Hunger Games - Resist oligarchy, enslavement and groteque forms of capital punishment for ancestral “crimes”.
Star Wars - Resist the fascist space dictator and the military industrial complex.
The Matrix - Resist authoritarian control, the obfuscation of reality, lack of bodily autonomy, and literal farming of our organs.
Divergent - Resist… cliques, I guess? I’m gonna be honest, everything I know about this series seems dumb to me. Maybe someone more informed and 10 years younger can make a better case than me here…
V for Vendetta - Resist actual factual old school fascists/Nazis, war crimes, concentration camps, human experimentation, total media control, punishment without due process.
Notice how none of these are “Resist governments that make me pay a progressive tax that limits the burden on lower income earners, that regulate industries to ensure worker, public and environmental safety, that seek to limit the influence money plays in our elections so that our representative democracy remains representative of everyone, not just the rich?” Because the shit you are resisting is the good shit, you dumb manchild fuck. It’s not the fucking same.
never the purge, as musk would get purged, he would never qoute the rick and mortys episode of the purge planet.
Divergent definitely doesn’t belong in that list. It’s like listing The Beatles next to The Monkeys; in regards to it being clearly derivative of the hunger games and the only real thing they have in common is they both made money.
The hunger games gets to stay only because v for vendetta pales in comparison when it comes to cultural relevance.
Monkees, but yes
I just noticed that the Beatles modified an animal’s name to add a musical term (beat) whereas the Monkees did the opposite, removing “key” from monkey.
How does this guy not understand he’s the villain?
When you have so much money that nobody else matters to you and you become the only character in your story.
He’s playing stupid to convince his base they’re the resistance
Because media illiteracy is almost a prerequisite for being far right wing
It’s actually a great example of the difference between movies and reality. In most movies the evil people “know” that they are evil, they want to be evil. In reality evil mostly comes from people thinking they are doing the “right” thing, which has to be done, while ignoring their empathy or being incapable of empathy.
He’s the hero in his own mind, in the sense of: “I’m burning down society to the ground to rebuild it better for all! Can’t people see that?! Don’t they realize what I’m trying to do for them!!!” Of course he doesn’t have enough awareness to realize people can’t see that through the smoke and flames of everything burning around them.
I don’t think he doesn’t know he’s evil, that’s why posts like this fall fall so flat, he doesn’t believe his own lies.
sycophants. The answer is sycophants. Always being told you’re right messes up your brain.
also the amount of drugs he takes.
The best scene in Star Wars was when Darth Vader was curled up at the Emperor’s feet crying and whining that he was the cool rebel really.
I hope he never has an unstressed day for the rest of his life. And I hope it’s a short life. Fascist fuck.
Does Hunger Games, Star Wars, and the Matrix all incorporate a plot of “good guys win, get complacent, government goes back to fascism and they have to defeat it again only it is harder this time around because they are old and people question if doing the same thing again will lead to the same results?”
is he just… writing out his internal monologues? Cuz… like. that’s not crazy.
He didn’t write this, he stole it, like everything else.
you are almost there Elon keep straining those cells and you will get it soon
Is Musk actually operating under the belief that the literal government is “the resistance” or is he just pretending? I think he might be delusional enough to actually believe it
Lmao, no one watched divergent
Some girls who were tweens in the 2010s are really upset with you right now.
But doctor, I am tween girl in the 2010s
You need to stop going to the 5th dentist for your obgyn exams.
Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains.
Nah, the ending pissed them off. That series dropped like a rock.
…I did. Nothing groundbreaking, but decent enough to have on a side screen while flying around collecting herbs in WoW.
Then again perhaps the herbs were more interesting, now that I think about it…
Probably the 2nd best YA fantasy movie adapted from a book in its era. I’ll never not be disappointed by The Giver, but I think they had a hard task to accomplish. É
…Divergent literally killed the trend my dude.
It probably did, but not before it got a couple sequels*. The other YA adaptations were just that bad.
*Their ambitious part one of the final movie was a terrible decision though.
Thank you for your candor.
Melon is just Cypher
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a better example of “main character syndrome” as Musk just displayed here.
The problem is, in the real world? Right now? There is no “resistance”. I’d support them if they existed, but they don’t.
Oh, sure, the “Hands Off” people have their performative protests to make themselves feel good, like they’re actually doing something. They aren’t.
Cory Booker got up and talked for 25 hours… which didn’t actually block any legislation from passing, or block a nominee, or alter Trump policy on, well, anything really. But hey! He talked for 25 hours!
Show me a resistance to support.
Wholeheartedly agree. I’ve seen little more than pageantry.
I hear you. There’s a serious lack of grand scale organizing, and with all three branches of government captured there’s not even the consolation prize of legislative or judicial obstructionism.
That said, there is resistance at the local level, and it needs people badly. Those hands off protests aren’t being organized at the national level. The national org is calling for protests on a specific day and unaffiliated local groups are organizing the individual events. Those local groups could really use your support in whatever form you can give it. They’re almost always handing out flyers and info on their projects at protests. Most don’t require membership to help out and you almost never have to rsvp to just attend. Odds are there’s an organization or two near you that you can support, and if not most of the national orgs have organizing instructional materials on their websites for free.
It’s easy to be so worried by what’s happening nationally that we forget the difference that local orgs make. I was a part of a canvassing effort for an abortion rights amendment last year that knocked on over three thousand doors with no more than ten people every Saturday. We didn’t get the amendment passed, but it did get majority support and we saw a huge surge in new members. We’re now using our newfound numbers to help push for a city council recall and explore candidates for school board. Ours isn’t even the most well established organization in our city either. We regularly collaborate with four, more established, orgs and we’re working to build relationships with three more.
This knitting together of smaller orgs is the process of resistance building. It is unfortunately slow, but it is happening, and I promise it isn’t just happening here. Even in the middle of nowhere I have a friend in a town of two hundred who’s been auditing the town budget to show the incompetence of the “maga moms” on their town council in an attempt to get them removed. You’re right to be frustrated, but for all our sakes I hope you find something to do with that frustration.
And you? What are you doing to resist? Shit on those who are trying?
I’m pushing for an ACTUAL resistance.
What needs to happen is for all the Hands Off protests, especially the ones in Blue States where the citizens already agree with them, to migrate to D.C. and shut THAT city down for a month. Clog the arteries, make it impossible to function. Bring 300,000+ people to D.C. and shut it down.
Nobody cares about protests in Seattle, Portland, L.A., Chicago, etc.
You do these things to setup solidarity and organize. Want a general strike? It starts by getting lots of people to come out and protest. Then, people see that there are other people who will join them in a general strike. You can’t start by randomly calling one. Each individual person will see that they’re taking a risk of losing their job, and that risk can only be justified if everyone else is doing the same thing. Can’t fire all of us. If the organizers of the same protests you’ve been going to are saying we should all participate in a general strike, then individuals are assured they won’t be sticking their own head out there only for it to get hit by a truncheon.
Replace “general strike” with whatever sort of large scale action you’d prefer.
Hunger Games: the resistance I guess
Star Wars: mostly the empire
Matrix: the answer is love, not a side, did you even watch it
Divergent: never heard of it
V: Guy Fucks wasn’t the good guy
I’m only 1/5 on my resistance score
you sided with the empire in star wars? wtf?
matrix: no, that’s not at all the point, did you even watch the trilogy?
divergent: me neither.
V for Vendetta: Guy Fawks is the 18th century person who the mask and holiday is named after, the protagonist is named “V” (his true name is revealed later but that doesn’t matter).
he’s definitely the good guy, and fighting a fascist dictatorship put into place after a virus and pandemic was released in order to control people….
i never watched hunger games, mostly because the directors son was a school shooter and the whole story was ripped off from “battle royale”.
but, i think you’re a psychopath…Star Wars is too silly to take seriously. I rather play as clones or the empire because tie fighters sound cool, green lasers > red lasers, clean designs are better than Fallout trash sci fi, etc. It’s not like I’m siding with Cardassia.
Matrix is surely about love being used to break cycles and the realization that it’s not “the matrix” but “a matrix.” The digital world was a matrix designed to imprison humans. But also the way humans thought was another matrix that had to be escaped. Each is a prison that shapes what humans perceive.
I’ll tell you what. I’ll balance liking Darth Vader with being on the side of nature in Ferngully. And I’ll throw in praise for Atredes and Picard.
Do fashy things and the left will attack you. That is just how it is. Dude is such a child.
