Apple Pausing Advertising on X Following Latest Elon Musk Controversy

[370zulu]

Ah, the “paradox of intolerance” canard.

The intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance.

Since they have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by the contract, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.

Canard? That’s rich. Hypocrisy and gaslighting from the intolerant “tolerant”.

 

[DVD9]

Again and I don’t mean to be sarcastic or anything in that manner but there’s this really Merit to this type of argument? I mean obviously people get angry when they think things are being taken away from them in any degree. But people have no longer can step back and let things disappear I just have to keep aggravating the situation.

People have been "stepping back and letting things disappear" in Palestine since 1948. The Israelis are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide in both Gaza and the West Bank. The Israelis are extremely active, and aggressive in the West Bank (where Hamas does not exist) bulldozing houses of Palestinians as well as making mass arrests and killing - with guns - well over one hundred Palestinians since October 7th.

 

[DFZD]

i mean vivek is a total crank, but i can understand the allure of a crank. and trump is a joke, but he’s a very effective carnival barker for right wingers. if someone’s a foaming at the mouth reactionary fueled by manufactured outrage, i get why those two would do it for them. but musk is boring. and corny. what does he offer? he’s room temperature mayonnaise on untoasted white bread with a hair in it. the best he can do is regurgitate warmed over far right talking points and retweet groypers and bad memes from 8 years ago.

idk, he only bought twitter because the government made him and this fReE sPeEcH wArRiOr rebrand is new, it’s obvious he botched whatever play he was going for by pretending he was gonna buy twitter so he hopped on the right wing band wagon for political influence. but he’s such a milquetoast clown that he doesn’t actually garnish respect from anyone with real power and his incessant buffoonery seems to create more problems for the right wing movement than it helps.

all he seems to be doing is ruining the good will he once had. which makes me happy, he’s always been a con artist to me. but you would think at this point he’d be more of a jeb bush or chris christie figure where no one takes him seriously no matter where they fall on the political spectrum, but the few diehards hold strong no matter how many L’s they take. it’s bizarre, i honestly don’t get it.

I think a social phenomenon that I have observed is that when a large group exists without a clear and strong leader validating their “theories”… they latch on to just about anyone.. just for the validation if nothing else.. this is why people like Ben Shapiro and even Joe Rogan became so popular.. most of the times they are just contradicting their own speeches from last week. But the group never doubts their leader. Its almost how bees work.

 

[370zulu]

"Oh, you don't tolerate intolerance? Well how look at how intolerant you are."
- You, right now.

Says the hater

 

[lovehateapple]

...a cesspool of "free speech" (read: out-and-out lies spread by propaganda outlets).

Kinda like the mainstream media, right?

 

[DFZD]

People have been "stepping back and letting things disappear" in Palestine since 1948. The Israelis are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide in both Gaza and the West Bank. The Israelis are extremely active, and aggressive in the West Bank (where Hamas does not exist) bulldozing houses of Palestinians as well as making mass arrests and killing - with guns - well over one hundred Palestinians since October 7th.

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You do realise that all this discussion has no value anymore since the Hamas’ attack on civilians on Oct 7th? There is no moral ground left to debate over now. Only thing left to bargain for Palestine supporters is to not let Israel control Gaza after the “special operations” are done and let Palestinians form a civil government (not another militant control group).

 

[Shirasaki]

Very recently Apple wanted to censor a Jewish Comedian (Jon Stewart) when he wanted to talk about Israel, AI and China. So he quit.

This has more to do with angering CCP than anything related to Israel.

 

[madrigal77]

We all knew this was going to happen. Musk can’t manage the town square of the world if there’s no moderation and if he continues to express his conservative political views.

If he insists on turning X into a Truth Social clone and propaganda machine for extreme right republicans, then Apple has no place on that platform. Good for Tim.

As opposed to it being a propaganda machine for extreme left liberals like it was before he took over?

 

[Gasu E.]

Uhm... what Musk said is exactly right:

"The ADL unjustly attacks the majority of the West, despite the majority of the West supporting the Jewish people and Israel. This is because they cannot, by their own tenets, criticize the minority groups who are their primary threat.
It is not right and needs to stop."

What the H E double hockey sticks is antisemitic about this comment? This is just another case of the liberal minorities canceling and bullying people who call them out.

While Musk has said disparaging things about the ADL, the post that everyone is talking about does not mention the ADL, and is not the one who quote above. Are you unaware of the post in question, are you gaslighting, or have you been gaslit yourself?

 

[Shirasaki]

Kinda like the mainstream media, right?

Everyone has their freedom to choose which side they want to be brainwashed on.

 

[Shirasaki]

I don‘t know what people do on X but my timeline never ever showed any pro Hitler anti Jew stuff 🤷‍♂️

Me too. Mostly just anime stuff and 80% contents are written in Japanese.

 

[DFZD]

As opposed to it being a propaganda machine for extreme left liberals like it was before he took over?

You keep putting left and liberals together for some reason. Liberals are liberals.. they are on both sides and they very rarely discuss issues that far left and far right guys keep attacking each other on. So what ever rivalry you have with left. Just don’t drag liberals into it.

 

[Shirasaki]

You should take a look at the explore screen and what trends each day on twitter. It’s like being subscribed to hate speech as a service.

Oh about that. No thanks. We are busy with other more pressing matter.

 

[lovehateapple]

People have been "stepping back and letting things disappear" in Palestine since 1948. The Israelis are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide in both Gaza and the West Bank. The Israelis are extremely active, and aggressive in the West Bank (where Hamas does not exist) bulldozing houses of Palestinians as well as making mass arrests and killing - with guns - well over one hundred Palestinians since October 7th.

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Thank you for this post.

 

[Gasu E.]

Well, I agree with the concept I think it’s unlikely to happen. Musk is just too wealthy. If he wanted to; Elon could run twitter, currently referred to as X, as a pure vanity product with no income

Not as much as you think. He realized that he couldn't finance the Twitter purchase out of his own wealth, so he had to take out two massive loans. One is a personal loan secured by some of his remaining Tesla stock; the other is owed by Twitter itself. Twitter has to have enough positive cashflow to pay off the interest and the principal of its own loans; if it fails to do so, Elon will lose the company.

 

[junkw]

Is this the same platform? Also I am unable to find it in the App Store

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See the Gab page on Infogalactic (the non-far-left Wikipedia):

Gab (company) - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core

infogalactic.com

Even Larry the co-founder of Wikipedia disavows his creation: https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikip...ow-propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/

Quoting Wikipedia on political subjects is just signaling your friends of a political opinion not based in reality

 

[DVD9]

While Musk has said disparaging things about the ADL, the post that everyone is talking about does not mention the ADL, and is not the one who quote above. Are you unaware of the post in question, are you gaslighting, or have you been gaslit yourself?

Well, no such post from Elon exists in this thread. It's 2023. Screenshot what you're talking about or drop it.

 

[ThaGoochiestMane]

source?

Elon Musk denies that Tim Cook ever cursed him out after a new book claims the Apple CEO hung up on him with a 'f--- you'

The exchange reportedly happened as Cook and Musk discussed the tech giant potentially buying Tesla. The CEOs both say they've never spoken.

www.businessinsider.com

Elon Musk wanted to be Apple CEO, but Tim Cook dropped an F bomb on that idea [U: Musk denies] - 9to5Mac

Update: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is denying that this interaction ever took place. He wrote on Twitter today that he...

9to5mac.com

 

[junkw]

In your own words please define “far left communist agenda”

anti-white
anti-male
anti-heterosexual
anti-christian
anti-freedom
anti-security
anti-health

 

[Shirasaki]

People have been "stepping back and letting things disappear" in Palestine since 1948. The Israelis are currently engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide in both Gaza and the West Bank. The Israelis are extremely active, and aggressive in the West Bank (where Hamas does not exist) bulldozing houses of Palestinians as well as making mass arrests and killing - with guns - well over one hundred Palestinians since October 7th.

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Let’s just conveniently ignore the past four failed attempts by international community to resolve the border conflict once and for all, and let’s also ignore that hamas so-called constitution directly mentions the cleansing of Jewish people in Israel as their sole purpose of existence.

Of course, let’s also apply preferential human rights. This will work very well to resolve the Israel Gaza conflict.

 

[DFZD]

See the Gab page on Infogalactic (the non-far-left Wikipedia):

Gab (company) - Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core

infogalactic.com

Even Larry the co-founder of Wikipedia disavows his creation: https://nypost.com/2021/07/16/wikip...ow-propaganda-for-left-leaning-establishment/

Quoting Wikipedia on political subjects is just signaling your friends of a political opinion not based in reality

Turns out even Apple and Google have been hijacked by the left leaning establishment… I think we need a non far left Apple now and an iPhone with mute switch on right side.

 

[FranApple]

We pulled our $250,000 ad budget on Twitter the day he came in. We didn't want to advertise HR software next to nazi tweets that stayed up even when reported.

That company is bleeding to death thanks to Elon.

He doesn’t seem worried one iota though which I find strange.

 

[Chuckeee]

Let’s just conveniently ignore the past four failed attempts by international community to resolve the border conflict once and for all, and let’s also ignore that hamas so-called constitution directly mentions the cleansing of Jewish people in Israel as their sole purpose of existence.

Of course, let’s also apply preferential human rights. This will work very well to resolve the Israel Gaza conflict.

It isn’t a question of one side being right and the other side is wrong. Both sides can be wrong

 

[Shirasaki]

It isn’t a question of one side being right and the other side is wrong. Both sides can be wrong

Regardless, the conflict will end when it ends. It’s pointless to argue over moral high ground, whichever side someone choose to side with.

 

[Macaholic868]

Musk stepped in it big time. As if advertisers didn’t already have enough reasons to walk away already. Not that he cares. He seems perfectly fine running it into the ground. He’s got that kind of eff you money. Must be nice….