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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (35 children)

Guess it’s appropriate that Musk should go from some sort of entrepreneurial tech guru who was going to save the planet to some right wing billionaire shitheel, steals “grok” from Heinlein, who went for sic-fi author darling to libertarian shitheel.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (33 children)

Musk appropriating "grok" from Stranger in a Strange Land is on-brand for him, seeing as he fundamentally misunderstands Banks' Culture series and reduces it to "the one with the cool ship names".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

@gerikson @RememberTheApollo_ As a member of The Affront, of course he would.

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