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[–] chase_what_matters 321 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is the most simp-y shit I’ve ever heard of. You don’t bail out a billionaire.

[–] [email protected] 119 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The US government does it consistently.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage 73 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And it's the simpyest shit I've ever seen

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

United Simps of Conservative America

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[–] Sludgehammer 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really hate the term "simp" but it really fits here. Having legions of people pledging scraps of cash to literally the wealthiest personon Earth is just so... pathetic.

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[–] scarabic 15 points 1 year ago

It’s conservatroids trying to show that they have economic power too. They have big spending companies too! Like Babylon Bee! Yeah! Take that, libs!

Lol. Also, I’ve run ads on Twitter and it was a waste of money. Facebook ads work 100x better. Reddit was awful too. So these dicks are just pissing money away. After all - there’s a reason they weren’t already big spending advertisers on Twitter: because it sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 151 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apple spent ~100 M per year on adds on twitter prior to the EM buyout.

There is no way in hell these grifters will do anything but talk big. The money will never come.

[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll take "Things That Aren't Financially Possible", for $400, Alex.

[–] NOT_RICK 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They’re conservatives, don’t ask them to math

[–] skeezix 40 points 1 year ago

Conservatism is a mental illness

[–] logicbomb 16 points 1 year ago

This reminds me of those statistics that show the how the richest 10% have as much wealth as the other 90% (or whatever the exact numbers were).

And also those statistics that show how Apple is bigger than the entire economies of many countries.

[–] scarabic 91 points 1 year ago

Oh wow Andrew Tate is one of them.

Gee, when you look at all these manbaby assholes who cry about being canceled, one thing starts to stand out. They’re all manbaby assholes. Maybe if every canceled person is a manbaby asshole, then getting cancelled is actually about not liking manbaby assholes? And not about killing freedom of speech? It’s just… the pattern is undeniable.

[–] TropicalDingdong 86 points 1 year ago

Stop using the fucking platform idiots.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon finally found his people. The MAGA poverty level white Christian who hates everything that gives them that rush of energy, because their life otherwise barely has a pulse.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] RageAgainstTheRich 66 points 1 year ago (5 children)

This is actually a good thing! Let them all bundle up together and maybe they can fund and start his little society on mars and he can take all the right wing cunts with him. Then they can go cry about women and minorities together without bothering the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But who are they going to bully, if they're just among themselves?

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh you must be new. There's always an "in group" and an "out group". If somehow everyone is in the "in group" the rules change to create a new "out group".

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[–] FlyingSquid 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Got it. Tim Pool, Andrew Tate and the CEO of Babylon Bee are all antisemites who believe Jews are going to wipe them out.

Not that I'm surprised, I'm just glad we have it on record.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As much as I would LOVE to see them waste their money on this, we know they are all talk and no action and won't actually contribute anything.

[–] Stabbitha 33 points 1 year ago

That's the best part, they're all grifters trying to get attention, they won't pay a fucking cent.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is insane. Why would anyone want to bail out the world's richest man?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

People donate to supposed billionaire Donald Trump too.

I genuinely don't understand the thinking. What else do they do? Should I be worried that they walk among us?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Because he lets them say slurs.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good! That’s fewer right wing dollars going toward politicians.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine pledging to get enough money to bail out someone who can literally masturbate and squirt $44B on a whim.

Bootlickers, he doesn't need you. Really.

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[–] Red_October 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well good. Clowns should congregate in a circus, it keeps them off the streets and out of our hedges and sewers.

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[–] LEDZeppelin 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Get ready for My Pillow ads on Xitter, formally known as shitter.

[–] dangblingus 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ahhh yes, bailing out the richest man on Earth for doing dumb ass shit that a 9 year old would pull. So good at business.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey! My nine year old would never say anything bigoted on purpose.

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[–] drdabbles 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My only question is do we pronounce the "x" in xitter like "x" would be pronounced in a Chinese word? "Sh-itter"?

[–] LucasWaffyWaf 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I pronounce it Twitter and will continue to dead name the website for as long as Musk dead names his trans child.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Yes, it is pronounced Shitter, and Tweets are now Toots.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] atrielienz 23 points 1 year ago

Let the scam artist part them from their money if they're dumb enough to defend him and fund him.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could be worse. They could be putting that money towards their own fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Right wing stooges are too dumb to contribute to open source projects. They steal the code and then let it languish.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Oh good, then twatter can now become as successful as Truth social...

[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom 20 points 1 year ago

Slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp. Please Mr. Musk, I want some more.

[–] flop_leash_973 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kind of like how he pinky promises to cover the legal bills for anyone that gets in to trouble at work for being a douchbag on his platform? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66420177

"Trust me bro, I'm good for it."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, as "if" is out of the question, "when" and "how" are becoming more interesting.

How will twitter end? Will he sell it to someone else? or just fire everyone and close the doors?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Sell it to who Ben? Fucking aquaman?"

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[–] theherk 16 points 1 year ago

I love how some of the replies are about how “companies just want to control me”… Do you know what advertising is? What an empty complaint.

[–] badbytes 14 points 1 year ago

Please GOP, don't be stingy. Donate all of it to the platform formerly known at Twitter. Great business investment!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I think it does make sense for right wing things to advertise there because it's cheap and they're already not worried about appearing near Nazi sentiment.

But all the right wing influencers in the country won't replace Disney in ad spend.

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