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[–] eighymack@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Apple should get Jon Stewart to talk about Elon on his show… oh wait.

[–] dasherchan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Can’t wait to see X go bankrupt.

[–] repeatrep@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

recently the 'ads' im pushed on X are random accounts that promote... nothing? Itd be like me paying to advertise "u/repeatrep". nothing else.

[–] G48ST4R@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Imho this guy is shorting against his own companies:

  1. Short with puts
  2. Say or post something idiotic on X
  3. Stock goes down
  4. Exercise put option
  5. Long with calls
  6. Stock goes up
  7. Exercise call option

Rinse and repeat! We are laughing with Musk, but he’s the one laughing with us.

[–] midlyinfuriated_@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yet Apple continues to profit from movies, music, books and podcasts riddled with racial slurs.

[–] Neither-Phone-7264@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

i’m confused didn’t he just say not supporting israel is akin to supporting genocide? which one is it mr musk?

[–] bellevuefineart@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Apple, Lionsgate, Disney, IBM. Elon is a turd muffin.

[–] anamazingredditor@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Just remove the app from the store 🤣🤣🤣

[–] East_Onion@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

ZZZZ Change the channel Marge...

[–] ummyeahreddit@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Just a pause. Wait a week for it to blow over then funnel money to him again

[–] firthy@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

They’re the only proper company that I see on there. All the rest of the advertisers are shitty Chinese gadgets.

[–] teetotallyRadish@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

go to mars already, doofus

[–] ZombieSlapper23@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

“Furious consumers to pause buying Apple products after they continue to benefit from slave labor”

[–] morbob@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Fuck X, vote with your money and don’t give it to X.

[–] namforb@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Cancel Musk.

[–] voluptuous_component@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What, so boosting all the insane rightwingers before this wasn't enough?

[–] ShrimpRampage@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

You gotta say the whole thing. “X formerly known as Twitter”. Like tribe called quest, Tom.

[–] NikoliVolkoff@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

My my my... if isn't the consequences of his actions coming back to haunt him, again and again and again. What is Twitter worth now? $10b?

[–] ithinkoutloudtoo@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

This is ironic considering that Tim Cook has met with China’s dictator before. And Apple does business with a country that is against basic human rights.

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[–] Psittacula2@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Engineered Outrage: "The Outrage! The Outage!"

The what? What does it matter apart from nonsense?

The same goes with advertisements.

[–] FourzerotwoFAILS@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This really doesn’t help his court case. You know the one where he’s suing for slander because a watchdog said there’s to much antisemitism and hate speech on the platform….

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[–] smakusdod@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Nobody here knows the real story right?

[–] kbt@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

"Pause": we can't risk being associated with this so we have to make a statement, let it blow over and silently begin advertising again sometime later.

[–] YZYSZN1107@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

At this point why does Apple even advertise on Twitter. I think everyone knows about Apple and their products.

[–] Lazy-Explanation7165@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Elon is brilliant, I have always wanted twitter to be ad free.

[–] dreamcastfanboy34@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why didn't Apple pause advertising when he retweeted Andrew Tate? Why wasn't that enough?

[–] Isa229@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It doesn’t surprise me that Shitlon is antisemitic

[–] I--Hate--Ads@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What did he do?

[–] Atman-Sunyata@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Windows user my entire life, time to buy a Mac!

[–] Luph@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

this is great but I wish people would just stop using it. that's the fastest way to get advertisers to quit it.

go to threads or mastadon or whatever. i get its hard to quit a popular network but twitter isn't that necessary.

[–] bgarza18@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Dude why does nobody have a screengrab of the tweet

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[–] luke_workin@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This is just for PR purposes. They’ll be back in time for the next Apple event. So that when you like a tweet with their hashtag it shows a fun animation.

[–] malbia@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He’s getting fucked right, left, and center haha he deserves it.

[–] Hexnohope@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why do corporations that big advertise at all? Give my eyes a fucking break i know what an iphone is. I have tasted coca cola. These are things literally everyone alive knows about you dont need to remind me you exist. If i have to hear that oreo guy call his godamned cakester a cream filled slider of happiness im going to lose it

[–] Soggy_Obligation_883@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Just goes to show companies don’t have ethics and morals. All they care about is money making, and what could prevent people from wanting to buy their products. I saw someone else say that if majority of people were Nazis, they would pander to keep those folks money around.

[–] InspectorRound8920@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

He's a putz

[–] Heinzoliger@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago
[–] Sampladelic@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It’s hard to tell they were even advertising in the first place.

80% of the ads on Twitter now are self-promo’s, crypto scams, and start ups.

It’s no wonder the company is sinking in debt

[–] longgamma@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Couldn’t he have spent like a couple of billion and made a new app from the ground up rather than buy Twitter ? Like he could have saved 40bn easily as this dumpster fire x is gonna get bankrupt soon.

[–] Anon_8675309@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pause?? Just stop altogether! That place is a slum.

[–] TheRegular-Throwaway@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago
[–] shiruken@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

It wasn't just Musk backing the anti-semitic post, it was Apple ads appearing next to far-right, pro-Nazi content.

[–] Brett-the-charmer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Pause? Just cancel full stop!

[–] Suspicious_County_24@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If he doesn’t have a mental illness I’d be shocked

[–] heachu@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Will we finally have a twitter without ads?

[–] ByrsaOxhide@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

This guy is dumber than a pigeon’s poop in the tenderloin.

[–] tommygunz007@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Doesn't Saudi Arabia own like 60% of Twitter? It makes sense then no?

[–] KyleMcMahon@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Why is it just being paused? This is the second time they’ve paused their advertising. At this point just pull it.

[–] BelatedGreeting@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

We’re expecting capitalists to be moral now? Their job is to make good products not to be good people.

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