Taylor LorenzHere's Elon Musk telling X advertisers to not advertise and to go fuck themselves: “Go fuck yourself”
Lauren Isaacson@taylorlorenz That's one way to burn down your own house.
Rich@taylorlorenz that’ll win em back for sure.
Brian Moakley@taylorlorenz That is one broken man.
tinfoilhat@taylorlorenz not spending money on a service is blackmail? He has lost the plot.
Deb4+ aka Deborah DT 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️Poor spoiled rich boy. We're supposed to be docile.
rugbygawd@taylorlorenz What a clown.
Junio Anthes-Moody@taylorlorenz He seems high, I mean higher than normal. Is it just the recording?
Wendy Lady@junio @taylorlorenz he's definitely abusing ADHD medication or some other amphetamines. I see this kind of behavior with the people I work with. I'd feel sad for him if not for the fact that he is still gunna be a billionaire whether he loses Xitter or not.
Selena@NerdRage42 @junio @taylorlorenz
All the money in the world. But no-one to tell him to lay off the drugs. Just a bunch of yes-men that'll give him anything he thinks he want. smh.
All the money in the world. But no-one to tell him to lay off the drugs. Just a bunch of yes-men that'll give him anything he thinks he want. smh.
@Selena @junio @taylorlorenz nah. At this point it's purely a physical addiction for him. Even if someone told him to get help he's got enough money to pay people to be quiet and let him carry on with it.
@NerdRage42 @Selena @taylorlorenz While I’m talking about him, I’ve been wanting to print out that you can still download the actual Twitter app on the Mac App Store. Genius is not paying attention.
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Deborah@NerdRage42 @Selena @junio @taylorlorenz Plus, combine this with his type of personality, and yes people will not take him on about this in his own workplace either (because of the fear of consequences)
oldguycrustySo the #DeadBird #X site is longer a thing for me. I have no dog in the fight so to speak.
That said, this #fascist #oligarch #AfriKKKaner is a threat to #CivilSociety #democracy #Peace and #Decency in general.
He is an #Embarrassment
#LeonSkum is a #WhinyLoser with #InheritedWealth
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@taylorlorenz "World's Richest Man" there everybody, what a wonderful system we have, only the best rise to the top 🙃
Xav@taylorlorenz He's losing money, panicked and made an even dumber move by saying this
Jef Poskanzer
Børge@taylorlorenz Why does he look like a Muppet, tho?
Cat West@forteller @taylorlorenz So much Botox in him that his upper lip no longer moves, just sort of ‘clacks’ like a dummy.
Chip Unicorn@taylorlorenz
Wow. That's, uhmmm, certainly something that Elon said.
Wow. That's, uhmmm, certainly something that Elon said.
Eddie the Bulldog@taylorlorenz I didn't INTEND to racist. I just naturally act and talk like one.
Ryan Singel@taylorlorenz
That reach for the water. He's so nervous. He wants the kids to like him so much that it's pathetic
That reach for the water. He's so nervous. He wants the kids to like him so much that it's pathetic
@ryansingel @taylorlorenz The sharp, rapid head movements.
Oscar@taylorlorenz vitamin K speaking?
vappster (moved!)@taylorlorenz Jeez... this gave me secondhand embarrassment.
LexiGirl@vappster @taylorlorenz he’s just so cringe. Like, he personifies the word.
Rick Ekle@taylorlorenz Apparently pissing away 44 billion can have an effect on your mood...
GadgetGav@taylorlorenz What does he keep looking out at? Surely he can’t see anything of the audience when he’s under the stage lights and it’s not like he hasn’t spoken from a stage before.
Matt Blair@gadgetgav @taylorlorenz He’s looking in vain for someone to applaud and call him a genius.
@mjmbca There must have been a big audience but you could hear a pin drop. He’ll be looking a long time.
Ray Hayes@taylorlorenz The wealthy can afford to burn their bridges just like they can afford to burn their rockets and cars it seems. Damn'd if I'd fly in one though most of Uber it seems is driving Tesla vehicles.
@taylorlorenz so. If the only real reason to have Xitter blue or premium or whatever it is, is to avoid advertising, then...how is he supposed to make money off those premium subscriptions when there's no advertisers in the first place? Seems dumb.
Robert Lou Dobbs III@taylorlorenz I'm sure some of them will.
Andrew Canion 
@taylorlorenz I’m getting Howard Hughes vibes.
Joe Beam@JoeBeam @taylorlorenz No argument.
Mr. Muffin@taylorlorenz I must have missed that class in B’School!
Brian@taylorlorenz Just all out class here folks. These are the “brightest” minds people look to and are inspired by.
Also like how the first F-bomb didn’t get a reaction. He watched then went for it again.
@taylorlorenz guarantee you in 1-3 months every company that paused advertising, including Bob and Disney, will be right back to running ads on X.
BenderIsGreat34@taylorlorenz I could never be a smart business genius like Elmo.
Nicole ParsonsElon Musk can afford to tell his advertisers to eff themselves because his investors aren't interested in Twitter as a business.
Musk's investors are interested in ending democracy & thwarting climate action.
His investors are prepared to let Musk operate at a loss just to get those 2 items.
They're prepared to spend unlimited money keeping Twitter afloat to accomplish this.
Twitter's collapse could trigger a global financial crisis like 2008.
Bonus. In their view.
1/2
2/2
To Musk's investors, the collapse of Twitter means the possibility of a timely 2024 recession.
GOP billionaires are all over the business news desperately trying to doomcry a 2024 recession into existence, just to hurt Biden's re-election.
To his investors, a global financial crisis means the upward flight of capital into the hands of the 1%. Again
They ignore the human costs of millions losing their homes; the corporate bailouts & profiteering in 2008 & during the pandemic were worth it
LeighG@Npars01 I'm constantly fascinated at how happily they work to bankrupt as many people as possible with no apparent recognition that profits require consumers -- and if your business model is the unsustainable constant profit growth plan, don't you need more consumers and for the consumers to keep having more money? Who are they imagining will be buying their stuff after they've pushed masses of ppl into poverty?
Billionaires aren't interested in systems thinking.
"Consequences are for the little people." is how they view the problems caused by fossil fuel use, tax evasion, destruction of the middle class, policies of impoverishment for the next generation, price gouging, civil rights rollbacks, voter suppression, public corruption, pandemic profiteering, pointless wars, and funded anti-democracy activities.
CassandraVert@Npars01 @BluegrassRoots
They have a ton of money outside the system and therefore not affected by the system.
They have a ton of money outside the system and therefore not affected by the system.
@CassandraVert @BluegrassRoots
The world's tax havens:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-biggest-private-tax-havens/
arthurforest@Npars01 @BluegrassRoots until the day they are exterminated.
Marion 🍋@Npars01 @BluegrassRoots narcissists as they are!
Patsy@BluegrassRoots @Npars01 they make money from the poor, sick, and uneducated. People in poverty still buy things. They use pay day loans and/or go into high interest debt to buy things and live paycheck to paycheck. They also use food stamps that put our tax payer dollars back into corporate pockets and live in government subsidized housing that goes straight to corporate management companies. There’s a whole market that capitalizes on keeping people poor.
Benjamin@Npars01 @taylorlorenz I see this kind of talk a lot. I think what people miss is that
Twitter was NEVER actually that beneficial to humanity.
Sure it helped during the Arab Spring (which didn’t really work out), but it also played a big role in giving us president Trump.
@taylorlorenz
It’s all bulshit coming from his mouth, all of it. Just watched the clip of him talking about unions. He’s says he knows what it’s like to work on the line and he respects those who work s on the line. BULLSHIT!
Isho'ye@JoeBeam @taylorlorenz Be shocked if he's ever picked up a a wrench in his life. Wouldn't trust him to change a tire on a Power Wheels Barbie Jeep.
Brad @ GDC@taylorlorenz “How do you justify swindling an investment group into investing $44 Billion into your advertising business then?”. is that the question that got cut off at the end? One can only hope
@taylorlorenz cumboy looking like shit these days.
@taylorlorenz The man is clearly a product of abundant PR, and never having worked a day in his life, thinks he’s a super human when the reality is he’s 1º from a tapeworm
@taylorlorenz this fucking loser is dressed like a cheap knockoff of Maverick from Top Gun.
@taylorlorenz
He needs mental help.
He needs mental help.