🐱 Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump 'red pill' reference slammed by The Matrix director

https://www.cnet.com/news/elon-musk-and-ivanka-trump-red-pill-reference-slammed-by-the-matrix-director/

Elon Musk may be a new dad, but he still has time to kick up controversy on Twitter. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO tweeted Sunday a reference to The Matrix, which drew a tweeted response from Ivanka Trump. None of it went down well with one half of the movie's creators, Lilly Wachowski.

"Take the red pill," Musk tweeted, along with the rose emoji, referencing the scene where Morpheus gives Neo a choice whether to take the red pill and learn the truth about The Matrix, or take the blue pill and carry on living his former life in blissful ignorance.

Ivanka Trump tweeted "Taken!" in response, and Lilly Wachowski, one part of The Wachowski siblings who wrote and directed 1999's The Matrix, replied, "Fuck both of you."

She then shared a link to the LGBTQ non-profit Brave Space Alliance, calling for support.


What Musk meant by the quote is up for speculation. In politics, "take the red pill" can refer to shifting your political views to the right. The Red Pill subreddit, dating back to 2013, popularized the term in online forums related to Donald Trump or men's rights groups.


Musk has been busy on Twitter of late. Last week he jumped on to threaten to relocate Tesla's California headquarters and sue San Francisco's Alameda County over the county's shelter-in-place rules.

 

[ExciteDyke]

He was obviously telling us to take the Red Rageous pill, but twitter isn't ready for that conversation.

 

[MediocreMilt]

Imagine thinking you still own memes after you put them out there.

Is there anything good this aging tranny is known for besides the first Matrix?

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Lol.

I love that he used a rose emoji. The donuts are going to use this to beat Rose Twitter over the head with the rest of the election cycle.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

"Lily" can join Matt Furie in his shrieks of impotent rage at losing control of your memes. Shit, no wonder /leftypol/ wants to "seize the memes of production".

 

[beautiful person]

The Wachowskis are both champagne socialist troons. I don't care what they have to say.

 

[majorlyPickled]

No dick, no opinion.

 

[Recoil]

Hollywood types are culture vultures, which means they will always hop onto the new thing when it's profitable to do so. It's now profitable for Elon Musk to do so. Expect more 'converts' in the coming years.

It means nothing, these people's alliances are inevitably fragile and meaningless.

 

[AsbestosFlaygon]

Imagine thinking you still own memes after you put them out there.

Is there anything good this aging tranny is known for besides the first Matrix?

I'm reminded of when Gail Katz and others complained about Donald Trump using the Air Force One movie theme. Bitch who cares about that shit? Especially since it boils down mostly to just not liking the person in question. When you put something you've made out there you have to accept there's people who are gonna like it and use it that you won't agree with. If you don't wanna accept that then you shouldn't have gotten in the business in the first place.

 

[Spiteful Crow]

Imagine being that outraged and impotent lol

"Fuck you!" cries the washed up Hollywood weirdo

 

[Mariposa Electrique]

"Fuck you!" cries the washed up Hollywood weirdo

Who chopped off his dick because he was too ugly as a man.

 

[SIGSEGV]

Lilly Wachowski is cringe and bluepilled.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

They’re ones to talk, considering they lifted the plot of the matrix from comics.

 

[disenchanted]

>Elon Musk may be a new dad,

Hmmm.

No pretty sure he was already a dad.

 

[disenchanted]

Well if Elon's going Republican, I guess that means it's time for me to go Dem.

 

[Cast Iron Pan]

Imagine being that outraged and impotent lol

"Fuck you!" cries the washed up Hollywood weirdo

I hope that when Matrix 4 flops both Elon and Ivanka will take subtle snipes at it.

Well if Elon's going Republican, I guess that means it's time for me to go Dem.

You might consider Whig instead, like the Wachowski trannies.

 

[SilkGnut]

Finding out that the Wachowskis only went tranny after hooking up with a dominatrix whose last partner also ended up as a tranny was one fuck of a red pill for me.

Either all 3 of them were all in the closet and coincidentally "became their true selves" one after another... or people can be very malleable, especially in the hands of a trained professional who has access to them at their most vulnerable.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Here's a picture of "Lily" by the way.

 

[Meat Poultry Veg]

Here's a picture of "Lily" by the way.

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Amberlynn levels of cringe-horrid fashion sense.

 

[stupidpieceofshit]

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Why do left leaning people (not even far left this has been going on since the 80s) need to always need to say "We do not endorse so and so using our song/reference/what ever"? No one bloody assums that you endorsed what the First Lady or Musk said. No one assumes the singers endorse a political canadate when they use a song during election campaigns. But yet they complain.