Maybe if he didn’t make stupid ass decisions while being fucking obnoxious things wouldn’t be this way
Ah, but he has a way out!
Linda Yaccarino, a former NBCUniversal marketing executive, recently took over the CEO position from Musk – he’s likely betting on her advertising experience to bring them back.
See? It’s not his fault things are going poorly, it’s hers!
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Meanwhile she just probably went “oh girl, a job the world doesn’t expect me to succeed at? Woo, failing upwards!!!”
Yeah, it is the stereotypical glass cliff, with the twist that everyone knows that Elmo is still responsible for all decisions and she has nothing to say.
Because Elmo is that kind of genius.
Thank you for sharing this, I had no idea the Glass Cliff was a thing but now I’ll be looking for it in the future. I remember the same thing happening on Reddit with Ellen Pao.
Yeah, I first learned about glass cliff when reading about Ellen Pao, it’s probably one of the best examples of it.
You love to see it
He should get better at begging popular YouTubers to share there content on there then.
Oh no, anyway
This is considered world news?!?
Great! Now do reddit!
Oh no. Anyways…
As if everyone didn’t see this coming a mile away. It’s like that Austin Powers scene with the steamroller
Iirc, all parties in the steamroller scene were in distress about it.
Frankly, to me it feels more like that boat crash gif.
Elon is the old, rich frat dude steering that boat in a way that is unpleasant for everyone involved but still thinks he’s the greatest. The viewers as well as the people on board know that this isn’t going to end well, but he doesn’t care of understand. And in the end, he facepalms epically by slamming into the ground.
It reminds me of the series finale of Dinosaurs! where Earl is out in charge of a mega project and it causes an issue so they do another mega project to fix it and it keeps going until he causes an ice age and the extinction of his race.
Maybe he’s just really not good at running a social media company.
His old business partner Peter Thiel failed to start up a rival to Twitter, so Musk came along and saddled Twitter with $13 bn of debt to kill it.
These conspiracy theories are nuts.
Yeah he needs to get back to taking us to space.
Oh god no, keep him distracted and far far away from SpaceX
Yeah, they’re doing great while he is distracted and shit posting on Twitter.
https://mastodon.social/@rodhilton/109572674700288958
He talked about electric cars. I don’t know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Then he talked about rockets. I don’t know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.
Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I’ve ever heard anyone say, so when people say he’s a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
Yeah man… It’s not what he’s saying that is losing him money… he’s just completely lost the ability to effectively run a company.
Maybe he should cut more checks to right-wing grifters. That should help.
Or maybe load billions more in debt onto a company that was just barely treading water
Yes the fact that this is going on apparently should clearly mark everything he says as bullshit. If the platform was really that in trouble and insolvent basically pissed off every single business partner and gotten rid of most of the staff. And yet the apparently has the funds to pay out right-wing parrots. Shit only adds up one way.
Remember y’all - the first allies to Mussolini’s Fascists were industrialists and business owners who used them to attack workers and left wing organisers
Yeah, pay the people that are already being paid to post by right wing think tanks. Genius idea.
This is so true. 80% of the blue marks are right wing bot accounts that post -nothing- but about politics. I hope someone does a study to see how many are Koch brother vs. China vs. Russia. It would make a great thesis for some aspiring master’s student.
Unfortunately hard to do without free/cheap API access. Looks like both Twitter and Reddit want to make it hard for researchers to work out where the biases in moderation really are, while throwing some selective internal documents to some journalists in their camp.
Ooooh, that’s a really interesting read on the situation
On Thursday, Twitter announced content creators would be able to get a slice of the site’s ad revenue, seemingly to encourage more creators to join the site. To be eligible, the creators must have Twitter Blue and have at least 5 million impressions on their posts in each of the last three months.
Among the creators who now get monetized off Twitter: Andrew Tate, the self-proclaimed “misogynist” online influencer, who was indicted in Romania on charges of human trafficking, rape and setting up a criminal gang.
Why do that when you can structure the platform to do it instead? It was already a cesspool but this is next level.
It’s such a goddamn shame that he’s now some sort of Alt-Right icon in their quest for “free speech” cause I’ll admit that I used to look up to this fuckin guy.
Take us back a few years, before COVID, and when SpaceX was doing their cool shit - I was fucking pumped about the guy. He was pushing forward in the realm of space exploration and I was absolutely fucking jazzed about it! Or at least that was the appearance; I know that SpaceX has a different company structure to Tesla where Musk can’t interfere as much.
Fast forward to now and I gotta ask: dafuq happened?
But I know what happened - he really was always kinda like this. It’s just that now - it’s going to be a really big damn financial mistake for him and good riddance. He’s definitely not some scientific genius - he’s just some emerald mine legacy that wanted to throw money at that sort of image.
You don’t get that sort of money and power by being a good person. The signs were always there for us to see. But so many people were complicit in the whitewashing.
Elon, as a monster. Was born into white supremacist apartheid south Africa. But even among privileged sheltered white children there. He was privileged far beyond. Attending only the better more exclusive private schools. And while his father and their family love to dance around the fact whether or not he had dealings in or was complicit in all the apartheid. Who are we kidding of course he was complicit and dealt in apartheid. Again you don’t get wealthy by being a good person.
If you look into everything Elon has done at every company he’s been involved with. He’s just the money. Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla. He’s contributed nothing of value beyond the money and privilege he was born into. Failing in and ever upward trajectory to this point. Literally at Tesla the one thing he contributed that wasn’t money or his name, was a proprietary charger plug design that he pushed. In hopes of licensing it out to other companies. In a world where those companies had those same funds but No Elon existing. Things would have played out nearly identically. Elon was never any sort of Tony Stark normal should we want a Tony Stark.
Special fun fact. Elon’s current stepmother is also his younger step sister. Now in the interest of full disclosure no there is no incest involved there. Just grooming and pedophilia. That’s right every time someone makes a tweet about pedophilia etc to have Elon Musk commenting “concerning” . It is mearly a Freudian totem to his father. Basically the equivalent of Elon saying “papa?”. Elon claims distance and estrangement with his father. Yet emulates him deeply in his sexuality and behavior. Whether or not the two actually are estranged or if this is just yet another lie upon all the other lines that Elon has told. It should be very disquieting and concerning.
good. he killed off thirdparty apps and destroys twitter each day more. i hope it burns to the ground so we can finally start using a better plattform without him controling everything.
let’s shoot for 60%!
He’s negative after not paying rent, his server bills, and firing everyone then not paying severance. That leaves $1.2B in interest per year plus whatever salaries he’s actually paying. They made $5.08B in 2021. It’s probably down a shitload more than 50%.
Why stop there? 70% is just right there for the taking.
You guys are thinking too small.
-200% and beyond. Twitter liquidates and Muskyboi needs to pay debts off using his personal wealth.
This is why I’m not a billionaire. I just don’t have that billionaire mindset.
I wonder why…
when you take out the fuzzy math it means profits are down 75%
“Cashflow is negative” means that they’re losing money.
So profits are down by more than 100%.
If you add the monthly costs of the loan he took to buy Twitter, profits are down by 500%.
Time to charge more for blue checks! And restrict people to 5 tweets a day!
… That should work right?
The move is to charge for tweets by the letter. Newspaper’s classifieds page style, that’s a profitable model, right?
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To start your Tesla you must now tweet the word “start”
I mean, who could’ve seen this coming?
