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    11 months ago

    In related news, Musk filed separate suits against the sororities from his university for an “illegal boycott” against dating him.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    4211 months ago

    the lawsuit stemmed in part from evidence uncovered by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee

    Real evidence, or another Gym Jordan special?

    • @[email protected]
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      Has a GOP-controlled congressional committee uncovered any actual evidence in the past 20 years or so?

      I take notice of whenever they have a new hearing or investigative issue, and each one I can remember has always been “let’s go on a fishing expedition to find dirt or at least impugn the character of a political rival” followed a year later by a Friday-night quiet disbanding of the committee with no findings, or a report being issued that says nothing of importance whatsoever.

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        I think that’s why they’re big mad at Harris. They don’t have time to spin up a worthless investigation about her and Walz.

  • MOKANCAN
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    18411 months ago

    Free markets do what free markets do. Suck it up, Musky Boy.

    • kora
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      4011 months ago

      If only we had a free market 🫤 (but still fuck musky husky)

      • Chris
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        Free market for thee but not for me!

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    Suing your former customers, now there’s a way to make people want to do business with you!

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      I assume these companies being sued follow standard procedure, which is that everything freezes the moment a lawsuit starts. It’s pretty much a guarantee that these companies halt spending, let alone even communicate, with X

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        It’s also common to re-evaluate business deals after major acquisitions. Musk buying Twitter dramatically changes the business perception, and that’s what matters to advertisers. Twitter can’t even begin to try and claim it doesn’t, just look at Musk’s tweets leading into it and directly after. The entire purpose of his purchase was to fundamentally change it, he said so himself.

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    7111 months ago

    World Federation of Advertisers

    There are no good guys in this fight.

    Musk posted about the lawsuit on X on Tuesday, saying “now it is war” after two years of being nice and “getting nothing but empty words.”

    Stop sounding like my mom with Borderline Personality Disorder.

    In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

    Musk later said those fleeing advertisers were engaging in “blackmail” and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away.

    And they did. Now fuck off.

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    I wasn’t aware you can sue your customers when they decide to not give you their business anymore.

    Imagine Walmart suing people, because they shop somewhere else now. Or your plumber because you called someone else to unclog your toilet.

    It doesn’t sound like Musk is suing them because they broke any contracts, just that several big advertiser spoke to each other and decided not to renew contracts because of rising antisemitism, hate speach and fake news.

    I mean, I tell people for 30 years not to buy Nestlé products because of their disregard for human rights. Can Nestlé now sue me too?

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    2111 months ago

    Oh shit, is he also going to sue me because I stopped using Twitter since he took over? TIL it’s illegal to stop using Elon’s products.

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      yes. the court papers are already on their way

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    Elon you can’t get anywhere by whining. Pick yourself up by the bootstraps and get to work. Sheesh. Youngsters these days are so lazy.

    • Lemminary
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      Not fair, he’s already made billions from (everybody else’s) hard labor!

  • Chris
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    The company formerly known as Twitter

    Love it. Not the point but it is still funny to me that Elon renamed the company and the world revolted.