That'll get em back.
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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
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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!
"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.
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.
Just follow his directions: don't advertise.
Also don't visit. Why would you?
So Musk is fine with the boycotting advertisers using their own free speech to boycott Twitter? Okay.
"Those grapes look sour anyway."
- Elon
"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
Someone should run an ad for mastodon there.
Maybe not.... If people still hang out there, we might not want them.
It would've shocked me if he had shown any amount of maturity or integrity. Fucking regressed edgy pre-teen.
It's like watching a dude punch himself in the dick, over and over. Eventually you stop laughing and watch in horrified fascination to see how much he can take before he keels over.
I'm rooting for him. I think he can take a lot more dick punches. Keep it up, Elon. You can win! Or whatever the fuck he's trying to do.
I’m not quite there yet, still amusing as hell.
That's basically where I am with Musk, honestly.
From the NYT reporting
Although Mr. Musk acknowledged that an extended boycott could bankrupt X, he suggested that the public would blame the brands rather than him for its collapse.
lol, yeah, sure.
The word he's looking for is "thank." As in I'd like to thank the brands not advertising on Twitter. Not just the ones that withdrew their current ad campaigns, but also and especially the brands that never advertised there. I'm glad he's documenting them because I can't be arsed to keep a list.
Musk reminds me of Charlie Sheen in the midst of his coke fueled Tiger Blood rants. He is unhinged, we are watching him meltdown in real time.
Imagine being the head of advertising at Twitter and hearing your boss say this.
Exactly, his “graveyards are full of my enemies” batshit rant reminded me exactly of “strafing runs in my underwear”. Dude’s fucking gakked to the gills or whatever’s stupider and worse than coke.
There's a reason for that.
Thanks for the link but what is with the decision to use a fine light gray fonts on a white background?
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Never thought I would see someone try pick up artists negging as a business strategy.
Oops I killed the nerve center of American journalism that constantly reported on my repeated business failure, legal and ethical malfeasance, sexual misadventures, and despicable origin.
Whoops.
Lazy journalism maybe. Ooh a tweet let me barf out three paragraphs about it all done journalism’s fun!
That’s how a genius does business, folks.
Why would they go fuck themselves when they could fuck with your ad revenue instead? 🤡
I'm convinced the reason Musk rebranded away from Twitter is so that they can sell off the brand name when the business inevitably folds.
Since many. many people still call it twitter, he is still killing the brand name. Google tried to rebrand as alphabet and FB as Meta but everyone still knows them as goofle and fb.
If/When the business folds I feel the office furniture will be worth more than the Twitter brand.
Goofle has really been going downhill lately
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How you gonna make money though Elon? Or is Twitter suddenly a non profit business.
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Of note: At one point, he also looked out at the audience and said "Hey Bob, if you're in the audience," presumably in reference to Disney CEO Bob Iger who spoke on stage earlier. "That's how I feel, don't advertise," he added.
FFS. Tesla, SpaceX - what are you doing? Eject this chud now.
Ahh, the negotiator
Showed them!
I actually believe him that he doesn't care about the money. He cares about his image and his ego when Twitter inevitably fails as a business.
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