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Finally you don’t even have to go off platform to post fake news on Twitter.
Guess it’s appropriate that Musk should go from some sort of entrepreneurial tech guru who was going to save the planet to some right wing billionaire shitheel, steals “grok” from Heinlein, who went for sic-fi author darling to libertarian shitheel.
@RememberTheApollo_ @dgerard he was only ever cosplaying as an “entrepreneurial tech guru” though
Musk appropriating “grok” from Stranger in a Strange Land is on-brand for him, seeing as he fundamentally misunderstands Banks’ Culture series and reduces it to “the one with the cool ship names”.
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@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ rather than people use technology to consciously take over their gender expression.
@Cuprohastes @gerikson @cstross I’ve great that described as “Heinlein’s later, post-talented stage.”
It’s the least of the things he appropriates. He also appropriates a chunk of the federal budget.
I thought it was a Heinlein reference.
@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ he doesn’t grok it!
@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ As a member of The Affront, of course he would.
And if you look at the drone ship’s actual names, they’re not even officially registered by these “cool” designations. So all fantasy and appropriation. Makes me wonder if his kid with the edgy name doesn’t actually have “George”, “Errol” or “Maye” in their passport…
@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ to be fair Heinlein had some fascist tendencies too even if Stranger In A Strange Land was just good (although I read it so long ago that I might have overlooked stuff)
@blikkie @gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ The bits about homosexuality haven’t aged very well and there’s a certain amount of “society shouldn’t inhibit hot young women’s natural desire to fuck curmudgeonly ageing authors”.
@blikkie @gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ One way to read Stranger in a Strange Land is what happens when our society is visited by a radical pacifist (who knows how to protect himself). Another way to read it is “our society is stupid and we know better how it should work”. I can see how Musk might be inclined to follow one of these interpretations over the other.
Is that Play-Doh baby on the right supposed to be Vance?
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