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"What this advertising boycott is going to do is it's going to kill the company," he said.
Nobody owes you anything, you idiot. Businesses have the right to decide not to advertise with you, people have the right not to go to your platform, groups have the right not to host their content there. Your business was a convenient and vaguely congenial place for everyone to meet, but that's not true anymore.
They only want a market that's free for them.
"My free speech! Wait, free speech is when everybody is forced to listen to me, then forced to agree with me enthusiastically and then forced to give me money for what I said, right?
Right?"
Also yes it’s going to kill the company. Boycotts against company owners aren’t meant to be “please sir stop being a piece of shit” they’re meant to hurt. They’re meant to send a clear and painful message, and ideally create room for a less piece of shit alternative to succeed
"The whole world will know those advertisers killed the company, and we will document it in great detail," he added.
Absolute spoiled bratt, nothing is his fault.
At this point there is zero doubt left that Musk is an idiot.
All he did was being born rich and being lucky with his investments so far.
Yeah he’s sorry for the tweet…now. Not when he posted it, not when people complained but now - when the consequences hit and it cost him money.
And not even then. When it became so much money it might sink his ship. When he thought he could weather it until it passed he tried lashing out without apologizing.
And also yeah he’s apologizing about the antisemitism and racism. But he’s not apologizing about the other bigotry. Only the bigotry that was able to gather enough backlash to actually hurt him
What a spoiled brat
You know, at this point, any sensible company will take a single look at Musk's tantrums and decide that advertising on Twitter is a massive legal liability they cannot afford. Not only is their public image in danger because the content is so badly moderated and offensive content is allowed, but Musk threatens to sue them if they even consider terminating their existing campaigns. Heck, this is to say nothing about the impersonators. The only way for brands to stay safe is to get the hell out and just state that they have no official presence on Twitter. Staying on Twitter is just a disaster waiting to happen.
Elon seems more and more like an escaped mental patient....
I think the stress is really getting to him, I feel kinda bad for him actually....
Or, I would feel bad for him, if he wasn't a complete dickhead.
He's in the early stages of turning orange.
I’m not thinking mental patient but rather the panic attack of someone who set themselves on fire by trying to shoot a bottle rocket out of their ass while so drunk they’re barely standing. It’s the insanity of many bad decisions that he could have avoided coming together to create an emergency and him not being in a position to step back and rationally triage himself but rather going by gut instinct to try to fight the firefighters
Yeah, I can see that, I wonder what will happen when he crashes and burns, when the Elon bubble pops, as from what I can tell it is just a matter of time...
He’ll still be a billionaire thanks to his other companies which are harder for him to rapidly kill. I see him having either the Lindbergh experience or the notch experience. Notch is still around, rich as fuck, massively bigoted, and extremely unpopular not just with society as a whole, but like in a doesn’t have friends way. But Lindbergh, he was a lot like musk until he ran for nazi president of America and was pretty popular until everyone who had supported him had to pretend they didn’t.
So yeah, either rich fascist who’s so lonely you’re actually kinda surprised he hasn’t died by his own hand, or rich fascist who’s trying to wade into some form of political power (musk being naturalized means he can’t be president thank fuck). Though there’s also the Thiel/Rowling route of rich fascist who is widely disliked but throws money at politicians promising to hurt people he doesn’t like and gets his way more than people would like.
Cry, bitch!
You are in luck: Space Karen loves to cry
I can't imagine being a multi billionaire and being such a miserable attention whore
Perfectly normal behavior.
One day, Elon will no longer exist. That will be a good day for humanity. But sadly he's just a symptom of the billionaires-exist problem. If a matter-energy conversion device ever gets invented and hopefully democratized, money will become meaningless -- and it will drown people like him in their own narcissism.
