Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[unfilteredJW]

Nothing that existential. It was a simple real estate transaction. Owners wanted to sell home. We were looking for a place with nice weather and air quality. We liked the neighborhood. For the first time in 30 years, my sister and I would be living in the same city about 10 to 15 minutes from each other. No homeless. No crime. We bought the home.

And helped price people out of said area.

And speak of the homeless as if they were subhuman.

Then humble brag about the weather while others are suffering in the climate change thread.

Don't leave out the important bits.

[Evil Midnight Bomber]

I assume both have happened numerous times

"Ladies and Gentlemen of the jur-ay. Now, I'm just a humble southern lawyer. I was born just a few blocks away from this very courthouse. I didn't go to no fancy law-school way o-er there in Mass-a-chew-sits. I got my law degree right here in Dingleberry. So i don't much of how these Big City Types do things. But I'll tell you what I do know.

I know about Dibs. Yes, it's true that when my client met the Defendent...she was in a relationship with another man. But my client...he called "dibs". That means, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, that when she broke up with that other man...my client was on deck. And so, when she caught that other man in bed with another woman...she broke up with him. She called my client and asked him to keep her company while she cried her little heart out. But when she was done with all that crying...something horrible happened. I warn you...what you are about to hear will likely upset some of you... but hear it you must.

She did not have sex with my client that night. She did not have with my client the next night either. In fact, over the several years of their "friendship"...she did not spread her legs for him once. Not one single time. She had sexual relations with many a man and even, so i'm told, a few women... but never with my client. She did not honour the dibs. And for that we are seeking $1,000,000 in damages... and that booty he was promised when he did declare those dibs. "

[Elegiac]

Nothing that existential. It was a simple real estate transaction. Owners wanted to sell home. We were looking for a place with nice weather and air quality. We liked the neighborhood. For the first time in 30 years, my sister and I would be living in the same city about 10 to 15 minutes from each other. No homeless. No crime. We bought the home.

Not beating the shitlib accusations, my guy.

[Ghost of Cow]

MMO-C, where people are so unhappy they'll make you the bad guy for buying a house.

[Cthulhu 2020]

So Elon is crying about advertisers not wanting to advertise on his platform, meanwhile there's this thread where people are blatantly unironically praising Hitler and calling him a visionary.

https://x.com/arthurkwonlee/status/1822382506114699719

I bet Elon's lawyers are having an ANEURISM, like his argument is that a cabal of advertisers bullied the remaining advertisers into not advertising on X as if it's some big conspiracy, meanwhile Elon actively invites Nazis onto his platform. I can't wait for this motherfucker to get laughed out of court.

The day that the banks repossess twitter from Elon because he can't pay his dues is a day to celebrate. But my theory has always been that Elon's forced acquisition of Twitter turned into him trying to take a lemon and make lemonade, he simply wants to keep twitter alive right now so he can put his fingers on the political scale using the platform, but he's failing even at that. Trump and the Republican party are flailing right now as Harris surges.

[Jessicka]

So Elon is crying about advertisers not wanting to advertise on his platform, meanwhile there's this thread where people are blatantly unironically praising Hitler and calling him a visionary.

https://x.com/arthurkwonlee/status/1822382506114699719

I bet Elon's lawyers are having an ANEURISM, like his argument is that a cabal of advertisers bullied the remaining advertisers into not advertising on X as if it's some big conspiracy, meanwhile Elon actively invites Nazis onto his platform. I can't wait for this motherfucker to get laughed out of court.

The day that the banks repossess twitter from Elon because he can't pay his dues is a day to celebrate. But my theory has always been that Elon's forced acquisition of Twitter turned into him trying to take a lemon and make lemonade, he simply wants to keep twitter alive right now so he can put his fingers on the political scale using the platform, but he's failing even at that. Trump and the Republican party are flailing right now as Harris surges.

He literally told the advertisers to fuck off. His actual words.

[Gorsameth]

He literally told the advertisers to fuck off. His actual words.

Yep, the defence presents exhibit A, Elon telling advertisers to fuck off if they don't like it. Defence rests.

[Paranoid Android]

Elon is strange.



Are you sexually fantasizing about Trump back on Twitter now?

[Rasulis]

Not beating the shitlib accusations, my guy.

If not wanting homeless encampments next to my home or in my neighborhood meant that I am a shitlib, then I am a shitlib.

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Elon is strange.


Are you sexually fantasizing about Trump back on Twitter now?

If he thought that will bring advertisers back to X, then he is not the businessperson that people thought he was.

[Endus]

If not wanting homeless encampments next to my home or in my neighborhood meant that I am a shitlib, then I am a shitlib.

Bad policy is wanting to move the homeless encampment somewhere else.

Good policy is providing housing so people aren't frickin' homeless in the first place.

If you're more interested in keeping homeless people away from you and your property than you are helping them get out of homelessness, then your ideological views are pretty selfish and not societally beneficial.

[Rasulis]

Bad policy is wanting to move the homeless encampment somewhere else.

Good policy is providing housing so people aren't frickin' homeless in the first place.

If you're more interested in keeping homeless people away from you and your property than you are helping them get out of homelessness, then your ideological views are pretty selfish and not societally beneficial.

As an individual, I don't have the resources to tackle the issue of homelessness. What I could do is pick a place that does not have that issue and try to keep it from encroaching into my neighborhood.

So, we picked a place with no homelessness, nor history of homelessness to begin with, and remote chance of developing homelessness.

I seem to recall that part of downtown Vancouver looked almost as bad as the Tender Loin.

[Kathranis]

Who else is ready to watch one of the most uncharismatic men on the planet interview a deranged narcissist on a platform that falls apart every time there's a surge in traffic?

Who do you think will come out of this interview looking worse?

[Belize]

Who else is ready to watch one of the most uncharismatic men on the planet interview a deranged narcissist on a platform that falls apart every time there's a surge in traffic?

Who do you think will come out of this interview looking worse?

Sounds like I need to go clear out the liquor store

[Edge-]

Are you sexually fantasizing about Trump back on Twitter now?

Watching someone who doesn't understand memes or meme culture desperately try to be cool by misusing memes they don't understand is fun.

I hope advertisers legal teams are keeping track of all these examples to introduce as exhibits for why the company they represent will not spend money to advertise on a platform owned by a guy that keeps being really fucking weird.

[Rasulis]

Watching someone who doesn't understand memes or meme culture desperately try to be cool by misusing memes they don't understand is fun.

I hope advertisers legal teams are keeping track of all these examples to introduce as exhibits for why the company they represent will not spend money to advertise on a platform owned by a guy that keeps being really fucking weird.

Musk went beyond weird into creepy territory.

[Kathranis]

Twitter's already breaking. Already shaping up to be a repeat of the DeSantis campaign announcement.

[Belize]

We can only hope Twitter will go down and we're all spared from the insanity

[Karreck]

Twitter's already breaking. Already shaping up to be a repeat of the DeSantis campaign announcement.

Well, when you fire most of the people who kept the ship afloat, these things will happen.

[Rasulis]

More unpaid bills.

Former Twitter Board Member Sues Elon Musk’s X For $20 Million in Pay

After purchasing Twitter, Mr. Musk failed to cash out Omid Kordestani’s stock, according to allegations in a new lawsuit.

By the time Mr. Musk came calling, Mr. Kordestani held 800,000 stock options worth more than $20 million. According to the agreement Mr. Musk signed to buy the company, those options should have been paid out within five days of the close of the deal, Mr. Kordestani’s complaint said. The former board member had also received additional stock payouts that were scheduled for the months following the acquisition, worth nearly $3 million. Mr. Musk’s purchase agreement stipulated that stock would also be paid out, but it was not, the lawsuit said.

X “now refuses to meet those obligations, adding to a long list of unpaid bills accruing under Mr. Musk’s watch,” the lawsuit said.

[Elder Millennial]

So Elon is crying about advertisers not wanting to advertise on his platform, meanwhile there's this thread where people are blatantly unironically praising Hitler and calling him a visionary.

https://x.com/arthurkwonlee/status/1822382506114699719

I bet Elon's lawyers are having an ANEURISM, like his argument is that a cabal of advertisers bullied the remaining advertisers into not advertising on X as if it's some big conspiracy, meanwhile Elon actively invites Nazis onto his platform. I can't wait for this motherfucker to get laughed out of court.

The day that the banks repossess twitter from Elon because he can't pay his dues is a day to celebrate. But my theory has always been that Elon's forced acquisition of Twitter turned into him trying to take a lemon and make lemonade, he simply wants to keep twitter alive right now so he can put his fingers on the political scale using the platform, but he's failing even at that. Trump and the Republican party are flailing right now as Harris surges.

This went largely unreported outside industry circles but Elon actually succeeded to some extent.

https://wfanet.org/knowledge/item/20...continues-garm

The GARM was a small non-profit that was set up to basically flag the places advertisers should avoid.

GARM was target Numero uno of Musk's legal harassment campaign. Days after he announced his lawsuit the Worldwide Federation of Advertisers that was behind GARM dissolved it.

Now advertisers have to individually fact check and filter where they advertise, and they also won't be able to apply collective pressure on places like Twitter, Kick, Rumble etc to change their behavior.

Will this bring major industry advertisers like Unilever, Nestle, Apple etc back to Twitter? Probably not. But it will definitely lead to more smaller businesses and whatnot wandering to those places.

Elon is a piece of shit, and unfortunately he still wields tremendous institutional power.