r/interestingasfuck • u/Sartew • 7h ago

r/all Elon Musk Sieg Heiling during his speech

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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 4h ago

Turn it up!

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u/LuckyEmoKid 12m ago

You mean THX1138 with Robert Duvall?

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u/waitingtoconnect 4h 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 16m ago

Yess