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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 134 points 7 months ago

Person hired as meat puppet mouth piece for owner continues to defend owner.

Details at 11.

[-] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 62 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

For $6 Million a year, fuck yeah I'd consider it myself. You don't even look bad if you fuck it up because the world's richest fuckwit outshines every possible fuck up every step of the way.

[-] Colorcodedresistor@lemm.ee 19 points 7 months ago

i would gladly get paid 6 million to defend...Almost anyone.

[[if the glove does not fit, you must aquit intensifies]]

Me : shakes 6 mils in front of Lemmy

Lemmy:

[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

Yo, yo, that silly mustachioed motherfucker wasn't the only one! That motherfucker got elected!

So, really, it wasn't Hitler that is to blame, it's the people that elected him.

(Now, I'm writing that in response to the chain of ideas where if there's enough money involved, people would defend anyone. I would think that I'm writing this as a form of continuing the push the absurdity to the next level rather than making a serious defense would be obvious. But people are fucking idiots, so someone would take it seriously. If you were that person until you read this, fuck you lol. )

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[-] Zellith@kbin.social 117 points 7 months ago

Yaccarino said she is "immensely proud to lead this company," and told employees they should feel the same. "You're at X because you have the courage and conviction to build and operationalize the most consequential platform that exists. That's quite an enviable position to be in," Yaccarino wrote.

Meanwhile in March...

Elon Musk fires senior Twitter employee who slept in office to meet deadlines

It's almost as if they will say anything.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 74 points 7 months ago

Let’s be real, you’re at X because you’re on a visa and can’t leave without being kicked out of the country.

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[-] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 17 points 7 months ago

Yep, it's like it's her generously compensating job compels her or something.

Who'd have thunk it?

(For real though, what did people expect her to say?)

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[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 100 points 7 months ago

She's a pathetic weasel who gets paid handsomely to talk absolute horseshit and shill for her boss.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 30 points 7 months ago
[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 22 points 7 months ago

Same. It wouldn't make us good people worthy of respect and admiration, but it would make us rich.

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[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago

Don’t pretend you wouldn’t for that paycheque

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[-] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

NOBODY has done more damage to free speech rights than the fucking fascist free speech grifters like Musk, Jones, Shapiro, Peterson, and every other loud outhed pussy-assed radical fascist shitbag. Free speech was a regular, normal thing in the US until they showed up around 1992. Thanks to those assholes I am now ALL FOR regulated speech whether by legal means or baseball bat. Their entire motivation is to complain about free speech, gain power with this basic ideal, and then remove ALL rights from others, including and especially gun rights and free speech.

Take them out first

[-] Tattorack@lemmy.world 66 points 7 months ago

You Americans can do with a little less gun rights. Might actually be healthy.

Oh, that is after getting universal healthcare and better public transport first.

Maybe then America might become an actual developed country.

[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

At least I died free

---a shockingly large number of American schoolchildren

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[-] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Musk couldn't care less about free speech. He has implemented a policy that bans you for using the word "cisgender" while he responds to nazi propaganda with personal admiration.

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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 7 months ago

Imagine if your job was to defend this over-privileged man-child.

These sycophants never get the reward they dream of either. They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

[-] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 7 months ago

They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

... with a bonus of a few billion.

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[-] WheatleyInc@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago

Advertisers, please do this to YouTube too. I need the dislike count back.

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[-] mhague@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

By the way, where's the clarification that Musk said he should've posted? He endorsed a white supremicist conspiracy (on accident, surely!). Called it foolish -- no, not because he endorsed Nazis, but because now his haters have more ammo. (???) Half a month has passed. It's petty, because I wouldn't believe his story even if it were airtight, but he could at least try.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Musk spoke about two weeks after he posted a favorable response to an antisemitic tweet, causing an advertiser backlash that added to X's already significant financial struggles.

"Our mission at X is bold: to be an open platform without censorship of thought—one that provides people information and the freedom to make up their own minds," she wrote.

"X sits in a one-of-a-kind constellation of companies that are changing the world—from helping to conserve the planet through Tesla's electric vehicles, to exploring new planets with SpaceX, to the seamless global connectivity of Starlink, to the potential of transforming lives with Neuralink, to responsibly reimagining the benefits of AGI through xAI."

Yaccarino also defended Musk publicly in a post on twitter.com, writing that the X owner "offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position.

On November 15, Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth" to an X post that said Jewish communities are "pushing hatred against whites."

At the DealBook interview, he called the post "foolish" and said, "I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what I meant."


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