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      It’s a dog whistle for casting only white people and no queer actors. If something has a racist angle, assume that’s the one Musk means

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          (Looks at the history of Musk in the public eye)

          I’m gonna say it’s the idiot one. All the moron had to do was keep his mouth shut and keep paying to buy the founder title of other market disruptors and he’d’ve been the next Henry Ford (literal nazi that Americans remember fondly cause he was “pro-labor” (threw labor a bone to disrupt union efforts))

          Instead, we now all know he’s an evil idiot with an ego problem.

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            TL;DR; Narcissistic emotionally stunted manchild acts out to get attention because he can’t figure out why he isn’t getting the respect or adoration he clearly deserves.

            And any attention is better than none.


            Im not sure that’s all idiocy though.

            It’s certainly a large helping of narcissism and hubris.

            Nepo-lucking your way up enough to mingle with the other amoral arseholes probably requires some skill of a kind.

            It could just be trolling, he’s certainly rich enough and that gives him a layer of protection in the current capitalist societal structure that’s thick enough he can pretty much just be a 24/7 dick and there will be zero effective consequences.

            I personally think he’s got in to a position where he can have basically whatever he wants except the things he actually would like to have.

            He’s a boring, lonely, sad child of middling intellect and can’t figure out why the things he does doesn’t get him the things he needs/wants.

            So he escalates, and lashes out, because he can and its his only form of communication.

            Like a crying toddler with big feelings, they can’t articulate the problem so they cry and scream until someone else figures they need food and a hug.

            Except his tantrums kill people and ruin lives.

            If he was an idiot that might go a ways to explaining the continual inability to just not be a dick to everyone, all the time.

            But I think it’s worse than that, i think he’s choosing to continue being a dick, as a way of proving to himself he still has an effect on the world , not the respect, acceptance or adoration he wants, but still, something.

            /rant

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    The Odyssey is a work of fiction. It’s a heroic epic, not a history. How do you make a historically accurate version of fictional oral poetry?

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      Well you see he’s stupid and can’t tell the difference between fiction and reality

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      Hire a historian to give a no-nonsense talk about the history of ideas Homer used. Believers in Greek gods and countries mentioned were definitely real. We don’t know nearly as much about them as Homer did but we know Odysseus wouldn’t encounter supernatural beings and can conjecture what these themes were inspired by.

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        We don’t know nearly as much about them as Homer did

        True, the man truly had vision.

        There’s nobody better than a blind man to write historically about the hue of a person’s skin.

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          It is also speculated by historians that Homer wasn’t just one person but in fact entire industry of people whose job it was to tell stories.

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      I get what you’re saying, but maybe that’s a bad example. I actually do want them to release a historically accurate version of Star Wars… ie. the version that was released in 1977 in which Han Solo shot first and there wasn’t a bunch of CGI shit all over the place.

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        Well that exists! Sure not quite officially, but look up project 4K77, you can download that version of Star wars right now (and it’s awesome. I’ve watched all three of them in their most original version)

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          Yeah I got the despecialized edition and it’s fine. It’s weird that you have to pirate one the most popular movies to be shown in the theater to get what was shown in the theater.

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        Star wars silver screen edition. Look it up, it’s out there. It’s like a 25 GB download but you can find it.

        Bunch of fans got a hold of original film print of the movie and digitized it. No remastering, just the movie as it was presented in 1977.

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        Han Solo shot first only.

        Han straight up ended greedo. Bug-eyed bastard never even got a shot off.

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          Well yeah, Greedo didn’t shoot. Because Han Solo shot first. I don’t think it needs to be stated that Han Solo wouldn’t miss at a range that close.

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    I would like to be in the room filming him as he makes these insane prompts to grok while he’s in a khole. Could probably make a really good doc like hearts of darkness out of it.

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    You don’t need to make en entire fantasy film to show us that historically accurate cyclops, Elon!

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    Bring back Troy McClure and his cologne, Smellin of Troy.

    You may remember him from such classics like “Lead Paint: Delicious But Deadly”.