Good news! Mario, Goku, and Bugs Bunny are all ascended gods according to this exciting new metric!
The bad news? Steve fucking Jobs still has a devoted postmortem following for no fucking reason except that people felt that cool with ipods and iphones while he was being an abusive asshole to everyone around him and stealing credit from people that actually made things.
He will be a footnote in a history book on the last days of the barbaric ideology known as capitalism. With things like the Cyber Truck being noted as one of the many poorly made expensive junk that wealthy fools wasted money on before mankind truely matured.
We will look on this era the same way people look at the eras where we threw pee out onto the streets and burned witches "How did they love like that?"
He might not even be mentioned by name, probably more like "As the hight of the collapse of capitalism, Western resources were poured into the control of a handfull of incompetent US oligarchs, who enjoyed the massive wealth, and delivered little of value in return."
I know that would only slow the decay (if even that) toward barbarism because socialism is out of the question for her and her associates, but I admit I take some selfish pleasure in seeing just how deeply intertwined and are now, and being two gigantic bigoted pieces of shit with massive and possibly unforgivable cults of personality around both of them, I will enjoy watching whatever hubris-laden downfall potentially awaits them after "rich, white, and connected" mitigation is factored in.
Buddhism probably peaked in %age of the world population around 200BCE-1000CE, when it was spread across most of India and China. Like every religion it's probably peaking in absolute numbers either now, or sometime in the past half century, at about 500 million.
Super hard to estimate populations far back in time, but seems quite likely more than 1/8th of the world's population followed it at one time, at least.
If I'm reading that correctly, this bazinga is so devoted to St. ELO~N that he seriously believes that the ketamine and hatred powered torso with floppy limbs has a centuries long life expectancy. Considering how he's melting in real time faster than his once unassailable reputation, and that no matter how rich he is off of subsidy money he can't be bothered to do any meaningful exercise or eat anything more complicated than chicken nuggies with caffeine free diet Cokes,
Nobody will remember Elon Musk ten years after his death, and that will be a good thing. The engineers who actually did any of the good inventions will come out.
His brainwormism is equally as harmful as every impact he's had on the material world.
Nobody will remember Elon Musk ten years after his death, and that will be a good thing. The engineers who actually did any of the good inventions will come out.
you see an engineer is when you make a phone but a god is when you abandon your family and stab all your business partners in the back and generally just treat everyone around you like shit
Obviously I’m not arguing for the deification of Jobs, but by this person‘s logic Jobs is way closer to “godhood” than Elon. There’s way more people out there using Apple products than driving Teslas.
I suppose the cultist could argue that people use Apple products more, but those that use ZYBERTRUKKKs and the like are way more fanatical about them, even when they fuck up, or especially when they fuck up.
these people are so fucking delusional with such twisted warped anti-human values that i cant imagine what sort of social environment they live in which sustains this cope
While this might fall into the category of religious delusion, I think it's more likely some grift that positively absurd. A delusion is not something someone can control, and I'd bet this person made a conscious decision to be this bad.
Does anyone remember that one guy who'd post to the anarchism comm on lemmy (I think) who write posts like "Let us all give thanks to Satoshi for inventing bitcoin" in this weirdly Christian liturgical cadence?