I think he lost money on that, and just dropped it after the train program tanked. don't quote me on it though.
suggests evil.
in the 90s he was such a dick, even peter thiel, the guy who names his dystopian companies after evil artifacts from LOTR, couldn't deal with him. also he was running in the same circles as peter fucking thiel.
both suggest evil.
no other parts though. the tits themselves for example are not special. only in the aggregate, and more so in some outfits than others.
The Boring Company was an attempt to destroy the long distance high speed rail californians had voted for. He did this because he hated trains and didn't want us to have nice things.
that's pretty fucking evil. imagine how much CO2 would have been saved if that had actually been built.
I like my version more.
If you've ever been to the bay area, and this actually comes up in the most recent 'behind the bastards' episodes, the entirety of silicon valley, where a lot of modern anglophone fascism comes from, is made entirely of four things:
reinventing the dumbest philosophy of dark ages, now with cyberpunk flavor
calling the scifi story they read that one time "logic"
"reinventing the Torment Nexus, from their favorite dystopian novel 'Do Not Build The Torment Nexus'"
weird sex stuff. which is sometimes pretty fun.
so I think "they all jack off to snow crash, especially the parts with the fifteen year old" is equally plausible.
then again; por que no los dos?
I would argue that we are not americans. just people who were born here and can't get out.
well, yes. I don't think a government can completely align with the values of the people it dominates, they are inherently shitty, but shittiness is a spectrum.
and yes, that is what the CIA is for. that, and cocaine trafficking.
the paranoia thing after having had bedbugs is so fucking real. why do fascists love spreading plagues so much? do they all just jack off to 'snow crash' all day?
it's a fun little inversion of the first gas chambers, where the nazis kill themselves with cars that pointedly don't make CO2
edit: who ever said that hope is dead?
evidence suggests otherwise.
loving others is as important as being loved, but being without either sucks.
meta-capitalist game show idea:
you could do this in about any format. video, podcast, maybe even sets of still images.
The core concept is a bunch of ad reads for your sponsors. the sponsors are the contestants.
you use really good production values, but you get progressively edgier and more hostile to them as the season goes on. the prize is a free ad campaign for the last one to drop out/denounce you.
edit: alternatively, you create a weird contract, and use some sort of auction structure, where they each bid to the others to be the one who can drop out that episode. highest bidder wins and gets off the show, they all (along with some cut for the house, of course) split the money.
yeah but nobody advertises to any sort of lefty, so those aren't controversial among basically every company's target market. I might be more likely to go for "glock: protecting trans kids since [year they were founded]" if I were trying to cause a problem for them.
but you don't start off with that. you start off each season with stuff that's on the edge side of what a company would actual buy from an ad agency. then you get more and more. until it's paramilitaries marching blindfolded factory workers out into the jungle, then shooting them in the head, with full gore and horror and maybe one begging for their life. then a coca cola logo. coca cola: an american tradition.