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[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 101 points 1 year ago (3 children)

She's a pathetic weasel who gets paid handsomely to talk absolute horseshit and shill for her boss.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. It wouldn't make us good people worthy of respect and admiration, but it would make us rich.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And when you get rich most of the people around you aren’t worthy of respect either so you’re on level playing field. You live your life pretending you’re good people while being rich

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t pretend you wouldn’t for that paycheque

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not a chance in hell I’d even consider it.

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[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Nah, I'm a terrible liar even if I liked doing it.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 74 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Imagine if your job was to defend this over-privileged man-child.

These sycophants never get the reward they dream of either. They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They always just get tossed aside at the first slip up.

... with a bonus of a few billion.

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[–] IHadTwoCows@lemm.ee 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

NOBODY has done more damage to free speech rights than the fucking fascist free speech grifters like Musk, Jones, Shapiro, Peterson, and every other loud outhed pussy-assed radical fascist shitbag. Free speech was a regular, normal thing in the US until they showed up around 1992. Thanks to those assholes I am now ALL FOR regulated speech whether by legal means or baseball bat. Their entire motivation is to complain about free speech, gain power with this basic ideal, and then remove ALL rights from others, including and especially gun rights and free speech.

Take them out first

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 69 points 1 year ago (11 children)

You Americans can do with a little less gun rights. Might actually be healthy.

Oh, that is after getting universal healthcare and better public transport first.

Maybe then America might become an actual developed country.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

At least I died free

---a shockingly large number of American schoolchildren

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[–] blue_zephyr@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Musk couldn't care less about free speech. He has implemented a policy that bans you for using the word "cisgender" while he responds to nazi propaganda with personal admiration.

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[–] WheatleyInc@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Advertisers, please do this to YouTube too. I need the dislike count back.

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[–] mhague@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the way, where's the clarification that Musk said he should've posted? He endorsed a white supremicist conspiracy (on accident, surely!). Called it foolish -- no, not because he endorsed Nazis, but because now his haters have more ammo. (???) Half a month has passed. It's petty, because I wouldn't believe his story even if it were airtight, but he could at least try.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Lol you know he’d just double down. You can tell because he doesn’t say ‘what I said was wrong’ he says: ‘I should have said more’.

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Musk spoke about two weeks after he posted a favorable response to an antisemitic tweet, causing an advertiser backlash that added to X's already significant financial struggles.

"Our mission at X is bold: to be an open platform without censorship of thought—one that provides people information and the freedom to make up their own minds," she wrote.

"X sits in a one-of-a-kind constellation of companies that are changing the world—from helping to conserve the planet through Tesla's electric vehicles, to exploring new planets with SpaceX, to the seamless global connectivity of Starlink, to the potential of transforming lives with Neuralink, to responsibly reimagining the benefits of AGI through xAI."

Yaccarino also defended Musk publicly in a post on twitter.com, writing that the X owner "offered an apology, an explanation and an explicit point of view about our position.

On November 15, Musk replied, "You have said the actual truth" to an X post that said Jewish communities are "pushing hatred against whites."

At the DealBook interview, he called the post "foolish" and said, "I should in retrospect not have replied to that one person and should have written in greater length what I meant."


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