this post was submitted on 06 Aug 2023
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They love their persecution complex, don't they?

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[–] kamenoko@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Be a fascist piece of shit at work bro, I totally got you covered!

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

So Trump's "will be wild!" tweet that resulted in impeachment and 4 federal felonies could get his legal bills funded by Musk? 🤔

[–] Pagliacci@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

He qualified it by specifying it's if you were "unfairly" facing repercussions, which of course means he can deny or accept anyone he wants for any reason that he wants and still claim he's upholding his pledge.

[–] CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago

Never trust Musk to actually pay for anything.

[–] Ashigaru@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The king of empty promises.

[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Musk hasn't paid his own legal bills, his ex employees for their severance, or the rent for Twitter offices on multiple continents, his word is as good as Donald Trumps.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Elon Musk has offered to fund the legal bills of any users of his social network, X, who’ve been discriminated against by their employer because of their actions on the platform.

The proposal comes with “no limit” on costs and X Corp. will “go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” he said in messages posted to the site Saturday night.

The billionaire, who acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October and recently rebranded it as X, has made a habit of announcing major policy changes for the service late at night or over weekends.

Amid firing thousands after his purchase of Twitter, the billionaire publicly mocked senior director Halli Thorleifsson after the worker tried to gain clarity on his employment status at the company.

Former employees of Musk’s other companies, SpaceX and Tesla Inc., have also complained that they were fired in retaliation for critical comments about him in his role as chief executive officer of both firms.

The self-styled “free speech absolutist” hired NBCUniversal ad executive Linda Yaccarino as CEO in May to help repair partnerships in the media industry and lure back advertisers.


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