Last season had the 'Climate Change is inevitable and resistance is pointless and unethical' (captain planet analogue goes to tragically kill coal-miners, nobody mentions that having superpowers could easily dismantle fossil fuel infrastructure or at the very least off execs). This most recent episode has omnipotent dinosaurs return to earth and create a post-scarcity Earth, leading to newspaper articles and characters exclaim how bored their life is now that banks, jobs and climate change have been eradicated. The dinosaurs are purposely boring and speak in vague lib 'empathy' language, leading to characters genuinely use the words "Virtue signalling" despite my understanding of virtue signalling being just saying nice words, not backing them up with material conditions.
This show has fun sci-fi concepts and I enjoy the slow de-edgification of Rick, but damn clearly Elon's cameo (in an otherwise perfect episode) was a harbinger of grotesque things to come.
I dunno, maybe, maybe not. I feel like most people I know that watch Rick & Morty have the maturity to understand that Rick is not a good guy, it's just weird online nerds that worship him, and I don't sure those weird online nerds would even watch a show that's more on the nose about its morals.
I mean, I'm on board with those nerds not feeling like there's content out there that supports them. I know I'm sure dealing with not feeling like there's enough content out there calling for the fall of the bourgeoise.