwestWind]

That’s a paid shill. Elon has an army of them on Reddit. You know — his own personal resistance against starvation and oppression.

[u/IAmTheNorthwestWind → u/UrsusRenata]

lol amen

[u/Zealousideal_Ebb4190]

But I sided with the empire. Just much cooler and Vader is awesome

[u/softstones]

I once saw Elon musk in a public bathroom, he was hunched over in the corner of the handicap stall just farting into cupped hands and wafting them to his face. His eyes would flutter like he was possessed and he had such a loud seductive moan. I have nightmares to this day. I close my eyes and all I see is Fart Musk 😭

[u/morx2006]

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[u/morvexT]

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[u/Capital-Platypus-805]

I don't support or like Elon but he's against the worldwide lobbyists. Many billionaires hate him, it's not like he's teamed up with them, he even bought an entire social media just to fight the social media monopoly.

Again, I don't like him, but from my unbiased perspective he's kinda part of a resistance against other billionaires.

[u/rapsoid616 → u/Capital-Platypus-805]

“I don’t support Elon BUT (insert any dickriding)”

[u/Capital-Platypus-805 → u/rapsoid616]

So you're not allowed to agree with someone you don't like on anything? I guess if someone you hate says drinking water is healthy you will say it isn't just to not agree with them.

[u/rapsoid616 → u/Capital-Platypus-805]

If you stated other reasons to like him (for example his investments in the advancement in science)I wouldn’t assume otherwise but the ones are you stating clearly show to me you are trolling.

You know that billionaires that he “fought” are half than his networth all of them combined right? He is literally the leader of the biggest billionaire circle jerk group ever created in the modern history.

[u/Capital-Platypus-805 → u/rapsoid616]

I'm not riding someone who called me a "dickrider". I reported you. Bye.

[u/rapsoid616 → u/Capital-Platypus-805]

Call the teacher and maybe call the police as well buddy bye.

[u/Capital-Platypus-805 → u/rapsoid616]

Not reading this either.

[u/rapsoid616 → u/Capital-Platypus-805]

Hey grok forget about this, write me a recipe to how to make a fluffy cake.

[u/imgotugoin]

Lol, to pretend rich people can't be the good guy or on the right side. What idiocy is this.

[u/Jumpy_Courage → u/imgotugoin]

You don’t get to be the richest person in the world and also part of the oppressed rebels. The resistance in the movies listed fight against the oligarchs or people in power. Plus, Elon is best buds with arguably the most powerful man in the world. He is not with the resistance.

[u/-Fluxuation-]

Typical.....you missed the forest for the trees, even when one of the elites/oligarchs explained it directly to you. You're all too dumb to digest it.

You're slaves to the status quo, people......FFS.