Apple spent ~100 M on adds on twitter prior to the EM buyout.
There is no way in hell these grifters will do anything but talk big. They money will never come.
Right-wing influencers pledge to bail out Elon Musk after Apple, Disney, others suspend advertising on X
Submitted 11 months ago by realitista@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://mashable.com/article/right-wing-pledges-x-twitter-ad-buys-support-elon-musk
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Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 11 months ago
Jaysyn@kbin.social 11 months ago
I'll take "Things That Aren't Financially Possible", for $400, Alex.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They’re conservatives, don’t ask them to math
skeezix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Conservatism is a mental illness
logicbomb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This reminds me of those statistics that show the how the richest 10% have as much wealth as the other 90% (or whatever the exact numbers were).
And also those statistics that show how Apple is bigger than the entire economies of many countries.
tsonfeir@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Elon finally found his people. The MAGA poverty level white Christian who hates everything that gives them that rush of energy, because their life otherwise barely has a pulse.
sucricdrawkcab@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Murder by words, my goodness.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Oderus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Love Hackers.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stop using the fucking platform idiots.
scarabic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oh wow Andrew Tate is one of them.
Gee, when you look at all these manbaby assholes who cry about being canceled, one thing starts to stand out. They’re all manbaby assholes. Maybe if every canceled person is a manbaby asshole, then getting cancelled is actually about not liking manbaby assholes? And not about killing freedom of speech? It’s just… the pattern is undeniable.
Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
This is insane. Why would anyone want to bail out the world’s richest man?
Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 months ago
People donate to supposed billionaire Donald Trump too.
I genuinely don’t understand the thinking. What else do they do? Should I be worried that they walk among us?
PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Because he lets them say slurs.
PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
To own the libs?
C’mon man, get with the times!
*Libs = anyone not a mazi
MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Do you remember when people were donating money to one of the younger Kardashians, so she could become the youngest “self-made” billionaire? People are dumb.
OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Good! That’s fewer right wing dollars going toward politicians.
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Huh… good point.
krayj@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As much as I would LOVE to see them waste their money on this, we know they are all talk and no action and won’t actually contribute anything.
Stabbitha@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s the best part, they’re all grifters trying to get attention, they won’t pay a fucking cent.
RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is actually a good thing! Let them all bundle up together and maybe they can fund and start his little society on mars and he can take all the right wing cunts with him. Then they can go cry about women and minorities together without bothering the rest of us.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 11 months ago
But who are they going to bully, if they’re just among themselves?
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Oh you must be new. There’s always an “in group” and an “out group”. If somehow everyone is in the “in group” the rules change to create a new “out group”.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They can start their own handmaid’s tale on Mars. Let’s see how many women they can get to join these super manly men.
banneryear1868@lemmy.world 11 months ago
start his little society on mars
“The system destroying the Earth will actually do the opposite on Mars!”
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Yup, and then the Earth can start to heal.
Let those fuckers live in their delusions about rebuilding human civilization without check notes everyone is literally help run society such as trades people, medical professionals, agriculture workers, social workers, etc.
lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Imagine pledging to get enough money to bail out someone who can literally masturbate and squirt $44B on a whim.
Bootlickers, he doesn’t need you. Really.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Vant@lemm.ee 11 months ago
They each pledge a single drop of water in a ten gallon clay pot that Musk smashed with a hammer.
meepmeep@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Beautiful analogy
dangblingus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ahhh yes, bailing out the richest man on Earth for doing dumb ass shit that a 9 year old would pull. So good at business.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Hey! My nine year old would never say anything bigoted on purpose.
pachrist@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Eh, but you can pay most 9 year olds to say anything, even dumb stuff, just like the elongated muskrat. You just have to give them cash.
LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Get ready for My Pillow ads on Xitter, formally known as shitter.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think that dude is actually broke now.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let the scam artist part them from their money if they’re dumb enough to defend him and fund him.
drdabbles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My only question is do we pronounce the “x” in xitter like “x” would be pronounced in a Chinese word? “Sh-itter”?
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes, it is pronounced Shitter, and Tweets are now Toots.
NekkoDroid@programming.dev 11 months ago
Do NOT associate Mastodon stuff with that shit
Senex@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Tweets are now Sharts!
MartinXYZ@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
That’s how I’ve been doing it.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I just pronounce it as ten.
ubermeisters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stop elonposting ugh my blocked list is getting so long
burliman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I downvote every mention of Musk. Thought I would comment on this one to let everyone know.
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
The "I'm sick of Elon posts" comments are more annoying than all the Elon posts.
Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Well good news is we can kill two birds with one stone here.
burliman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Glad I could give you a reason to comment too.
ZeroCool@feddit.ch 11 months ago
Got I wish you people would stop crying every time you see an article about Elon Musk and do something constructive. Here: Open uBlock Origin and add a damn filter.
lemmy.world##div.post-listing:has(span:has-text(“/elon musk/i”))
div.post-listing is the element to block :has(args) returns elements where args evaluate to true span is the element with the title text :has-text(needle) returns the element if it has the next needle, supports regex with \needle\ and remove case sensitivity with i
Read more here: github.com/gorhill/…/Procedural-cosmetic-filters
ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Personally, I want Musk to fade out of my feeds because he has become irrelevant, not because I hid mentions of him…
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
As much as we all hate hearing about Musk, he’s a very influential person. The decisions he makes and what happens on Xitter can steer the direction of humanity, for better or worse.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Though let’s be honest, this is not one of the influential things that should be reported on. It’s just some idiots online claiming they’d do something they can’t do, in order to attract some attention to themselves; it’s not even about Musk per se.
Blackout@kbin.social 11 months ago
This is good practice for you to just ignore the things you don't like. There is no such thing as safe spaces and you kids need to grow a thicker skin to survive.
Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Could be worse. They could be putting that money towards their own fediverse.
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
Right wing stooges are too dumb to contribute to open source projects. They steal the code and then let it languish.
fat_stig@lemmy.world 11 months ago
TFG’s Truth Social is using Mastodon code.
ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp. Please Mr. Musk, I want some more.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I love it when conservatives out their racism without knowing it.
badbytes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Please GOP, don’t be stingy. Donate all of it to the platform formerly known at Twitter. Great business investment!
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kind of like how he pinky promises to cover the legal bills for anyone that gets in to trouble at work for being a douchbag on his platform? www.bbc.com/news/technology-66420177
theherk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love how some of the replies are about how “companies just want to control me”… Do you know what advertising is? What an empty complaint.
mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
So, as “if” is out of the question, “when” and “how” are becoming more interesting.
How will twitter end? Will he sell it to someone else? or just fire everyone and close the doors?
nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.world 11 months ago
Sell it to who Ben? Fucking aquaman?
twisted28@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Republicans should get a big R tattoo on their neck or face. To show their dedication. If they are able to elect Trump and crash the economy, I bet they’ll want to leave after the economy crashes.
jlking3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Kinda like Roger Stone getting that tattoo of Richard Nixon?
Fedizen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
'only a RINO would not have a giant elephant on their face"
Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, if the right-wing influencers like him so much, why don’t they pay for keeping Xitter alive?
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I think it does make sense for right wing things to advertise there because it’s cheap and they’re already not worried about appearing near Nazi sentiment.
But all the right wing influencers in the country won’t replace Disney in ad spend.
xantoxis@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The wealthiest companies in the world have decided not to give Twitter any more money, but sure, @HandsomeBirchSocietyMan, I’m sure your bank account can make up the difference.
chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is the most simp-y shit I’ve ever heard of. You don’t bail out a billionaire.
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 11 months ago
The US government does it consistently.
Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And it’s the simpyest shit I’ve ever seen
Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really hate the term “simp” but it really fits here. Having legions of people pledging scraps of cash to literally the wealthiest personon Earth is just so… pathetic.
chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I generally avoid that word, but this is nearly textbook.
scarabic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s conservatroids trying to show that they have economic power too. They have big spending companies too! Like Babylon Bee! Yeah! Take that, libs!
Lol. Also, I’ve run ads on Twitter and it was a waste of money. Facebook ads work 100x better. Reddit was awful too. So these dicks are just pissing money away. After all - there’s a reason they weren’t already big spending advertisers on Twitter: because it sucks.