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Man who claims hes a libertarian wants government to punish those who don't give him money.
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2024
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For something that isn't a crime. Why are we feeding this troll attention? Let him fall off the face of the earth and all his "projects" fail.
With the way Tesla is tanking, I'll say
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Oh, nonono. You simply misunderstood him, because he's such a genius. Didn't you hear that he thinks he is literally the smartest engineer alive on this planet? Surely he's not following suit of other nutjobs and simply trying to weaponize the judicial system in his favor because he essentially has unlimited money? This guy?? Nooooo...
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He's also now donating to Trump, who I believe absolutely will punish people for Musk, if elected.
I could have sworn I read that Musk was a free speech absolutist. Freedom for me but not for thee?
This is the case with literally every conservative crowing about "free speech". They want full freedom for themselves so that no matter what they say there can't be any negative consequences or reactions, and everybody else can get fucked and die in an extermination camp
Nope he's just a fascist hiding behind free speech.
Their obsession with “freeze peach” has always been a facade to their true desire which is to censor opposing viewpoints and make their viewpoints the only form of acceptable speech.
You’ll note that everything outside those bounds is “woke” and unacceptable
He certainly exercises his free speech to lie about his advocacy for free speech.
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Can X sue Musk for telling advertisers to go fuck themselves rather than addressing their concerns over his dumpster fire decisions?
He privatized and fired the board, remember? Nobody else inside to hold him accountable for being a non-stop fuckup.
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When a business blames its customers for choosing to no longer be its customers, it's a sure sign the business is declining. Depending on the severity, it's often a sign the business is failing.
This applies here, as well as any time you see an article that millennials are killing <business/industry/etc>. It also applies when an entertainer blames their (potential) audience for not enjoying their work. See Jerry Seinfeld, Kid Rock, etc.
No one owes your business any patronage.
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So this is the laser-like focus on the future of Tesla that 56 billion dollars bought, huh?
Such brilliant minds are truly beyond our understanding, clearly.
The neat thing is that if you have a 401k or mutual funds or whatever there’s a good chance your money voted to give this fuckwit his 56 billion. Looking at you, Vanguard.
They're afraid that Tesla's stock price under a rational CEO will suffer a market correction and drop to where it should be. In other words, they want to keep Musk out of fear and greed.
Didn't Musk tell his advertisers to leave the platform if they didn't like Twitter anymore? Wouldn't that alone make any tort dead upon filing?
Yeah it ties up a few billable hours but we're not exactly talking about companies that can't afford it.
Didn't he tell them to "go fuck yourselves"?
Yeah, he said something like “You try to blackmail me? With money? Go fuck yourselves”.
Til not buying things is blackmailing companies
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Musk wrote that X "has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators" behind an advertiser boycott on his platform.
So he's going to sue himself then?
If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.
Elon Musk, 2023
I guess it was pretty clear. What a clown.
Well I heard about a guy that told the collective advertisres of the platform to "go fuck themselves", maybe this guy should be investigated.
New law, everyone must be nice to me :(
I was really hoping someone else said it already, but... is this really "Technology news"? It's about a billionaire and advertising on his social media website.
Social media's impact on society is relevant to technology. I would even say it is one of the most important questions in relation to technology today. So, how an owner tries to silence criticisms of his social media site for spreading fascism seems relevant to me.
Boycotts are speech. Calling for boycotts is speech. I’ve been told by every corporate leader and the Supreme Court that spending money is a form of speech. I would think that a free speech advocate would appreciate these things. Of course, like all outspoken libertarians, Musk’s positions are not well considered, consistent, nor actually libertarian when it doesn’t suit his own business or ideological* interests. This dude sucks at everything he does and his success perfectly demonstrates the fallacy of meritocracy in this society.
- usually racist
everybody's a libertarian until they lose money
Wasn’t he crying that he can’t be extorted with money or something? Fucking cry baby.
Dude literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves and is now like "well wait, I didn't mean it like that" lmao
But the free market....
advertising is the only competitive market left. I guess its easier for his ego to rationalize that everyone is teaming up against him than admit he's a moron.
And now you know why he's donating to the Trump campaign.
Because with the shift of power with project 2025 he can actually do this.
What’s this? Another petty tyrant king demanding taxes from his serfs? These billionaires are fucked up in the head. They can’t just sit back, killing their livers, getting drunk and wasted on drugs on their yachts. No, they have to bend the world to their will at the expense of everyone else living in it. Even then, that isn’t enough.
So that is why he is donating to the Trump campaign. Best to get in the list of people he wishes to be persecuted sooner than later. Apparently it's first come first serve.
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Meanwhile, toilets lobby to jail everyone that refuses to eat out of them.
Thank god this muppet wasn't born in the US, or he would definetely be making a presidential run. Maybe he will just try and pull a Trump and disrespect the constitution and try and change rules to benefit himself personally.
TIL advertisement market is worth 1000 billion $.
Assuming 2 billion people owning an internet capable device, that's 500 $ per person.
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