

In December, Musk even likened himself to Batman, tweeting an image of the superhero perched ominously on a rooftop, surveying the troubled city below.

The core idea: Only a masked billionaire with a taste for extrajudicial violence can fix the city’s problems. It parroted a twisted superhero fantasy increasingly popular with certain influential tech figures, like Elon Musk, who exaggerates San Francisco’s crime rate for sport. The quip was both unfunny and unoriginal.
