• toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    i’m not saying he’s not accountable, i’m just saying it could have been different. we all should have seen the culture war long before it cost us the fucking world. cowboy hats or extensions, you’re (edit: we’re) all fucked now.

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      7 days ago

      The culture war has always been a manufactured distraction creates by conservatives to make people blame the powerless instead of the wealthy for their problems.

      As a trans person I am fully aware of the culture war because it effects me directly. I was aware of it long before I considered I might be trans.

      But the culture war is still a distraction. They want to blame the economy and stuff on everything but “corporate greed”.

      But as much if a distraction as it is it sti does harm. It still kills people.

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        7 days ago

        A-fucking-MEN. (edit: probably the worst possible time to ‘split the infinitive’ so to speak, but whatever)

        for what it’s worth, i was trying to provide food for thought.

        i hope you have a good sense of humour, because i imagine your typos are the result of having long, fabulous fingernails :P

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      7 days ago

      The only chance to show him a better way probably over by the mid 80s. He had cemented a sense of superiority by then and whatever humility he might have had was completely blown away when he managed to sell Zip2 for millions, before anyone knew who he was.

      The only way to “resolve” the “culture war” to Elon’s satisfaction would have been for Vivian to deny her identity and keep trying to be Elon’s son. There’s no fair or equitable resolution that caters to Elon’s sensibilities.

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        7 days ago

        That’s the most fucked up part to me. His dick is broken, so he has to rely on IVF for kids. He’s apparently obsessed with having sons, so I’m sure that some fuckery went on with said IFV. and then he had a “son”. but his “son” realized that their gender was engineered. i can’t imagine how fucked up it must be to be her and realize that. now, her fucked up father is saying stuff like “my son is dead”. I think I recommended the wrong target for the hug.

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          7 days ago

          Yeah, I couldn’t imagine ever acting like that toward my child the way he acts toward her. Just flat out declaring your child dead to everyone and refusing to acknowledge who they are now, just because of what they chose to do with their own life… It’s pretty heart breaking.

          He doesn’t even have an excuse of losing his path to a genetic legacy, he’s got a dozen living children who may still go on to have children. He’s neglected all of them until Luigi killed a CEO and suddenly he’s carrying one around like an ornament all the time, but still they got his genes, for better or worse.

          Maybe 1970s Elon could have used a few more hugs, but this century it’s just too late.

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            7 days ago

            sometimes you just have to give credit where it’s due, and i’m sure my LLM query cost a bunch of people a day’s worth of artificial light, but here goes:

            • anti-triumph
            • a morality tale
            • a cosmic farce
            • an existential horror
            • a shakespearian tragedy
            • a greek tragedy
            • a geek tragedy
            • a cautionary tale

            (i added the geek tragedy one. tip your waitresses)