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$45 million a month. Jesus fucking Christ, imagine the good that kind of money could do. Instead it’s going straight to Fascists’R’Us.
Remember when Elon said he’d gladly solve world hunger if someone gave him a plan to do so?
and then someone did, and he didn’t
Did this actually happen? Do you have a source? Genuinely curious.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/11/elon-musk-un-world-hunger-famine/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/18/tech/elon-musk-world-hunger-wfp-donation/index.html
there’s plenty of news sources covering the streams of promises he’s made, and none that report on the delivery (because he didn’t do it and never will)
Thank you for posting this. This pretty much says it all. What a shit head. “It’s not clear if Musk or Bezos have seen the plan and will ultimately decide to lend their support. Spokespeople for Musk’s companies did not respond to requests for comment.”
Even if I was using that money entirely selfishly I could come up with so many better things to do.
Frankly, setting it on fire would be a better use.
The KLF-style
It breaks my heart to think about that.
This is just an example of what America does every second of every day. Valuing money more than people.
Why do you think Vance is the VP pick? He is Peter Thiel’s bitch, who is Elon’s bitch. They are not even trying to hide it anymore.
Elon made most of his money through companies that heavily rely on government subsidy. He is now funneling this money to someone who will control government contracts. Do not mistake the US for a democracy. It is an oligarchy.
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance. That’s why they say “take back America”. From the elites, ignoring that they are the rich elites.
Perpetual victim mentality.
Wait is this why we don’t have rich people building giant monuments and libraries and art galleries with their names prominently on them anymore? Because they actually think they’re the underclass??
Because seriously some of the most fire art galleries I’ve been to are the ones that are paid for by the worst fucking exploitative billionaires you’ll ever read about. Shout out to the Guggenheim, btw
Pretty much, they wanna be the goodies instead of the baddies, but they don’t wanna change anything, so they’ll just be the baddies while pretending otherwise
That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance.
Pretty sure Stephanie was saying the people still using Twitter love to think they’d join the resistance, but won’t even stop using Twitter. Not that Elon thinks he’s the resistance.
Yes. And what I’m saying is that Elon and the people still using Twitter think they are the resistance. I’m saying they won’t leave Twitter because they think they are the resistance.
None of the queer people I know think using Shitter is a good thing. It’s just that the ones still on Shitter don’t care enough about fighting fascism.
Populism 101
Any Lemmy instances block links to X? I’d like to see less of it on here. It’s just truth social with deeper pockets.
A good solution is to take screenshots so it only counts as one visit instead of everybody viewing the post driving traffic to Twitter.
Or better yet, Mastodon / federated microblogging platforms.
Connect on Android has a few very cool features like keyword/community/domain blocklist!
Thanks! Already use connect and haven’t tried this. I’d prefer it on the instance side for greater impact, but this is nice. I already use it to block instances and communities but didn’t realize it could filter links.
One thing I’ve learned is that “committed to donate” does not equal “has actually transferred and paid the actual money”
So it’s just a headline to try and drum up other donations until the receipts are made.
This is a good point. Musk, like Trump, is well known for making huge promises that amount to nothing. He wouldn’t even own Twitter if a court hadn’t forced him to make good on his promise to buy it.
Maybe it’ll be like the Twitter bid and we’ll see a lawsuit in which everyone loses.
That’s 45 people a month that wouldn’t have to ever work again in their entire lives and maybe even their kids if they invest it smartly. Or ya know, lift hundreds of families from poverty each month. Instead it shall go into Trump’s crime empire, money go BRRRR.
I deleted my Twitter account the day he bought it. Haven’t used it a single time since.
Samesies.
Never used it besides random thot media posts I wanted to check out. Everything else has been rehosted.
Facebook was the longest to quit just like most people say. It’s the only way I communicate with my nan, or marketplace, or etc. Even that for me was… 6 years ago now?
They know they could get around it in reality. We all lie to ourselves in different ways and accept certain things while ignoring others. It’s how humans survive, but let’s not lie to ourselves at least lol. The raindrop thinks it caused the flood and all that.
Thank goodness for Twitter, he lost $1.7 billion per month in the first year (including valuation) so now he has less to spend on Trump.
Since this was posted on Mastodon: OP, consider to post this on
!best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works
too, if you like.
Btw, cool that Stephen King joined the Fediverse. I didn’t know that.
Might wanna reread that name
Wow I didn’t know Stephen King transed their gender
Dammit!!! 😂
If you were a fan of that community they’ll reopen it if you’re willing to moderate*
Ah, now I understand all the layoffs.
Weeelllll, priorities may be just a bit different when living in a territory annexed by the literal Nazis. Not using Twitter doesn’t really just have the same urgency as the Gestapo rounding up your neighbors.
Not that I’d be caught dead using Twitter, especially now that that reich-wing manbaby and waste of perfectly good carbon Musk owns it. I created an account ~15 years ago because I had to test the Twitter integration of a thingamajig at work, but I never used it for anything else. I did read some Twitter stuff in the early days of the Ukraine invasion via one of the frontends, but so much of it was garbage that I stopped bothering after a while
I deleted my old account when he rebranded it to ecks.
I prefer Xitter 💩
Even if they did leave, SpaceX/Starlink and Tesla are dumping money onto him. He’d still have plenty of money to throw at the guy with the least progressive tax plan.
He could have less, though.
This. This i like.
I don’t see how. Worst case, he just owes the loans instead of also paying salaries.
Don’t buy a Tesla, don’t use Starlink, checkmate Musk!
You sonuva bitch. I’m in.
He doesn’t make money on Twitter. He loses money. Twitter is only valuable for the users it has, and that’s not monetary.
So if people leave, he loses even more money.
That is to what I was alluding.
Elon wondering how much he gotta pay to get Trump back on Twitter, and so far, that’s not enough.
when you cancel your Disney+ subscription to switch to Trump+
