Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
Musk responded that the advertising boycott is likely to kill the company. "What this advertising boycott is going to do is it's going to kill the company, and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail,"
When Sorkin pointed out that advertisers see things differently, Musk replied, "oh yeah? Tell it to Earth."
Sorkin continued: "They're going to say, Elon, that you killed the company because you said these things and they were inappropriate things and they didn't feel comfortable on the platform. That's what they're going to say."
"And let's see how Earth responds to that," Musk replied.
I mean… I think that pretty much removes any last doubt anyone might have had that Elon Musk had any grasp on the reality that he himself exists in.
Dude you missed quoting the best bit!
"If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself," Musk said.
Sorkin replied, "but," and trailed off. Musk wasn't done. "Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is. Hey, Bob!" Musk said. Musk was apparently addressing Disney CEO Bob Iger, who previously said at the conference that advertising on X "was not necessarily a positive" association and so Disney "decided we would pull our advertising."
The Muskrat told Disney CEO to go fuck himself.
On video.
With a hard F. No dissembling.
The Tesla board should remove him as CEO as he is clearly unstable.
It’s mean to laugh at people self destructing.
But anyway … fucking lol.
He truly must believe he’s one of the good guys. Lmao Earth isn’t going to rise up for a divorced apartheid emerald mine inheritor, you dork.
You can't hold a firm grasp on reality if it is distorted by your massive narcissism already. He thinks anyone but the bags of shit still on his platform care.
Twitter never actually mattered and nothing of value will be lost. He can pound sand.
Yikes. Broke Mind Virus.
I mean, he seemed pretty fucking high out of his gourd, so I suspect that he didn't really know what reality he was in.
"And let's see how Earth responds to that," Musk replied.
I'm getting strong Kanye vibes from Elon these days.
I was just thinking the exact same thing the other day. Dude needs to take his meds.
Yep. Can't put my finger on what's happening there exactly, but there's some kind of mental health crisis going on and it's very public.
Earth?
The last time Earth told me anything I was on a lot of drugs.
Gaea told me she thinks Elon is a complete fuckwad and is the worst of the worst kind of virus on her.
A recent comment of mine:
In an old interview, Mr. Narcissus [Elon Musk] said he may have bipolar disorder; he said he experiences "great highs, terrible lows, and unrelenting stress".
He has doubts because his highs and lows follow events in his life, whereas episodes from bipolar disorder often appear without triggers. [...]
We'd know if he went for an evaluation/possible diagnosis, but I cannot even imagine him doing it.
Kanye West is usually manic when he acts this way. I guess this supports Musk's suspicion.
He has doubts because his highs and lows follow events in his life, whereas episodes from bipolar disorder often appear without triggers. [...]
Maybe the events are what follow the highs and lows.
Quick, someone introduce Musk to Jonah Hill!
Alternative conspiracy theory, he got paid to do that, as twitter even with all the bad things was a political tool against fascism and misinformation.
Maybe, but I do think he's dumb and egotistical enough to lack self awareness.
Frankly there is no alternate conspiracy that can make this make sense. Even if the point is destroying Twitter, why does he have to be the one to personally take the reputation hit? He could downright hire some celebrity CEO to say and do all the shit he wants done, get all the flak while he relaxes on a yacht. There may or may not be backroom deals but he's still being a chump for exposing himself like that. His business are taking hits because he's seen as increasingly unreliable.
There's no way he would've willingly taken a hit to his reputation like this
I really don’t understand this take at all. He just seems like a straight up fool to me. Even if he was coerced into destroying Twitter, why do people seriously go, “Oh no! There is literally nowhere else to have these kinds of discussions or rallying!” When there are in fact PLENTY and could even be MADE for these kinds of situations? Look at the Fediverse for example, but why stop there? You’ve got other silly social media sites that can be used the same way if someone actually tried hard enough. If those don’t work out, you can always find a way IF you truly do care enough.
By comparison Lemmy has 30,000 active users and steadily dropping.
It's actually pretty funny how much of an echo chamber Lemmy can be. All I see is positive comments about how Lemmy is so great and growing, and Twitter is dead! Meanwhile it's the opposite. Twitter is still very much alive, and Lemmy is becoming a small cul-de-sac echo chamber.
My Lemmy app lets me tag people, which I use to tag people who are rude to others, nice to me, helpful, racist, etc, just so I can remember who was nice and who wasn't nice to interact with, and I literally see the same handful of people in every thread, and the front page of "everything" is filled with the same people making every thread.
Same with Reddit. We all thought Reddit was dead, and, well.. it isn't. Some days I really regret getting IP banned for shilling out Lemmy. Plenty of communities I really miss from Reddit that just simply won't work on Lemmy, because of how Lemmy is so FOSS centric.
Musk says X advertiser backlash is "going to kill the company."
For once I hope you're not wrong, Musk!
I have never in my life seen an interviewer try to get someone to save face like this. Elon has zero self awareness, and he's basically behaving like a petulant child. Who the fuck sees this man as a genius?
He needs to stop hitting the ke--actually, no. He needs to hit more of that shit. At least until the road dead ends.
At this point it starts to really look he wants X to bankrupt so he doesn't have to pay
He never actually wanted it as a company, he only wanted to open it up because he had a misguided belief it was some evil corporation controlling what people can say and he wanted that control instead.
His backers include the Saudis. If he doesn't pay, they'll whip out ol' bonesaw on him
Why wouldn't he have to pay? He already had to pay when he bought it. He put in cash and took on debt. The only real benefit to this thing tanking is he can take a massive capital loss and probably never pay income tax again.
The downside is he would owe a lot of money to people you don't want to owe and he looks like a bigger moron by the day. Sooner or later, Tesla investors are going to get spooked by his deranged behavior and then he's in a world of hurt. All his wealth is tied up in Tesla and he uses his position as CEO to pump the stock with all his bullshit lies. It's like a giant Ponzi scheme. As soon as the value comes back down to Earth and the stock is priced like a normal company he's in big trouble.
He's definitely trying to destroy Twitter on purpose.
I'm glad that I never fell through the hype of him being the real life Tony stark, 10 years ago people were sure this guy was going to get us on Mars and save the world. There are Comics out there of him being not only supportive of trans rights, but inventing the Tesla Model TG in order to give us all cat girls
The best part was the dead silence when he was waiting for laughter or something, the silence was murder on his soul. Not unlike when Dave Chapelle brought him out on stage for who knows why and he was booed like .....how fucking out of touch are you Dave, and why would you bring that turd out?
Or when he died on his ass on SNL. Or when he appeared in a Rick & Morty episode and managed to kill it by his mere presence. He thinks he is edgy, funny and cool but he isn't. Instead he is awkward, unfunny, weird and deeply unpopular for being a dick.
It's all because he's a dick. No amount of quirky, charisma can cover it up if deep down, he's an evil asshole.
The other day I rewatched Iron Man 2, and that was the first time I realized Elon was in it. It was only for like 2 seconds, but still it caught me completely off guard
He was fine on rick and morty.
That's when I realized Rick and Morty had gone to shit! It's unfortunate, the first couple seasons were pretty good.
You know looking back on the history of Dave Chappelle and his blatant misogyny, it's not surprising in hindsight that he turned out to be a piece of shit. He doesn't seem to be fond of the idea of minorities getting rights unless it is specifically the minority he belongs to. If this guy were a white man, he would be up on stage saying the n-word twice is often and screaming about how the radical left wants to cancel him.
Jesus fucking christ mate turn it in.
He did a comedy show where he repeatedly professed respect fir trans people but criticised the way some people behave, and you're acting like he "isn't fond or minorities getting rights"
It's just fucking psychopathic gibberish with you lot.
If this guy was white he'd be racist against blacks.
What the fuck does that even mean?
He's black.
Calm the fuck down.
I don't think Dave Chappelle is a piece of shit. I think a lot of criticism towards him is exactly what his recent gripes about the alphabet people are about. He made fun of everyone and nobody cared, but when he makes fun of the LGBT then all of a sudden people like you say "he's always been a bad guy."
for who knows why
Money.
He's so painfully unfunny that it's hard to tell sometimes if he's making an attempt at humor.
If there's anything left to sell after all the debtors. His genius plan to save money by not paying any bills isn't a great long-term business strategy. Not to mention that billions in debt settled on the company just by buying them. It's like buying a Ferrari, digging around in the seats for loose change, and then setting fire to the Ferrari while screaming at Mickey Mouse that you won't be blackmailed with money.
It's so fun to watch.
Lower prices to entice them to come back
Sadly, that will probably work. Just like it did the last couple of times. Or just wait a month.
A textbook example of what happens when you tear down things of which you don't understand why they are there
Chesterton's Fence
"What this advertising boycott is going to do is it's going to kill the company, and the whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail," Musk said.
No need, you making twitter toxic to advertisers and the resulting fallout is already very well documented.
Even if it wasn't obvious that he is the problem, he's underestimating how many people think that toxic shithole has run its course already. Those advertisers might as well be cheered for it.
The fight we had after you caught me cheating killed our relationship. It's your fault, and I'm going to tell all your friends.
What is this dude thinking? Who cares what he documents. What is he even talking about?
He's defending himself... I guess, due to some antisemitic remarks he made recently and all his advertisers are bailing on xtwitter. So he said 'fuck you' to the advertisers and accused them of blackmail basically. So, ya know, billionaire fascist shit.
I interpreted that as a veiled threat of reprisal against the companies boycotting it. Maybe that's a darker way of thinking about it, but I wouldn't be too surprised.
"I'm not wrong, it's everyone else's fault for not seeing how great I am."
Lol what an idiot. Truly.
Pretty sure they can switch advertisers and pay everyone less if they really want to stay in business.
Heck, reducing salaries could actually make twitter profitable for once.
“Never go full Elon”
I'm going to start using this from now on
He seriously thinks the public will blame the former advertisers and be angry at them when the issue was obviously Musk running the company into the ground?
Usually people with fuck-you money don't literally, publicly say "fuck you" to their revenue streams. Usually.
When your that rich, they just let you do it.
Well, I doubt Disney will bring its ad business back to Xitter, but Musk is rich enough that he doesn't have to care.
I wonder if hes going through a mental breakdown. Im all for him going down, but the way hes talking is weird.
Certainly nothing that a brain implant can solve...
And behaving. If not, then I believe he believes he is above all of this.
He's been going through one for years now.
He's the right age for a midlife crisis and a lot at that point can get triggered by growing mortality combined with a perceived lack of accomplishment in life. Additionally, as others have said, substance abuse is likely a factor in his life. A lot of wealthy people have huge substance abuse issues that their access to vast resources allows them to buffer most of the usual consequences of such. On top of all of that, he's going through a divorce and child custody case with Grimes that is gearing up to be more toxic than a bottle of freshly pumped reactor four coolant water from the Chernobyl disaster.
Yeah I think mental breakdown is a pretty good bet. It is highly likely Musk has a substance abuse issue on top of all of that which is likely not helping anything. The wealthy in the United States do have some of the highest substance abuse rates because for many of them, their lifestyles and access to their vast wealth helps to buffer pretty much a lot of the usual consequences that people face with substance abuse issues. It wouldn't surprise me the least to hear Musk diagnosed with oppositional defiant disorder and that he's largely avoided his "come to Jesus" moment in that due to his vast wealth.
the way hes talking is weird
Yeah, it looks exactly the same way my Aunt used to talk when she was heavy on psychedelics, including the body language. It's a kind of disinhibition where the mind isn't firing any of the parts that would usually guide a person on making thoughtful responses and keeping up with the current situation. Like Musk in the video constantly looks like he's talking to someone out in the audience rather than responding to the person asking the questions but then after talking jets his head right back to the person asking questions like he's asking "more fuel please".
I would be surprised if all of this isn't driven by some substance abuse. But that said, none of anything that's happening is likely good for his mental state, even with his wealth all of this is likely taking a toll on his mental state. The drugs only beg the question of how aware he might be of his declining mental health. But he'd likely tell any doctor concerned about Musk's mental state to go fuck themselves at this point.
He's so much like Trump. Except maybe even more childish somehow.
Because Trump, as weirdly as he may go about it, has made his way through life on his (inherited fortune from his from his crook of a father and) force of personality.
He gets people to do what he wants them to do by projecting an image, a brand, through the way he acts and speaks. Look at The Apprentice. He's playing this role that says (without saying out loud), "Look at me. I'm a straight shooting, no nonsense business leader and my personality and business sense have brought me success, money, fame, luxury, and power. You want that too? You want to be like me? Then do what I say."
Not saying it's authentic or that it should work, but Trump's entire existence is based on this tactic. He's constantly projecting an image, and it's that projection of that image that gets him his way. His force of personality is just as, if not more central to his power as his money (make no mistake, the money is necessary too).
This, in contrast with Musk, who's typically cultivated his following based on ideas and drive. He gets people to go along with him because he's seen as a modern day Edison (and to be fair, the comparison, in some ways, is apt... especially the less flattering ones), a groundbreaker, rules breaker...a visionary.
Simply put, among the people who follow these guys, people follow Musk for what he says (in terms of his big ideas), people follow Trump for the way he acts (in terms of the image he projects). It takes a strong set of blinders to ignore Musk's sharing of his worse ideas and Trump's less than impressive antics, but their respective cults have had plenty of practice in those mental gymnastics.
Thus you're left with the mind boggling (to the rest of us) situation where Musk's followers don't care how he acts, because they are laser focused on his ideas, while Trump supporters couldn't care less about the crazy or incoherent stuff he says, so long as he keeps projecting that macho, confident persona.
So that's how Musk gets away with being "Trump, but more childish": he's not depending on the personality like Trump, so he can act that way without turning his supporters off, because they don't care about that in the first place.
Musk's entire angle is "it's okay to be a humongous asshole if you achieve your goals.
Trump's is, "It's okay to be a humongous asshole, as long as you can sell it as arrogance bred from success."
Yeah. Musk has gone funny in the head. Does he not know the concept of brand-safe content?
His perspective is like a kid kicking a sandcastle that he gave another kid $10 to buy because he thought it was neat.
What does he care if Twitter doesn't make money? He is personally set for life, and the world would basically have to end for that to change.
Why does someone worth 11 digits of greenback currency have to understand what brand safe content is? He could shoot a man in the middle of the street and toss his equivalent of pennies to the witnesses and never see consequences.
All of this criticism he's seeing on public airwaves, and his reaction, is revealing him for what he actually is: The single most richly spoiled baby in all of human history.
My guess is he probably knows more about it, than anyone else alive on earth today. /s
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/elon-musks-confusing-twitter-grab
I hope his arrogance will be his downfall, and not just from being #1 richest person in the world, but to actual bankruptcy.
I don't usually enjoy Schadenfreude, but Elon Musk has become such a cancer on humanity. I'll make an exception.
I think he was always like this. It's just he's now ALWAYS in the limelight, and it's much more visible.
People actually wrote books about how much of a genius this guy is
They were the real geniuses.
"Elon Musk is big smart the book - $30!"
"Wowowowowow hands over $30 dollars" x 1,000,000+ sales
30 million dollars.
And all it cost was some paper, ink and your integrity as an author.
The interviewer tried really hard (and failed) to hide his incredulity.
Is he balding again? Like, he looks like fucking Butt-Head. Or like a 🤡 without colors.
X, formally known as dead bird
Poor bird. It wasn't great, but at least it tried. X put an end to that.
Nepo baby held accountable for his actions, thinks it's unfair he's responsible for them.
I say "Go f..k yourself if you are still advertizing with this guy."
Smart fella that musk... Wait I meant fart smeller
This joke literally predates baby boomers
Aww, he's pouting.
This barrier of capitalism loving fascists finding that capitalism works best with maximum participation therefore maximum diversity is infinitely entertaining to me.
While I'd normally support someone telling Disney to go fuck itself, it doesn't mean much coming from Musk.
Was he ever rumoured to be a pedo or anything like that?
Was he ever rumoured to be a pedo or anything like that?
He did have known links to Epstein. And his accusations against the cave rescuer really came across like some intense projection.
Many people are saying it.
That means it MUST be true!
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!
And people aren't using Mastodon because?
Because while the concept isn't too difficult to understand once it's explained to you, it's not easy as going to "Mastodon and signing up".
The different servers, having to remember other people's instances along with their username (for example, you can't just say "omg check out Jack Froth on Mastodon! He's so funny!", because where? What instance? Who is it?
Not to mention Mastodon, much like Lemmy, dropped the ball hard when it came to onboarding during the peak interest. When you downloaded the app, you had to manually type in your instance, username, and password, which you had to go to an instance in your web browser to sign up for first.
Now Mastodon gives you the option to sign up like a regular app and it'll pick a default server for you. Way more friendly, but no one cares, because they already have the bad confusing taste in their mouth.
Then comes the community. Twitter is extremely toxic, but somehow Lemmy and Mastodon are worse. I know a few people I follow have recently discussed wanting to leave Mastodon because the Mastodon community attacks them, saying they don't want them there, because they have a successful YouTube channel. The type of people that the fediverse attracts are FOSS users, and FOSS users can be really.. particular.
I've been attacked on both Lemmy and Mastodon because I made some pro-windows comments. It's pretty exhausting. The hard pill to swallow is that the fediverse isn't accepting and isn't kind towards "normal" people.
God all the imported garbage and dead subs that you have to wade through here on lemmy. You cant find anything and you have deal with digital hoarders veing excited that it's a mess here.
I cant even be bothered with mastodon if its more of the same. I'm here because i absolutely hate the absolute unending barage of ads on reddit and i havent figured put how to patch my app yet. Sometimes i find this place fun when it has its own identity like the star trek memes but im so tired of it.
Social media should be you come for a purpose and then stay for the conversation but now its just people not wanting to be alone but not wanting the conversation either.
The different servers, having to remember other people's instances along with their username.
This is just like email, I see no problem here.
I think the problem is about the mindset and the onboarding experience. We've used too much proprietary products and prefer something easy and not too much diverge from the norms. Recently, I tried to advertise Mastodon and Lemmy to my non-techie friends, which are using X and Reddit. Some did try but gave up. They said they didn't understand the concept, and didn't want to bother with choosing an instance in the first place, because they didn't understand the federation concept. It's just hard to explain the benefits of the fediverse to non-techie people.
The type of people that the fediverse attracts are FOSS users.
I have the same observation as your view. Current fediverse communities are heavily towards tech. Some of my friends joined but gradually left because they had a few to no interactions or no interesting people in their interested areas to follow.
This is just how the old internet works, embrace the Cesspool my friend
You have me curious.
I only have Linux on my machine, and have been an advocate for FOSS for many years. But even then I have to begrudgingly admit Windows does some things better. I don't see why anyone would get all bent out of shape about that. Yeah, evil corporation and massive privacy issues, but that doesn't change its technical merits.
What was it that people got upset over if you don't mind sharing?
Not enough celebrities there.
No algorithm
Ok. I need, like, a newb's guide to mastodon. What client should I use? How do I find people?
Blimp is pretty cool
Tusky is the best Mastodon client by a mile.
You start by finding an "instance" that fits you. There are gardening ones, texh ones, regional ones, fandom ones, whatever. You can easily (and should) join more than one.
Then you hang out on the Local feed, follow people whose stuff you like, follow the people they follow, etc.
After a few days of this your homepage will fill up with stuff for you.
For me, it started slower than Lemmy but I spend way more time there now.
Mastadon is chock a block with far left crazies.
Dudebro, seriously, go back to Reddit.
Holy mother of all Overton Windows. Where are you from for that sentence to sound even close to reasonable?
By left is crazy, do you mean people who will try to dox you to find out if you've ever laughed at a racist joke before, or people who are literally not nazis?
Its been a while, but i dusted this off just for you:
GTFO
Lolol you're actually insane
It's not companies pulling ads that kills the platform. That's not a root cause. Ads pulling out is a consequence.
The root cause of this, is the platform owner choosing to publically engage with a heavily charged emotional minefield where everyone and their dog has chosen hills to die on.
If your goal is to try make Twitter a successful company, wading into that mess is simply not a high quality decision.
Nuh uh. Just ask Earth.
This is what got me. 1. I couldn't believe he would come out and say it. 2. When i watch the clip he was saying "Just ask Earth"
What do you mean ask earth? Is it a dumb way of saying "the history books will tell the tale" or "the people will know what happened". Just ask earth... i thought he was advocating about global warming or some shit
Wait till SpaceX IPO tanks next month. "Don't buy the stock. Go f*** yourself".
SpaceX isn't having an IPO. They are selling shares, which they have done many times in the past. That's different from listing your shares on a public stock exchange.
To clarify after further research what they are doing is called a "Tender Offer"
Right - thanks for the clarification
Do you not understand what he’s fighting for? No matter what you think about him the fact that other companies feel like they can gang up together to manipulate another company is concerning. Especially when it’s to enforce controlled speech.
I guess I don't understand what he is fighting for no. Twitter users are free to say whatever they want. Equally, companies are free to spend their dollars in any way they want. If Twitter and its users really want free and uncontrolled speech, they should move to a completely user-subsidised model with no ads. "Uncontrolled" or unmodderated speech isn't always brand safe content, so it seems valid advertisers wouldn't be keen to sponsor that. Maybe I'm missing something but that's how I see it.
Don’t give a fuck about Nazis free speach
Are you serious or did I miss the /s?
You can stop simping for Daddy Musk any time now, he's not going to give you a reach-around.
If Twitter was a "left-leaning platform" before, it was because of the userbase, not the company. In fact, studies showed that the algorithm was more likely to bury posts from left-wing politicians/users and promote right-wing politicians/ideologies than the other way around. The reason right-wing people were being banned was for posting "right-wing opinions/values" - such as antisemitism, racism, homophobia, posting misinformation/lying about elections and other events, and a laundry list of other user policy breaking infractions. And even then, Twitter was often more lenient in what it allowed those kinds of people to get away with compared to other groups. I distinctly remember seeing people posting support for the genocide of trans people and how Twitter responded to reports of the comments violating their rules saying that they weren't violating any rules, while at the same time banning transgender users for publicly calling it out.
This kind of "freeze peach" complaining from the "enlightened centrists" has always stunk of right wingers with shitty opinions who don't want to face the consequences of having those opinions. Just like those politicians who complained about reality having a liberal bias. The First Amendment doesn't free you from the consequences of your words, nor does it cover all forms of speech. Under Fighting Words laws, threats of violence are legal grounds to act in self defense as if they were the actions themselves. If you threaten to punch someone in the face, don't be surprised when the court says that they were justified in breaking your nose. Your use of "woke agenda" - a propaganda slogan used by right-wingers to destroy the actual meaning of the word and instead mean "anybody doing something I don't like" - further down in the comments clearly shows where your political opinions actually fall.
And, no, we actually don't have to let bigots voice their opinions wherever they want. Not only because social media platforms are considered private property, meaning the owners can do whatever they want so long as it doesn't break the law, but because the free exchange of ideas isn't a carte blanche to spout hatred. The free exchange of ideas is a part of the social contract and more like a potluck supper than anything else. Just because Carol showed up with a piece of poop between two slices of bread and called it a sandwich doesn't mean we have to take a bite to know it's a piece of shit. People who break the social contract that keeps society running can't expect to be treated under the same rules themselves.
Plus, if you let the worst people in, they'll simply end up harassing and driving off everyone who isn't a part of their echo chamber. You only have to look at Trump's social network or any of the myriad of other "free speech absolutist" platforms that have sprung up over the years. Every single one of them has eventually devolved into an echo chamber of bigotry. As a wise bartender once said, "If you let one Nazi in, you no longer have a bar. You have a Nazi bar. Because it starts off with one who talks nicely, and then they bring a few friends who aren't as nice, who bring a few friends who are even worse, and before you know it, all the regular patrons are gone and they've started hanging Swastikas on the walls."
Tis a Free Market BAYBEE
Earth’s response, “yeah man, it was DEFINITELY your fault!!”
"But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I'm quite sorry, that was not my intention."
You hear that? He's sorry.
Sorry that he's facing consequences for his actions.
Shooting yourself in the foot seems to hurt
"To be fair, I've always wanted to tell this to advertisers too"
Especially to YouTube advertisers
He is waiting for trump to save Xitter, but trump is taking his time
But didn't they suspend Trump's account?
Elon un-suspended him.
Is Musk on drugs or something? Genuinely seems to be losing his mind
Ketamine
Desperation affects everyone, even the cocky, far-right, ultra-rich extremists.
Fuck Musk, Fuck Spez!!
If you're gonna start saying "fuck [random person]", I can think of a bunch who are way worse than spez.
Yeah, like Kissin... whisper sounds oh wait never mind carry on
He’s probably not all that worried about Xwitter. He’s got billions to spare. Be like wrecking your Ferrari, blaming the wet road when you were just going too fast, and still having 4 more in the garage.
He’s just worried about saving face and how the boards of his companies are going to view his behavior.
He doesn't care about Twitter cause he never wanted to buy it. Claiming he was going to was just a justification so he could sell Tesla stock without shareholders questioning it.
The dude's got a habit of using social media to influence the stock value of his own companies so he can buy low and sell high. The Twitter acquisition was a complete farce to cover up his market manipulation tactics.
Exactly.
He thought Twitter was owned by leftwing "libtards" that would never in a million years sell to him. It was just puffing smoke trying to manipulate stocks and prove a point about the "evil liberalism" of twitter.
But that wasnt true.
Twitter was run by business people, as a business, and when his insane offer came in to buy it, they leapt at the chance.
and when they did that, he got scared and tried to back out.. until he was legally forced to make good on his offer.
and unlike spacex, where they created an insulating crumplezone of people around Musk for the express purpose of ignoring 99% of his requests and demands, Twitter is run by him bare metal. and he cant stand that its collapsing around him, and that its his fault, and that its shattering the image of the brilliant self made business genius that he had of himself in his head.
Be like wrecking your Ferrari
It was an uninsured McLaren F1, but yeah he's done that too
Imagine watching Kanye West destroy his public image and then in the same year thinking "Nothing bad will happen if I make antisemitic comments on the media platform I own."
So Mastodon looks to be the big after Twitter. When is the funeral for Twitter?
I hope Mastodon succeeds but I don't see it taking off like twitter did.
And you said tax cuts for the rich would work out.
Musk: "Don't advertise."
Advertisers:
At this point I do not think that he is sane. Such people should not be commanding such great resources as he does, and so many people should not be dependent on his decisions. This is just immoral at this point.
I think he should try going to fuck himself too.
That's what the advertisers midst be thinking: "why would we fuck ourselves when we could fuck you"
Wealth is in the mind not the pocket.
He's just visited kibutz settlements, how can he be anti-jews? https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/elon-musk-begins-wartime-visit-israel-aviation-tracker-says-2023-11-27/ Lmao, why he's so transparent.
I wish I could say this is Twitter's death kneel but we all know they'll be back together soon enough. Like an abusive relationship
Abusive? More like a drug dealer and a junkie.
Keep digging that hole for yourself, arsehole
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk addressed an antisemitism controversy in characteristically unwise fashion during a public interview today, telling businesses to "go fuck yourself" and to stop advertising on the social network formerly named Twitter.
Musk spoke on stage at The New York Times' DealBook Summit in an interview conducted by journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin.
"I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what I meant," Musk reportedly said.
"But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic.
On November 15, Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth" to an X post that said Jewish communities are "pushing hatred against whites."
A White House spokesperson condemned Musk's post as "abhorrent promotion of antisemitic and racist hate."
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Yeah, I doubt all those investors that paid he/him love to lose their money.
that paid he
Someone needs a nap. Tantrum much?
I'm all for people taking that stance towards advertiser but
He should release the code and increase security and privacy within the app if he doesnt have advertisers. We dont want ads anyway.
I wonder if the news on X (and other media) regarding Kissinger will drown this out?
Mental illness is a thing
Well he admitted to making a mistake with his previous comment. He's also since then been to Israel and supports their righteous cause.
Let's see what happens. I'm not his biggest fan but I respect that at least there is free speech on his platform, unlike Mastodon, Facebook etc
And even if twitter dies, so what? Elon is loaded. To him it's like a toy broke, but he has many more in the cupboard.
Free speech on Twitter you say?
https://www.thefire.org/news/twitter-no-free-speech-haven-under-elon-musk
at least there is free speech on his platform
As long as you don't insult him or say "cis" or pull advertising
Those allegations are overblown.
Bob Iger still has an account even if he doesn't advertise. He's not being censored. He's just being told "don't think you can bully me". Very reasonable in my opinion
Tell your revenue stream to go fuck themselves. It's a bold move Elon. Let's see if it pays off.
You’re acting like he wants Xitter to succeed. I suspect he wants it dead because he thinks it contributed to his child being trans. And also because some of his financiers don’t want an Arab Spring.
Edit: Either way he’s a piece of shit.
I used to agree with you, but now I really think he's just a narcissist who wants the attention. If Twitter wasn't profitable, the longer he owns it the more money he's going to lose on top of how much he over paid for it. If he really wanted Twitter gone, he could have bought it and just... shut it off.
Like every single techbro, he thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and demands the masses worship him for that. He just was lucky enough to have money to buy an entire platform to stroke his ego.
If he didn't want it to succeed, he wouldn't have rebranded it the same exact way he tried to rebrand PayPal. He wants this X everything app to be a thing.
There would be much less compromising ways for him to destroy Twitter if that was what he really wanted. He could have left his puppet CEO to do all the ridiculous shit and sit on his real life Iron Man throne only to eventually say "Welp, we tried. Clearly this site was doomed from the start." and shut it down. Which people would have believed before he revealed what a clown he is.
No, no, no, it's not Elon who's out of touch. It's the advertisers who are wrong! Just wait until all of Earth, apparently, hears of how these big mean advertisers killed the wondrous and righteous place named X. There will be outrage!.... so thinks Elon anyway. What a deluded moron.