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Why does Eloon Musk's company have any government contracts? Don't buy his cars and figure out how to have the government take over his rocket company

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Ta, Marcie. I think part of the reason for Elon's fanbois' fascination with that sack of excrement is that the name Elon sounds like something from old sci-fi (remember Eloi from The Time Machine?).

I loved reading Philip K. Dick, and I love both Blade Runner (director's cut without the voice over) and Blade Runner 2049. Musk's a phony.

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Few humans have ever looked as stunning as Sean Young in Blade Runner. It's a shame how badly the industry treated her.

Also, Harvey Weinstein deserves worse than cancer. He deserves ultra-cancer.

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Just recently read my first PKD book, "The Man in the High Castle". I highly recommend!

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I've read a few of them, but my hands down favorite is Valis. Not the most cheerful, especially in the beginning, but I can't help but appreciate a book in which the author is explicitly a character in his own fiction.

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Have you ever read Anna Kavan?

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No - haven't heard of her before, but she looks interesting!

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Elon is driving Tesla into a ditch, along with Twitter (worth $80 billion at one point and now valued at $12 billion).

Space X seems to be doing fine, he at least kept the excellent engineers there. And now we have the "almost autonomous" robots and a self driving taxi that has no steering wheel, while he's been promising self driving Teslas for 4 years.

So he's basically spending a lot of money on developing big toys.

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I love the fact that, although the film is very different from PKD's original story, the classic line "Is this supposed to test whether I'm a Replicant or a lesbian?" appears in both

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Also, Sean Young absolutely delivers that line. Pure shade.

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By the time Garland pulls his thumb outta his ass and does a gd thing about any gop hell will have frozen over not once but twice.

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I understand the need for prudence and thoroughness but damn. He’s so hidebound he can barely move.

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I'm pretty sure Musk understands that Earth in Blade Runner is a dystopia hellacape and that's exactly the future he wants for most of us.

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The movie’s about a super wealthy owner of a high tech company who seems to have a monopoly on making replicants / androids.

Isn’t this what Musk aspires to?

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Someone should tell him to watch the ending.

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Even in the dystopian future of the Blade Runner, cars aren’t as shitty as the cyber truck.

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And people wonder why I am not so fond of Twitter links. Jebus, this guy is such an asshole.

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FLAMING asshole. Just a stupid troll, with a LOT of money. He's super awkward, and he's not as smart as everyone seems to think he is.

If he was REALLY smart, he would be taking that money he pissed away on Xitter, and Dump, and build affordable housing in areas decimated by hurricanes. He could be a national hero, instead of a reviled nerd.

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The Taney-Roberts Court would exonerate the vote buying scheme as free speech or Citizen's United precedent anyshizzle.

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He will throw those who generated any product for him under the bus and wipe his hands clean of it. Like all the rich fucks do.

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Please don't tell me about Leon's mother.

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Musk seems to like using pop culture references for his shit

he doesn't have an original bone in his body

also, he's not all that bright, just uses money to buy into companies

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That's what irritates me - people talking about what a genius he is. I had the idea for EVs and for solar roofs 30 years ago, but my family wasn't wealthy, and nobody was willing to give me millions of dollars to buy a car company that someone else started. If he's such a genius, why did he lose over $30 billion on Xitter, by being a stupid troll?

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There were electric cars over 100 years ago. It's just that the Model T Ford undersold them and people decided gasoline power was the future.

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I am looking forward to:

Believe what u want, but if you stand in front of the altar, and do 'that Shit', like a standup comic, don't be surprised at your commupance.

'God is no respector of people.'

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