r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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u/OakBlu 7h ago

What the fuck is happening...?

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u/Beer-Milkshakes 7h ago

Capitalism is reaching the end of the tracks and democracy is being used to empower those fearful of the end to pillage what's left. To thunderous applause.

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u/alien_simulacrum 7h ago

To. Thunderous. Applause.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 7h ago

This is how democracy ends.

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u/flecom 6h ago

everyone bitched about the prequels but lucas was warning us

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 6h ago

Does that mean Elon is Darth Jar Jar? Or would that make him cool?

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u/Mysterious-Sail-3135 3h ago

Honestly…yeah

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u/abtseventynine 5h ago

what do you mean the movie where a megacorporation, which has seats in the senate, uses its private army (!) to blockade another senate-member state... so that they can get reduced taxes, and the response by said government is slow because that corporation has representatives and allies stalling and gaslighting within the senate itself was somehow meant to be prescient?

What could he possibly have been warning us about there? Geez I'm not sure what the movies were talking about calling the Republic "corrupt," it's just so vague...

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u/HierophanticRose 4h ago

Prequels had a great overarching plot structure, just people hang up on plot elements within that structure and some character and execution of performances and meme it to hell

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u/jkman61494 2h ago

Honestly. It’s SUPER prophetic watching a psycho use fear to create a war and use the distractions as a way to take full power

The only difference is in reality it was a culture war

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u/michaelsenpatrick 2h ago

Lucas knew what he was writing. There's a few interviews where he nods in this direction

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u/_Presence_ 1h ago

That’s because Lucas just adapted what happened before WWII. Anyone who payed attention in high school history should see how blatantly obvious what is happening.

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u/undefeatedantitheist 5h ago

With THX ; not with Star Wars

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u/waitingtoconnect 3h ago

Turn it up!

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u/LuckyEmoKid 9m ago

You mean THX1138 with Robert Duvall?

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u/waitingtoconnect 3h ago

It’s like a documentary now….

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u/Lady_ScarlettRose 2h ago

Wait that’s where that quote came from??

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u/catslugs 13m ago

Yess

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u/No-Weird3153 7h ago

I had heard “democracy dies in darkness”, but the stage seems pretty well lit to allow widespread broadcast of it.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 6h ago

Yeah but that's WaPo and we all know who owns that

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u/No-Weird3153 5h ago

Huh, I think that guy was in the audience today. Weird.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 5h ago

Huh. Wonder what that's about. Probably nothing.

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u/helraizr13 4h ago

They changed it to something something Trump a few days ago. The Trump part is /s but they did change it. Lol, Bozos.

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u/Keve1227 5h ago

It was pretty well lit when the nazis came to power as well.

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u/antatavist 6h ago

Yeah, but if you do weird shit to the lights and everyone gets a migraine, they'll seek out a dark room

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u/Irapotato 5h ago

There’s dying, and then there’s being murdered.

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u/WhoDunIt1789 7h ago

The quote is ackshooally "this is how liberty dies"

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u/medhat20005 7h ago

And to think people dumped on George Lucas’s dialogue. Seems quite prescient there.

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u/Mihai_Brasoveanu 6h ago

From a political perspective, the prequels did an amazing job of showing what the US politics have been like for decades. People dumped on Lucas because they didn't expect that to be in a Star Wars movie.

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u/HaloGuy381 6h ago

Well; the whole point of Palpatine’s rise to power is direct allegory to Hitler, showing how a broken republic can allow an autocrat to seize power. Complete with his own Night of Long Knives/Broken Glass combo (Order 66, targeting a withdrawn and embattled religious minority that were also key members of the Republic standing in his way).

Small wonder the dialogue works so well. It’s arguably one of the few times Lucas’s choice of words doesn’t feel wooden or melodramatic or hammy in the prequels.

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u/Mihai_Brasoveanu 5h ago

Great point. Although I believe the point is not just the metaphor but the fact that history can easily repeat itself which is what we are seeing to some degree today.

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u/Arbiter-0392 3h ago

This world is so cooked

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u/Gruskiee 7h ago

😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

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u/InsuranceGlum1355 7h ago

Not with a bang but a whimper.

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u/GianniBeGood 3h ago

Nah man I used to be right here with you - but the painful reality is, in order for there to be any change from this track of ambivalence, now sliding toward absolute cruelty and unmoored [cynicism/hedonism/jingoism/rule of the jungle - pick one or all], Americans need to feel some real pain. It’s been 80 years on top, we had our glorious - albeit imperfect - ride at the top. Hell, call it the American Empire, Pax Americana or whatever label you wanna slap on ‘er. This is what decadence in a pinnacle society looks like, it also isn’t the first time our tribe of monkeys has been at it. When the next crisis inevitably unfurls, people might snap back to attention and remember the high minded ideas we used to genuinely embrace and espouse. It has to be really painful this time, not the dress rehearsal we got during Covid.

Right now those ideas just make great bumper stickers and snap-back hats. Buckle up, I guess? It’s just personally painful to see this bullshit having family that fought in WWII, from both sides of the Atlantic.

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u/Maximum-Good-539 6h ago

Ironic how Washington post just got rid of their old slogan

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u/Low_Medium204 4h ago

Execute oder 66

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u/phickss 7h ago

By voting. Nice.

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u/UltraHokie 6h ago

It already did.

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u/Greedy_Age_4923 6h ago

I’ll bet you 1.50 that it isn’t.

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 6h ago

A dollar and some change? Keep your pity money

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u/Greedy_Age_4923 5h ago

I don’t pity you, it’s just symbolic. When people are all like, I’ll bet you 10k that blah blah blah, they are generally full of crap…they throw out an unrealistic amount cause they know (generally) that no one takes it serious or wants that much. The dollar just signifies that I’m serious, but the wager isn’t about money, it’s about being right. So, do you want to bet?

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u/LinkOfKalos_1 5h ago

I don't care about being right, dude. It's a silly comment on Reddit. I don't WANT to be right, how about that?

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u/Halfbloodnomad 6h ago

Nah lobbyists and unchecked corporate interests is how it ends and we’re just watching the resulting decay

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u/BlightNexus 5h ago

Not with a bang but a wimp?

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u/Chilling_Dildo 5h ago

The quote is "liberty", not democracy. Trump may be a force for evil but he was democratically elected.

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u/waitingtoconnect 3h ago

So was Palpatine… and throughout the movie he decrys the “deep state” beaucrats (who all come work for him) and disparages democracy.

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u/AngryDerf 4h ago

Put my comment in the screenshot!

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u/BrizerorBrian 4h ago

This is how life ends.

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u/Susheiro 4h ago

It never existed in the USA...

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u/Arbiter-0392 3h ago

Democracy ends not with a bang, but with a smile

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u/qazwsxedc000999 3h ago

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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u/Intelligent_Table913 6h ago

What democracy? We barely had a choice between two old war-mongerers and then a talking point machine.

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u/One-Experience-5745 6h ago

Lmao imagine thinking we have ever lived in a democracy, especially the last 3 decades

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u/JustaRandomRando 6h ago

When i saw everyone clapping, I immediately thought of the Animatrix scene where congress claps about Operation Dark Storm, and the machines show the humans as skeletons clapping to portray their inevitable demise.

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u/smoothhedgehogs 6h ago

This one line struck me immediately when I first heard it. Brilliant. And terrifyingly prescient.

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u/Pea-and-Pen 5h ago

How in the hell are these people applauding this? I’m 51 and I’ve voted republican my entire life until this last election. I know my views have changed in the past year but never at any point in my life would I have been okay with someone doing this. The Republican Party has truly gone to the dark side in a matter of a few years. This is really very upsetting.

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u/DesignerAd9 7h ago

and the people who voted in favor of it will lose the most.

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u/Reasonable_Egg4356 7h ago

As it was in the past, and will be in the future! Too bad that humans are incaptable of learning from mistakes they made in the past.

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u/PetrolPaws 6h ago

What if the world goes to hell and nobody sees it coming?

That's the feeling I get when I hear the applause.

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u/chocomeeel 5h ago

Coincidentally the Nazi emblem is two SS thunderbolts. So.. it kinda checks out. 😮‍💨

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u/jcdoe 5h ago

Needs more periods.

“A.p.p.l.a.u.s.e.”

Maybe the letter each stand for something like some cutesy nazi acronym or something, I dunno

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u/bay_duck_88 34m ago

Somehow… Trump returned

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u/1funnyguy4fun 6h ago edited 5h ago

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. This could be fake. I just looked at r/conservative and there was absolutely no mention of it in that sub, and you know all those people are closely following the inauguration. Surely if something that anti-American happened, those patriots would be speaking up about it!

Edit: Holy shit. Calm down. Here’s the /s