At this point if you’re still working there knowingly building a powerful fascist gathering platform after so much time available to leave, taking dirty Nazi money as payment for your services…
I dunno man… should I feel bad for the staff, or are the remaining staff complicit enough at this point?
Let’s not blame fellow workers for doing what they need to survive. Big tech companies are exploitive by nature, espcially H1B visas are basically indebted servitude at this point.
This is about class, not left vs right.
Do they have employees on H1B? If so, that may be why they haven’t jumped ship for less-Nazified pastures. Not excusing anyone, just striving to understand.
Or maybe take a paycheck and do substandard job introduce bugs etc.
Heck, I’ll even do that for a company I like!
Feel bad for the poor bastards stuck there on visas. Feel less bad about anyone looking around that can’t quit but can’t find another job. Would you hire someone who’s still working at Twitter? I probably wouldn’t even pull that resume for an interview.
That’s a point I had not considered. Twitter is resume poison, at this point.
There’s no fucking way they’re breaking even.
@breakfastmtn @cm0002 it already bought an election, how much it is worth?
Yeah. Bought an election for a bum who doesn’t understand loyalty or how to pay his bills. Lol.
What a Dumbass.
The man bought an election with disinformation and lobbying, who gives a fuck what he says about this company. Who knows what the fuck break even even means in his addled brain.
I think it’s time to fire half of the people! That will help.
Starting with everyone that wrote the least amount of code. I only want to see overly complex code for hello world!
- Buys a financially struggling company for way too much money
- Dismantles everything that made it attractive
- Turned it into something so repulsive and toxic that the users and advertisers leave
- Told the advertisers to “go fuck themselves”
- Tried to sue the advertisers into returning, further discouraging any new advertiser from ever doing business with him
- Whines and bitches about the company not making any money
Hey guys, I’m starting to think that this guy’s fortune has absolutely fuckall to do with his skills at running a business
Hey guys, I’m starting to think that this guy’s fortune has absolutely nothing to do with his skills at running a business
Great summary btw. and you are absolutely right here. He is a terrible manager.
Remember the time when he slept at the Tesla factory just because he didn’t trust anybody and thought he himself must rescue it all by working so much overtime and make all the decisions.
Probably because his wife kicked him out for being an asshole.
He is a terrible manager.
I still can’t get over how Musk told computer programmers to print out hardcopies of all their source changes, and then fly to Musk’s city to show him the hardcopy. That alone proves Musk is the dumbest CEO of all time.
What was the username he stole? Don’t remember that one
Also, don’t forget the disastrous rollout of the blue checks when a few people imitated companies and said Lockheed wouldn’t be doing business with Israel and a few others. But I guess that was the best thing he did, honestly, because that shit was hilarious.
I believe he took user name ‘x’ because he wanted it.
Destroys the brand recognition by renaming it to a letter of the alphabet he personally likes but nobody else gives a crap about
I’m beginning to suspect he only likes that letter because it’s the middle part of a swastika.
Hey, it’s not just that! It’s also decimal 88 in the ASCII table.
🫣I see!
Elon uses X as ASCII 88 and Proton CEO uses 1011000 as binary ASCII
What about all these Nazi people everywhere suddenly?!
In pretty sure Andy is born in 1988 to be fair
Oh, I see
Let’s call it a musktika
Oh shit. I didn’t think of that. That’s probably why.
Did you include the whole ‘verified’ tag fiasco in your list? I didn’t see it explicitly in there, but maybe it falls under a general functionality fuck-up point.
You forgot the part where couchefucker Vance threatened Europe to pull out of NATO if Europe wouldn’t stop suing and leaving twatter
That paragraph above would normally be so bizarre that it wouldn’t even make it to TV for being too… Out there… But this is the timeline we’re in now, this is the new normal
X has added some features, like job listings
Who the fuck looks for jobs on X?
Nazis probably
Ironically, his general audience does not possess the skills, that were necessary to fill the roles he emptied. Good luck hiring for that
Huh? I’m referring to the “job listings” feature of X, not looking for job opportunities at X.
I’d “work there” long enough to get on a pip and terminated. Lol
Drain a little bit of cash out of them. Lol
I’m not a Nazi lol
I’m referring to looking for jobs using X, not looking for a job at X (which I thought was clear when quoting the article’s mention of “job listings”).
Ah. Well it would help if I could read.
But yes I agree with your thought… I definitely wouldnt go there to look for a job.
Who the fuck looks for jobs on X?
People who prefer something (slightly) less toxic than LinkedIn lol
With the site now serving as an outlet for right wing narratives and misinformation that benefits the administration, there will be an incentive to prop it up financially if need be. Banks have been trying unsuccessfully to offload their debt used to finance the acquisition, so it seems investors aren’t as confident in the site’s long term profitability even with its newfound role.
Go fash; lose cash.
They should be losing fucking money hand over fist, is the problem.
If you think Elon is being honest about ‘breaking even’, you haven’t been paying attention. Twitter is in the hole, and he’s lying through his fascist little teeth to either save face, or manipulate some sort of upcoming move.
Musk also said that the company could become cash-flow positive “within months” nearly two years ago, and it still faces over $1 billion in annual interest payments on the loans.
3 months maybe, 6 months definitely
Does stagnant actually mean negative?
I would be shocked if the company was actually breaking even.
At absolute best it’s breaking even before debt service.
Maybe he’s still not just paying rent on some buildings and miraculously hasn’t been kicked out yet
I think he’s sugar-coating it because their bonds are about to go up for sale. From the article:
While equity investors have reportedly slashed the value of their stakes by as much as 78 percent, the Journal reports, “banks hope to sell senior debt at 90-95 cents on the dollar, while retaining more-junior holdings.”
If they were breaking even, the bonds wouldn’t be getting sold at a loss. Keep in mind, the bond holders get paid before the stock holding investors, so if they’re taking a loss, the equity investors are getting nothing (hence the 78 percent cut, basically their share is only worth the odds of a miraculous turnaround). That doesn’t happen with a company unless it’s losing money.
hm, someone told me it was so easy to cut wasteful spending.
Turns out, nazi business is bad business
“There’s no business for Nazi business! From no business I knowww!” - Ethel Merman
I just gave upvote 88 and now I’m sad.
Thank you for your service 🫡
Hopefully as bad as nazi archaeology
A victory for the free market
Too bad MIC doesn’t operate on free market.
Do we need a catchy “go Nazi get…____” catchphrase? It was such a g when the right wing did it! They do love a good catchphrase. Easier to remember.
Go nazi declare bankruptcy
Redpilled? Get killed
Go fash lose cash
Lick boot, lose loot
Go right eat shite
All incel, no braincells
Nazi salute, go destitute
ADL? Common L
Ku Klux? Lose bucks
Go apartheid, all downside
You’re hired!
Nazi business means no business
“Fascist around and find out.”
How about “Go Nazi get shot in the head”
A lot of people have pitched ideas, and this one is my favorite.
Doesn’t rhyme and gets right to the point. This has my vote. Mocks the entire idea of having a cutesy catchphrase. But is a catchphrase in itself. And one that isn’t even catchy. Love it.
I’m gonna be that guy and say most of this misses the mark. The point of stupid catchphrases is to make it extremely obvious why something is wrong in a manner that is personally relatable to the audience, nuance be damned. Not only does this not do that, it implicitly agrees with the original premise. Let’s look at common examples and retorts.
“Black lives matter” -> “All lives matter”
The initial phrase is short punchy and too the point, but the retorts is as well. Instead of trying to address the issue, it reframes the original to give it a meaning that it doesn’t have. (Black lives matter too)->(Only black lives matter). An effective* retort, but not a cache phrase of its own, lest the person be caught looking “liberal”.
“Global warming” -> “Look, a snowball/Why is it so cold?”
This retort does the same thing by instead taking the words literal meaning and misinterpreting it deliberately, rather than engaging with the vast body of science that backs it up (our actions as humans have caused a consistent rise in global temperature averages which has caused ecological disasters and a financial apocalypse). The retort moves the perspective away from the original wide view point, and directs your personal attention to the “snowball/cold” (it’s cold, therefore it is not warm) despite being incredibly stupid, this comes off as smug to their team, so they are going to repeat it. Excellent thought termination.
“Eat bugs” -> “Shrimp is bugs”
Congratulations to all of you that remember the original lemmy raids and psyop posting, so I’ll go through this one for fun. This one stems from a right wing conspiracy theory claiming that due to impending food shortages all regular food will be given to rich elites and we will all be forced to eat bugs. Uhhhhh??? (Food anxiety, antisemitism?, “economic anxiety”/suffering under capitalism, invocation of gross) Shrimp is bugs succinctly acts as a retort because it reframes the issue. Bugs ain’t cheap (you won’t be forced to eat lobster???) Shrimp aren’t gross/unfamiliar (Don’t tell me you’ve never had seafood). Destroying a global cabal in under three words might take some workshopping. (half point for smug because it is stating the obvious)
“Couch-fucker/Weird” -> no retorts yet …
10/10 no notes lmao. Being verifiably false and still accurate gives you the smugness point off of the bat. “Weird” invokes the gross which reduces support for people that wear spray tan makeup. Couch fucker is both distinct and specific enough to to be remembered, succinct in criticizing Vance’s lack of charisma and hot-topic-esqe makeup, and cannot be easily misinterpreted without ceding the entire argument.
“Go woke go broke” -> Go Nazi get shot?
A retort should be:
- Be smug/obvious about it. (x)
- Make the people saying it seem gross/weird/weak. (x)
- Explain/refute/sidestep the issue. (x)
- Under 4 words/Writable with emoji. (✓)
I’m much more fond of “Follow your leader” although that’s a general insult for people that are going mask off.
Much more fond of something that is inherently dismissive of the point like “go sleepy, baby”. Always mock the fascist.
Go nazi go bankrupt? Go nazi get Luigied? Go nazi get nasty? Go nazi get ,
Awww, is the world’s greediest man not making enough money?
