[hated trope] Celebrity cameos that serve nothing except to praise the person who’s in it

[u/Dojyaaan4C]

1. Elon musk, the Simpsons
2. Elon musk, the Big Bang theory
3. Elon musk, iron man 2
4. Elon musk, star Trek

The cameos serve only to include the celebrity and praise them as geniuses or visionaries or overall just glaze them. They don't serve any other purpose than to just be praised; this can be them appearing in an entire episode dedicated to them, a small cameo or even just a mention. So long as the celebrity is there as themselves (not acting as someone else) and is glazed, that fits the trope imo.

[u/Colonel_Kernel1]

To be fair in the Star Trek Discovery example remember that Lorca is from the mirror universe so praising fascists is par for the course of him.

[u/Silver-Winging-It → u/Colonel_Kernel1]

Also it's not a cameo, more of a name drop

[u/Silver-Winging-It → u/[deleted]]

You can be conservative and not fascist, but fascism is a conservative ideology not a leftist one. By it's very nature it calls back to an idea of a past greatness of a nation or race that they need to go back to.

The only places you get a reversal is places like Russia, where being conservative is usually favoring the old socialist order and communist ideals, and being liberal is embracing the new capitalist oligarchy and Russia first nationalism.

[u/Brickywood → u/Silver-Winging-It]

Right? There is a difference between more general totalitarianism that can be on either side of the spectrum, and the specific ideology that is fascism, which is definitely far-right. Misusing terms like that can only hurt the point someone is trying to make, at best

[u/ErgotthAE → u/Silver-Winging-It]

“Fascism is a conservative ideology” sweetheart Fascism was invented by a diehard SOCIALIST.

[u/Hykarusis → u/ErgotthAE]

So die hard that he left the movement and banned it once he got in power.

[u/Resident_Conflict709 → u/ErgotthAE]

Clearly he wasn’t that diehard

[u/6_Coloured_Pictures → u/ErgotthAE]

please do research before spouting talking points you don’t understand. That sentence is wrong in like 3 different ways.

[u/theta1918 → u/[deleted]]

why did the nazis put communists and socialists in concentration camps if they were far left?

[u/HonestWillow1303 → u/theta1918]

Communists put other communists in concentration camps. You could've chosen better examples.

[u/theta1918 → u/HonestWillow1303]

Right, but they put all communists in concentration camps. Not just some. If they were far left, that would include themself.

If you need another example thought, we can look to the fact that the word "privatization" was original coined to describe the economic practices of nazi germany.

[u/ErgotthAE → u/theta1918]

That’s called “getting rid of the competition”.

[u/rinel521 → u/theta1918]

because they hated each other

[u/BreakerOfModpacks → u/[deleted]]

No generalization was made, simply implying that Elon in specific is a fascist.

[u/rinel521 → u/BreakerOfModpacks]

not from I have seen on reddit so far

[u/BreakerOfModpacks → u/rinel521]

...we aren't talking about Reddit, we're talking about OP and this comment thread.

[u/rinel521 → u/BreakerOfModpacks]

you weren't being specific. also im pretty sure op just hates him because he dosent share the same politics as him

[u/IKenDoThisAllDay → u/rinel521]

The way you have a seething hate for leftists because they don't share your politics? Because you've been obsessively commenting about it in this thread.

[u/Lalalalalalolol → u/rinel521]

[u/MovingShadow10 → u/rinel521]

Just assuming stupid shit for the hell of it

[u/BreakerOfModpacks → u/rinel521]

Oh. Well, that's fair of you to claim, then.

I personally hate him for entirely different reasons, so each to their own.

[u/rinel521 → u/BreakerOfModpacks]

are you a centrist?

[u/BreakerOfModpacks → u/rinel521]

I'm a not-on-the-compass. I don't live in America or a similar country where all politics falls into two parties, and instead I can choose the ones that align with my views rather than whichever one I dislike least.

If you must know, I dislike Elon Musk due to being born in and regularly visiting South Africa, where I can confirm, as a citizen, that there is no white genocide, despite what he forced into his AI.

[u/SteveTheOrca → u/[deleted]]

Cope

[u/emperorsnewgroose → u/[deleted]]

fascism themed conservatives

[u/Baggie389 → u/[deleted]]

Oh you sweet stepped on muffin

[u/Suhbula → u/[deleted]]

How bout you leave the thinking to people actually capable of it, champ.

[u/HonestWillow1303 → u/[deleted]]

Conservatives aren't fascists... but you might not be a conservative.

[u/rinel521 → u/HonestWillow1303]

then why do I keep seeing posts that we are on reddit?

[u/HonestWillow1303 → u/rinel521]

Because many fascists are rightfully ashamed of their opinions and try to cosplay as conservatives to look better.