• harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I dropped Xitter as soon as it became apparent that Elon was going to buy it and started pirating Disney (and everyone else) shortly after. Couldn’t tell you the last time I bought anything IBM but I’ll have to be more careful about it. I’m switching to a local fiber provider so I’m leaving comcast in a couple of weeks.

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    “X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

    There’s the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    This is beautiful! It’s like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

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      if people haven’t caught that half the shit we read in the headlines is literally means nothing, just slop at this point, i don’t know man… just take me to the fucking farm already, put me out of my misery

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        Takes sunzu2 to the farm, and hooks them up to the milking machine

        …what? I can’t kill you for meat. Nobody eats human meat. But I can milk ya!

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      It doesn’t work that way with advertising. They need to go where their customers go. Bots don’t buy.

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        They don’t need to advertise anywhere.
        They’re going to twitter for a reason.

        “X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer

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        But Twitter has been bleeding users. And since the election there has been a very public exodus by bigger names. So this isn’t about “go where the viewers are.” This is “spend money to stay on the good side of someone who might be even more inordinately powerful with an incredibly powerful and vengeful sidekick.”

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          It’s sending a sacrificial pawn so the tyrant doesn’t think of their absence.

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    When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

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    I almost can’t blame them. A majority of Americans voted for fascism and racism. These are their customers.

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      A majority of American citizens who voted…that’s an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.

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      They don’t care where the money comes from, and at this point they know there’s no cost to their reputation for doing shit like this either.