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Charlie Stross | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @07dbd179 Elon is plausibly a POS from at least one parental POS (see also: Apartheid emerald mines) but he has uncritically swallowed TESCREAL ideology and barfs it up at any opportunity, along with a side-order of transphobia, homophobia, and right-wing wish-fulfilment fantasy. Which taps into the whole Cambellian SF program of the 1930s-1960s.
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0d66b68b | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @0c1a9324 @07dbd179 ...So the core is that he doesn't critically think about sci-fi, not that the sci-fi was read.

I'm reminded of Starship Troopers - the book was, as I understand, heavily fascist, and the movie was intended to be a satire of fascist propaganda. As people have since noted, it apparently took a while for it to be identified as such, but... apparently the movie writer had critically thought about the book they were translating to film.
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Charlie Stross | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @6c4168c2 @07dbd179 Read the book: it's not fascist, although it's definitely an authoritarian thought-experiment. Three movie director allegedly didn't even read the book.