What about the spray tan eccenric NY city real estate agent that shits on a golden toliet with an army of yall-qaeda terrorists
Too ludicrous even for a Bond film. Even a Roger Moore Bond film.
God that is so true. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so true.
Even an Austin Powers movie?
He might fit as an Austin Powers villain, especially if he had a bag of Cheetos in every scene.
Yuge bag. The biggest. No one has a bigger bag than me. Not even Chester. Great guy, Chester. Not as great as me but, who is?
It’s not gonna make his hands look any bigger though.
I heard the Bond movies got more serious after the Austin Powers movies came out.
One tends to stop doing tropes that people are actively complaining about…
Unless it’s “The Magic Goes Away Forever”
Hate that trope but they keep spamming it
Not even for a Paw Patrol movie.
Let’s be honest, even Lloyd Kaufman would’ve dismissed that as too on the nose for even him to direct that movie…
Lex Luther would call him a cliche.
Basically all billionaires are super villains
True story. After the 2016 election, there was a panel discussion. They had all the creators of the top US political TV dramas; The West Wing: Scandal: Veep: House of Cards and others. Every writer and producer said the same thing. If they’d had a character who said that they ‘liked soldiers who didn’t get captured’ the advertisers and network bosses would have demanded that the character be hated by all Americans.
South Park And SNL both commented that our 2016 situation was too ridiculous to parody
Back in the 1960s, it was a common joke that ronald reagan would never be President because no one would vote for a guy who co-starred with a monkey.
Today’s GOP would ignore reagan and run the monkey
Heck dude at this point I’d run to vote for the monkey!
George Santos has entered the chat.
So…that story basically confirms all programming (I mean not cooking shows) is propaganda, doesn’t it?
Propaganda implies that the message being pushed is for the sake of convincing the population of some doctrine. The network is trying to cater to an already held public belief for the sake of dollars.
Some is just entertainment, but yeah, most is trying to sell a message
By that logic, every single drama since the dawn of time is ‘propaganda.’
My gen x friends complained about the villains in Captain Planet, but the we got Trump.
Also, Tomorrow Never Dies was loosely based on Rupert Murdoch.
Rich Biff in Back to the Future 2 was supposedly based on Trump.
And alternate-1985 Lorraine was based on Ginger Lynn Allen?
My dad complained that Captain Planet was “libtard environmentalist propaganda” 30 years ago. Some things never change. Now it’s just Trump instead of Limbaugh.
These aren’t even people who publicity identify as conservative. Publicly…
They basically just stood still long enough and became conservatives that watch Daily Show.
Ope, yeah that’s a fate I dread and actively work to avoid.
Hey, there’s also a New York businessman obsessed with gold and status who has political influence and ties to the ex KGB agent with goals of overturning democracy
Is he though? More like an incompetent businessman aligns himself with evil baddie to stave off company bankruptcy. In exchange he pawns off state secrets and tries to destabilize the world’s largest economy. Eventually incompetent business man either meets his end shanked in a jail shower or evil baddie will conveniently dispose of him out a 10 storey window once he is no longer worth the trouble.
You see him dancing along with Mr Tesla on a Tesla cruise ship
Britain is not holding up its end here, producing the mega-shagger we need to save us all.
Hopefully not Richard Branson.
Well they tried with Boris Johnson, but he just couldn’t quite make the cut.
He was more like that Bond parody with Rowan Atkinson. Bumbling and fumbling while bragging and shagging.
Groovy baby.
Bezos also seems pretty villain-y.
Yes, but instead of a Bond villain he’s more of an Austin Powers villain
“Tear down that bridge so my yacht can pass”
More like Lex Luthor
Bezos wins in the looks department, but all billionaires are various degrees of Lex Luthor. My pick is Elon Musk because he’s more overtly evil and he kind of has the mad scientist backstory.
I wouldn’t put Musk and scientist in the same sentence.
https://electrek.co/2023/08/23/elon-musk-lego-cybertruck-quality-leaked-tesla-email/
If he knew anything about science then he’d know about termal expansion…
I wasn’t trying to accuse him of being an actual scientist or engineer. But he paid good money for the backstory!
Dyslexic ass universe we live in . The 2020’s were supposed to be ‘the future’, an advanced post-scarcity world. We got a post-satire world instead
If you look at 70s SF you get closer to the real 2020s.
AI taking over the world: Colossus: The Forbin Project
An Infectious agent causing problems: The Andromeda Strain
Human pollution causing massive issues: Soylent Green
Oh shit Forbin mentioned in the wild
in science fiction the AI that takes over the world is sapient. usually as intelligent as a person if not more. reality is dumber. we’re just trying to surrender the world to a series of algorithms that can’t tell how many fingers there are in a hand or which way they bend, or what a fucking fire hydrant looks like.
That is in movies and books.
In the real world the turning test is not proof that an artificial system is sentient but only if/when a human thinks it is. It is not about the intelligence/sentience of the system but the intelligence of the human observing that means the test is passed.
Sadly, for large parts of humanity, text based LLMs have already passed the turning test…
We don’t even have AI it’s a damn chinese room
Real estate baron that desperately wants to be dictator is pretty stupid too.
Baron is a bit generous no?
I’m using it as a slur.
Probably talking about the son
Not many peerages lower. Baronet? Knight?
Stick in the mud.
As in “robber-baron”
Have we forgotten about Trump, the Koch brothers, hmm who else.
There’s a jewish fascist
Netanyahu, Shapiro, prager, or someone else?
Yes!
to be fair, what do you expect from a guy who is part of the liberal NATIONALISTS
Wonder who the liberation concerns with that oxymoron
Can we start talking about those who told the truth more than those who lie? Here’s a short starting list:
Gary Webb
Milton William Cooper
Bill Hicks
Julian Assange
Edward Snowden
Anyone else?
We still have Murdoch media empire. The secretive media mogul pulling the strings from the shadows at the behest of the rich and powerful
Let me FTFY:
Penchant for poisoning, and having comrades mysteriously fall from very high places
Let me FTFY:
mysteriously fall from
very high placesopen windowsDudes, why miss an opportunity to use the incredible word defenestration? Sorry but I had to downvote both of you!
You know, I deserve that downvote
I secretly upvoted you ;) don’t tell anyone
The real fiction is that government agencies would be trying to rein them in. If Musk came up with a ray that turned people into eldrich-style horrors, those agencies would be lined up as buyers.
Austin Powers at least got phallic shaped rockets right though
Especially the part where, he has a bunch of followers who claimed the emerald mine never existed and that it’s all a hoax by his detractors. Even though the main man himself has admitted that his fortune came from a God damn Emerald mine.
Putin and Musk or From Russia With Love and Moonraker?
who is the former KGB agent?
He’s the guy currently trying to take over a sovereign European nation.
I don’t know if you are joking and I am whooshing it but: Putin. He was former… i believe even chief of the KGB. Was stationed in East Germany for a while and made quite the career. And now he instigated himself as a Russian Erdogan who can rule for as long as he wishes.
More like as long as his citizens don’t develop a taste for guillotines
Russians always were more of the “lets kill the ruling class in a bloody battle of the working class and absolute brutality for the sins their families have committed against us” kind. (Source: The murder of the Romanov family )
Remember Angela Merkel? She was a Stasi member is East Germany at the same time but everyone seems to pretend they weren’t former colleagues.
Bruv… she was in politics. Not the Stasi. And even if she was everyone was a spy on everyone in the east. The woman got a damn doctor in physics. What could she do for the Stasi? And besides. No proof.
