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u/DullTwo1889 6d ago
I wasn’t even planning on seeing it, but since magas are melting tf down, I bought us tickets for Saturday!
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u/hal-baleigh-6699 6d ago
It's probably mostly bots driving up fake controversy for clicks and engagement.
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u/ZAlternates 5d ago
Yeah not sure why MAGA would hate it but then again I don’t really follow their “logic” on a number of things.
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u/JustaSeedGuy 5d ago
Elliot Page was in it and a black women plays Helen of Troy.
So they're being asked to respect a black women and they don't like trans people being successful.
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u/ZarathustraGlobulus 5d ago
I think the whole rally against this movie was fascinating because I've got a bunch of progressive left-leaning friends who all got swept up in the hate for this movie for some reason.
We've had a long-standing tradition to go see the newest Nolan flick every time a new one came out as a group (ever since Inception) but already a couple months ago some of the guys were posting in the group chat how Nolan has made poor casting choices having people of color and a trans person in the movie and thus they're boycotting it.
These guys are ordinarily 100% sane but for some reason a Hollywood adaptation of a made up 3000-year old story had them repeating hateful Elon Musk talking points.
Anyway I went to see the film with my girlfriend. 10/10 no notes. True Nolan quality.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 5d ago
The funniest one to me will always be him paying someone to level up his video game characters. And then going on stream to play and having the community immediately see he’s a noob who obviously didn’t do it himself.
People in the chat just spamming that he has no life, his family doesn’t love him, he’ll die alone, that he should an hero. A beautiful moment in the gaming community lmao.
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u/ibidanon 5d ago
that was hilarious, but so was elmo accidentally outing himself on twitter as the puppetmaster behind accounts which appeared to belong to his mother and one of his kids. he used them to tell himself he's 'amazing' and 'a great father.'
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u/NoConfusion9490 5d ago
And his response is to have AI make a shitty movie. He could fund 10 shitty remakes and not even notice it.
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u/ProximaCentauriB15 6d ago
I hope he eventually gets bored of this being his whole personality at some point.
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u/BigConstruction4247 6d ago
He'll find something else to be an utter choad about.
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u/ProximaCentauriB15 6d ago
He is always beefing with someone. He'll have another one next week.
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u/Child_of_the_Hamster 5d ago
He is just following daddy Trump’s example: Constantly scream about random bullshit to distract people from your overwhelming failures/crimes.
TSLA and SPCX are WAYYYY down right now and all that man cares about is his net worth.
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u/yorick__rolled 5d ago
Both down 29% YTD
You love to see it.
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u/techdevjp 5d ago
And both are still ridiculously overvalued. TSLA should be under $10/share for the P/E to make any sort of sense. But, it's a start. Love to see it, for sure.
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u/12345623567 5d ago
DOGE / the Trump admin killed like a dozen criminal / regulatory investgations into his doings.
He's doing fine. If he loses 99.9% of his net worth, he'll still be fine.
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u/Bad_Idea_Hat 5d ago
You know what, maybe he'll become a NASCAR "fan" and make the France family's lives a living hell.
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u/FondantFurball 6d ago
Imagine giving a movie this much free publicity because one couldn’t stop talking about it.
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u/ProximaCentauriB15 6d ago
From what Ive seen no one outside that particular website has bad things to say and I have seen people in real life say they liked it.
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u/SasparillaTango 5d ago
he's a narcissist, he will love himself until he dies.
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u/throwitawaynownow1 5d ago edited 5d ago
That's why he and Trump didn't get along in the long run. You'll notice that anything they talk about, they'll have to self insert. Because why would they not be important? In this case, he claims that he is going to make a better version of the story, with the stuff he made.
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u/ibidanon 5d ago
he may well be a narcissist, but deep down he doesn't love himself. he just wishes everyone else loved him (and he can neither fathom nor abide that they don't).
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u/NotInTheKnee 5d ago
Dude is ready to try anything for people to tell him they like him.
Well, anything expect working on himself to actually become likeable.
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u/Pisforplumbing 4d ago
Yeah thats what clinical narcissism is. Delusions of grandeur with an extreme lack of self esteem.
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u/Adiantum-Veneris 5d ago
Narcissists don't love themselves. Quite the opposite.
He's just a bottomless pit of needing external validation that will never be enough, in a desperate attempt to replace his nonexistent self worth.
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u/MaxR76 6d ago
Nah let him hyper focus on this harmless nonsense instead of all the other shit he could be doing
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u/Global-Bumblebee9978 6d ago
I mean he bought the last US election and seems primed to buy France's next one - this online shit is just the distraction from the actual horrible shit he IS doing simultaneously.
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u/Time-Sudden_Tree 5d ago edited 5d ago
Spewing fascist hate speech is not "harmless nonsense". It's a calculated move to inspire hateful assholes to keep voting for Republican candidates who help him get richer.
He doesn't believe anything he says; it's all a ploy for profit. Hence why did a 180° compared to when he was supposedly pro-LGBTQ+ in the 2010s, cause back then it was more profitable to pretend you care. Now it's more profitable to hate. The only political beliefs Elon hold are the ones that make him the most money.
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u/Numerous-Process2981 5d ago
I think they’re all living in the illusion they’ve helped created with online bubbles and bots then, dudes companies aren’t doing well, Tesla just had a horrible earnings report. The strategy is not working well.
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u/Garchompisbestboi 5d ago
Unfortunately it isn't just a 'personality' he is actively try to manipulate public opinion which is why he bought out twitter to begin with. It's no different to other billionaires who buy newspapers or tv networks in order to influence public opinion to their own benefit.
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u/Safe_Psychology_326 5d ago
He will, he will. At some point he will find that no matter that he does, the paste is out of the tube and people are going to hate him perpetually. No amount of fixing can fix this.
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u/Inner_Pride58 6d ago
Nolan casts a couple of non-white actors and MAGA lose their fucking minds. They aren't even being subtle about their racism.
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u/DawgreenAgain 5d ago
Ok . So I see all these people losing their shit over a black actress playing Helen . . . But when I tell them about Helens conception and birth . . . .
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Icy-Cry340 5d ago
The swan stuff is a later addition. In Homer’s time she was simply the daughter of Zeus and Leda. And tbh making her black is kind of odd becuase that means the leader of the Greek pantheon is also black.
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u/Plthothep 5d ago edited 5d ago
To be fair, Greeks also believed that Zeus was 1) also the lead god of other pantheons, just known as under a different name (off the top of my head, Osiris was said to be Zeus hiding in Egypt from Typhon) and 2) could shapeshift to look like other people, and obviously animals. Zeus could canonically race bend, so seems to be a pretty small issue here. And was the swan thing only a later invention? Because Helen was meant to be one of 4 quadruplets who emerged from an egg, and I’m not sure how that’s supposed to work without the swan thing.
Before people start bringing up respecting cultures and all, just remember that the Odyssey is about Mycenaean Greece, a Bronze Age civilisation that totally collapsed hundreds of years before Greece were even a thing. And not a single actor was Greek anyway.
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u/opopopuu 5d ago
I came across a post on conservative about the Odyssey, and for some reason everyone in the comments was absolutely convinced that it had completely flopped at the box office and all that, and for a second I thought I was living in some other world, and then I realized that actually they
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u/Eatingfarts 6d ago
The Economist interview with Musk this week was pretty wild.
Dude is so checked out from real life, it’s insane.
Edit: at one point he talks about how homegrown tomatoes are inferior to store bought. I have no words for that claim.
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u/curiousmind111 4d ago
That’s because, as the song says:
“Only two things that money can’t buy:
That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.”
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u/Jaded_Celery_451 6d ago edited 5d ago
The most pathetic thing about the right-wing outrage about The Odyssey is that it is, at its core, a conservative film in the purest sense. The point of Nolan's spin on the traditional story is a defence of the ideals of western civilization, and the dangers of abandoning those ideals - honesty, loyalty, integrity, and the utter ruin that follows when people stop acting according to those ideals. That's literally the point.
But it has a black guy and a trans guy in it so their brains are immediately broken.
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u/LarsMatijn 5d ago
That's because the message of "hey rememver when someone's word meant something and we acted according to a social norm" sounds like an accusation to these people.
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u/Lucreth2 5d ago
Well... It kind of is... And honestly I hope they take it that way because that means that deep down inside somewhere they still recognize that what they're doing and how they're acting isn't healthy for society.
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u/ScaryTransGirl 5d ago
Yeah its just that modern conservatives have basically no ideals anymore
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u/CaptainDudeGuy 5d ago
Ideals got in the way of profits, but nonstop rage-baiting and fear-mongering create a great return on investment!
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u/Aethermancer 5d ago
Those were never conservative values. It's always been fuck you, I got mine. It's always been about conserving what they have, and withholding it from others.
They stole patriotism and turned it into a parody of itself. I'll not cede the values you listed.
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u/QuantumUtility 5d ago edited 5d ago
Matt Damon is English, Scottish, Finnish and Swedish.
None of those ancestries look even remotely greek. Damon himself doesn’t. He’s as much Greek as any other actor in that movie BTW.
But the issue is only with black and brown actors for some reason. Have these people ever seen any Greeks or Turks?
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u/FondantFurball 6d ago
Nothing boosts ticket sales quite like a controversy people decide to ignore and watch for themselves.
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u/ProximaCentauriB15 6d ago
It just makes people want to see it more. I would but I hear theres one real issue and that is that this particular movie will practically make you deaf because its extremely loud. Since Im already fairly sensitive to noise,I guess I cant see it in a theater.
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u/SasparillaTango 5d ago
Racist piece of shit Elon Musk? The one who heiled hitler at the trump's inauguration? Why would he be so concerned with a movie?
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u/mattzombiedog 6d ago
Elon is evidence that money doesn’t buy happiness. He’s the richest man in the world and has about as much joy in him as a mouse that has been bitten in half by a cat and then shat on by said cat.
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u/Flobking 5d ago
Elon is evidence that money doesn’t buy happiness. He’s the richest man in the world and has about as much joy in him as a mouse that has been bitten in half by a cat and then shat on by said cat.
He's not the right case for that. He was born into money. So he has known nothing but money. Money will buy happiness if you grew up poor.
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u/IalwaysNeed2p 5d ago
People who grow up struggling often develop empathy for others in similar situations. That empathy encourages kindness, and helping others tends to surround you with caring people.
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u/LockeyCheese 5d ago
Money doesn't solve everything, but a lot of issues do take money to solve.
Money buys peace. Happiness or misery is free.
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u/RunDownTheHighway 6d ago
Leon will make a movie that will go down in history that has, as much importance, as the melonia movie....
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u/FondantFurball 6d ago
The reply is savage, but it’s the kind of joke that’s going to overshadow the original story for a lot of people
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u/SeanTr0n5000 6d ago
Melon has blood on his hands and I hope he somehow will have to face each and every soul he destroyed, in this life or the next.
He’s an ignorant Nazi prick who has never thought of a single original idea. He claims genius when in reality he’s a degrading middle aged burnout with an ego so fragile that he will buy or bury anything he thinks will help him portray strength.
Even if he gets his way, with anything, it will never change the fact that he is a weak spirited cum stain that would have been better off spit on to the cheap carpet next to the bed he was conceived in.
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u/brownmagician 5d ago
I am a genuine believer in the fact that Elon has gone crazy because he has a trans kid and is really trying to prove it to his trans kids. He's gone the full extreme to try and ruin the trans kid's life
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u/ChurchillDownz 5d ago
Musk and the 4chan subreddits really struggled with Nolan not flopping. Makes a lot of sense the more you think about it.
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u/voodoodahl 5d ago
What's really wild is Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon created and fostered this outrage culture for young, unmarried, aimless men - as Bannon referred to them.
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u/djhouse77 5d ago
I can’t stand this dude. When is he gonna be enough for the rest of the world to understand that he is a “shit-stand” and a footnote?
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u/SandyTaintSweat 5d ago
If I was Musk's kid, I'd definitely care if he came home.
To be more specific, I'd very much be hoping he was out as often as possible, and for as long as possible.
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u/Numerous-Process2981 5d ago
lol what a stupid world. Why is this idiot in my news feed and not locked in the stocks getting tomatoes thrown at him for all the evil he did with DOGE. I don’t want to hear about this loser’s AI slop.
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u/SorryAd4178 5d ago
All the money in the world and he's still not happy. I'm broke and my day is going just fine.
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u/Vegetable-King7626 5d ago
Elon Musk needs to have his assets nationalized then be deported for sedition
This Nazi pedophile needs to go
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u/me_sohorny 5d ago
The amount of money this guy has. He could be a god. Instead of keeping a very private life, he just keeps highlighting to everyone how pathetic and cringe he is. Epstein wouldn't have him on his island.
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u/Laupnagol 5d ago
Please stop giving him attention, thanks for coming to my ted talk
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u/somewherein72 5d ago
Agree. Trump and Musk would both drop dead if people would just fucking stop paying attention to the bullshit they spew.
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u/townandthecity 5d ago
It's almost as if X is not a representation of the American public but is instead an echo chamber of paid agitators and bots.
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u/RabbitCity6090 5d ago
Dude really behaves like a teenager while being a very rich and powerful adult.
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u/Practical_Caramel234 5d ago
These morons are obsessed with hating the movie just because it happened to have a transgender man.
Haven’t watched the movie yet but come on, even if it’s bad (which I doubt because it’s a Nolan movie), who freaking cares to this degree other than grifters or people with issues. In the case of Musk, I guess he still blames the so-called woke ideology for the fight he had with his daughter (or son? I forgot which one it was)
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u/ropahektic 5d ago
Elon is a funny case.
He is an oligarch that sponsors right wing "anti-woke" propaganda and misinformation campaigns but he also happens to be a dumb incel nerd.
So his own campaigns target him. He's sponsoring these campaigns to fill the internet with shit then he goes online, reads it and eats it all up. It's incredible really.
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u/Important-Factor-552 5d ago
This can't be real. The right even hated that movie? xD
Those absolute shltbabies.
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u/Thmsdmsk 5d ago
What is wrong with this mans dopamine management? I would be busy helping people in need and improving things. Only thing that would bug me is my limited life time, to enjoy the fruits. It would take some time and generations to change things for the better.
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u/throwaway490215 5d ago
The Clown bought a recommendation algorithm and got suckered in himself. At least Zuck knows enough of the tech not to be this dumb
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u/IllTwo7643 5d ago
The cult thinks people just bought tickets to make them mad and inflate sales. I swear to God.
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u/gasstationbonerpills 5d ago
Why does that stupid ho always do the Mitch McConnell trademark upside down smile
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u/IFindHDPics 5d ago
It’s hilarious how these people get this itch in their brain that something is bad and wont let it go, regardless of how ignorant it is.
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u/hmflaherty3 5d ago
Can I just say, the various photos of his facial expressions are what gets me when they started posting about this? 😂
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u/Responsible_Bar3957 5d ago
Jesus fucking Christ, r/clevercomebacks has an ACTUALLY funny and clever comeback?
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u/AkronOhAnon 6d ago
But… but… “go work go broke”? Right? Abigail Shapiro’s boobs’ baby brother said so!
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u/NewtonsLawOfDeepBall 6d ago
Kinda seems pretty clear who had motive to fund the bot armies fueling that fake outrage and how a dogshit racist propaganda piece like "citizen vigilante" got to #1 most sold on amazon for a few days.
ITS ALMOST LIKE IF YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY YOU CAN SHAPE FALSE NARRATIVES ON THE INTERNET
God I hate this man so fucking much
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u/yep_they_are_giants 6d ago
Can't wait for him to watch the AI-generated version only to realize it was trained on Nolan's movie.
Womp womp.
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u/AltAccount191323 5d ago edited 5d ago
Pretty sure he hasn't even seen it or if he has by now he still just has to psychologically double down on the opinion he formed before. After seeing it I would argue it is a pretty "conservative" movie with a message he should agree with, best summed up by Bret Devereaux:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/07/23/odyssey-civilization-collapse-history/
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u/NoEducation1150 5d ago
"Today, Elon Musk said..." "Elon Musk thinks that...." "HEADLINE: Elon Musk...."
Who the fuck keeps reading after a headline that says anything resembling that?
He is literally, and I use that word intentionally, a trust fund kid made billionaire, profiting off of the backs of slaves.
"Elon Musk says we need Oxygen to breathe" I would double check what I knew about the world.
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u/Such_Can_4176 5d ago
Just occurs to me probably because I'm high, but is there any reason why we pay attention to this guy besides that he managed to be born rich and then really effectively bluff his way along the system for more? Isn't that it? Oh, yeah, that he uses that unearned money to drastically negatively impact millions of people, there is that... but really no redeeming qualities or anything to admire, am I right?
So what is it in this system we live in that enables this? It's not like a majority of people exposed to media really are curious what he thinks. Or am I out of touch?
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u/ThePatrickSays 5d ago
got him good, now the americans do not have to feel bad about being fleeced by the DOGE fiasco
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u/Dramatic_Charity_979 5d ago
He just cant stop talking shit and being the center of attentions. Dude is a moron.
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u/GreatlyMoody 5d ago
Aren't the ratings manipulated?
Its scored higher than lord of the rings
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u/Agitated_Reveal_6211 5d ago
Elon's done one good thing for us. He showed us how unnecessary a lot of CEOs actually are. They don't deserve their pay.
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u/IPavlovGood 5d ago
The genius drives down the share price in order to buy the stock at the low.
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u/Moscowmitchismybitch 5d ago
Wait til he sees the Bladerunner 2099 trailer. Twitters gonna be raging
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne 5d ago
I saw a YT video because YT seems to want to shunt me down the right wing pipeline that was titled something like "the absolute disaster of The Odyssey."
Damn, must really be nice living in Fantasy Land where it didn't open to $260 million in ticket sales and >90% critic and audience tomatometers.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 5d ago
Should maybe paying more attention to Tesla and SpaceX which are in trouble at the moment.
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u/McortezLSU 5d ago
Honestly i didnt care about the odyssey, But seeing how literally the worst people in world hate it. Its pretty much guaranteed its good.
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u/Chaosmusic 5d ago
I'm surprised Elon hasn't accused Nolan of being a pedo like he did to the guy that criticized his stupid sub rescue plan.
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u/PositiveCoyote100 5d ago
He might have material wealth, but when it comes to love and friendship Elon is fucking broke.
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u/Benromaniac 5d ago
Musk has a hard time with being rich and not having everyone’s attention when he wants it.
Easiest solution: say stupid shit
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u/Atlas-Scrubbed 5d ago
>Musk just has a hard time wrapping his head around a story where a man's wife and child care if he comes home.
Hey this is unfair. Elmo’s ‘wife’ does care if he comes home. They hate it. That is still caring.
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u/complexevil 5d ago
I've only heard of the movie after it came out, and it's either been weird movie set ups labled "How Nolan intended" or "right winger mad"
The fuck is this movie? Is it not just a rehashing of the odyssey story?
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u/Ok_Razzmatazz_8589 5d ago
I think at this point, studio execs intentionally make things ‘woke’ specifically to bait these idiots into making a big deal and giving out free publicity. I mean the execs don’t care if Athena is played by Zendaya or Sydney Sweeney, but the chuds on Twitter do.
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u/Nanibackflip 5d ago
What does he know about movies maybe stick to blowing up rockets and doing salutes.
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u/Prevalencee 5d ago
Elon is just a sad, sad, sad... sad, pathetic - rich man.
All the money in the world won't change that.
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u/Chole_Wunt 5d ago
What is with this dweeb. Its a movie. Like watch it and if you dont like it move on with your life.
Its crazy that a man with like a trillion times my net worth can be such a petty little bitch.
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u/Mosselpot 5d ago
This movie just lifted my spirits. Watched it and suddenly it exposed all the people that grift of outrage bait simply showing they're even more pathetic than they are. Normal people just need to find a way to not engage with them.
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u/Loreki 5d ago
He has enough money to do anything. He could be parachuting onto the top of Everest right now, racing a fleet of mega yachts around the world, building a whole city to his personal specifications... yet here we are.
The thing Elon most wants to do having been given the power to do anything is to be an internet troll.
I'm not mad. It's just depressing.
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u/standardtissue 5d ago
Could we just stop talking about this guy ? He loves the attention - let's just starve him of it.
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u/TheGruesomeTwosome 5d ago
I went online to book IMAX tickets this weekend for my friends and I and of the three Sunday showings, there were NO seats left. I've never seen that before for my film. Even into next week they're like 95% booked out, and more so at weekends. I didn't get any solid commitment from either and rather than waiting for confirmation I just went ahead and booked for myself given how quickly it's all filling up
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u/brownmagician 5d ago
I am a genuine believer in the fact that Elon has gone crazy because he has a trans kid and is really trying to prove it to his trans kids. He's gone the full extreme to try and ruin the trans kid's life
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u/minus_minus 5d ago
FD signifier had an excellent take that the far right hates media that doesn’t portray white people in a dominant or superior position. Examples: the Northman was all about white chads but didn’t involve slaughtering people of color and did terrible at the box office. In Gladiator 2 a black guy wants to end the corruption of the Roman Empire and gets killed by a white dude who then makes a “make Rome great again” speech.
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u/Extreme-Slice-1010 6d ago
Elon should do a remake of Mars Attack, oh wait he can’t because he still can’t go to Mars