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thewayneHe literally said this, on camera, in front of a live audience, in an interview at the New York Times DealBook Summit.
The event in question: ''On November 15, Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth" to an X post that said Jewish communities are "pushing hatred against whites."
Many major advertisers immediately suspended advertising on the platform or flat-out cancelled contracts due to this on-going shit by the head shit-gibbon.
In the Ars article, he goes on to say "he regretted making the post that kicked off the advertiser boycott. "I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what I meant," Musk reportedly said. "But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I'm quite sorry, that was not my intention."
Musk also called it "one of the most foolish—if not the most foolish—thing I've done on the platform."
Well, yeah. We know you're an idiot. You're embracing Nazis, Pizzagate apparently, and you're not doing much to deny or shut down such trolls. And you're wondering why advertisers are fleeing your site?
I appreciate what he's done with SpaceX, it has truly revolutionized space flight, though the concept of colonizing Mars is really idiotic. The only thing that impresses me about Tesla is the nation-wide charging network, the build quality of their cars has massively plummeted. And the fact that he kicked out the guys who invented the car from the corporation just plain sucks. But that's the kind of asshole that he is. He thinks because he was born with a gold spoon in his mouth that he's brilliant. The problem is, he's not as smart as he thinks he is and doesn't appreciate how much privilege his money has brought him, especially that his starting money came from daddy's opal mine in South Africa.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/elon-musk-on-x-antisemitism-controversy-dont-advertise-go-f-yourself/
The event in question: ''On November 15, Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth" to an X post that said Jewish communities are "pushing hatred against whites."
Many major advertisers immediately suspended advertising on the platform or flat-out cancelled contracts due to this on-going shit by the head shit-gibbon.
In the Ars article, he goes on to say "he regretted making the post that kicked off the advertiser boycott. "I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what I meant," Musk reportedly said. "But those clarifications were ignored by the media and essentially I handed a loaded gun to those who hate me and arguably to those who are antisemitic. And for that I'm quite sorry, that was not my intention."
Musk also called it "one of the most foolish—if not the most foolish—thing I've done on the platform."
Well, yeah. We know you're an idiot. You're embracing Nazis, Pizzagate apparently, and you're not doing much to deny or shut down such trolls. And you're wondering why advertisers are fleeing your site?
I appreciate what he's done with SpaceX, it has truly revolutionized space flight, though the concept of colonizing Mars is really idiotic. The only thing that impresses me about Tesla is the nation-wide charging network, the build quality of their cars has massively plummeted. And the fact that he kicked out the guys who invented the car from the corporation just plain sucks. But that's the kind of asshole that he is. He thinks because he was born with a gold spoon in his mouth that he's brilliant. The problem is, he's not as smart as he thinks he is and doesn't appreciate how much privilege his money has brought him, especially that his starting money came from daddy's opal mine in South Africa.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/11/elon-musk-on-x-antisemitism-controversy-dont-advertise-go-f-yourself/
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Date: 2023-12-01 07:15 pm (UTC)XTwitter has been in a death spiral for months, it's just been a question of time. If he'd managed to relinquish control of it and stopped this 'freedom absolutist' BS, it could have been a different story. But he has to be the smartest man in the room.
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Date: 2023-12-02 12:40 am (UTC)I already ignore FB for the most part. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!