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  • mercano@lemmy.worldEnglish
    167·
    4 months ago

    I love how, despite Musk’s best efforts, 3/4 of the internet still calls the site Twitter.

    • sugartits@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      4 months ago

      Trust us, we are printing all this money for your own good.

      Your. Own. Good.

      Something like that I assume.

      • skibidi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        4 months ago

        The world bank isn’t involved so much in printing money - that’s central banks like the US Federal Reserve or European Central Bank.

        They do love to force developing nations to adopt US-style capitalism by withholding loans for needed development projects. They also focus far too much on increasing GDP at all costs and do not give really any weight to increasing living standards or reducing inequality. Basically, think loans to institute Reaganomics and you won’t be too far off.

        The loans pay for large capital projects (power plants, large-scale irrigation, etc) that are built by the state and then mandated to he handed over to private entities that then charge rents and extract wealth. Not every loan and program is bad, but there’s plenty to give pause when they are involved in a project.

        • lol_idk@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          4 months ago

          lol who would downvote this?

          The - I’m pro World Bank and I’m on Lemmy guy?

        • GiveMemes@jlai.luEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          This is also the way of the UN in general oftentimes. Trump’s PPP plan came right from the UN playbook with a few tweaks so that even more of his pals could get money.

  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    50·
    4 months ago

    Am i the only one confused about what they thought would happen? Have they not been following the news about twitter for the past year or so? Or were they fine with twitter being covered in nazi stuff until their ad appeared next to one and someone notified them?

  • barsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    47·
    4 months ago

    That tweet is so racist that I’m surprised Elon didn’t tweet a thinking face emoji reacting to it.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    4 months ago

    Who would have guessed that a social media platform owned by an apartheid-loving fascist would trend right wing? I mean, Musk is such a stable genius.

    /s just in case.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      4 months ago

      And all he had to do was act like he wanted to back track on the offer and the courts forced the sale through quickly rather than slow things down and consider whether social media should even be a privately owned thing run at the whims of a guy that used that same platform to try to ruin someone’s life with a baseless pedophilia accusation because they hurt he’s feelings when telling him his sub idea wouldn’t work and he was just getting in the way rather than helping anything.

      I just wonder if the courts fell for his ploy or if they just played the part they were supposed to and the whole thing was an act.

      Also, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that he spent 44 billion on Twitter and then, after pretty much ruining it, for some reason Tesla shareholders (which are majority institutional shareholders) vote through a 50 billion compensation package for him.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    4 months ago

    Musk is learning the lesson Google and Youtube learned years ago with the “adpocalypse”. If the whole house of cards depends on ad dollars you have to keep them happy.

    Unless Musk is going to take X (Twitter) completely subscription only, or fund it exclusively out of his own pocket, he is not going to get that “anything I want goes” utopia he keeps crowing about.

    • Delta_V@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 months ago

      fund it exclusively out of his own pocket

      That’s how newspapers got started - they were propaganda organs of the rich and existed exclusively to manipulate public opinion. Things really haven’t changed that much, but somewhere along the way people were tricked into paying for them.

      • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
        15·
        4 months ago

        Except that libel laws and regulations exist to regulate things like newspapers, not things like random comments by random users you may not even know is a bot account. At the very worst, they can only report on what people are saying and ignore the counterarguments, not present lies as truth. Not that it hasn’t been eroded, but it’s at least much more costly to attempt to use newspapers for disinformation.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      4 months ago

      Pretty sure Russia’s owners of Twitter really intend it just to be used as a propaganda backwagon platform, like China’s TikTok, so the funding does not need to be self-sufficient. As long as they get a critical userbase where they can move their propaganda, nerf the criticism, and can’t be taken down because of the ensuing backlash, that’s good enough for them.

  • Facebones@reddthat.comEnglish
    30·
    4 months ago

    Capitalism: free markets are the only way if you dont like Nazi shit go somewhere else librulz

    Also capitalism: Its literally illegal to not give us money and if you take your money elsewhere we’ll sue you!