My paper copy has a subtitle to the article: Tech bros and “trads” are pushing women to have more babies. Just as long as they’re the right kind of women.
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FTFY
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Of course that might be bullshit but who knows… Of course he might not think that Japanese aren’t white.
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Hitler also had declared the Japanese as “honorary Aryans”, so I’m sure that’s authority enough for Musk. That said he’s trying to have as many kids as possible with no real concern for any of them except as props…who knows if he’d still consider that one as equal to the others. 
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Explicitly called out by a loony, messianic character in Micky 17, he being twisted and bent on creating an all-white society on a habitable planet since things weren’t working out for him on Earth. Note that the character’s persona, rhetoric, and failing mental state appears to mirror that of Trump, although writer-director Bong Joon Ho said that the character isn’t based on any specific figure, but on “a mix of many different politicians” and “dictators that we have seen throughout history.”
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They are more like Ceaușescus and Marcos’ then Trump.
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Well elements of. Apartheid Edison would be pretty difficult to have throughout a film as he doesn’t really offer much for an actor to get stuck into. He’s a bit of a one note arsehole. There’s not much there there.
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Have you seen Mountainhead? They’re doing a pretty good job with various billionaire pastiches
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Whether he was meant to or not, Mark Ruffalo certainly played him as “Trump in Space!” My brother described the performance as “chewing the scenery.” It was over-the-top and very clearly intentional.
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I did and I enjoyed it more than others did here I think.
Partially because Steve Carroll is brilliant.
My only big criticism, and it’s possibly an odd one, is that it was chock full of references to make people like me feel smart because we got them and how dumb the stupid techbros were. Now don’t get me wrong, all you have to do is read Marc Andreesen’s big “intellectual” word dump from last year to feel they are laughably stupid, like fit to be used as toilet paper and flushed level of use to humanity, but you have to be suspicious of anything making you that smug.
Obviously it was dense enough with them that none of us will get half of them while watching, but still, it was very ego massaging.
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Yes, definitely intentional. Our reaction at home (we missed it in the theater) was “That’s! Fucking! Trump!”
Speaking of chewing, Marshall’s wife seemed pathologically into cuisine and with a special focus on sauces; some reference to certain First Ladies or a sick twist on “eat the rich”?
While I’m here, and blurred for those who haven’t seen the film yet: I disagree with a couple of critics who poopooed BJH for spending too much film-time on the planet’s indigenous inhabitants and not enough on social/political commentary. Marshall (and abetted by one of the advisors) saw his greatness tied to the total destruction of the so-called Creepers (all demonstrably harmless and actually helpful); I read that as ethnic cleansing which spoke directly to current events and Trump.
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