Elon Musk Buys Twitter

[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.

[Kathranis]

Now he's claiming it's a DDoS and the Trump campaign is trying to spin it as "breaking the internet."

Nah, guys, it's not breaking the internet, just Twitter. Can't even handle 500k+ listeners for an audio broadcast.

Also, just because a lot of people tune in doesn't mean they're all supporters, and certainly not that they're even in the States. A lot of people are just there to gawk at the train wreck.

[Edge-]

Now he's claiming it's a DDoS and the Trump campaign is trying to spin it as "breaking the internet."

Just like Ron DeSantis broke Twitter when he launched his campaign.

Really, it's hilarious that over a year after that the platform is still so fucking brittle and busted.

[Kathranis]

Okay, 15 minutes in and it's just fucking boring. Going on and on explaining the shooting while Elon Musk alternates between "umm erm umm" and "glog-glog-glog."