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Apple Pausing Advertising on X Following Latest Elon Musk Controversy
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Like Palestinian children in a freshly bombed hospital.
Zero Click forever. We know what Tim Cook supports.
Good. The sooner it dies, the sooner we can stop hearing about it.
Well, for starters, humanity segregated a bunch of melanin-blessed people in the southernmost African country for quite a number of years.
I’m not Pro-Musk. Tesla and SpaceX aren’t going anywhere, regardless if he’s CEO or not. Good riddance.
FINALLY.
That was the most deserved "finally" ever written on this site.
That was the most deserved "finally" ever written on this site.
1. dont use any adblockers and antitrackers
2. make couple apple hw/services related searches on the internet for a week
3. fire up twitter, open up any controversial tweet whatsoever
4. post screenshots on the internet on your website
5, advertise your website
6. profit i guess?
2. make couple apple hw/services related searches on the internet for a week
3. fire up twitter, open up any controversial tweet whatsoever
4. post screenshots on the internet on your website
5, advertise your website
6. profit i guess?
Twitter was one of the worst social networks even before Musk. Before COVID. Before it all. Every community is so violently disconnected from the real world and I read the most insane takes, both progressive and neonazi, that make even places like 4chan seem same.
I feel like I need one of those “I hated Bush before it was cool” bumper stickers, but for Twitter. I haven’t had an account since 2018, and it’s been so great.
I feel like I need one of those “I hated Bush before it was cool” bumper stickers, but for Twitter. I haven’t had an account since 2018, and it’s been so great.
Twitter would end up as a propaganda feed for intolerance, just as I said it would when Elon took over.
Crazy how many times we have to prove to ourselves that absolute free speech doesn't work. It only leads to doxxing, calls to violence, eugenics, anti-semitism, all kinds of tolerance of blatant intolerance.
On the flip-side, I'm very happy that Elon is too emotionally reactive to understand how he's actually perceived.
But I guess all of this nonsense is to be expected when you give someone so clearly on the spectrum free rein with next to no consequences.
So Musk is an anti-semite? Who knew? Everybody.
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
I think he is seeing the consequences; the issue is that he will play the victim.
There's a reason why Musk changed the name of the company from Twitter to X
Twitter’s “X” Design Based on Nazi Swastika | flyingpenguin
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Quite a shock, if you’ve spent the last year living under a rock.
I don't think I've ever been persuaded by an ad on Twitter, or anywhere in the internet for that matter.
Let me understand this.
A guy says "Jewish communities are pushing dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them"
So parsing this....some Jewish people make anti-white intellectual aguments. This is true from a certain perspective as "anti-white" arguments have become very in-vogue, but claiming "communities" is clearly painting with too broad a brush.
He then continues saying basically...he doesn't care about helping Jewish people when "their" opinion about the relative merits of immigration lead to other countries having large proportion of people who are not supportive of Jewish people.
Elon Musk then tweets "You have said the actual truth". What part? There are like 10 propositions tied into that mess.
This is the big earth shattering anti-semitism? That many Jewish intellectuals do support ideas that are easily understood as anti white and the original author doesn't care that the outcomes may be hard for them?
Thats a bunch of jumbled thoughts to say "are the truth" and it's generally silly to ascribe to a whole group the actions of individual members but this is weak sauce for "antisemitic" tweet. Under this way of thinking everyone who makes a comment about "whiteness" or "white privilege" is anti-white. The internet is just a dumb place.
But Musk should stay off twitter. It's good to promote free speech but he just makes dumb tweets which hurt the company.
A guy says "Jewish communities are pushing dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them"
So parsing this....some Jewish people make anti-white intellectual aguments. This is true from a certain perspective as "anti-white" arguments have become very in-vogue, but claiming "communities" is clearly painting with too broad a brush.
He then continues saying basically...he doesn't care about helping Jewish people when "their" opinion about the relative merits of immigration lead to other countries having large proportion of people who are not supportive of Jewish people.
Elon Musk then tweets "You have said the actual truth". What part? There are like 10 propositions tied into that mess.
This is the big earth shattering anti-semitism? That many Jewish intellectuals do support ideas that are easily understood as anti white and the original author doesn't care that the outcomes may be hard for them?
Thats a bunch of jumbled thoughts to say "are the truth" and it's generally silly to ascribe to a whole group the actions of individual members but this is weak sauce for "antisemitic" tweet. Under this way of thinking everyone who makes a comment about "whiteness" or "white privilege" is anti-white. The internet is just a dumb place.
But Musk should stay off twitter. It's good to promote free speech but he just makes dumb tweets which hurt the company.
Starship is going to try again tonight. Maybe Musk should be onboard when it takes off? In other news famous American hero Charles Lindberg was an admirer of that failed Austrian painter wannabe and thought fascism was peachy keen (at first).
They should have done this a long time ago. Elon is a terrible person.
If Apple should stay out of every country that violates human rights, they should pull back from a lot of markets. Including the US.
Look, all western companies have pulled back from Russia. Did it stop the war? No.
Sure. Antisemitic tropes don’t stop being antisemitic when Elon endorses them.
Funny how the only topic off limits enough to warrant this sort of response is questioning Jewish power, and how consistently people are blackballed for doing so. Must just be a coincidence.
Maybe Musk should have stuck to a more advertiser-friendly target for his comments, like White people. Advertisers and big tech companies seem to be fine with that.
EDIT: Also funny to note that Apple is oh-so-principled, but not principled enough to remove X from the App Store and forgo their cut of X's subscription payments.
Maybe Musk should have stuck to a more advertiser-friendly target for his comments, like White people. Advertisers and big tech companies seem to be fine with that.
EDIT: Also funny to note that Apple is oh-so-principled, but not principled enough to remove X from the App Store and forgo their cut of X's subscription payments.
Or standing nearby, to see whether this launch destroys the launchpad again.
Does TwitterX have a large enough hardcore followers willingly sacrifice themselves to keep it afloat? Apple has such a crowd in the size of millions. If TwitterX doesn’t have, then I don’t know how long it can last with big money leaving the platform. Ultimately however, all of this is not my problem.
And they have millions of hardcore followers, allowing Apple to live indefinitely and guaranteed to make some profit regardless of economic situations. Twitter doesn’t have this luxury.
Not terrible, just a classic narcissist. Know any others?
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