You support his ideology if you remain on that platform.
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if you drink at the nazi bar, you might as well join their fuckwit club because you're normalizing their behavior and sponsoring their lifestyle.
... and a bunch of people continue to rub elbows with Nazis instead of deleting their accounts and moving to Mastodon. I wonder what the breaking point will be?
I'll admit I've not deleted my Twitter account.
Mostly because I've not logged in since 2013? I think I had a single tweet, and that was a reply to some event that I was personally involved in.
Compare that to Mastodon, and I actually have followed a few people and even got into a debate about different voting systems that drew in a third party who turned it into an argument.
So mostly a wash.
If you are still on Twitter, you are making a statement whether you like it or not.
When IBM, the guys that developed the computer system to schedule and track the holocaust itself, go "OY, cool your rhetoric Elon", you know you're well off the deep end.
I don’t think there will be much damage. It’s not as though this were some huge surprise. The only people left on X agree with him or don’t care enough to mildly adjust their habits. I saw that IBM “paused” their ads, but I’d bet a nickel they will resume them once this blows over. They know what Xitter is. All the corporations know and don’t care. This very article on the NYT website has a button to share it on Twitter.
IBM: Oh shit! Not making that mistake again.
EV competition can't come fast enough. I love my Model S, but when the lease is up I am not buying another Tesla unless the board removes him, like, completely removes him. No stock, no continued royalties or pay out, I want him gone.
What a piece of shit waste of a human.
The same board (largely) that had to settle a suit because they overpaid themselves by close to a billion? With his brother? They’re not gonna do shit, unfortunately
I would say eat the rich but I would hate for someone to get that sick.
Given how many discounts X is giving advertisers, holy shit this dude spent 2 dollars to make 1
IBM’s marketing team must be so glad to have gotten the opportunity for something good to show up when their company’s name and Nazi are searched together
At this point, is any racist shit from that dude even worth posting news about? Like i get that there should be consequences but i do not see any. All i see is info about a man i really do not want to read anything about. Daily. Not even only on here. Why does the internet have to be so god damn us-centric that i can not escape their crazy billionaires?
Just because the article is about a tech company owner doesn't mean it's related to technology.
Musk being a shitty person isn't technology related.
Maybe X should rebrand itself as Twitter to move away from this scandal.
Annnnd he went full Henry Ford.
Not quite...Ford was still able to put together a descent vehicle on time and on budget
Controlling the damage Elon does must be like trying to control a fire after the building is razed to the ground and nothing is left but smouldering ashes.
I was getting excited about getting a new vehicle, and was looking at a Tesla.
But, Nope! I'll ride a tricycle before Elon gets a penny from me.
You're not very good a product research if Elon being a shithead is what put you off Tesla. Tesla cars should put you off Tesla cars. Lying about range. Thousands of dollars for software features that don't work. Atrocious reviews from owners about reliability. The list goes on. Then there's the hostile racist workplaces where they are manufactured. Elon is just the tip of the iceberg.
The worst review I've ever heard of any product goes like this. "Imagine if your printer was your car, that's what owning a Tesla is like."
I just wonder why Linda Yaccarino would continue to stay with a ship that's going down? I mean she has to think about how this reflects on her own reputation in the business world.
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.
or she's also a weird bigot
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.
By the 1930s, the new Nazi government needed that technology — and recruited IBM for the job. Tabulating machines made tracking lines of Jewish descent possible, even if a German citizen’s family had married out of the religion or converted generations ago.
90 years ago. Musk is giving a platform to Nazi and endorsing them right now.
Oh, I’m sure that long ago they learned the futility of any kind of “damage control”. An incident that would be a once-a-decade PR nightmare for any other company is just Tuesday when you’re dealing with this asshole.
It's as if this guy is trying to see how many times he can shoot himself in the foot and walk away.