“I don’t want them to advertise,” Musk said at the New York Times DealBook Summit in New York. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go fk yourself. Go. Fk. Yourself,” he said.
Some people think being wealthy proves that a person is smarter than everyone else or has some special skill that makes them more valuable to society. Then there’s the richest man in the world who thinks it’s a good idea to curse out his company’s primary source of revenue.
I like to imagine what I could have done if my father owned an emerald mine and I could have afforded multiple prestigious universities
My Dad cooked meth in the early 2000s and I dropped out of community college at 17 because my Mom had brain cancer.
I always just look at people who don’t see the benefits of standing on the shoulders of others as entitled and childish.
The secret is that you have to have emerald mining money without emerald mining parents if you get me.
My dream is to raise my kids middle class and surprise them when they graduate college with 5-figure (or if we’re dreaming, maybe 6-figure) lump sums to set them up for life. All the generational wealth without the spoiled attitude.
If Elon musk had been in your position, he wouldn’t have dropped out. I mean that in a negative way towards him, because obviously dropping out makes sense if you’re a normal human in that situation (my sister did the same for the same reason, and it fucked her too).
But musk is egotistical and wouldn’t give a fuck about his mom’s cancer if it stood in his way
Yeah I powered through and stayed in college while taking care of my mom for the same condition and it was an intense level of difficult where I’m extremely grateful that I was able to not need to financially support myself or her. I can’t imagine someone able to do all three things well, and I wasn’t the only one caring for my mom, I was just the one most able to drive her to things like doctors appointments
lol of course he thinks the companies are “blackmailing him” and not that the companies don’t want to advertise in the cesspool he has turned twitter into.
Even if you didn’t like twitter before, it’s much worse now than Elon has worked his magic. Why would companies want to pay money to have their brands side by side with nazi posts.
But the market never misallocates resources and if it does its the evil gubments fault! -some plutocratic sycophant
How evil do you have to be to be too evil for Walmart?
Lmao, oh, my, no… this isn’t a moral stance they’re taking… hehehe… oh, sigh…
No, they’re protecting their profits. At least some of their customers object and it might affect Walmart’s bottom line, so that’s why they’re pulling their ads. They don’t give a shit about the content on Twitter, or they would have stopped advertising there long ago.
Crazy how people like you think Walmart is any more or less evil than the average for-profit corporation.
They’re definitely more evil than average, the average is just also pretty fuckin’ evil.
I’m looking forward to seeing how the MAGA Wal Mart boycott plays out.
They pulled ads back in October, according to their statement in the article, so it seems to me like this is more a sign of how big companies are no longer seeing X as being worth the money to advertise there.
And it has literally nothing to do with ethics and is profit driven. The entire point of advertising is to make money.
And the fact that they did this in October and no one noticed until now says they made the right choice. They weren’t getting enough eyes on their ads anymore and quietly dropped them.
I bet a lot of the companies that dropped advertising on X were already planning to do so before Elon opened his big mouth.
Is this like the opposite of “go woke go broke”? It sure seems like you lose more money being a hate monger as a public company, or maybe that’s just Musk?
I hope both Twitter and Wal Mart fail.
Apply the same critique to anything someone hopes.
I hope Santa brings me a bike this year!
I hope my cancer goes into remission.
I hope I get to see them in heaven someday.
Nah, America’s gonna wake up and overthrow our oppressors any day now.
Surely before they destroy the environment beyond hope of redemption.
Why would you want the grocery store with the best deals and largest presence outside of major cities to fail?
Because, while they do provide low prices to consumers. They are absolutely evil to their employees. And source inventory from extremely evil companies (i e. Slave and child labor)…
