tredstone
NiléaneYou gotta be a real fucking nazi if you think now is a better time than a year ago to purchase ad space on Elon Musk’s X
copey@nileane please bring this type of criticism to MacStories. This deserves more than just "Whatever the reason, though, it’s not a good look for Apple."
damien 🥖🐈⬛🧣@nileane Apple could afford not to do any advertising basically anywhere and they'd still make billions a quarter, it's so bizarre to see people bend over backwards to defend them still selling ads on X lol
@eramdam it's mind-boggling
Cursed Silicon
Romain Pouclet
Nicolas Furno
John Scigulinsky@nileane a year ago, it was "hedging one's bets". Right now, it's just "sucking up to power".
Apple - or any other corporation - will never make decisions based on what's right or wrong, just on what's profitable and what isn't.
Apple - or any other corporation - will never make decisions based on what's right or wrong, just on what's profitable and what isn't.
James Bilsbrough@nileane yeah… pretty clear evidence they’re just the same as other big tech in this area.
I emailed Tim to challenge him on his support of Trump, politely of course, and unsurprisingly got no response.
Francois Heinderyckx
Linux and praxis: part of the resistance 🇵🇸 ☮️Longstanding aggressive tax avoider; unconscionable markups; suicides and deaths at FoxConn; basically BSD Unix.
What's there to like about Apple?
Andy Carolan 
@nileane Wait, what?! FFS!
zetabeta@nileane
"as i need another reason to boycott apple." is not a first strike.
i have heard rumors of tesla phone. it seems there is one now.
François@nileane I was wondering. For me it’s three strikes against Apple since the start of the year. (The inauguration, the Gulf of Mexico rename, advertising on Twitter again.) For the first time after many years with Apple, I’m considering moving away. Any such thoughts for you yet?
@fmy I’m afraid moving away to Google products and services is not a better option in any aspect
@nileane Definitely not - my gmail account is the other item I’m still thinking about how to replace. My main option would be some Google-less Android phone, etc., which obviously no one ever talks about except on Mastodon, but it’s a big step.
mossfet -> EMF 2026
Graeme 🏴@nileane I'd boycott Apple if I hadn't already been doing so for years...
Bastian@nileane thats what companies do in dictatorships - you know countries where the richest person is also in the government for some reason and also controls a media company
Brokar@nileane Bow to those in power. Disgusting.
Just glad i don't own any Apple products and don't use X.
Just glad i don't own any Apple products and don't use X.
disky@nileane Let this underscore the fact that to companies, people do not matter, public opinion matters. And at the moment, the perception for the people running these companies is that public opinion is fascist as hell.
The Dude™@nileane Boy. Tim Apple sure is a dick.
gudenau@nileane Why does no one in power have any semblance of a spine?
Natalie
James Britt
TDonoval@nileane His "Roman salute" convinced them.
SellaTheChemist@nileane I am a lifelong Mac user. Met my first in 1984. And now, on the threshold of retirement I’m thinking the unthinkable: Linux.
Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)@sellathechemist @nileane GNOME has gotten very good. 🤓 I say that as a diehard Mac user for 25 years.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@nileane The billionaire clique is closing its ranks.
🐈⬛David SommersethIt's probably the same old "money talks" situation ... bloody unfortunately!
I bet Apple realized they lost revenues from potential Twitter/X users ... and that hurt them more than the reason they decided to stop the advertisement a year+ ago.
Declan@nileane It’s just so fucking depressing. It feels impossible to excise everything that the current cesspool is touching, so everything is a compromise of values vs being able to get on with life.
I’d love it if I was missing the simple easy answer to all the uncomfortable difficulties which come from being informed, but also caring about things 😅
I’d love it if I was missing the simple easy answer to all the uncomfortable difficulties which come from being informed, but also caring about things 😅
Ehay2kI guess #Apple wants all the #Nazi bots to buy their hardware?!? Because that's who's on Xitter now.
I bet 0% of their target market is on that platform or is influenced to buy anything due to ads on that platform.
Tim Cook may end up finding himself in a "Sexuality Reassignment Camp" no matter how much he financially supports the fascists in charge.
There's historical precedent for the victims to initially support their oppressors:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_collaboration_with_Nazi_Germany
Sibshops@nileane Sadly, it looks like Elon suing companies is working.
Simon 🌻@nileane Although I cannot say I’m surprised, it's still extremely disappointing. I'm sure Apple could survive very well without posting or paying for advertising on X
Serge 🔻@nileane I bet Tim Apple is behind this again. He has a history of making bad decisions.
Christopher Griffiths@nileane I just wrote to Tim Cook to express my disgust at this, the capitulation on Gulf of Mexico, etc. I hope Apple servers are being inundated by such messages. Sadly, even if they change course on the X ads, Gulf of Mexico, etc… the damage is done. Maybe there was never something special about Apple at any point, but there’s certainly no chance of them making people feel that way now.
ArdentArchivistLooks like it’s time for me to figure out Android…
Karel Gillissen@nileane
Let’s all send him a mail ([email protected]) to express our feelings. And ask him to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the gulf of the orange toddler.
Let’s all send him a mail ([email protected]) to express our feelings. And ask him to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the gulf of the orange toddler.
Mike Fraser@nileane Nobody these days wants to be on a list... Besides, Apple was never the good guy. Good guy friend to the creatives was a marketing strategy and a damn effective one.
Sievert Schreiber@nileane they're scared and paying Elon as a bribe
David Fleetwood - RG Admin@nileane So many people keep trusting their iPhones and I have no idea why.
Nicole ParsonsMusk is suing people who refuse to use his platform for advertising.
It's yet another example of Coercive Capitalism turning into dictatorship.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2025/02/02/elon-musk-x-advertising-boycott-lawsuit/78157291007/
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/01/nx-s1-5283271/elon-musk-lawsuit-advertisers-boycott-new
Patrick McLaughlinFord and Toyota ads on Twitter about how dangerous Tesla's are: buy an EV from us instead!
Lol.
A Ford advertisement with lots and lots of video of Teslas on fire or in multi-car collisions...
https://autos.yahoo.com/report-tesla-cybertruck-17-times-130000384.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/27-old-san-francisco-mans-134024386.html
Toyota advertising that NOT buying a Tesla, saves lives.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-30/tesla-battery-fire-fatal-crash-rescue
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2024/12/31/cybertruck-catches-fire-dekalb-county-tesla-dealership/
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/man-dead-after-multi-vehicle-crash-in-sawtelle/
CGdoppelpunktA corrupt justice system in the USA has been purchased by #KochNetwork
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Supreme Court Justices openly take bribes. The wealthy publicly purchase desired rulings.
https://theintercept.com/2022/06/30/supreme-court-epa-climate-charles-koch/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/09/04/ginni-clarence-thomas-ethics-court-jan6/
They adjudicate cases for Republican partisan gain & self-enrichment by oligarchs.
Public officials may be bribed by anyone, foreign or domestic.
https://www.vox.com/scotus/357170/supreme-court-snyder-united-states-corruption
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They ignore legal precedent and decide cases based on their personal religious beliefs, not established law.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-sins-of-the-high-courts-supreme-catholics
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-supreme-court-justice-roe-wade-senate-hearings-1.6501786
They lied under oath during their confirmations.
Justices refuse to establish a code of ethics and tell elected members of congress that they cannot impose one. They are accountable to no one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/07/01/supreme-court-trump-immunity-ruling-monarchy-satire/
GP-u-Moto@nileane Yeah, I think I just bough my last Apple product.
Kid really wanted an ipad for Christmas.
We have some Apple stuff around the house, some Macbooks and a few iMacs. I will keep them around and fix them till they break in a way I can't fix them anymore. When that happens we will move on to some opensource projects.
No more Apple stuff for us...
Dusk to Don 
I did a web search to see if anyone had already made jokes combining #overtonWindow and defenestration.
I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I did find a 2019 academic paper about infectious disease research entitled
> Widening the Overton Window—While Avoiding Defenestration
I can’t speak to the article, but I do like the title.
Maybe a less commonly used word, to defenestrate can mean 1) to throw someone out of a window, or 2) to remove or dismiss someone from a position of power or authority.
the free article if you're curious
https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/70/11/2442/5586530
London Eastfield 🇵🇸@nileane FUCK Apple
Bigbear64@nileane it's clear that all the big ones like meta, apple and others are chasing after Musk to be well seen.
Leto Atréides 🪱🏜️🌈🦄👓🪶🐜@nileane or they just dont care because they'll be the last ones to suffer from nazism
Patrick Abeya@nileane I don’t think they are nazis themselves. It’s either they think that a significant part of their clients are nazis and advertising in X makes sense since that’s where they hang out now, or they understand that it’s the price of doing business under this government. Both sensible decisions for a company that size but yucky. It’s probably a bit of both unfortunately.
Geri 🎻@nileane This is unacceptable. I’m deeply disappointed.
Nicky🦨✌️@nileane we must think of the shareholders.
Jimmy Bosse@atpfm as a consumer it’s not like it’s easy to “go somewhere else”. Maybe cancel some services. I don’t know how we can loudly say to Apple that this is not ok.