He knows they will be back. They’re only pausing buys.

Big companies all claimed they wouldn’t donate to J6 insurrectionists… that lasted about three months before the bribes started again.

I have been boycotting Rolls Royce and Lear Jets for years and I thought I was just poor.

I’m blackmailing the meat industry

With one notable exception: report, inform and spread news about Swedish metalworker union strike against Tesla.

“What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]. The whole world will know that those advertisers killed the company and we will document it in great detail.”

I, too, prefer making other people the scapegoat to avoid letting myself feel any personal responsibility over my actions.

What this advertising boycott is going to do [is] to kill [X]

Sounds fucking good to me. Keep it up, non-advertisers.

Wasn’t he recently visiting israeli kibuts settlers and learning about the hamas attack just after the wave of press about antisemitism on X? He’s fragile.

Found it: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/elon-musk-begins-wartime-visit-israel-aviation-tracker-says-2023-11-27/

and I will buy the crap out of those products that were the downfall of Twitter X

Maybe not… If people still hang out there, we might not want them.

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I live in Ireland and for a very long time, I received so few ads I could simply block them away or tolerate them. Then one day, for no apparent reason, my feed was lousy with ads. Not relevant ads, or even generalised ads that anyone in Ireland might see - no, they were Chinese regional development ads, ads in Turkish, ads for various NGOs in Africa. It was absolute meaningless dreck. Were Twitter putting these in my feed as a bug, or to boost impressions of this junk to skim some pennies? I have no idea.

But I uninstalled the app. When I use twitter I launch it through Firefox mobile and uBlock origin and all the ads are stripped out. I don’t know if the feed issue I suffered was fixed or is still there. I don’t care any more. The way I look at it is, is Twitter is the predominant social media out there but there are many others. I’ll leech off the service and if Elon burns his platform to the ground, then there is always somewhere else. He makes out that the world will rise up against advertisers but the reality is Threads or Bluesky will takeover and that will be that.

Oh, but he does want it. At the same time he’s whining about how they’ll “kill X” and threatening to document it and tell the world what a victim he is.

That’s the sort of thing I’ve been saying for years back when he first became involved with Tesla and SpaceX and everybody was fellating him for being such a “visionary” or whatever. I’d point out that what he was doing was nothing more than what any 12-year-old nerdy kid with a Popular Science subscription and a billion dollars would do, and would get downvoted to Hell for it.

The word he’s looking for is “thank.” As in I’d like to thank the brands not advertising on Twitter. Not just the ones that withdrew their current ad campaigns, but also and especially the brands that never advertised there. I’m glad he’s documenting them because I can’t be arsed to keep a list.

This statement is the strongest evidence I’ve seen so far that he actually doesn’t know what he’s doing. Anyone who was self-aware, anyone who didn’t live in a double-hulled iron-clad bubble would certainly know that we are out here laughing at and blaming him. Not the brands.

If this isn’t a sincere proof of his ignorance, then who is this statement even for? The brands don’t believe this, and wouldn’t care if they did. The public no longer has any horse in this race. He’s talking to himself with this statement, and that’s why it’s clear that he truly has no idea what he’s doing.

Nah man, it’s someone else is fed a rotten hot dog, tells their friends, and their friends say, you know what, I don’t need a rotten hotdog in my life

Edit: and Elon is claiming he never served a rotten hot dog so it’s blackmail. But he did serve a rotten hotdog. A fetid, gross, rotten hotdog.

There’s a theory that wealth masks a lot of mental health issues behind the eccentric billionaire persona, and it definitely shows with him.

Seems like a typical narcissistic flex - I’m not at fault for doing the terrible thing, you’re at fault for not supporting me do the terrible thing and I shall have my revenge.

Looking for a scape goat.

Godspeed, boycotters. Godspeed.

Artists and porn artists.

Bluesky hasn’t got enough of them yet, mastodon apps aren’t quite on that level yet.

Also overseas users. Lots of Japanese developers are sticking with it for now, until they have to go back to mixi or some shit.

I don’t. Though I do follow a couple feeds for important things like the local NWS office. As soon as they post regularly elsewhere that can include notifications of new posts, I’ll happily drop them and Xitter.