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Musk admitted his posting wasn’t palatable to advertisers.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 7 months ago (2 children)

“People are attacked all the time in the media, online media, social media, but it is rare that that actually has a meaningful negative impact on their life,” said Musk.

F this guy.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My god, he's actually playing the victim. What a loser.

He can't handle the consequences of his own dumbass actions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

He was born incredibly rich, he's never had a material consequence in his life.

Don't be fooled, his argument is not that his posts were bad it's that advertisers didn't like them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this the same fragile removed who panicked that his private jet flights were being posted?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Many have theorized that the MuskJet Tracker account was the biggest reason he purchased Twitter. Because Twitter refused to ban the tracker, so Musk started rumbling about buying it, in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance. Then that backfired on him when Twitter forced the sale.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Lmfao, perhaps.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago

Billionaires and destroying the value of public media, name a more iconic duo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Notably, Twitter facilitated communication during the arab spring, where the people organized to stand against and even overthrow several broken and corrupt government regimes throughout the middle east - including some participation in places like Saudi Arabia, for example.

Twitter's second largest investor after musk takeover... the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and it's de facto leader who, among other things, killed and dismembered an American journalist without consequence somewhat recently.

And now Twitter is about to be killed... and dismembered.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

Is this the robot becoming self aware?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

~~Wasn't~~ Isn't

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

So you're saying that it only took him this long to realize that saying "go fuck yourself" in an interview, about advertisers, was not taken well by those advertisers......

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

This is just part of his posturing that he “cares more about truth than money”.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Lemme know when he loses at least 9 zeroes from his wallet, then I might believe he's financially impaired.

And laugh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He has become self aware. Will it change his behavior?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

No. No it will not. In fact, it may make it worse

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

He's not self aware. He's making himself the victim.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Elon is shorting his own shit. It will take the normies eons to realize that and by that point he's already walking about with his 💰

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Just amazing that he actually came out and said that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Tbf though, I don’t think he ever intended to make the platform profitable.