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Value of X has fallen 71% since purchase by Musk and name change from Twitter (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Literally only the best strategies here! I mean lets recap:

Threaten to buy company then double down and agree in writing as a bullying tactic: check
Roll a nat 1 on your intimidation check: check
Be forced to follow through when called out on being mentally an 8 yo by the feds: check
Fire critical employees, like basically all of them: check
Yoink verification away from public news orgs: check
Let anyone pay to be "legit," even if they're parodying you: check
Rename twitter to the stupidest thing imagined since head-on (apply directly to the forehead): check
Gut content moderation policies but also stop enforcing regardless: check
Post own hate content and racism to the platform: check
"Accidentally" run ads next to hate content: check
Be told your sign sucks and to take it down by city: check (lol)
Become a living embodiment of "big yikes" energy while telling aforementioned advertisers to "go fuck yourselves" on live TV: check
Hallucinate about making x into a libertarian wechat alternative: check
Tank the value of the company while blaming literally anyone else for your failures: mission in progress, #1 priority

10/10 solid buy, gonna grab some long calls rn. The koch boys and rupert murderjock must be holding back a tsunami of jealousy by now 🤣

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You left out "throttle diaster information accounts when the disaster is happening" (Japan earthquake).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Check!

Also, I forgot all the tomfuckery he pulled with starlink in Ukraine, cutting off access and the like.

It's truly a testament to how much shit this guy has done that we forget so much of it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

See! This guy gets it!! 😍