• FIash Mob #5678@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    It’s wild how much he’s done to piss on his own legacy. Just a few short years ago he was considered a quirky visionary.

    Not anymore, but it’s not like anyone will ever be honest with him to his face, which must be really nice.

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      4 months ago

      In 2017 his name was mentioned as a visionary comparable to the Wright Brothers and Zefram Cochrane (inventor of the warp drive) on a Star Trek episode set in the 2250s. It felt at the time that this line risked dating the episode but I don’t think anyone could have expected just how much he would go on trash his own reputation.

      The only thing that saves this line is that we found out a few episodes later that the character who spoke it secretly came from the Mirror Universe - where he grew up Musk’s embrace of Nazism was probably seen as a virtue.

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        In 2017 his name was mentioned as a visionary comparable to the Wright Brothers and Zefram Cochrane (inventor of the warp drive) on a Star Trek episode set in the 2250s.

        By a character who was explicitly evil and whose judgement we were not meant to trust, though

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        4 months ago

        At the time it was just an ad-lib by Jason Issacs, guessing he wished on a monkey’s paw for it to make sense in context.

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        In the, admittedly terrible, movie Moonfall (2022) they use his tech and one of the main characters keeps saying things like “God I love Elon”. I guess it was under development in years previous but we long knew that he was a babyish edgelord (see behaviour over the rescue of the Thai soccer team in 2018).

        Seems shortsighted to make him such a focus.