Elon Musk on X antisemitism controversy: “Don’t advertise. Go f*** yourself”
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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.
How about buying a social media platform and making sure everybody sees whatever you say?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/15/elon-musk-changes-twitter-algorithm-super-bowl-slump-report
No
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.
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.
I'm not about to condone suicide.
But the world can do with less billionaires, especially those as mad as Elmo.
He was already destituted as CEO years ago.
I need this video
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https://twitter.com/jd_durkin/status/1729991850079990080/video/1
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First of all thanks for sharing
Second of all, lmao what a retard
No idea how anyone could drive one of those Tesla deathtraps with this guy at the helm
He's clearly lost what little he had
Isn't he talking to Sorkin, tells him to fuck off and then he talks to Bob?
I don't think the fuck off was directed at Sorkin, but the companies who had pulled advertising.
Did you watch the clip?
Not what I would be looking for in a CEO.
What a ceo does or doesn't do is immaterial
If someone is so unhinged that he repedatly can't control his language and emotions, it is a valid reason to suspect that these Person might have serious psychological Problems. So this Person might not be suitable to perform his dutys as CEO of a Company. And he also shouldn't because the Stress and Pressure that comes with this Postion might add to his Problem.
I just checked your Account. Created 5 Days ago. Only one Post with Bad ratio, lots of negative Comments. So I guess you are just a Troll and not worth of my Time.
Is english your first language? Because "Unhinged" is a pretty common Word even for me, with english as a second Language. Here is a Link to a Dictonary that might help you.
He's a CEO. His job is to guide his company to make money. His actions are actively doing the opposite: he is causing his company to lose money.
While this happens from time to time, a smart, presumably stable CEO reverses course and engages in damage control when this happens. Instead, Musk is doubling down hard, despite knowing full well this is likely to destroy the platform formerly known as Twitter.
Look at it this way. You have an investment banker than handles investing a great deal of your money. You just found out said banker just made a series of awful decisions which caused the investments of several of their other clients to crash. They are unrepentant and refuse to take responsibility, instead telling those involved to go fuck themselves.
Would you want that person to continue to handle your money?
https://menafn.com/1107514727/Teslas-Musk-Says-Fallout-From-Sweden-Strike-Insane
Well, good decisions aren't his forte, so what else is left there?
We've got another fan boy here who doesn't realize Musk actually isn't directly responsible for any of the innovations of the companies he funded or purchased. He just had money.
A bit of clear eyed professionalism would be a good start.
What he has achieved in the past is in the past.
Tesla is a major public traded company.
Business is business.
Your charismatic public facing CEO has turned from an asset to a liability?
Punt him.
Tesla is facing some headwinds, increasing competition in the EV space, reported troubles with some of its upcoming products, industrial disputes. Nothing that can’t be dealt with … If your CEO is not shitting the bed in public in another company and quite clearly under a lot of stress.
How can he be providing the attention and care Tesla needs from its CEO and for that matter Space X etc etc
More importantly how are the public, shareholders, customers viewing this? Do they think there is a loose unit in charge behaving irrationally and will that affect the confidence in the company?
Because they see what he is doing at Twitter? Like, what the hell dude, that question has such an obvious answer, yet you ask it anyway. And I know why you do it - because now you will try to argue that what happens with Twitter and his public image doesn't matter to Tesla which is a load of bull
His behaviour is pretty self explanatory.
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.
Aren't loans collateralized with Tesla shares? Maybe he is implying that if Twitter goes poof, it could really hurt or possibly destroy Tesla
If I remember correctly, only a third of the whole payment was financed with Tesla shares as collateral.
Now that, that sounds like blackmail.
Yeah, fuck divorced people!
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.
What does he mean with his Earth comments? I’m so confused.
He means the planet is on his side. Because his ego is that size.
That’s crazy. This is why they tell you not to do drugs.
Not to do ketamine anyway, which apparently is his drug of choice.
He should have stuck to weed I guess.
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.
I'm getting strong Kanye vibes from Elon these days.
Kanye's straight up bipolar, maybe even schizoaffective. Musk still just looks like a narcissistic asshole, and the grandiosity about "Earth" caring about Twitter is par for the course
I'm sure the ketamine also doesn't help, in Elon's case.
As someone who takes prescribed ketamine on the regular, it blows my mind that he can still hold the shit opinions he has. I only ever feel more connected to everyone and more present with the small joys around me.
I'm guessing he takes it in vastly more quantities than you and also that it would affect someone who is already an asshole narcissist a different way than it would someone like yourself.
with his money, k is prolly the weakest chem hes on
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.
Surprise!
A recent comment of mine:
Kanye West is usually manic when he acts this way. I guess this supports Musk's suspicion.
Maybe the events are what follow the highs and lows.
Quick, someone introduce Musk to Jonah Hill!
Gotta respect that double spacing. 👍
I don't get it, what double spacing?
The double spaces between sentences. Tbh, it is kinda nice for readability.
If you were taught on a typewriter, you double space for life. It's impossible to stop once ingrained.
I was taught by people who were taught on typewriters, and it's still ingrained.
OK that doesn't show here (Firefox on Linux), I actually copied the text into an editor, and searched for double spaces, and none were found.
Tried another Browser Falkon which uses QtWebEngine, and there are no doublespaces there either.
So apparently some browsers render Lemmy posts differently.
Browsers collapse whitespace unless told not to by the webpage CSS. I'm not using a browser though, I'm using Boost for Lemmy.
Ah that explains it. 👍
"Boost for Lemmy" I learned a thing existed today, that I was unaware of yesterday. Thank you for that!
I am happy to have accidentally helped someone. 😁 Take care!
I really wish it would come back in style. I hate the single space after a full stop, it feels inadequate.
Huh, I thought Markdown basically just ignored all extra whitespace
HTML in browsers ignores the whitespace, I think, not markdown specifically.
Plus, Markdown is more like guidelines than a standard.
This is the thing, yes. I'm using an app to browse Lemmy.
Definitely not 😁 But that's cool, you stand out from the crowd. For us who use an app to browse Lemmy, at least.
Lol
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.
He was backed by the Saudis. This money is nothing to them. They win if Twitter profits, they win if Twitter burns. I don't thing they care.
Once you're that rich, the currency is favours and influence, not just money. He got in out of his depth, then got helped out by some big backers. What they offered him, in the backroom deal, I've no clue.
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.
Even if he loses al his companies he still has money to live on that yacht for the rest of his life,(doubt it as USA is practically funding him), he is a narcissist he wants the attention, he wants people talking about him.
But any guess is as good as mine, maybe he is the Manchurian candidate maybe not.
I think he's just proof that money doesn't make people immune to internet brain rot.
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.
Reddit just like Lemmy it's not an accurate representation of reality, yes you are all tech experts, you use Linux and Lemmy, opensource software and hate the system, the average citizen uses windows, spends his time on TikTok, meta or whatever, they will use whatever is convenient for them.
People try hard enough all the time, just not in your virtual bubble.
There's no way he would've willingly taken a hit to his reputation like this
Kompromat?
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.
For once I hope you're not wrong, Musk!
"It's not me being an antisemitic transphobic bigot that's killing Twitter; it's all the companies who don't want their brands next to my antisemitic transphobic comments!"
That's not what he was agreeing to, he agreed with a conspiracy theory that claims that Jewish people are actively encouraging the "Great Replacement Theory". So it's two conspiracy theories stacked on top of one another.
Oh shit, is that how capitalism works? I never thought the money leopards would eat my face!
Smartest thing he's ever said.
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.
Well he’s rich, so he’s a genius. And we should worship him.
/s
This is why I'm fine with all the news stories about him. He's actively debunking this every single time.
Yeah I don't think American society was quite ready to handle a publicly moronic billionaire.
Trump never got the popular vote.
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.
I don't even think it was that, from what I understand he claimed that he was buying Twitter out of a desperate bid for attention. And then he was too fucking stupid you understand how Finance law works, and that you can't just back out of a billion dollar deal last second with no warning or without probable cause.
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 doesn't pay income tax now. He has no taxable income. The guy isn't drawing a salary, his money comes from capital gains and he's taxed on that.
Yes, that’s correct but a year or two back he did liquidate some of that money and to pay taxes. I thing he’s the record holder for having to pay the must taxes at once by a single individual.
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
I would be willing to forgive a lot if he could give us all cat girls. Not all, but a lot.
If you turn to me into a cat girl, it would redeem his spot in the history books in my eyes, and I would start liking him for the first time. Because I am proud to say that I never believed the pipe about this guy being the real life Tony stark.
This guy isn't even good enough to be the real life Norman Osborne as Iron Patriot.
No, his more of a Steve Jobs, in that he knows how to get the right people in a room and get investors to invest in his companies.
We can't rule out the Mars thing. I'm still looking forward to it.
Although I imagine if SpaceX does get to Mars, it'll be in spite of Elon, not because of him
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?
Dave got rich and kinda lost his grip with reality
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.
Money.
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.
Uhh, I think it was less about culture wars and more about the Saudis getting info on Arab Spring activists considering they bankrolled it.
That's a losing game for them. Whackamole at best. For every social media platform that dies, several more seek to replace it.
Sure and each less relevant then the one before.
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.
Considering how the company is leaded with debt, I wouldn't be surprised if a single € would be overpaying currently.
Sadly, that will probably work. Just like it did the last couple of times. Or just wait a month.
It will bring them back for a while, but as that happens their earnings diminish and the company debt increases.
Chesterton's Fence
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.
I actually really feel bad for Grimes now. If this is at all indicative of how he acts in personal relationships, he had to have been emotionally abusing and gaslighting her.
She chose to stay and have more than one child with him. I don't feel sorry for her. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice though?
That's true of plenty of abused women.
And a lot of them can't be saved unless they're willing to admit there is a problem and seek help. This is a woman who has a lot of resources at her disposal that a whole lot of domestic abuse victims regardless of gender do not have.
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.
AKA
The flailing infantile tantruming of someone who is not used to facing repercussions for their actions.
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.
h eliterally said he had a graveyard full of his enemies.
I dont think you are being too dark in thinking hes threatening people for not obeying his brilliant magnificence.
Yea. It's a very detached and odd statement he said, but I'm still wondering why not many are drawing the line to that. For the record I doubt he can do much damage to these corporations himself.
"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?
'running the X into the ground' actually has a term, it's called elonning.
Yes.. I just realised that X has two meanings now. Wait.. 3.
It applies to all his companies, not just X.
He's elonning Tesla right now too.
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.
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.
Was this written by an AI?
It sure reads that way. Absolutely bizarre writing style
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."
This is spot on accurate, Donald Trump is a Salesman who sells the character of trump. He knows that No Nonsense billionaires with a genius intellect who are well first in the art of the deal do not exist, but he will sell you the fantasy.
I daresay that Kevin O'Leary on Shark Tank makes a good case for one existing.
Funny enough O'Leary will also tell you he has lost money and that its a gambling game of trying to be smart and cautious which is what makes hime unpopular because he is too honest that you can lose.
I agree. It's part of being no nonsense.
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.
schadenfreude.googled it. Adding it to my lexicon. Gonna be a challenge to learn it by a few days of overuse but I’ll manage.
To me it's such a cool word, because I live in Denmark, and the German word adopted among English speaker is near identical to the Danish equivalent "skadefryd".
Maybe not obvious from the spelling for someone not familiar with both German and Danish.
It's funny when words spread between languages. Not just new words, but old words that describe concepts.
Schadenfreude is a very nice to have in your vocabulary, but if you want something even better, you should absolutely have "hygge" too, that's an even better word, and that's 100% danish. 😀
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygge
The article says it's also Norwegian, which is true, but we were originally 1 nation, and I'm probably a little bit biased in that regard.
A fantastic word to sprinkle in whenever discussing world events or politics.
This is musk, not trump
The link I provided quotes him for saying:
“I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth.”
So this is both of them, and frankly there is very little difference between them. Musk just used to manage a better front, but he has thrown the mask.
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
clip
The interviewer tried really hard (and failed) to hide his incredulity.
He's got some real tweaky vibes going on in that clip.
Isn't it pretty much an open secret that he heavily abuses drugs
He uses drugs for sure. Wouldn't supprise me that he's on methamphetamine by how much he supposedly works.
Ketamine.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/elon-musk-ketamine
I picked up on that too but I thought it might just have been him trying to control his impulsive stupidity.
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."
Aww, he's pouting.
Smart fella that musk... Wait I meant fart smeller
This joke literally predates baby boomers
Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!
This barrier of capitalism loving fascists finding that capitalism works best with maximum participation therefore maximum diversity is infinitely entertaining to me.
I mean, if the idiots could learn from history they would have found this out from the end of segregation, but they're "conservatives," so
He's from South Africa. Racism is a socially accepted part of his childhood culture in a way that is unlike most other modern countries.
The US is one of those countries though.
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?
He did have known links to Epstein. And his accusations against the cave rescuer really came across like some intense projection.
Seriously. There was zero other reason for Elon to call that guy a pedo.
And don't forget his creepy twitter account where he roleplays as his son, who is a toddler 👀
Is he doing specific creepy things on that, or do you just find the idea of doing that in general creepy?
Because personally, while I find it a little odd, I wouldn't call it creepy. I know people who do that for their pets, for example.
The account didnt make a lot of public posts, but the ones it did were worrisome to say the least. Before he deleted it there were definitely some questionable things the child account was responding to, like a comment about someones vaginal grip. To me this is a whole different disturbing direction than some parent making a cutesy fake account for their kid or pet. I've followed accounts like that and this was not one of those.
https://wegotthiscovered.com/celebrities/elon-musk-accidentally-reveals-his-creepy-alternative-twitter-account-where-he-replies-to-his-real-tweets-and-trashes-his-ex-girlfriend/
Many people are saying it.
That means it MUST be true!
Has anyone ever noticed how much he looks like a PS1 character.
It’s like the corners of his lips have been stuck to his chin.
oh my god you are spot on. I couldn’t figure out what it was before but now I cannot unsee it. That’s both hilarious and horrifying.
Helps explain the Cybertruck styling. Had to limit polygon count due to system limitations.
And people aren't using Mastodon because?
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
It’s the Space Karen way of saying it.
Wait till SpaceX IPO tanks next month. "Don't buy the stock. Go f*** yourself".
Earth’s response, “yeah man, it was DEFINITELY your fault!!”
"To be fair, I've always wanted to tell this to advertisers too"
You hear that? He's sorry.
Sorry that he's facing consequences for his actions.
Shooting yourself in the foot seems to hurt
He is waiting for trump to save Xitter, but trump is taking his time
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
Is Musk on drugs or something? Genuinely seems to be losing his mind
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.
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?
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.
I love it when corporations get told to go fuck themselves, I just wish it was by someone I actually respected.
It just doesn't feel the same when it's the richest man in the world that's saying it.
Wait, did he really overtake Arnault again? I see contradicting sources.
Honestly I do not know. Not that it matters too much, he's too rich for the statement to be meaningful.
Oh I’m sure it matters to him. That’s why I was delighted when he fell from top spot, to a non-celebrity billionaire, nonetheless.
Yes, I mean that it doesn't matter to me. He's probably very annoyed.
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
Yeah, I doubt all those investors that paid he/him love to lose their money.
that paid he
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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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
Yes. I've never had a post removed on twitter in all the many years I've used it. I make a few posts on Mastodon and they take them down
Plus on twitter I see all sorts of differing opinions and no one is silencing them. Each one has a voice
Try insulting muskrat on Twitter directly. You'll quickly find out exactly how much "freeze peach" you have on his pro-hate platform.
I'd imagine you're pro right wing fascism which is why you get rightfully stomped on mastodon. Reasonable people there aren't going to tolerate your bullshit.
I didn't stomp on mastodon. I just put up some info about things happening on the ground in Israel, showing Hamas' terrible deeds and lies.
Mastodon seems to be filled with blue haired lefties who can't handle the truth.
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
Twitter was useful to a lot of people. More useful than Musk.
To be honest, 99% of the planet still use Twitter. I also use Mastodon but it's a drop in the ocean.
The only people who left twitter are a handful of offended "liberals". Everyone else stayed.
Let’s talk about the “liberals”, are they in the room with us right now?
They're all over this network....