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FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Elon saying that advertisers are blackmailing him is literally the stick in the bicycle wheel meme.

It’s not blackmail Elon, it’s business. No one wants to do business with your shit heap of a platform.

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letsgocrazy@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It’s weird that he thinks of it as “blackmail” though, and a thing that’s happening to “him”.

Blackmail is when someone has damning evidence against you and they threaten to release it unless you do what they want.

We saw the damning evidence. It’s been released. This is the reaction.

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- FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah true. This isn’t blackmail, it’s just the consequences of his actions
  
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  - orbitz@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Narcassists always want to frame things so it doesn’t sound like they did anything wrong. Why everyone needs to be educated to see these actions for what they are, a flailing billionaire that thinks everyone should just agree with them cause they’re rich and give them more money, least in this instance.
    
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r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
As much as I don’t like “cancel culture,” there is validity to discontinuing business with shitty companies. Elon is filling Twitter with shit birds.

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- T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s not cancel culture though.
  
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  - r3df0x@7.62x54r.ru ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    In this case, I agree.
    
    Conservatives want compelled speech laws because they know that no one wants to put up with their bigoted shit. Their free speech means that they get to misgender trans people and act like hateful bigots, while at the same time banning a white supremacist from a website means that armed men from the government should arrest the owner because that’s acceptable compelled speech.
    
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    T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yes I think your accurate in your assessment here, but ultimately, most people don’t like nazi, and brands don’t want to be associated with nazi stuff, so they’re pulling their ads because it’s a Walmart ad next to a pro Hitler post. That just makes sense.
    
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