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X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post (www.nytimes.com)

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IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

To be clear: Musk endorsed a tweet which used a false antisemitic conspiracy theory to tell people why "Hitler was right"

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[-] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago

She's getting a base pay of $6 million per year, plus the potential to double that in bonuses. She's 61 years old. I expect she'll go home rich and retire.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

or she's also a weird bigot

[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

In my opinion, when you prioritize money over values, it's just bigotry with more steps.

At least the end result is the same, even if the motivation is potentially different.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago

The two are not mutually exclusive. https://newrepublic.com/post/172699/linda-yaccarino-reported-twitter-ceo-right-wing-tendencies

[-] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah it's a "¿Porque no los dos?" situation.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah. The wealthy are just horrible people generally. I don't understand how people don't get it at this point. Thinking that there will be any moral consequences for their actions. Completely ignores their pattern of action. You don't get to be wealthy without being a shitty person generally. And if you are expecting shitty people to stop associating with shitty people. You are expecting disappointment. I think it's a fair bet that she won't retire. Probably move up to CEO of some other shell for another payout. I mean why wouldn't you when being CEO doesn't require actually running a company successfully.

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