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[–] [email protected] 173 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Didn't he tell them to "go fuck themselves?" 🤔

[–] [email protected] 67 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He did and how he's suprised I guess

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Poor Mr. Perfume he must REALLY need the money...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Gambit? Masterful. Car door? Slammed. Dick? Fully inside car door. 12-D chess? Played. Same time tomorrow.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look at Mr. "Multple dicks to slam into car doors" over here 😆

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say doors probably won't chop a dick completely off, but if it's a cyber truck all bets are off.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Ah yes I remember the Xmen known as dick, he had such a big....personality that sometimes he can be kind of a wanker🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So he's the head of the conspiracy and should be the one charged?

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[–] [email protected] 165 points 3 months ago

Ah yes, suing your customers is a brilliant way to get more people to buy your stuff.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So let me get this straight…

  1. buy a platform
  2. ruin it and push away advertisers
  3. tell them you don’t need them and they should go fuck themselves
  4. sue them for leaving

…?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

By this next next year... Definitely within the next 1000 months

[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Suing former advertisers may possibly not be the best way to get other advertisers to come to your platform.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Advertisers have given me no moneys either.

Send cheque plz.

I'd really love to see fElon get what he wants here. One paid ad from all the companies.

"Elon fucks kids"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Can I chip in on this…?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

yeah damnit, I waste my personal time having to watch the damn things. Advertisers should be paying us for the privilege of our attention.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Send cheque plz

I read that in the voice of Mona-Lisa Saperstein from Parks and Rec

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Money pweeez!

[–] [email protected] 77 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Man who told advertisers to go fuck themselves sues advertisers for not spending money on his platform.

I'm sure this will be sure to bring in tons of advertising dollars to Der Xitter.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I ain't no genius, but maybe the advertisers are busy fucking themselves as per Elon's suggestion. 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago

Wow, I didn't think he could top his past idiocy, but this is pretty impressive. "You were unfair to me because I'm a terrible piece of shit and you didn't want the association of your brand and my nazi site so you owe me money!" It's just incredible.

Hat tip, Lonnie. You've outdone yourself again.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Musk is suing under antitrust laws. I’m not sure they work that way. Antitrust laws prevent producers from consolidating and exploiting consumers. However, when it comes to advertising placements, the companies are consumers, not producers, and I don’t think a consumer advocacy group (which the World Federation of Advertisers functions as in this regard) is illegal.

I don’t know, I am not a lawyer, but it seems like Twitter is grasping at straws here.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Let's also note that at any other time, Musk would be railing against antitrust laws.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

The interesting thing is that it means he is desperate enough to try something that makes him look this stupid

Anybody with Elon Musk centric stocks needs to sell them quickly

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I know right? I mean if they colluded to lower advertising prices through collective agreement that would be something. Especially if they had an internal forcing mechanism to ensure compliance.

But um, they set out voluntary guidelines they suggested everyone follow to protect each member's own best interests, and decided to spend zero dollars to buy nothing, which is a far far cry from trying to spend zero dollars to buy something.

What an ultra-maroon.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mandatory product purchasing. The ultimate capitalist’s wet dream…

[–] Sculptor9157 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just like vehicle insurance.

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[–] xmunk 38 points 3 months ago

Your honor, I demand they like me. Why doesn't anyone like me...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you Exhibit A.

That is all, I rest my case. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Imagine the prosecuting attorney in the opening scene of Better Call Saul, coming into the court room with a tape of this in his hand.

Without saying a word, the tv cart is pushed into the court room and he slowly pushed the tape in.

The entire court room stays silent as the video is played, with the lone exception of Musk who is tweeting about how unfair the judge is.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Goddamn he looks so punchable

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The duden must have a fetish for doomed lawsuits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Courtroom BDSM fetish

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

Didn't he sue another company that did tests on the site to see if ads would show up beside hateful content, which showed they would, and that case ended up being dismissed?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

"Why did people stop paying me for services I no longer provide!?"
- Some guy who burnt down his house and then yelled at Air BnB users for cancelling their bookings

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Being a lawyer and working for someone like Musk must be both rewarding and embarrassing at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (1 children)

rewarding

lucrative, yes... rewarding? maybe not so much.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Rewarding because you can accurately gauge exactly how much smarter you are than the world's richest man?

Or rewarding because you get to burden the legal system with all those hypotheticals that the one troll in your law classes kept asking and your professors kept claiming "no judge would ever entertain that idea"?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I assumed rewarding as in another house and stable work

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Free market gets sued for practising freedom

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

“Free speech absolutionist” my ass

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

His "Free Speech Absolutionism" is just.... Freedom from any consequences for what you say.... Which is also a really stupid thought process..

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Welp, time to set up a lemonade stand and sue everybody who didn’t stop to buy my $5000 cups of watered-down kool-aid.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

I didn’t know we could be entitled to advertisement money. Hang on while I sue Unilever for some free money in return for wearing a sandwich board with their logo on it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Something, something, free market something

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

What a pinheaded twit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

holy shit i honestly don't know whether i hate twatter/muks more or advertisers more--is it possible for them to both lose, please?

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