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Look I get it's a joke but calling Elon and Putin "our two main antagonists" is mind numbingly stupid and doesn't seem to be the punchline.
The only group who I can think of that would be true for would be college freshman from upper middle class backgrounds that get their news exclusively from social media and do not have any attention span as a result of the Adderall shortage.
Putin has started the largest land war in Europe since WW2. Elon does shit that wouldn't even put him in the top 5 of evil billionaires. He's just super active on social media so anyone who puts in the slightest amount of effort can see what he's up to.
Elon is a bit worse than that: he also pollutes our night sky with thousands of satellites for a service that is a capitalist initial landgrab of space (he does it quickly too so he can skip regulation), and then based on a whim and his ill informed political views use said satellite service to meddle in global politics because again, no regulation. So of course still nowhere near the ex kgb agent, but yeah, a pretty big dick too.
He also spent a bucket load darkening those satellites (with moderate success) when astronomers complained
Also he's not the only one wanting a massive satellite data constellation, and he is the only one working hard on making space access cheaper
Elon is not just super active in social media. He destroyed Twitter for fun. I didn't use Twitter before, but for someone that used Twitter (which is most young people) I see how he can seem a villain. Sure, not at the scale of Putin, but way more than "super active".
For fun? He did it because he thought he could do better. Turns out he couldn't though