• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How the fuck can Elon Musk claim to be a Trekkie? When he is against everything Star Trek stands for?!
    The psychological dissonance of that man is insane!

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      4 months ago

      He also claims to love the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a book series where technology corporations are absolutely loathed and every AI is either a broken or an asshole or both.

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      4 months ago

      I think the closest thing Elon is to Star Trek would be a Romulan/Ferengi hybrid wannabe. Dreaming of having a star ship to manipulate, conquer and extort the galaxy.

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      4 months ago

      What I think is that because they are incapable of empathetic thought, the message gets lost.

      TNG’s Time’s Arrow, DS9’s Past Tense, VOY’s Life Line are all just made up stories to them. No human condition there.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      It’s a common theme. There are a lot of conservatives who are still somehow fans of Star Trek because they the lack media literacy needed to figure out that they’re values are not shared by the good guys on the show.

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        4 months ago

        Remember how conservatives think that Rage Against The Machine is on their side. There’s no delusion too great after that.