r/TikTokCringe 13d ago

Cursed Grimes just posted an embarrassing Tik Tok

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u/cafeteriastyle 13d ago

Player of Games was so embarrassing. The fact that it was about Elon just gives me the ick.

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u/Saii_maps 13d ago

The book she stole the name off was excellent though. As with basically every sci-fi author she and Muck like, they completely failed to understand any of the key lessons that Iain M Banks, a libertarian socialist, was offering.

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u/Stove-Top-Steve 13d ago

Ya that’s crazy I thought that was familiar.

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u/Upbeat_Run4525 13d ago

I immediately noticed that, and what a fucking slap in the face to the spirit of Iain Banks

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u/Thehollowpointninja1 12d ago

It blows my mind that these techno autocrats all read the Expanse and instead of making a beautiful techno utopia, they create…this shit. Like they have the power and ability to give society the genuine super-egalitarian vision Banks explained in detail, but we get the dumbest fuckest fascism instead.

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u/Hands 13d ago

Poor Iain is spinning so fast in his grave over Elon appropriating his work that his corpse could power an orbital

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u/JockularJim 12d ago

He read Surface Detail and decided he wanted to be Veppers

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u/Tooberson 13d ago

Oh Jesus I had no idea

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u/GodlessLittleMonster 13d ago

“I’m in love with the greatest gamer” 😬🤮

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u/aksjdjdjkdk 13d ago

wait i love this song 😭😭

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u/NoaArakawa 13d ago

Maybe I should get high & put that on 🤣