Mia Wong (44:20)
And there's a very interesting video about this by the YouTuber Karl Jobst, who is like, his thing is, like, people who fake. Who, like, fake things in video games, basically. And he is, like, not a leftist. He's like, like a center, right? Guy, basically. I mean, there's arguments about exactly how far right he is, but he did a video about, about Elon claiming to be a Quake player and what he found. So Elon like apparently did actually play in an early Quake tournament, but none of the good players were there. And he, he came, his team came in second, but they came in second because they had better WI fi than everyone else. And so they had less latency, which made them invincible until they ran into a team that also had good WI fi and then he got destroyed, which I just, I just think is funny, right? That's like a classic Elon Musk story, which is. He, he, he, he has this thing claiming that he's like a fucking gamer legend, but it's actually because he had more money than everyone else until he ran into someone who had the same amount of money that he did and just got destroyed. But the reason I bring this up is that like at the end of this video, Jobsters like goes on this whole thing about how. And this is like a stronger statement against Elon Musk than I have seen from anything in the mainstream press where he literally goes on a thing where he says, yeah, every single thing that Elon Musk has been saying here is a lie. And because he is just obviously lying out of his ass about literally everything in a field that I know, this means that I literally can't trust him when he says anything about any other fucking field that I don't know. And this is a real shift, right? I have never seen a mainstream journalist write down. Elon Musk is just clearly a liar about this. And so you should not be able to trust anything else he fucking says. This is a larger degree of pushback than anything else ever fucking seen outside of like the left about what Elon Musk is doing. And like just the willingness to just be like, this guy is a fucking, just, just a serial liar. Like everything he says is a lie. He literally calls him a con, like, says his activities like a con man. He says the things that he's saying are like either lies or delusional. There is a kind of like shift happening right now where people like really are turning on him. There was the thing that happened literally today where Ubisoft, you know, Ubisoft is a famously like not a leftist company, right? Like they've done a lot of horrible fucked up sexual assault stuff. So Elon's mad at Ubisoft because one of their games has a black guy as a, as like a character in it. And, and literally the Official Assassin's Creed account replied one of his tweets saying, is that what the guy playing your path of exile 2 account told you in, like, replied in reply to a thing about Hasan, like, we are. We are genuinely seeing a shift in this space, right? This thing that had been like a really, really consistent base of support for people like Elon is kind of fracturing against him and is sort of being polarized against him by just like, the fact that he's just is so obviously cynically pandering to them and how unbelievably transparent it is. And like, obviously, like, I don't think, like, the gamers are going to, like, fucking rise up or whatever, but the actual serious point to all of this, other than like, looking at the ways that fascism, like, why these people do this and like game versus, like a demographic that's important to these people, is that, like, the way that you destroy a coalition by. This isn't necessarily by flipping everyone over to your side, right? That doesn't happen that often. But the. One of the ways you can do this. And this is. This is, you know, to take a really, really dramatic example, this is how the Bolsheviks won the October Revolution. They got their opponents to allies to stay home. And that was enough. Enough people just staying on the fucking sidelines when the Bolsheviks, like, came for Kerensky's government was enough for them to take power. And I think the actual serious point of this is that the only way that we get out of this mess is by just systematically tearing away these people's coalition so that when the confrontation with these people comes, there are enough people who would be their supporters who just fucking stay home that they can. They can be stopped.
