X-formerly-Twitter is in deep trouble — and owner Elon Musk is on his knees, yet again, begging advertisers to return.
  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I believe the appropriate, corporate-friendly answer in this case is “go fuck yourself”

  • Nougat@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can’t even manage that.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Nope, he can’t manage that. Because he’s an attention-whoring malignant narcissist.

      I can’t wait for the bubble of mystique to pop on this arsehole, if only so we don’t have to ever hear from or about him again. Sadly, there are still plenty of rubes in his cult of personality and greedy investors willing to ride his coattails. So I’m not holding my breath.

    • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Doesn’t even have to collect money, he could just sell everything except SpaceX and still live a happy life and fly to Mars one day.

  • neidu2@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Didn’t he tell advertisers leaving to go fuck themselves? I don’t expect a very long queue of returning ones.

    • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Surely the appreciate the “authenticity” with which he told them to “go fuck yourselves” before flip-flopping and begging them to come back?

      • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        “I’d rather be told to ‘have a nice day’ by someone who doesn’t mean it than be told to ‘go fuck yourself’ by someone who does.”

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won’t someone give him some money?

        • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Google 'any name Nazi" and you’ll get results. The question was what are you referring to.

          Also, I can’t believe this community would down vote anyone for asking for sources, that’s disgusting. I’m disappointed Lemmy.

            • QuantumSoul@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              3 months ago

              The article is just a collection of hyperlinks. Useless article and I will not look through all of them, and I couldn’t even know they were talking about something from the article anyway

              • CileTheSane@lemmy.caEnglish
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                3 months ago

                So you were downvoted for not bothering to read or even skim the article to do a minimum amount of looking on your own to see what they were talking about.

          • QuantumSoul@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Exactly. Having sources is the minimal starting point to make an opinion. That’s not because this community is supposed safe that I could trust any user information

            • Cocodapuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              It’s hard to feel disappointed about something you don’t really care about. That is to say, the reason I feel disappointed is because I like this community and I want it to be a place for civil discourse. Conversely, I’ve given up on Reddit, so nothing that happens there can really disappoint me any more, I no longer care about it.

              I’m not going to make a fuss about something that doesn’t impact me, but I will make a fuss about something I believe in, like Lemmy.

  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

    He’s the closest person on earth to becoming Horatio from the Endless series, yet he’s also basically a badly written Bond villain.

    What a pos.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

      Jail would be too easy for him. I want him to be on “Would you like fries with that?” for a living. Forced to pander to the people he looked down on in order to put food on the table. Bonus if he also has to work three minimum-wage jobs he hates for a total of sixty hours or more a week.

      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 months ago

        This would happen in a just world.

        It won’t though.

        Reminds me of the recent millionaire guy who got lambasted on YT (i think his actual posts were on TikTok?).

        Guys, I am going to lock up my money, my phone have no contacts and go to a new city and start from nothing and earn a million dollars in 30 or 90 days or something.

        Whoah big surprise, a few weeks in he has to call the whole thing off for health reasons.

        OMG he got robbed? Lost his paper work and thus couldn’t get the right aid? The shelters are full? Sleeping outside in a city is extremely dangerous and unhealthy? Your hygiene suffers? No one talks to you or treats you like a human being?

        In a just world we’d put the income tax levels back to around FDR levels and thus be able to actually fund social programs and eliminate a great deal of the wealthy’s massive over representation in politics.

        Instead it looks like we will be making a b-line toward theocratic corporatocracy.

        Blargh.

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    “If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”

    • Elon, 2023
    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yes. Elon should approach his advertisers on bended knee – after changing Twitter back to Twitter, and creating a proper moderation system that filters out neonazis and Russian AI Trump-bots.

      Oh, George Washington rode the waves
      Abe Lincoln wore his hat with praise
      Thomas Jefferson, the sandy king, and
      Teddy Roosevelt, the beach-hiking thing
      Barrack Obama, surfing gracefully
      Historical presidents at the sea!
      – @hisvault.eth

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Musk sheepishly suggested that he didn’t mean “advertisers as a whole.”

      “Advertisers have a right to appear next to content that they find compatible with their brands,” he told ad giant WPP CEO Mark Read during an interview on Wednesday. “What is not cool is insisting that there can be no content that they disagree with on the platform.”

      How is that “not cool?” I don’t understand how he can possibly object to a company spending their advertising dollars wherever they damn well choose to. He repeatedly makes it clear that he feels entitled to their budgets. There is zero basis for that. I truly cannot fathom how he can be so dense about this.

      • Metacortechs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        He can object because he’s decided that’s what is right. Literally nothing else matters.

        The piece of shit that used to own my company is like this. His decision is correct and gospel, and if you don’t agree or if it’s provably false you are wrong. And it’s your fault you are wrong, because he has decided it to be correct.

        • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Right but the bubble of rightness you speak of is usually only assumed to include the company staff. Really powerful CEOs have their board inside the bubble too, or even public investors. But Elon thinks the customers work for him too. That’s really beyond the pale.

      • Kowowow@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Someone needs to make a drawing of it because when he originally said it he opened his mouth wide and through his head back like was a literal puppet

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        What’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word, because the amount of pearl clutching is just too insane in America?

        Ah yes that’s the amazing freedom of speech Americans are so proud of, except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.

        My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            I think it’s hilarious that there are swear budgets for various ratings. I’m pretty sure adults can tell whether a movie is intended for kids or not, and they’re the most sensitive to foul language.

            I personally choose to not swear, but I watch and listen to plenty of content with vulgar language of all varieties, it really doesn’t bother me, so I don’t see why it’s so taboo in movie ratings…

        • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          “For the children “ …. Like none of them have ever heard bad words…. They must be protected at all cost.

          Like a person who likes to grab them by the pussy…

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Yes and they may actually reelect that criminal traitor malignant narcissist SOB! .
            That’s the the country that refuses to regulate guns despite massive amounts of school shootings, but won’t allow words to be written or said because that is apparently more harmful than bullets!!!

            It’s absolute insanity.

            • irreticent@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              I’m not the one who told corrected you earlier, but ket me reiterate…

              You are incorrect in your assumption that our “country,” government, etc. censors our speech. Some people choose to self-censor and the government has nothing to do with that.

              Also, you seem confused about what free speech (see: first amendment) actually means. This XKCD might help explain it to you.

              • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 months ago

                The government does actually censor broadcast television and radio. I can’t remember why they’re allowed to.

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          There’s no regulation, we can and do say fuck without any problem. Some people prefer not to swear either for personal, social, or religious reasons. They chose to self censor not because they had to but because they wanted to. You’re reading an awful fucking lot into a random ass image some anonymous user posted in a comment.

          • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Or if you’re someone who uses speech to text on your phone. Nearly every system that I’ve ever used asterisks out everything after the first letter. It can be a lot of extra effort to go back and fill the fucks in. But if there’s one fucking thing worth doing fucking right. Fucking filling out those fat fucking fucks is fucking it. It’s one of the most fucking versatile words on the planet. It can be a fucking adjective, one of the most versatile verbs no matter what fucked up tense you choose, and even a motherfucking noun.

            • Sidyctism2@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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              3 months ago

              Sorry your phone/ textingapp does what? What app/ phone do you use? Ive never encountered or even heard about that

              • mzesumzira@leminal.spaceEnglish
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                3 months ago

                They’re not talking about texting apps, it’s keyboards and speech to text engines that often have a profanity filter, which usually is on by default.

                I disable it on everything every time I change phones or format, but not everybody tinkers with settings.

                You probably default to a keyboard without profanity filter.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            we can and do say fuck without any problem.

            Not on public TV you can’t. Beep beep beep Fucking idiots.

            • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              You can, most networks just decide not to. Broadcast TV (which hasn’t really existed for I think more than a decade now) had restrictions about swearing (and other content) enforced by the FCC as it used a public good (RF bands). Cable TV (and now streaming services) are and pretty much have always been unregulated.

              TV Networks, being companies trying to make money, opt to self censor so as to appeal to the largest number of viewers, but that isn’t anything to do with the government, it’s 100% a business decision.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Can confirm, am American and try to avoid swearing, not because there are penalties (friends, coworkers, etc swear all the time), but because I don’t like swearing. I find it makes me an angrier person, so I just don’t do it.

            If you want to swear, go for it, it really won’t offend me. But I won’t swear in return. Different strokes for different folks.

            • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              There’s so goddamn much to swear about in these fucking times we live in that I really respect anyone who can still hold their shit together enough not to.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!

          Dude, some person made that meme, and that person chose to use asterisks. It’s no more complicated than that.

          What’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word

          Apparently our ability to figure out a word from context is pretty much higher than yours though.

        • razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          What are you talking about? There is no law or regulation requiring that text to be censored. They did it because they wanted to.

        • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          You think that’s bad, get this. In most US states (47), public school students are required by law to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States once per school day, though…for most of those states…students may opt themselves out.

          However, in four states (Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Utah), students may not opt themselves out. The school must receive a written statement from a parent or guardian in order to be exempt.

          I have taught in Texas public schools since 2005, and I brought this up with an attorney for the teacher organization I joined (not a union as Texas bans collective bargaining for state employees, so our dues are really not much more than lawsuit insurance). He told me that, in the eyes of the state courts, children under the age of eighteen not being yet adults do not enjoy the same right to freedom of speech that adults do. Hence, in the eyes of the courts, a school district would be within their rights to fire a teacher who does not do their part to ensure all students under their purview recite the Pledge during the time it is spoken over the school’s PA system (and the Pledge to the Texas state flag, also mandatory), 1st Amendment be damned.

          Thankfully, I got a gig teaching in Oregon next year, so I am heading northwest (through the also miserable states of Utah and Idaho unfortunately) and never looking back.

            • radicalautonomy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              3 months ago

              You don’t want to play this game with me, son. Whatever you hurl at me about Oregon, I’ll lob back at you something twice as bad about Texas.

              I get that Oregon has its hard right people. Hell, most states do. But at least my trans kids gender identity is protected by state law, and my having a trans kid won’t result in me being on the governor’s fucking hit list.

          • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Ah Texas, where children can’t make decisions or be held accountable in any way, unless they’re brown skinned and can be accused of a crime, then they must he tried as adults and sentenced to life as an imprisoned slave.

        • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Welcome to the hypocritical world of Puritan culture.

          Some of the earliest British settlers in the US were so extremist that the Church of England kicked them out after they tried to assassinate the king and replace him with a puppet of their own to force their beliefs on the rest of the country.

          It was partly these crazies that started the whole sex and bodies=bad and shameful thing in the US that advertisers still believe in today. And swearing is yet another of those weird things. But sex sells, so it’s okay to imply it as long as it’s selling a product and no other time.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.

          What are we not allowed to say, exactly?

        • Censored@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Say stupid things, people treat you like you’re stupid, stupidly cry about how freedom of speech should prevent people from treating you like the idiot you are.

    • BedSharkPal@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Careful, you might convince Tesla shareholders to fork over a few more billion to keep the big brained genius motivated.

      • teletext@reddthat.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        “Give me 60 billions this year, or the Tesla stock will lose even of more of its price next year!” – Elon, probably.

      • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        If the market were rational that would have been the end of Tesla. It takes some extreme brainletry to turn a huge market advantage into actively losing ground to new entrants. And he is still at it. Being a dimwitted Nazi on Twitter is his top priority. Tesla sales will continue to spiral down the drain.

        (Yes, if the market were rational the end might have come sooner, but certainly giving billions to a brainlet actively sabotaging the company should end it.)

        • Censored@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Remember he is exceedingly wealthy, so he can buy Tesla stock through third parties to prop the price up without alarming investors. No, it’s not legal, but we all know the man doesn’t give a shit about the law.

    • NewNewAccount@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Wowow! That was so long ago! Literally dozens of weeks ago! I’m sure this full-blown narcissist has seen the error of his ways and changed his mind. Surely.

  • magnetosphere@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    “I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

    A basic statement of human fallibility is an absolute revelation to this guy. I can’t WAIT for him to just shut up and go away.

    • downpunxx@fedia.io
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      3 months ago

      bad news, the 45 billion Tesla investors just voted to give him, says that’s never ever never going to happen ever