“I don’t want them to advertise,” Musk said. “If someone is going to blackmail me with advertising or money go f*** yourself. Go. F***. Yourself,” he said. “Is that clear? Hey Bob [Iger, CEO of Disney], if you’re in the audience, that’s how I feel."
The arc of fucking around is long but it bends towards finding out
Except that Tesla is approving a bonus for Musk greater than the cost of his purchase of Twitter...
And greater than the profit the company has ever made and a couple orders of magnitude higher than the salary they saved from their layoffs.
Yeah but he looks stupid. Whatever happens, I don't think he's ever going to have to worry about finances, like worry if he can afford something he actually needs, like food or housing or vehicles or anything. So I don't think the bonus will really make any difference; although I'm sure it is nice and he can buy himself some vanity project with it.
He could still today have been the boy genius billionaire who invented going to Mars, in the public perception, and now he's a fat thin-skinned laughingstock who has to go on his own social network and puff himself up through fake accounts and whose kids don't want to deal with him. There's not a bonus in the world that'll make that feel better.
Honestly, I think the issue was being insulated from consequences for too long. If you go a sufficient length of time with enough advantages that whatever you do, nothing really all that bad can happen, you start to forget that it's possible, and you start doing and saying bonehead things because your brain has lost track of the concept that it might not work out great. It is a tough place to be, and I wish for him that soon is the redemption arc where he posts his big apology for being a moron and takes his hands off Twitter and starts investing in work on climate change.
Yeah, but they're just doing it because they know that Tesla is grossly overvalued, and as soon as he leaves the post the reality distortion bubble bursts and their precious stock will overcorrect into loses. They want some more time to put through the correct paperwork so when they sell right before the bubble burst it doesn't look like insider trading.
"Go fuck yourselves 😈"
-Elon Musk to advertisers, Nov 2023
"Wait no plz so sry 😢 come back"
-Elon Musk to advertisers, Jun 2024.
The NFL is as far from a benevolent organization as I am from Henry Cavill in the looks department, but it’s funny as hell to me that Elon thought he could strong arm the National Football League and the egotistical billionaires that own all the teams
This is like that episode of family guy where Peter curses everyone out, burns down a cabin, everyone leaves, then, they all come back and save him. Sometimes you just gotta let the idiots deal with the consequences of their actions. Or sometimes they get REALLY lucky.
It's nice to read some good news #wholesome
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