Thread by @KrisAtLarge

let's talk about this some more—the fact that @elonmusk and @mtaibbi and other villains of the world truly do resemble *cartoon* villains, comic-book villains...partly because they all copy their styles from cartoons and comic-books. but then, so do people who aren't evil.

(1/x)

https://twitter.com/KrisAtLarge/status/1632988967699353601

I've got nothing against people who copy their style from, I dunno, Sailor Pluto or Kamen Rider Ghost or whatever other really *heroic* people are to be found in popular entertainment. it's not copying comic books that's the @elonmusk problem; it's copying the Bad Guys™.

(2/x)

and they all are aware of it—galloping villains like @elonmusk and @MattWalshBlog and @jordanbpeterson, and even more sedate and faux-civilized villains like @DouthatNYT and @thomaschattwill are getting to the point of mere *irritation* with talk of morality and justice.

(3/x)

these people, @DouthatNYT and @mtaibbi and the rest, have been marinating in racist and bigoted fears for so long—pretending all the while that they're constantly *at war* with most of society, which they regard as hopelessly damned—that they feel entitled to do crimes.

(4/x)

@mtaibbi, @elonmusk, &c. want to crack some skulls before "antifa" or "the Chinese" crack theirs first, and so they've gotten impatient with talk of morality and justice. as Musk himself explicitly said, he thinks of morality as a mere _costume_; he doesn't believe in it.

(5/x)

neither does @DouthatNYT for that matter; his church rapes children and it barely troubles him. he pretends it's a "liberal media" thing, or whatever. no right-wing Christian is truly capable of morality (q.v. @MattWalshBlog, pedophile.)

so these people now LOVE villains.

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the more childlike right-wing figures, people like @elonmusk and @Sargon_of_Akkad and @EthanVanSciver, *especially* love villains from fiction. they think of Darth Vader as "cool". if they think villains aren't cool enough in their entertainment, they get very petulant.

(7/x)

but as @elonmusk's public behavior amply demonstrates, truly dedicated villains, people devoted to maximum selfishness and maximum damage and maximum *evil* like Elon Musk is, really aren't cool. they _can't_ be. egotists and bigots are naturally inclined to be grotesque.

(8/x)

that's what happens when you care only about yourself—you become like @MattWalshBlog or @elonmusk, constantly flailing and screaming and hollering demands at the world, always looking for some weak unsuspecting target they can bully in order to make themselves feel strong.

(9/x)

@EthanVanSciver just tried it! it didn't work.

anyway, we can let these spoiled babies have their villains—we can't stop @elonmusk from idolizing whom he does, even if his idols are all garbage. but we CAN, at least, treat these people the way they deserve to be treated.

(10/x)

people like @elonmusk are *dangerous* but they're also extremely _silly_. one can't fight tyranny just with ridicule (though @TheDemocrats and their partisans still seem to think as much) but one might as well be honest about Elon Musk as a public figure: he is laughable.

(11/x)

he (and @EthanVanSciver and @NateSilver538 and @mtaibbi and all the other bigoted dead-enders who love space Nazıs and that #Warhammer40K crap) are all laughable. they try to compensate by reflecting the laughter back at us, but...they're not even good at *comedy*.

~Chara