True story. After the 2016 election, there was a panel discussion. They had all the creators of the top US political TV dramas; The West Wing: Scandal: Veep: House of Cards and others. Every writer and producer said the same thing. If they’d had a character who said that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the advertisers and network bosses would have demanded that the character be hated by all Americans.
South Park And SNL both commented that our 2016 situation was too ridiculous to parody
Back in the 1960s, it was a common joke that ronald reagan would never be President because no one would vote for a guy who co-starred with a monkey.
Today’s GOP would ignore reagan and run the monkey
Heck dude at this point I’d run to vote for the monkey!
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So…that story basically confirms all programming (I mean not cooking shows) is propaganda, doesn’t it?
Propaganda implies that the message being pushed is for the sake of convincing the population of some doctrine. The network is trying to cater to an already held public belief for the sake of dollars.
Some is just entertainment, but yeah, most is trying to sell a message
By that logic, every single drama since the dawn of time is ‘propaganda.’
Dyslexic ass universe we live in . The 2020’s were supposed to be ‘the future’, an advanced post-scarcity world. We got a post-satire world instead
If you look at 70s SF you get closer to the real 2020s.
AI taking over the world: Colossus: The Forbin Project
An Infectious agent causing problems: The Andromeda Strain
Human pollution causing massive issues: Soylent Green
Oh shit Forbin mentioned in the wild
in science fiction the AI that takes over the world is sapient. usually as intelligent as a person if not more. reality is dumber. we’re just trying to surrender the world to a series of algorithms that can’t tell how many fingers there are in a hand or which way they bend, or what a fucking fire hydrant looks like.
That is in movies and books.
In the real world the turning test is not proof that an artificial system is sentient but only if/when a human thinks it is. It is not about the intelligence/sentience of the system but the intelligence of the human observing that means the test is passed.
Sadly, for large parts of humanity, text based LLMs have already passed the turning test…
Look I get it’s a joke but calling Elon and Putin “our two main antagonists” is mind numbingly stupid and doesn’t seem to be the punchline.
The only group who I can think of that would be true for would be college freshman from upper middle class backgrounds that get their news exclusively from social media and do not have any attention span as a result of the Adderall shortage.
Putin has started the largest land war in Europe since WW2. Elon does shit that wouldn’t even put him in the top 5 of evil billionaires. He’s just super active on social media so anyone who puts in the slightest amount of effort can see what he’s up to.
Elon is a bit worse than that: he also pollutes our night sky with thousands of satellites for a service that is a capitalist initial landgrab of space (he does it quickly too so he can skip regulation), and then based on a whim and his ill informed political views use said satellite service to meddle in global politics because again, no regulation. So of course still nowhere near the ex kgb agent, but yeah, a pretty big dick too.
He also spent a bucket load darkening those satellites (with moderate success) when astronomers complained
Also he’s not the only one wanting a massive satellite data constellation, and he is the only one working hard on making space access cheaper
Elon is not just super active in social media. He destroyed Twitter for fun. I didn’t use Twitter before, but for someone that used Twitter (which is most young people) I see how he can seem a villain. Sure, not at the scale of Putin, but way more than “super active”.
For fun? He did it because he thought he could do better. Turns out he couldn’t though
Have we forgotten about Trump, the Koch brothers, hmm who else.
There’s a jewish fascist
Can we start talking about those who told the truth more than those who lie? Here’s a short starting list:
Gary Webb
Milton William Cooper
Bill Hicks
Julian Assange
Edward Snowden
Anyone else?
Real estate baron that desperately wants to be dictator is pretty stupid too.
What about the spray tan eccenric NY city real estate agent that shits on a golden toliet with an army of yall-qaeda terrorists
Too ludicrous even for a Bond film. Even a Roger Moore Bond film.
God that is so true. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so true.
Even an Austin Powers movie?
I heard the Bond movies got more serious after the Austin Powers movies came out.
One tends to stop doing tropes that people are actively complaining about…
Unless it’s “The Magic Goes Away Forever”
Hate that trope but they keep spamming it
Especially the part where, he has a bunch of followers who claimed the emerald mine never existed and that it’s all a hoax by his detractors. Even though the main man himself has admitted that his fortune came from a God damn Emerald mine.
Let me FTFY:
Penchant for poisoning, and having comrades mysteriously fall from very high places
Britain is not holding up its end here, producing the mega-shagger we need to save us all.
Groovy baby.
Putin and Musk or From Russia With Love and Moonraker?
Hey, there’s also a New York businessman obsessed with gold and status who has political influence and ties to the ex KGB agent with goals of overturning democracy
who is the former KGB agent?
I don’t know if you are joking and I am whooshing it but: Putin. He was former… i believe even chief of the KGB. Was stationed in East Germany for a while and made quite the career. And now he instigated himself as a Russian Erdogan who can rule for as long as he wishes.
More like as long as his citizens don’t develop a taste for guillotines
Russians always were more of the “lets kill the ruling class in a bloody battle of the working class and absolute brutality for the sins their families have committed against us” kind. (Source: The murder of the Romanov family )
Remember Angela Merkel? She was a Stasi member is East Germany at the same time but everyone seems to pretend they weren’t former colleagues.
Bruv… she was in politics. Not the Stasi. And even if she was everyone was a spy on everyone in the east. The woman got a damn doctor in physics. What could she do for the Stasi? And besides. No proof.
You’re forgetting the creepy old guy with a German accent, no hair, and a penchant for dressing up in weird costumes, who runs a quasi-secret society with the intention to infiltrate every world government and bring about global communism that way.
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Virtually all the good things Musk has supposedly done were done by other people. He’s just an asshole with enough money to buy a whole lot of name recognition.
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I really don’t get the pervasiveness of this emerald mine heir story. His father that owned the mine is still alive, and disowned Elon after divorcing his mother, and then later, marrying Elon’s step sister.
