Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges

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• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”

  Elon, Last year.

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  • BedSharkPal@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Careful, you might convince Tesla shareholders to fork over a few more billion to keep the big brained genius motivated.

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    • teletext@reddthat.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “Give me 60 billions this year, or the Tesla stock will lose even of more of its price next year!” – Elon, probably.

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    • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the market were rational that would have been the end of Tesla. It takes some extreme brainletry to turn a huge market advantage into actively losing ground to new entrants. And he is still at it. Being a dimwitted Nazi on Twitter is his top priority. Tesla sales will continue to spiral down the drain.

      (Yes, if the market were rational the end might have come sooner, but certainly giving billions to a brainlet actively sabotaging the company should end it.)

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Go fuck yourself! Is that clear?

      Can I have a few billion now too?

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  • octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this should be posted as a comment to every article about this.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      hat’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word, because the amount of pearl clutching is just too insane?

      Ah yes that’s the amazing freedom of speech Americans are so proud of, except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.

      My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!

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    • Kowowow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Someone needs to make a drawing of it because when he originally said it he opened his mouth wide and through his head back like was a literal puppet

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    • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s right there in the 4th paragraph of the article itself.

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  • NewNewAccount@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wowow! That was so long ago! Literally dozens of weeks ago! I’m sure this full-blown narcissist has seen the error of his ways and changed his mind. Surely.

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. Elon should approach his advertisers on bended knee – after changing Twitter back to Twitter, and creating a proper moderation system that filters out neonazis and Russian AI Trump-bots.

    Oh, George Washington rode the waves Abe Lincoln wore his hat with praise
    Thomas Jefferson, the sandy king, and
    Teddy Roosevelt, the beach-hiking thing
    Barrack Obama, surfing gracefully
    Historical presidents at the sea!
    – @hisvault.eth

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Calling out Bob Iger in particular was the cherry on top.

    Massive hubris.

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  • Zink@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    • Elon with TSLA stock at 2023 levels, lol

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  • Censored@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is the most upvotes I’ve seen on a Lemmy post so far… Granted, I’ve only been here a couple days, but still!

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

  He’s been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.

  Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It’s not a value that’s always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.

  If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn’t even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier.

    sounds like he needs that PR department

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    • rtxn@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s pretty much how he kept the public image of “eccentric genius” for so many years. I once read an article (can’t remember where, don’t care enough to search) that said that SpaceX had/has a team whose entire purpose was to babysit Musk when he had a temper tantrum. The team formed organically, like a cyst around a foreign object, and minimized damage to PR.

      When Twitter was infested, it didn’t have this immunity and now the world (or those of us who care) knows how much of a shithead he is.

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    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That and a set of kneepads.

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    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      💩

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  • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Reminds me of the people who say things like “I say it like it is, and most people don’t like it”…not knowing that the reason they don’t have many friends is because they don’t have a filter and don’t think they need one, lol

    But this looks like Elon Musk admitting that he’s genuinely an idiot, lol

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah I robbed that gas station but at least some crime boss didn’t make me do it. It was genuine so you should forgive me

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Idk, I’d prefer if CEOs were more transparent and why mistakes happened instead of the generic PR nonsense of: “We messed up, and we’re sorry. We’re taking time to review what happened to make sure it never happens again.” That kind of statement only matters if there’s some way for the public to know what happened and verify that it actually won’t happen again.

    That’s not what we’re getting from Elon, so screw him, but I just figured I’d point out that this particular broken clock could say something close to what we probably all want.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Trouble is, their main job is to game public perception

      A transparent, honest CEO would win a lot of people over (although they’d also probably be less likely to ignore the horrible decisions that require apologies)

      Just remember - generic PR apologies are an attempt at mimickingv leaders actually taking responsibility for a mistake. The transparency will just become as soulless and corporate as the apologies are now

      We need to fix the system to remove the incentive to put heartless demons in positions of power

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  • barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “Shoot oneself in the foot” is a really charitable description of “inviting all the worst Nazis back on to social media and removing fact checking.”

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  • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Authenticity only works when you don’t jump ships and stay on point. Not for billionaires, tho.

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• ZeroCool@vger.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “I hope they stop. Don’t advertise, 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, November 27th 2023

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  • NutWrench@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Advertisers:

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  • Anise@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Advertisers: OK. Call.

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• Nougat@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can't even manage that.

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  • Fapper_McFapper@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But if I keep my mouth shut how will I assert that I am the most important human on the planet?

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  • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, he can’t manage that. Because he’s an attention-whoring malignant narcissist.

    I can’t wait for the bubble of mystique to pop on this arsehole, if only so we don’t have to ever hear from or about him again. Sadly, there are still plenty of rubes in his cult of personality and greedy investors willing to ride his coattails. So I’m not holding my breath.

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  • pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doesn’t even have to collect money, he could just sell everything except SpaceX and still live a happy life and fly to Mars one day.

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If only… That’s the universe I want to live in.

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• Modva@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t remember the last time I was on Twitter. Turns out I don’t need it. Turns out I’m just a little happier without it.

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  • AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was trying to find active users since he took over. But the only numbers I can find are numbers provided by Musk, who is a well known liar.

    I know Lemmy and Mastodon are niche communities, and that people put up with a lot of garbage from Big Tech, but I have to believe that a lot of users have left Twitter, or least that usage is down. I also assume bots are way up, because Musk wants his numbers to be up regardless of the source (save for people with an opposing opinion).

    Hopefully Musk’s shitty little empire crumbles…soon.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wish some politicians, artists, and scientists that I used to follow used Mastodon.

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  • Veneroso@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I deleted my account and my stress level is way down.

    Twitter was never good, but it’s a cesspool of scum and villainy.

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go fund yourself.

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  • pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    He just got approved for that big $40+ compensation package from Tesla so he’s got lots to work with.

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    • Zorg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      A single billion is an obscene amount of money for an individual, I can’t fathom how anyone can be worth/earn a billion in a couple of years.

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    • MeanEYE@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To me it’s mental that stock holders would approve such package when company itself for its entire existence had income that is smaller than his “bonus”. Some people are downright stupid.

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    • LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s absolutely insane to me, is that other CEOs think that’s fair and fine and that Elon is very smart and not a con artist? No wonder Elizabeth Holmes got so far. It’s just so obvious he’s not above board

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    • immutable@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t worry, he seems hard at work making sure all that Tesla stick he got will also be worth less everyday.

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  • tjsauce@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We ought to normalize this phrase, it’s pure gold!

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• neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Didn’t he tell advertisers leaving to go fuck themselves? I don’t expect a very long queue of returning ones.

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  • fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Surely the appreciate the “authenticity” with which he told them to “go fuck yourselves” before flip-flopping and begging them to come back?

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I’d rather be told to ‘have a nice day’ by someone who doesn’t mean it than be told to ‘go fuck yourself’ by someone who does.”

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• pr06lefs@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won’t someone give him some money?

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  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No! Well, some idiot will. But not this idiot! Have you ever heard of Mastodon Social (https://mastodon.social/)?
    https://joinmastodon.org/

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  • QuantumSoul@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What do you mean ? (sources)

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    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Google “Elon Musk Nazi”, and/or “Elon Musk genocide”

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There are links in the actual article being discussed here.

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ‘Begs’ sounds like a strong word comparing to the actual content of the article

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  • aramova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Click bait headlines? Never!

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• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  tardigrade-playing-violin.jpg

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• Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I Always thought he just wanted to flush xitter, it never occurred to me that he was actually trying to succeed.

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  • pulaskiwasright@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think he was trying to dump Tesla stock without making it look like he didn’t have faith in the company. His plan was always to say he was buying it. sell a bunch of Tesla stock. Back out of the Twitter deal and walk away with a ton of cash.

    He tried to get out of it based on a bunch of bullshit and then was surprised when a judge actually forced him to buy Twitter.

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    • Praetorian@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now he wants shareholders to give him stock as he demands 25% of ownership plus he wants 56 billion payout. Meanwhile he’s firing whole departments.

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• VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well, well, well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

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• limelight79@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I can’t find the exact quote right now, but I saw in another article he said something like, “If they don’t pay for advertisements, X will be gone.”

  It seems Musk thinks he’s tending another Mona Lisa or some other world cultural artifact that society would hate to lose. Not some website that’s fairly easily recreated by, say, a bunch of hobbyists.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    nooo don’t kill twitter it’s too sexy aha

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• Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no, poor rich boy

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• Vaggumon@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  any company that advertises with Twitter deserves to go bankrupts and vanish.

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• maxenmajs@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Is he trying to put on a good appearance for the advertisers? I thought it was strange that he didn’t have a transphobic streak of Twitter interactions this June. Very out of character.

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  • rami@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    huh. that is unexpected isn’t it?

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  • sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe that big bonus package that the board approved stipulated that he must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      he must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.

      Did they sew his mouth shut?

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• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I believe the appropriate, corporate-friendly answer in this case is “go fuck yourself”

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh no, if revenue continues to slip in just a few hundred years Musk will be down to his last billion. (assuming he never makes any more money)

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• Breve@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately advertising doesn’t work on the majority of their users who are bots. 🤷

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• meldroc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

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• n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Elon, yangot a 50 bil payout, just finance your dogshit website.

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• bender223@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, so telling advertisers to go fuck themselves DIDN’T help make Twitter money? 🤔

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• Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Mastodon Social awaits! https://joinmastodon.org/

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Anyone could be a CEO if this douche nozzle can. Amd for like 6-7 different corporations.

  What do you say you do here elon?

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• a9cx34udP4ZZ0@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “If you’re trying to reach senior decision makers, if you want to reach the most influential people in the world,” Musk told Read, “the X platform is by far the best.”

  Does someone want to break it to him that he’s one of about 4 executives of a fortune 500 who spends any time on Twitter? The rest have PR people who might make a couple posts a month for them, but they sure as shit aren’t wasting any time on it arguing with idiots and bots. They’re busy flying around on private jets or playing golf when they aren’t spending their 30 minutes a month working.

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• art@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Masterful gambit, Sir.

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• PsyDoctah9Jah@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well changing the name to “X” didn’t do him any favors

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• downpunxx@fedia.io ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  all a show, elon bought twitter at the behest and with the investment of the saudis to kill it because they were getting too much heat for kashoggi. the fascist virtue signaling is all just a bonus for him, because he's a racist child.

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• impure9435@kbin.run ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Go eat a dick Elon

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• fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Go fuck yourself.”

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