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[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 291 points 1 year ago

Tell your revenue stream to go fuck themselves. It's a bold move Elon. Let's see if it pays off.

[-] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 262 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 186 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] m13@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 186 points 1 year ago

"And let's see how Earth responds to that," Musk replied.

I'm getting strong Kanye vibes from Elon these days.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure the ketamine also doesn't help, in Elon's case.

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[-] RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

I was just thinking the exact same thing the other day. Dude needs to take his meds.

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[-] argon@infosec.pub 153 points 1 year ago

He is taking zero responsibility. I wonder if he is even capable of understanding that this is all the direct consequences of his actions. Or maybe he is just deflecting. But this is all happening because of you, dumbfuck. You did this. Ten years ago he was getting Iron Man cameos and Star Trek writers thought he some kind of religious figure. Then he went down some right wing freakout wormhole and he drank that kool aid down to the last drop. You did this. No one owes you their advertising dollars. You bought a company that had reach and influence and a huge ass userbase and you fucked it all up. Enjoy your edgy memes and your ruined company.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Gotta respect that double spacing. 👍

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[-] Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 points 1 year ago

Musk says X advertiser backlash is "going to kill the company."

For once I hope you're not wrong, Musk!

[-] billiam0202@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

"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!"

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 104 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] MuuuaadDib@lemm.ee 102 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

Dave got rich and kinda lost his grip with reality

[-] xenoclast@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There is probably some secret rich person drug that they're all doing that makes them this way. We'll find out about it in a few decades.

Like lead in gasoline

[-] oatscoop@midwest.social 37 points 1 year ago

It's a lack of negative reinforcement. Normal people face negative reinforcement every single day: if you screw up you lose something. Relationships, jobs, money, etc.

After a certain amount of wealth the negative reinforcement starts to disappear. You don't need to give a shit about what "little people" think when you can always find an audience that agrees with you. When people will put up with your shit because you're the one footing the bill. When expensive mistakes are pennies to you.

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[-] arc@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bigbrain businessman buys stable business that wasn't profitable, promises to make it profitable. Proceeds to destroy company's main/only[?] line of business by using it to air fascism and bigotry, complains about being "blackmailed" by business partners as they leave after he personally made said line of business literally untenable.

Is he trying to be funny right now or something?

[-] twisted28@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

IMHO Musk and the 1% saw the collective power Twitter gave to the working class. It was able to usher in the #Metoo movement and finally bring justice to powerful people. The rich aren’t gonna leave a tool like that intact

[-] guitarsarereal@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You do realize that's a marketing line about Twitter, right? It's a private, for-profit corporation whose entire purpose is to inspire users to give away data about themselves for free. They don't care what you think, they care how to manipulate you into buying things from them. Go ahead, buy your justice deodorant to wear to the protest. They're very scared. After all, the government didn't learn anything about counterinsurgency since the 1960's, so it's not like they know how to use all this data and surveillance to keep an eye on us.

Trump was one of Twitter's biggest users and they didn't boot him until he tried to start a fascist insurrection and, again, made it impossible not to boot him. They're an advertising platform first and foremost, they pandered to the far right as much as to anyone else, and the right got plenty of use out of that platform even before Musk took it over.

The only way you could think otherwise was not actually having used Twitter since like, 2011.

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[-] darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"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.

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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago
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[-] squiblet@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago

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?

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[-] Zak@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Usually people with fuck-you money don't literally, publicly say "fuck you" to their revenue streams. Usually.

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[-] Blamemeta@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago

I wonder if hes going through a mental breakdown. Im all for him going down, but the way hes talking is weird.

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

He's so much like Trump. Except maybe even more childish somehow.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

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."

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[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 50 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Musk has gone funny in the head. Does he not know the concept of brand-safe content?

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People actually wrote books about how much of a genius this guy is

[-] spudwart@spudwart.com 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

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[-] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

clip

The interviewer tried really hard (and failed) to hide his incredulity.

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[-] Synthead@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

X, formally known as dead bird

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[-] Rakonat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Nepo baby held accountable for his actions, thinks it's unfair he's responsible for them.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

I say "Go f..k yourself if you are still advertizing with this guy."

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 34 points 1 year ago

Aww, he's pouting.

[-] Embarrassingskidmark@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago

Smart fella that musk... Wait I meant fart smeller

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[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

This barrier of capitalism loving fascists finding that capitalism works best with maximum participation therefore maximum diversity is infinitely entertaining to me.

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[-] 8000mark@discuss.tchncs.de 32 points 1 year ago

Well well well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions!

[-] otp@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

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?

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