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Elon Musk pushed back on advertisers boycotting X over antisemitism and other hate speech on the platform formerly known as Twitter during the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York on Wednesday.
What he’s saying: “If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f**k yourself.” Musk said. “Don’t advertise.”
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That’ll get em back.
He knows they will be back. They’re only pausing buys.
Big companies all claimed they wouldn’t donate to J6 insurrectionists… that lasted about three months before the bribes started again.
LMAO! Not buying your shitty product isn’t blackmail, drama queen.
Or am I blackmailing McDonald’s by not eating their burgers?
I’m blackmailing the meat industry
I’ll blackmail ur meat industry bb
And I’m boycotting the tofu industry. Together we can end all foods!
fistbump
I actually also rarely eat tofu (mom was a health nut who couldn’t cook well and my wife has a low grade soy intolerance). It’s all beans. Mostly black beans because they’re wonderful. Also lentils, miracle food those lentils are.
I have been boycotting Rolls Royce and Lear Jets for years and I thought I was just poor.
Just as with Donald Trump or America’s other high profile narcissistic capitalists, Musk’s shadow over society is entirely driven by the attention he is given. They DO NOT CARE what kind of attention it is. Clearly.
Stop following Xitter links. Stop regurgitating his idiotic vitriol of the day. Stop giving him oxygen.
Report on what his companies do or fail to do, report his business failures on objective terms. if you haven’t realized by now, the nonsense he says is nothing but self-hype or in this case shock/outrage bait.
That’s… kinda pathetic, actually. He’s acting like a literal child. “I didn’t want the cookie anyways!”
I would laugh at the absurdity if he wasn’t in charge of a major communications network.
It’s kind of inspiring, really. A guy with the mental age of myself when I was a teenage edge-overlord can “effectively” run a massive social media website. I really can do anything! I mean, I could if I had an emeralds mine from my papa, but still!
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Nah man, it’s someone else is fed a rotten hot dog, tells their friends, and their friends say, you know what, I don’t need a rotten hotdog in my life
Edit: and Elon is claiming he never served a rotten hot dog so it’s blackmail. But he did serve a rotten hotdog. A fetid, gross, rotten hotdog.
Musk acted stranger in that interview than even his default setting. It looks like he’s on something. If I were a shareholder in one of his companies I’d be wondering if he’s about to have to check into rehab and/or the funny farm.
Anyway regarding his comments, telling the companies that are the lifeblood of Twitter to go f themselves is very brave. In the British understated sense meaning of “very brave”, i.e. suicidally dumb.
It looks like he’s on something.
He’s been looking like that for a long while.
“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.
Ohhh, is he threatening twitter files 2.0? The nuffinburger that no effect on anything? I can just see it now: “Yeah, this guys a huge racist, let’s stop advertising. It’s hurting our business”. Good luck with that, dumbo. What are you going to document? The cancelled checks? This fucking idiot.
Seems like a typical narcissistic flex - I’m not at fault for doing the terrible thing, you’re at fault for not supporting me do the terrible thing and I shall have my revenge.
Looking for a scape goat.
Just follow his directions: don’t advertise.
Also don’t visit. Why would you?
“Those grapes look sour anyway.”
- Elon
So Musk is fine with the boycotting advertisers using their own free speech to boycott Twitter? Okay.
“What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail.”
The whole world has been watching Musk single-handedly tank the company since he acquired it.
Godspeed, boycotters. Godspeed.
“I have no problem being hated,” Musk said, emphasizing that the trip was planned before his controversial post on X.
Grimes still doesn’t want you back, dude.
“What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail.”
Spoken exactly like the person who doesn’t care if they’re hated or not. “I WILL DOCUMENT YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS IN GREAT DETAIL!!”
What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]
Sounds fucking good to me. Keep it up, non-advertisers.
I see he’s going for the diplomatic route
It would’ve shocked me if he had shown any amount of maturity or integrity. Fucking regressed edgy pre-teen.
Someone should run an ad for mastodon there.
Maybe not… If people still hang out there, we might not want them.
