Tech billionaire Elon Musk told the companies pulling advertisements from X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, to “go f— yourself” following the companies’ decision to nix ads from the platform after Musk appeared to endorse an antisemitic remark earlier this week.

Asked Wednesday in an interview at The New York Times Dealbook Summit if he does not want the companies to advertise, Musk responded, “Don’t advertise. If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go f— yourself.”

 

Musk was responding to Disney CEO Bob Iger’s previous comments during the summit where he explained the company’s decision to slash advertisements from X.

“Go f— yourself, is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise,” Musk continued.

The comment prompted some laughs from the audience.

Musk came under fire earlier this month after he appeared to endorse an antisemitic conspiracy theory. The post sparked widespread criticism of the X owner, who later said that claims he is antisemitic “couldn’t be farther from the truth.”

Days later, liberal watchdog Media Matters for America released a report that said it found ads for companies including Apple, Bravo, Oracle, Xfinity and IBM placed next to posts celebrating Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party on the platform. Several companies, including Disney and Apple, halted their ad spending in the wake of the report.

Musk is suing Media Matters in response, calling the report a “fraudulent attack.”

 

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Must be nice to be a billionaire 

There is something wrong with Elon.

 

He's not the same person I knew 20 years ago.

 

This is not going to end well.

Fair play to Musk. Good to see someone giving the finger to these woke idiots like the Disney CEO. Let Bob Iger take his merry band of talentless, smug brats like Zegler and Gadot to advertise their lame, preachy remakes of classic Disney movies on other platforms. 

 

 

Nice one Elon. 

41 minutes ago, Tug said:

Must be nice to be a billionaire 

Nah, it's over rated! 

Another successful maneuver to get attention.

 

22 minutes ago, 2baht said:

Nah, it's over rated! 

I don't suppose you would consider financially setting me up so I can experience the disappointment, too?

24 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

Fair play to Musk. Good to see someone giving the finger to these woke idiots like the Disney CEO. Let Bob Iger take his merry band of talentless, smug brats like Zegler and Gadot to advertise their lame, preachy remakes of classic Disney movies on other platforms. 

 

 

Nice one Elon. 

Yes. Endorsing a blatantly anti-Semitic post was a brilliant move on Musk's part. It looks like you've been shedding crocodile tears about the rise in anti-Semitism.

3 minutes ago, placeholder said:

Yes. Endorsing a blatantly anti-Semitic post was a brilliant move on Musk's part. It looks like you've been shedding crocodile tears about the rise in anti-Semitism.

 

Endorsing the great replacement theory is not anti semitic. If anything it is anti leftist. 

 

Musk has made it perfectly clear that he is not anti semitic. On many occasions. 

 

The attempts to misconstrue what Musk was saying as anti semitic is a classic leftist tactic of creating a straw man. One which you laughably appear to be attempting as well regarding my very clear dislike of anti semites, with just as little success.

 

D minus. Try harder. 

Now he can blame the failure of Twitter on someone, I wonder what group of people he will name. . .

 

2 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

Endorsing the great replacement theory is not anti semitic. If anything it is anti leftist. 

 

Musk has made it perfectly clear that he is not anti semitic. On many occasions. 

 

The attempts to misconstrue what Musk was saying as anti semitic is a classic leftist tactic of creating a straw man. One which you laughably appear to be attempting as well regarding my very clear dislike of anti semites, with just as little success.

 

D minus. Try harder. 

The failing pupil gives out grades? 

35 minutes ago, placeholder said:

The failing pupil gives out grades? 

I said it yesterday and repeat again, the only thing consistent from Johnny is the inconsistency,

 

Just look at his Trump and Musk posts, no more then is expected when he gets the information from selected, bias, social media and youtube.

 

I cannot work out if Johnny really believes his posts, or is a baiting troll, or has an inferiority complex issue and hence likes narcissistic big mouths, or is a perfect research candidate for. Dunning and kruger.

48 minutes ago, placeholder said:

The failing pupil gives out grades? 

 

Criticizing certain Jewish communities behaviour does not make someone anti-semitic. Just as criticizing certain Muslim communities behaviour does not make you Islamophobic.

 

He is criticizing their behaviour and pointing out what he believes to be a double standard. I don't agree with his opinion, but neither do I believe he is being anti semitic. 

 

As so often is the case with the Left, they are what they accuse others of being. 

And today he's saying all the companies stopping advertising are going to kill X(formerly twitter). Bipolar much? Maybe it's the Asperger's disease he has progressing. Interesting that Greta also shares that same affliction. 

Good for Elon. I couldn't care less if X fails, but we still have freedom of speech, till good men allow the woke to take it away.

1 hour ago, JonnyF said:

 

Endorsing the great replacement theory is not anti semitic. If anything it is anti leftist. 

 

Musk has made it perfectly clear that he is not anti semitic. On many occasions. 

 

The attempts to misconstrue what Musk was saying as anti semitic is a classic leftist tactic of creating a straw man. One which you laughably appear to be attempting as well regarding my very clear dislike of anti semites, with just as little success.

 

D minus. Try harder. 

It actually is.

My reply to Musk -- Go f— yourself

4 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Good for Elon. I couldn't care less if X fails, but we still have freedom of speech, till good men allow the woke to take it away.

X is failing and it's due to the idiocy of one man. 

1 hour ago, bendejo said:

Now he can blame the failure of Twitter on someone, I wonder what group of people he will name. . .

 

Bingo.

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12 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Good for Elon. I couldn't care less if X fails, but we still have freedom of speech, till good men allow the woke to take it away.

 

   No one was trying to take away anyone's freedom of speech though .

Advertisers  didn't want their adverts to be associated with people praising Hitler on X

You can still prise Hitler if you want , no one is taking that Freedom away from you 

Musk is truly a despicable human being. (But he is great at important things like leading in tech companies, not Twitter X which he has destroyed).

So is Netanyahu.

It's disgusting how Musk (and other right wing weirdos such as Orban) use Netanyahu to try to cover for their antisemitism.

Nobody should be fooled!

 

Elon Musk visits Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu: Antisemitism has never stopped Bibi from covering for allies. (slate.com)

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by Jingthing

Expats in Thailand shouldn't forget the time when Musk suggested the only western men that live in Thailand are pedos.

17 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Musk is truly a despicable human being. (But he is great at important things like leading in tech companies, not Twitter X which he has destroyed).

So is Netanyahu.

It's disgusting how Musk (and other right wing weirdos such as Orban) use Netanyahu to try to cover for their antisemitism.

Nobody should be fooled!

 

Elon Musk visits Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu: Antisemitism has never stopped Bibi from covering for allies. (slate.com)

 

Other than supporting freedom of speech and providing a platform for that allows for freedom of speech (so long as it is within the law) without censorship, what "right-wing" traits has Elon Musk demonstrated?

 

Is your hatred for Musk due to him not censoring views you disagree with?   

9 minutes ago, James105 said:

 

Other than supporting freedom of speech and providing a platform for that allows for freedom of speech (so long as it is within the law) without censorship, what "right-wing" traits has Elon Musk demonstrated?

 

Is your hatred for Musk due to him not censoring views you disagree with?   

He's amplifying hate speech.

Twitter used to be a not perfect but mostly decent forum.

Now it's  cesspool of hate.

21 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

He's amplifying hate speech.

Twitter used to be a not perfect but mostly decent forum.

Now it's  cesspool of hate.

 

Speech that provides an opposing view to yourself is not "hate speech", it is merely speech you disagree with.  The previous owners of Twitter unfortunately trained leftists into believing opposing views should be censored rather than debated or aired, which in turn has led to the shock of leftists having to witness these opposing views.

 

So from what I can gather then, what makes Elon Musk "right wing" is merely his belief in and providing a platform for free speech (so long as it is within the law)?   Nothing else?  

13 minutes ago, James105 said:

 

Speech that provides an opposing view to yourself is not "hate speech", it is merely speech you disagree with.  The previous owners of Twitter unfortunately trained leftists into believing opposing views should be censored rather than debated or aired, which in turn has led to the shock of leftists having to witness these opposing views.

 

So from what I can gather then, what makes Elon Musk "right wing" is merely his belief in and providing a platform for free speech (so long as it is within the law)?   Nothing else?  

WRONG!

Twitter hate speech surged with Musk, study says - Los Angeles Times (latimes.com)

Also there is evidence that those that follow right wing content are served explicitly Nazi content by the Musk algorithm. 

This one very very weird man has too much power.

X is failing and it DESERVES to fail. 

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

Yes. Endorsing a blatantly anti-Semitic post was a brilliant move on Musk's part. It looks like you've been shedding crocodile tears about the rise in anti-Semitism.

Musk didn't/ and doesn't endorse any form of anti-semitism. You don't know what you're talking about.

Edited November 30, 20232 yr by Thingamabob
Spelling error.

8 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Musk didn't/ and doesn't endorse any form of anti-semitism. You don't know what you're talking about.

You're wrong.

3 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Good for Elon. I couldn't care less if X fails, but we still have freedom of speech, till good men allow the woke to take it away.

Think you got it the wrong way around. Musk is getting upset because these companies are using their freedom of speech to remove their ads.

 

Also anyone that needs to use the word “woke” really just show that they have no constructive comments.

 

Have a look how successful Musk was last year.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2023/01/10/elon-musk-guinness-world-record-losing-most-money/11022084002/

6 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

Endorsing the great replacement theory is not anti semitic. If anything it is anti leftist. 

 

Musk has made it perfectly clear that he is not anti semitic. On many occasions. 

 

The attempts to misconstrue what Musk was saying as anti semitic is a classic leftist tactic of creating a straw man. One which you laughably appear to be attempting as well regarding my very clear dislike of anti semites, with just as little success.

 

D minus. Try harder. 

How about "the Jews won't replace us"?. Ring a bell?