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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

wow who could have predicted this considering they're the same companies who said they wouldn't donate to republicans after january 6th three months before they started donating to republicans again.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

ITT: People realising most of the world lives outside their bubble

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

My favorite lemmy bubble is the smug woke ( idiot leftists, who think they are smart but aren't) who think Kamala lost because she didn't take a stance on Gaza and people abstained in protest and not because of sexism and racism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago

That would be REALLY Corrupt if simply buying Ads on a Website was Enough to allow you to DIRECTLY INFLUENCE the President Of The United States! Fortunately Trump DIDNT put the Owner of X in charge of Important Oversight Decisions!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

This is bending the knee

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago

He'll get advertisers just as actual people leave.

[–] [email protected] 112 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

IBM helping out the Nazis is pretty par for the course

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

When Hitler needed to track the unwanted in his concentration camps, IBM was there.

Today, Trump has selected IBM due to our experience in this field of Fascism.

FYI: while this is not true, I'm sure most Americans will believe it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 12 hours ago

Still, “under $2,000” for a corporation of that size is a surprisingly low amount, compared to the others. Not even worth the negative publicity. Odd choice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Ah, a history joke! Don't forget Coke(Fanta)! Also, the history of Volkswagon is pretty interesting.

The surprising part is, despite everything Henry Ford believed, I don't remember ever hearing Ford being on that list.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 13 hours ago

Oligarchs get cozy with oligarchs, what a shocker.

[–] [email protected] 180 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

“X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

There's the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nuh-uh! Americans can't be terrorists cuz Americans kill the terrorist, like Malcolm X and Jamal Khashoggi... Wait, are we the bad guys?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

Always have been.

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[–] [email protected] 194 points 16 hours ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 54 points 15 hours ago

And lifting their a## up, so they are better accessible

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

It’s time to drop Disney+.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Should have 5 years ago. Mostly cause fuck disney, but I get why you had it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago

We've dropped it October 2023. Fuck them Zionist shits.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

We just did. Only reason it took this long is because it auto-renewed this time last year for a year slightly ahead of when we thought it was gonna do that. Oops.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 12 hours ago

And nobody was surprised. I predict most advertisers will return by the end of January for the same reasons they left previously: It's the right business decision at the right time. Remember that the next time a corporation makes a pledge. It's always about money.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 12 hours ago

Did anyone read the article? Besides the top 2, these amounts are paltry:

Data by MediaRadar showed that Comcast, which spent less than $1.5 million on X this year, was followed by Warner Bros. Discovery at $1.1 million, whose ads are supporting theatrical releases of movies, and Disney at under $550,000. Lionsgate spent less than $230,000, while IBM allocated under $2,000.

That's embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 95 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

IBM itching to get involved with another genocide. They can track all the undesirables digitally much easier now!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

With DB2? Ha! Don't make me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Death to Comcast, Disney, and IBM.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

I mean, that's been an accurate statement for decades.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 hours ago

People aren't moving away from it. Of course they come back

[–] [email protected] 21 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I dropped Xitter as soon as it became apparent that Elon was going to buy it and started pirating Disney (and everyone else) shortly after. Couldn't tell you the last time I bought anything IBM but I'll have to be more careful about it. I'm switching to a local fiber provider so I'm leaving comcast in a couple of weeks.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Is it bad that for a brief moment when you said you were switching to a local fiber provider, I thought you were talking about making sure you tdke healthy poops?

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

Haha. I'm working on that too. Finally starting to lose fat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

.....wait, what? You're pooping so much you're losing FAT? Like, I've heard that sometimes people get backed up, and it's extra weight. But the weight is still fecies. Elvis was said to have had over 25lbs of backed up fecies inside him when he died.

But you're saying you're pooping so much that your body is burning fat??? Thst's.....that equally impressive as it is worrying. How hard are you pushing??? God damn!!!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I almost can't blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

A majority of American citizens who voted...that's an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Well the ones who didn't vote obviously weren't too bothered by fascism and racism either, apparently

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Horrible timing. Millions are leaving and going to BlueSky.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

ads are not allowed on Bluesky. that is the reason.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

This is beautiful! It's like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Going after the coveted racist bot market.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 14 hours ago

They can eat their shit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they are they only care about money.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago

Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.

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