I've been rewatching Smallville and for much of it Lex is exactly Elon Musk (the Nazi), like it's uncanny for a show that came out over twenty years ago, but there's one episode in season 7 where in an alternate reality Lex becomes President with the technological assistance of BRAINIAC ("He knows those Computers better than anybody"). Uncanny doesn't even begin to cover it. You could lift most of the dialogue verbatim, swapping out only the names, and it would 1000% match up with our current reality. And it ends with nukes, so that's cool.
History keeps repeating itself because we’re too stupid to learn from it.
I’m watching The West Wing now and I got to the part about Gaza and NOTHING has changed since the 1990s.
I watched Babylon 5 during the original COVID lockdown and the episode about pandemics called out science deniers and how they make pandemics worse 25 years in advance!
WRT to Babylon 5 - the Spanish Flu pandemic had anti-maskers and deniers too. I think it's less prescient and more "this is what humanity actually looks like", which is a core theme for a lot of episodic sci-fi.
I believe we've moved from the "tragedy" iteration to the "farce".
Except Lex Luthor is a genius and these guys are just good at convincing idiots that they're geniuses.
A genius megalomaniac is still a megalomaniac.
Is that Amanda Waller?
Lex Luthor was brilliant.
So 7 ? Ok let's go :
- tim cook
- bill gates
- zuckerberg
- bernard arnault
- bezos
- musk
- brian thompson , oh no wait
There are way mooore than seven though ! ! Maybe I should have make an ordered list ? 🤔😅
Bill Gates doesn't belong on that list. He's an entirely different league of vile, and he actively tries to change that image.
He's no Mark Cuban, but he sure ain't no Peter Thiel, who is glaringly missing from your list.
The guy that got kicked out of his company for sexual harassment, tried to rehabilitate Epstein in the eyes of high society, prevented a COVID vaccine patent from being made available to the entire world, and set the stage to tech-feudalism by illegally creating a monopoly, doesn't belong where?
He's even fellating Trump non stop nowadays.
Bill Gates pushed to keep the Covid vaccine he was a part of private so he could profit from it. Against the wishes of the scientists working on it and against the precedent set by the creator of the Polio Vaccine.
“Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”
Comparing Tim Cook to Lex Luthor is somehow an insult to both parties.
How did Andreessen and Theil not make this list of your's?
Well, the flow of capital into few hands is an inevitable thing when unregulated, while krypton is not a real place.
I mean, even Jesse Eisenberg played both Zuck and Luthor on-screen. Can't get more on the nose than that.
It's allowed to post things that you can stop thinking about
I could stop thinking about it if I wanted to, on account of my mental strength
Not worth posting about then /s
We've got all of us?
