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[–] alekwithak@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've been rewatching Smallville and for much of it Lex is exactly Elon Musk (the Nazi), like it's uncanny for a show that came out over twenty years ago, but there's one episode in season 7 where in an alternate reality Lex becomes President with the technological assistance of BRAINIAC ("He knows those Computers better than anybody"). Uncanny doesn't even begin to cover it. You could lift most of the dialogue verbatim, swapping out only the names, and it would 1000% match up with our current reality. And it ends with nukes, so that's cool.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

History keeps repeating itself because we’re too stupid to learn from it.

I’m watching The West Wing now and I got to the part about Gaza and NOTHING has changed since the 1990s.

I watched Babylon 5 during the original COVID lockdown and the episode about pandemics called out science deniers and how they make pandemics worse 25 years in advance!

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

WRT to Babylon 5 - the Spanish Flu pandemic had anti-maskers and deniers too. I think it's less prescient and more "this is what humanity actually looks like", which is a core theme for a lot of episodic sci-fi.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

I believe we've moved from the "tragedy" iteration to the "farce".

[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 83 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Except Lex Luthor is a genius and these guys are just good at convincing idiots that they're geniuses.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] kn0wmad1c@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

A genius megalomaniac is still a megalomaniac.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

Is that Amanda Waller?

[–] MMNT@lemmy.ml 82 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We had one with a bad back.

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 month ago

The adjustor

[–] Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 month ago

What do you mean "had"? His back probably hurts from carrying all of our hopes.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 73 points 1 month ago
[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 1 month ago

Lex Luthor was brilliant.

[–] JayDee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Well, the flow of capital into few hands is an inevitable thing when unregulated, while krypton is not a real place.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No Batman but lots of Tek Knights.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Forget running for Mayor, Oswald Cobblepot is in the White House.

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

So 7 ? Ok let's go :

  • tim cook
  • bill gates
  • zuckerberg
  • bernard arnault
  • bezos
  • musk
  • brian thompson , oh no wait

There are way mooore than seven though ! ! Maybe I should have make an ordered list ? 🤔😅

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bill Gates doesn't belong on that list. He's an entirely different league of vile, and he actively tries to change that image.

He's no Mark Cuban, but he sure ain't no Peter Thiel, who is glaringly missing from your list.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The guy that got kicked out of his company for sexual harassment, tried to rehabilitate Epstein in the eyes of high society, prevented a COVID vaccine patent from being made available to the entire world, and set the stage to tech-feudalism by illegally creating a monopoly, doesn't belong where?

He's even fellating Trump non stop nowadays.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not saying Gates is a saint. I know that he ain't.

Thiel is literally "the illuminati", and I don't think there's a single good thing he's done with his wealth. There are plenty more billionaires that deserve a seat in The Seven ahead of Gates.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Bill Gates pushed to keep the Covid vaccine he was a part of private so he could profit from it. Against the wishes of the scientists working on it and against the precedent set by the creator of the Polio Vaccine.

“Well, the people, I would say. There is no patent. Could you patent the sun?”

He's absolutely a Lex Luthor.

[–] electricyarn@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fossil fuel execs, nestle ceo didn't even make the cut. What kind of inverse golden age are we living in.

[–] BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Turns out narrowing the list down to a mere seven isn't so easy. There's just so... many.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I don't want to defend any of these narcissists, but every single fossil fuel, pharma, MIC owner/CEO of the 20th C is probably a hundred times more evil — more responsible for fascism and Trump — than any of these tech bros jumping in at the last mile. Those old guard oligarchs have been bribing politicians for decades.

Non owner CEO's like Brian Thompson are more like an "uncle Tom" class traitor — a figurehead/footsoldier — than an oligarch, and are a dime a dozen. The primary controlling shareholder(s) and board of directors are the Hydra, pulling the strings in the background.

Comparing Tim Cook to Lex Luthor is somehow an insult to both parties.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

How did Andreessen and Theil not make this list of your's?

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

According to Wikipedia and Forbes, there's about 2,781

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Bat-Punisher-Daredevil-Super-Man has a lot of work to do

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Screw all that, just give me venompool.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I mean, even Jesse Eisenberg played both Zuck and Luthor on-screen. Can't get more on the nose than that.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

We've got all of us?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's allowed to post things that you can stop thinking about

[–] 8000gnat@reddthat.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I could stop thinking about it if I wanted to, on account of my mental strength

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Not worth posting about then /s