Any ex-Tesla employees willing to take up an offer? 😜

  • @Veedem@lemmy.world
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    10411 months ago

    He’ll never actually do it. He simply wants to encourage more people to say outrageous things so engagement levels increase as everyone does dumb shit.

    Good luck to anyone who falls for this.

    • @Got_Bent@lemmy.world
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      2511 months ago

      When I look at the current state of the internet, I pine for the simpler days of the nineties when a/s/l and stormfront.org look downright warm and fuzzy in comparison. That was just weird individuals being weird. Now it’s institutionalized across the entire Internet.

    • @LeadSoldier@lemmy.world
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      311 months ago

      He’s eating his children! I knew this day would come I just didn’t expect it to be so obvious! He needs engagement so he is going to incite people to say crazy things and then they are going to get in trouble and never be able to get a hold of him. He’s just literally fucking with the US government right now. I don’t know why but I think Musk is flexing his political strength in a way that he doesn’t realize will destroy him.

      • @abrasiveteapot@sh.itjust.works
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        Aid spokesman engaged hyperbole drive and tweeted “if a billionaire like @musk gave us $40bn we could solve world hunger”

        Musk replied “ok i’m listening, show me how you can solve it, if it sounds real I’ll write the cheque”

        Aid spokesman (back pedalling) “well not solve as such, but definitely make better”

        Musk “whatevs then”

        I mean he does say so much actual stupid shit, why do you guys keep making shit up ?

        Edit to add not verbatim I can’t be arsed to go find the tweets now he’s fucked twitter

      • Rostby
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        They didn’t come up with a plan and when he asked they were like 🤷‍♂️

    • @some_guy
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      1011 months ago

      No, but we can trust him this time. All those other lies were completely unrelated. /s

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      511 months ago

      It’s possible. He literally burnt an extra 150 million dollars by bumping his offer for twitter to 54.20 just to make it a stupid 420 meme. It’s not like he doesn’t have the money to pay those bills.

  • @db2@sopuli.xyz
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    4911 months ago

    He’s not offering it to former employees, but they should absolutely go for it very very publicly. Musk is fishing for money from Trump and Kanye, it’s probably some kind of laundering scheme.

    • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      Musk is fishing for money from Trump

      Trump is very obviously not coming back to Twitter, doesn’t have an employer, and he’s offering to pay for the service, not charge for it, so I’m not sure how that theory pans out.

  • Hildegarde
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    4311 months ago

    The kid can’t even pay his own rent, how’s he going to afford legal fees?

    • @CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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      711 months ago

      They are actually responsible for paying arbitration for all the ex-employees suing the company after Twitter argued in court that they must go through arbitration. Last I heard was that they were having trouble paying these legal costs as well.

  • @odbol@lemmy.world
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    4111 months ago

    Didn’t he fire one of the twitter engineers because he corrected him on a Twitter thread?

  • Hextic
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    3611 months ago

    A Musk (or Trump) Never pays his debts.

    • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      111 months ago

      I find it fascinating to watch overall, but yeah how billionaires decide to administer their website isn’t really technology. Categorizing it as such feels like a consequence of a decision some boomer made back in the 90s to administer their newspaper that got adopted by default as the method websites are administered (which still isn’t technology).

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    3011 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Elon Musk has said his X social media platform will pay the legal bills and sue on the behalf of people who have been treated “unfairly” by employers because of posting or liking something on the site formerly known as Twitter.

    “If you were unfairly treated by your employer due to posting or liking something on this platform, we will fund your legal bill,” Musk said in a post on X late on Saturday, adding that there will be no limits to funding the bills.

    “And we won’t just sue, it will be extremely loud and we will go after the boards of directors of the companies too,” Musk said later in response to a post about nothing changing behavior in the US faster than a threat of legal action.

    The figures came as the company is going through organizational changes and is looking to boost falling advertising revenue.

    After 17 years with an iconic blue bird logo that came to symbolize the broadcasting of ideas to the world, Musk renamed Twitter as X and unveiled a new logo in July, marking a focus on building an “everything app”.

    Earlier in July, the billionaire whose other companies include SpaceX and Tesla had said that the social media platform’s cashflow remains negative because of a nearly 50% drop in advertising revenue and a heavy debt load.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

  • Rikudou_Sage
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    11 months ago

    Is it the same guy who barely can afford to pay the servers and owes wherever he looks?

    • @sour@feddit.de
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      3111 months ago

      If any right-wing nutjob is reading this: You should count on him actually paying for you. Go wild! But make sure to use your public profile so people don’t think you’re a bot!

  • SokathHisEyesOpen
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    2611 months ago

    He doesn’t even pay his own bills. What makes people believe he’ll actually pay theirs? He may pay one person’s bill at first to get a flurry of news attention, but he’ll definitely leave everyone else out to rot.

  • Whiskey Pickle
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    2511 months ago

    he won’t even pay his rent or his own legal bills… he stiffs his own employees on severance packages. he’s lying if he promises anything.

    • phillaholic
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      2411 months ago

      He’s not going to pay them shit. He didn’t pay his cloud bills or office rent.

      • @WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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        411 months ago

        When are these landlords and services going to start shutting him down? My popcorn is getting stale over here.

        • phillaholic
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          411 months ago

          When you have money you can behave like you don’t and get away with it for a long time.

  • @mindbleach@lemmy.world
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    2411 months ago

    Two fantasies - one, that anybody’s been persecuted for posting on what was the most popular communication tool in the world, and two, that a narcissist ignoring his own bills will ever cover yours.

    People don’t get fired for where they post.

    People get fired for what they post.

  • @DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world
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    1511 months ago

    Twitter is still underwater from losing half their advertiser revenue plus the billions in debt they still owe. He’s not going to pay out unless he can find one particular case that will bring lots of attention. Elmo is an attention whore that everyone needs to ignore.

    • @PeleSpirit@lemmy.world
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      411 months ago

      If he goes out of the news cycle for one day, he does something stupid. Is anyone besides right wing assholes still on his site?

  • @pottedmeat7910@lemmy.world
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    1311 months ago

    Do you want to pay the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis? Because that’s how you wind up paying the legal bills for a bunch of closet Nazis.

    • Billiam
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      1011 months ago

      And Musk would have a problem supporting Nazis how…?