{"id":1753597,"date":"2022-11-28T06:30:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753597"},"modified":"2022-11-28T10:35:35","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T15:35:35","slug":"star-trek-actor-wil-wheaton-cries-over-twitter-ceo-elon-musk-hes-hurting-our-society-and-making-people-i-care-about-less-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-trek-actor-wil-wheaton-cries-over-twitter-ceo-elon-musk-hes-hurting-our-society-and-making-people-i-care-about-less-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStar Trek\u201d Actor Wil Wheaton Cries Over Twitter CEO Elon Musk: \u201cHe\u2019s Hurting Our Society and Making People I Care About Less Safe\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">46<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstar-trek-actor-wil-wheaton-cries-over-twitter-ceo-elon-musk-hes-hurting-our-society-and-making-people-i-care-about-less-safe%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1753597&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a typical display of the actor\u2019s love for overdramatic pearl clutching, <em>Star Trek<\/em> host Wil Wheaton has come to believe that new Twitter CEO Elon Musk is a \u201cmalevolence\u201d who is actively \u201churting our society\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190473\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190473\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162b515c85.jpg\" alt=\"Wil Wheaton opens up about his acting past via Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, YouTube\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162b515c85.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162b515c85-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162b515c85-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162b515c85-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wil Wheaton opens up about his acting past via Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum, YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/11\/15\/japanese-twitter-users-report-political-content-no-longer-being-pushed-into-their-feeds-following-elon-musk-takeover\/\">Japanese Twitter Users Report Political Content No Longer Being Pushed Into Their Feeds Following Elon Musk Takeover<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The chain of events that led Wheaton to his meltdown began on November 19th when Nine Inch Nails front man Trent Reznor revealed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/business\/digital\/trent-reznor-twitter-elon-musk-takeover-1235262227\/\"><em>The Hollywood Reporter <\/em><\/a>that he would be leaving Twitter following its official takeover by Musk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190469\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162a5990d3.jpg\" alt=\"Trent Reznor talks writing &#039;If I Can&#039;t Have Love, I Want Power\" with Halsey and Atticus Ross via Billboard \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190469\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trent Reznor talks writing \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have Love, I Want Power\u201d with Halsey and Atticus Ross via Billboard, YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m about to depart,\u201d Reznor said on the red carpet to <em>Bones and All<\/em>, a romantic horror film for which he and the sole other member of NIN, Atticus Ross, provided the soundtrack for. \u201cWe don\u2019t need the arrogance of the billionaire class to feel like they can just come in and solve everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven without him involved, I just find that it has become such a toxic environment,\u201d he added. \u201cFor my mental health, I need to tune out. I don\u2019t feel good being there anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190474\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.50-boundingintocomics-638162b800e38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.50-boundingintocomics-638162b800e38.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.50-boundingintocomics-638162b800e38-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.50-boundingintocomics-638162b800e38-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.50-boundingintocomics-638162b800e38-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trent Reznor speaks with Lauren Laverne about Childish Gambino\u2019s \u2018This Is America\u2019 via BBC Radio 6 Music, YoUTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/11\/08\/reachers-alan-ritchson-quits-twitter-provides-bogus-reasons-for-leaving-including-the-conspiracy-theory-that-elon-musk-is-manipulating-the-midterms\/\">Reacher\u2019s Alan Ritchson Quits Twitter, Provides Bogus Reasons For Leaving Including The Conspiracy Theory That Elon Musk Is Manipulating The Midterms<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Making good on his word, Reznor would go on to delete his account the very next day \u2013 a move which in turn drew outright mockery from Musk.<\/p>\n<p>On November 21st, in reply to the observation made by user @catturd2 that it had been \u201c48 hours since @elonmusk, reinstated President Trump\u2019s Twitter account and the world still hasn\u2019t ended,\u201d the platform\u2019s new CEO laughed, \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">And it turns out that Trent \u2018Nine Inch Nails\u2019 Reznor is actually a crybaby<\/span>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190465 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.20-boundingintocomics-63815bb236ef9.png\" alt=\"@catturd2 makes an observation about Twitter via Twitter\" width=\"598\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.20-boundingintocomics-63815bb236ef9.png 598w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.20-boundingintocomics-63815bb236ef9-300x130.png 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190466\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.20-boundingintocomics-63815bb5a2f0b.png\" alt=\"Elon Musk mocks Trent Reznor&#039;s departure from Twitter via Twitter\" width=\"598\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.20-boundingintocomics-63815bb5a2f0b.png 598w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.20-boundingintocomics-63815bb5a2f0b-300x104.png 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/mD1px\">Archive Link<\/a> Elon Musk via Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It seems Musk\u2019s tweet was the tipping point for Wheaton, as shortly after it was published, the actor took to his personal Facebook to decry, \u201cI can not fathom the emptiness, the insecurity, the insatiable need for attention and validation, the staggering arrogance, the malevolence and total void of human experience that is Elon Musk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">\u201cHe\u2019s the richest man on the planet,\u201d added the host of Paramount\u2019s\u00a0<em>Star Trek <\/em>franchise post-episode talk show, <em>The Ready Room. \u201c<\/em>You can\u2019t go anywhere or do anything without interacting with something he\u2019s part of in some way.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190464\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190464\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.19-boundingintocomics-63815baed4b92.png\" alt=\"&#039;Star Trek&#039; host Wil Wheaton lashes out at Elon Musk via Facebook\" width=\"737\" height=\"945\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.19-boundingintocomics-63815baed4b92.png 737w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.19-boundingintocomics-63815baed4b92-234x300-1.png 234w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wil Wheaton via Facebook<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/04\/04\/star-trek-legend-william-shatner-responds-to-wil-wheatons-claim-that-he-was-rude-to-him-the-first-time-they-met-i-have-no-recollection-of-this-event\/\">Star Trek Legend William Shatner Responds To Wil Wheaton\u2019s Claim That He Was Rude To Him The First Time They Met: \u201cI Have No Recollection Of This Event\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">There are literal millions of people who uncritically worship him, in spite of overwhelming evidence that he\u2019s a douchebag,\u201d Wheaton continued. \u201cSome number of them will come after me, as they come after anyone who points at their naked emperor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h\" dir=\"auto\">\u201cThey\u2019ll spend entire days going after me and people like me, slavishly serving a man who does not even know they exist,\u201d he dismissed. \u201cThey are his army of fools, uncritically serving his every whim. And it still isn\u2019t enough.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_156132\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156132\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156132\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.04.04-03.44-boundingintocomics-624a69915d071.jpg\" alt=\"Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) inspects the damage caused by his nanites in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 Episode 1 \" Evolution \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-156132\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) saves the Enterprise-D and its crew from his nanite experiment in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3 Episode 1 \u201cEvolution\u201d (1989), Paramount Television via DVD<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Wheaton then opined, \u201cHe can have any material thing he wants, and he will *never* be happy or satisfied. He has no real friends. Every single person around him is either a viper, a parasite, or both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo what does he do?\u201d asked the former\u00a0<em>The Next Generation\u00a0<\/em>actor. \u201cHe bullies and threatens and harasses and trolls and behaves like the weak, scared, insecure child he has always been. That\u2019s a tragedy for him, but it\u2019s dangerous for us. He doesn\u2019t care what he destroys or who he hurts as he chases this existential thing he can not ever have.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190468\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190468\" class=\"wp-image-190468 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.34-boundingintocomics-63815f26ac0ae-e1669424221749.png\" alt=\"Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Pepper Potts (Gwenyth Paltrow) say hello to Elon Musk via Iron Man 2 (2010), Marvel Entertainment via Blu-ray\" width=\"1060\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.34-boundingintocomics-63815f26ac0ae-e1669424221749.png 1060w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.34-boundingintocomics-63815f26ac0ae-e1669424221749-300x231-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.34-boundingintocomics-63815f26ac0ae-e1669424221749-768x591-1.png 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) and Pepper Potts (Gwenyth Paltrow) say hello to Elon Musk via Iron Man 2 (2010), Marvel Entertainment via Blu-ray<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Drawing his rant to a close, Wheaton ultimately asserted, \u201cYou know the saying \u2018hurt people hurt people\u2019? He\u2019s a hurt person who is hurting our society, making people I care about less safe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consequences of this one man\u2019s midlife crisis are global,\u201d he concluded, \u201cand that terrifies me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_190471\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-190471\" class=\"size-full wp-image-190471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162af3f982.jpg\" alt=\"Elon Musk sits down with The Babylon Bee via The Babylon Bee, YouTube\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162af3f982.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162af3f982-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162af3f982-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.26-12.49-boundingintocomics-638162af3f982-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-190471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elon Musk sits down with The Babylon Bee via The Babylon Bee, YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2021\/11\/25\/star-trek-host-wil-wheaton-claims-kyle-rittenhouses-judge-schroeder-has-a-racist-little-white-nationalist-heart\/\">\u2018Star Trek\u2019 Host Wil Wheaton Claims Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s Judge Schroeder Has A \u201cRacist Little White Nationalist Heart\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a typical display of the actor\u2019s love for overdramatic pearl clutching, Star Trek host Wil Wheaton has come to believe that new Twitter CEO Elon Musk is a \u201cmalevolence\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1753600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1753597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1753600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}