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They love their persecution complex, don't they?

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Never trust Musk to actually pay for anything.

[–] Pattern 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, came here to post this. Unless it’s made legally binding these statements mean fuck all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

And if it is, he'll find some way to screw it up. Like the Twitter acquisition.

[–] Custoslibera 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This will literally never happen.

[–] Desistance 31 points 2 years ago

Musk doesn't pay bills.

[–] BeefPiano 27 points 2 years ago

Like the people he fired for criticizing him in tweets?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Be a fascist piece of shit at work bro, I totally got you covered!

[–] theduncan 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So if you post company secrets on X, when you get sued X will pay your lawyer fees?

I think that will happen the day after X starts paying rent.

[–] tallwookie 1 points 2 years ago
[–] ChicagoCoder9 16 points 2 years ago

Bro can't even post rent on twitter buildings

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Musk hasn't paid his own legal bills, his ex employees for their severance, or the rent for Twitter offices on multiple continents, his word is as good as Donald Trumps.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He qualified it by specifying it's if you were "unfairly" facing repercussions, which of course means he can deny or accept anyone he wants for any reason that he wants and still claim he's upholding his pledge.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"unfair" doesn't mean shit in court. Either you were fired for a protected reason or you weren't. Being a Nazi is not a protected class.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Of course, it's just his "get out of jail free" card to save face publicly when he starts rejecting requests.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So Trump's "will be wild!" tweet that resulted in impeachment and 4 federal felonies could get his legal bills funded by Musk? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Technically that happened on Twitter and not on x

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

This is exactly what Musk’s lawyers will claim when Trump tries to get Musk to pay.

[–] AshMan85 8 points 2 years ago

yeah right, he doesnt pay his own bills

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

The king of empty promises.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Narrator: But in fact, he won't.

[–] breadsmasher 6 points 2 years ago

Is there any evidence of an employer persecuting someone for what their post or like on twitter?

And I don’t mean right wing nutjobs getting fired for posting hateful diatribes and being surprised cause mUh FrEeZePeAcH

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Brb gonna go insult my boss on twitter

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

He's not going to. He's so full of shit his eyes are brown.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk has offered to fund the legal bills of any users of his social network, X, who’ve been discriminated against by their employer because of their actions on the platform.

The proposal comes with “no limit” on costs and X Corp. will “go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” he said in messages posted to the site Saturday night.

The billionaire, who acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October and recently rebranded it as X, has made a habit of announcing major policy changes for the service late at night or over weekends.

Amid firing thousands after his purchase of Twitter, the billionaire publicly mocked senior director Halli Thorleifsson after the worker tried to gain clarity on his employment status at the company.

Former employees of Musk’s other companies, SpaceX and Tesla Inc., have also complained that they were fired in retaliation for critical comments about him in his role as chief executive officer of both firms.

The self-styled “free speech absolutist” hired NBCUniversal ad executive Linda Yaccarino as CEO in May to help repair partnerships in the media industry and lure back advertisers.


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[–] carl_dungeon 4 points 2 years ago

It wont happen