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[–] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 321 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 119 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The US government does it consistently.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 23 points 10 months ago

United Simps of Conservative America

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months 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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[–] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 151 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 128 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

Conservatism is a mental illness

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago

Stop using the fucking platform idiots.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 83 points 10 months 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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[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 77 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months 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.

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 49 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months 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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[–] krayj@sh.itjust.works 61 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Joker@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Blackmist 30 points 10 months 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?

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 18 points 10 months ago

Because he lets them say slurs.

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[–] OneStepAhead@lemmynsfw.com 54 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 38 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] drdabbles@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months 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@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months 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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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 28 points 10 months 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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[–] ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago

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

[–] zabadoh@lemmy.ml 20 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 17 points 10 months ago

I love it when conservatives out their racism without knowing it.

[–] theherk@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months 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.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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."

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months 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?

[–] nicetomeetyouIMVEGAN@lemmings.world 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

"Sell it to who Ben? Fucking aquaman?"

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[–] badbytes@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

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

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