startthemachine.bsky.social
Comedian/humorist. Co-founder of Gamefully Unemployed podcast and streaming network - support us on Patreon! writer @ Some More News. Formerly of Cracked. he/him.
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NEDRY: (based, inspiring) I can automate all of Jurassic Park for a fraction of what you’d pay a full staff😏😏😏
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NEDRY: (screaming, dead)
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Oh 100%, I think you can read into it even further b/c chaos theory was partially born from trying to use computers to predict the weather. So, it’s a theory explaining why controlling complex systems is impossible, created by an attempt to control a complex system.
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NEDRY: (based, inspiring) I can automate all of Jurassic Park for a fraction of what you’d pay a full staff😏😏😏
24 HOURS LATER
NEDRY: (screaming, dead)
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My dad was a naval commander, which is not a government job you immediately think of as administrative, and he had thousands of emails in his inbox every day.
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From the country that brought you “officially citing the television series 24 to argue that the US should torture its captives”
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It’s actually really hard for dead people to do anything in this country and there are several mechanisms in place that ensure this, but all Sideshow Bob had to do was copy names down from the cemetery so I fully believe Elon thinks that’s what’s happening.
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Anyway, I just think it’s important to remember that Elon was less than a non-story in American media up until about 10 years ago. He was covered as a fun billionaire playing with toys, something we could not have been less interested in during the war and the Great Recession.
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I didn’t even realize it was a cameo, I thought he was just some random dude Tony was saying hi to just to ice out Justin Hammer
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My point is Elon’s rise to power has been specifically insidious and what’s happening in our country has as much to do with the control of information as it does ignorance. The Iraq war was a global crisis that dominated the news for its first several years. Elon was a rich guy playing with rockets.
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I meant conservatives, not fully right-wing voters. But yeah I think what you’re saying is absolutely true, that’s why they invented dog whistling
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This is what I’m talking about, only someone choking on a steady diet of American media could ever possibly believe that Trump is a good businessman who doesn’t do things just to hurt people. He made an entire career of that before he was president.
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And also because little Nazi Fauntleroy told the entire world that America is Nazis now. I’d say I was surprised that doesn’t seem to matter to older (non Nazi) conservatives , but the propaganda arm in this country is so strong they probably never saw it, and wouldn’t believe it if they did.
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Decades of “never again” and now the media is calling it “a controversial salute”, great job America
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Right but this is the first time there’s a real chance we won’t *get* to vote again
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It’s going to be a TV show
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Really excited for when that text message gets outlawed by the worst Kennedy since Joe said “maybe we hear this Hitler guy out”
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For example, a man sitting on top of a pile of money so large you couldn’t spend it in 200 lifetimes just fired thousands of people in the name of efficiency
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Every U.S. law enshrines capital over people, that’s why it’s called capitalism. Every part of our lives is controlled or otherwise tied to employment until age 65, and they’re trying to raise that age b/c general life expectancy is longer. The American people have only ever been a workforce.
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Briefly, before he made many public statements or appearances, his history wasn’t widely known in America, and he was just “the electric car guy who also builds rockets”
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*profiling the man who began life with an emerald mine in a twisted utopia for white supremacists* “What could have made him this way?”