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What really throws me are their poses. They’re all in poses that you typically see them in from public sources. Elon smoking a cigar was probably part of the prompt, unless I’m unaware of something. Tim Apple even doing the classic stage pose.
It was actually Elon and the cigar that tipped me off. Can you imagine him possibly looking so natural and "cool" and masculine? He would be holding it so weird that everyone in the circle would be staring at him and he would be doing this really weird laugh while his shoulders turned into cursed parallelogram of flesh and too much bone.
Also, if it were real I would expect to see Peter Thiel's face pressed against the glass of the Cybertruck, looking out with bug eyes as he smears oil all over the window.
You're right, here's a picture of him actually Smoking
100%. He's way fatter, older, and awkward than that.
Yep. Also half those dudes wouldn’t willfully chat with Musk like this. They can’t stand him either.
We so desperately want to believe in shadowy cabals of genius villains pulling all the strings.
One of the harder pills to swallow in the world is that there isn't anyone "on top." Nobody is in charge.
Sure there are people with great power and influence, but even the mightiest among them are just people tripping over themselves, having social anxiety, making poorly calculated moves that conflict with others also trying to act like super villains, and basically everyone, everywhere are just people having the same exact human problems and nobody wants to share power with others or be told they're wrong.
The idea of the Shadow Cabal feels thrilling because it also suggests the opposite is possible, that elite groups of heroes can lead us to a better world and we just have to survive or topple the bad guys.
These ideas are all products of the human need to weave narratives and find our place in complex systems. It's why conspiracy theories are so addicting to some people.
I can imagine him blowing smoke on everybody else cuz he's raging dickwad.
That’s what caught my attention too. They poses look like they were taken from keynotes. Especially, Tim Apple’s pose.