Elon Musk compares Bernie Sanders to Sonic The Hedgehog baddie Dr Robotnik

He’s the infamous moustachioed villain on a quest to seize all the world’s emeralds and use them to build a robotic totalitarian ‘utopia’.

So is there any similarity between Sega character Dr ‘Egghead’ Robotnik, Sonic The Hedgehog’s arch-enemy, and Democrat US presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders?

Elon Musk (whose dad owned an emerald mine) certainly appears to think so.

He’s shared a Bernie meme which compares Sanders to Robotnik.

The image in the meme is taken from a Bernie video in which he says: ‘I am once again asking for your financial support.’

This has then been edited, with the subtitles replaced with words that Buzzfeed described as ‘Pure Laughter Fuel’.

The truth is, we have an excellent chance to win the primary and beat Trump.

But the only way we can do that is if we have the sufficient financial resources.

So I am asking you today to contribute to our campaign before the FEC deadline: https://t.co/9y9BZMs0GM pic.twitter.com/wnYbUDBynW

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 30, 2019

Ok u can have a little emerald 🤹ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸ pic.twitter.com/3LzPe4aG4B

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 12, 2020

Elon’s meme showed Bernie with a large moustache and crazy blue sunglasses.

‘OK u can have a little emerald,’ Elon wrote above the meme on Twitter.

So how do the policy platforms of the two men compare?

As the main baddie in Sonic The Hedgehog games, Dr Robotnik is a mad genius hellbent on conquering the world.

He seeks to gather up ‘chaos emeralds’, unleash their primal forces and destroy the city of Station Square in order to build his own ‘Robotnikland’ or ‘Eggman Empire’.

Bernie does want to hit wealthy emerald-owners with higher taxes but insists he’ll use the money for good, rather than ploughing it into a bid for global domination.

They differ quite dramatically on their attitude to the environment.

Bernie wants to see the introduction of a Green New Deal which will ‘transform our energy system to 100% renewable energy and create 20 million jobs needed to solve the climate crisis’.

He also wants ‘invest in conservation and public lands to heal our soils, forests, and prairie lands’ while also ending ‘the greed of the fossil fuel industry and holding them accountable’.

Dr Robotnik enjoys imprisoning small animals and using them as fuel for his ‘badniks’, which are robots that serve as his personal army.

This is unlikely to be the sort of policy that would appeal to Bernie’s supporters, which include Cardi B and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

It’s hard to tell exactly what Dr Robotnik would think of key Sanders policies like Medicare For All, College For All and Expand Social Security.

But judging from past behaviour, we’d assume he was closer to Trump than Bernie on these issues.