Elon Musk to advertisers who try to blackmail him: "Go f**k yourself"

Red State Rob wrote:

Elon be gone wrote:

LOL. Elon musk is taking the whoopin' of the century. More advertisers have left X (Twitter) than can be imagined, and we are talking about huge losses that even he cannot ignore. His anti-Semitic remarks are largely the cause, and he has it coming,

Ha Ha.

Words have consequences.

And since they do, no, i don't "love this guy."

No stupid. It is because he believes in free speech and the advertisers are corporatists who want to compel people to do what benefits them. They don't give a $hit whether Elon loves or hates Jews. Elon is not anti Semitic. He misinterpreted a tweet and responded in a way that looks bad, you and other are just looking for an excuse to hate him. The advertiser boycott started way before any remarks people are pretending to be offended by. The problem leftists has is they need to crush opposing speech because their ideas do not stand up when confronted with actual arguement. That is why they have tried so hard to prevent most people from accessing opposing ideas. If a few million people watch Fox News, that is a drop in the bucket. A hundred million being exposed to opposing ideas on X, that is a real problem.

SeattleSilver wrote:

Vidiot2 wrote:

Huge multinational companies with hundreds of billons of dollars at their disposal and the backing of the world's larges corrupt banks (and even more corrupt central banks / governments) in their corner go after a guy with less money and resources (who is probably also tied up with some of the more exploitative financial concerns), and he tells them to go kick rocks.

If it isn't all theater just to make people think there is dissent in the billionaire ranks, then it is pretty awesome.

And even it if it theater, it sure as hell beats the manufactured consensus that makes up most mass-media . One can only hope it prompts people to have deeper conversations about what is going on between government, mass media, and various parts of the population.

Then of course there's the 'troll' aspect: the worst and most murderous things in the world tend to be done with an air of politeness. Like "hey I get that Trump started less wars than any other president in our lifetimes, but he just isn't polite enough" -- implication being that you can be a mass-murdering crony and still be called 'presidential' long as you stay on script.

Likewise, Disney and their homies at CAA can brainwash generations of kids with anti-family messaging and then attempt to intimidate actors into being silent during mass murder as long as their executives stick to the script.

Apple can depend on sweatshop labor and censor their most popular apps in service to the regime, but as long as Tim Cook shows up for interviews with answers cleared by his legal team, somehow that becomes respectable or even standard corporate behavior.

The fact that Musk's comments were met with predictable name-calling instead of requests for a deeper conversation sure is telling.

Musk gave no indication that he was trying to spark deeper conversations. He came off as challenging the advertisers to support him or risk being blamed for destroying the platform. He sat on the stage preening and shrugging and repeating his FU rather than stating a case for the advertiser's continues support. He is certainly entitled to say "my way or the highway". But like everyone else who says that, he has no right to complain when people take the highway.

SeattleSilver wrote:

Vidiot2 wrote:

Huge multinational companies with hundreds of billons of dollars at their disposal and the backing of the world's larges corrupt banks (and even more corrupt central banks / governments) in their corner go after a guy with less money and resources (who is probably also tied up with some of the more exploitative financial concerns), and he tells them to go kick rocks.

If it isn't all theater just to make people think there is dissent in the billionaire ranks, then it is pretty awesome.

And even it if it theater, it sure as hell beats the manufactured consensus that makes up most mass-media . One can only hope it prompts people to have deeper conversations about what is going on between government, mass media, and various parts of the population.

Then of course there's the 'troll' aspect: the worst and most murderous things in the world tend to be done with an air of politeness. Like "hey I get that Trump started less wars than any other president in our lifetimes, but he just isn't polite enough" -- implication being that you can be a mass-murdering crony and still be called 'presidential' long as you stay on script.

Likewise, Disney and their homies at CAA can brainwash generations of kids with anti-family messaging and then attempt to intimidate actors into being silent during mass murder as long as their executives stick to the script.

Apple can depend on sweatshop labor and censor their most popular apps in service to the regime, but as long as Tim Cook shows up for interviews with answers cleared by his legal team, somehow that becomes respectable or even standard corporate behavior.

The fact that Musk's comments were met with predictable name-calling instead of requests for a deeper conversation sure is telling.

Musk gave no indication that he was trying to spark deeper conversations. He came off as challenging the advertisers to support him or risk being blamed for destroying the platform. He sat on the stage preening and shrugging and repeating his FU rather than stating a case for the advertiser's continues support. He is certainly entitled to say "my way or the highway". But like everyone else who says that, he has no right to complain when people take the highway.

TMOX1968 wrote:

Red State Rob wrote:

No stupid. It is because he believes in free speech and the advertisers are corporatists who want to compel people to do what benefits them. They don't give a $hit whether Elon loves or hates Jews. Elon is not anti Semitic. He misinterpreted a tweet and responded in a way that looks bad, you and other are just looking for an excuse to hate him. The advertiser boycott started way before any remarks people are pretending to be offended by. The problem leftists has is they need to crush opposing speech because their ideas do not stand up when confronted with actual arguement. That is why they have tried so hard to prevent most people from accessing opposing ideas. If a few million people watch Fox News, that is a drop in the bucket. A hundred million being exposed to opposing ideas on X, that is a real problem.

Rob - there is nothing that can compel a company to advertise on any platform. If an advertiser deems a platform to be toxic to their business, they can pull their funds and advertise somewhere else. That is the nature of the free market - nobody can force you to buy something you don't want to purchase. There is nothing crushing Free Speech on Twitter - I can go on the app right now and read all sorts of opposing views about numerous topics. Twitter can continue bleeding money and allowing all sorts of left/right/center discourse, as long as Elon and his financiers want to continue spending a significant fortune to run the place at a loss every month.

PS If you think Elon Musk bought Twitter because he 'believes in free speech', I've got a Cybertruck you can have for $39K (just wire me the money, and I'll have it delivered to your house, free of charge).