Maybe asking advertisers to 'go fuck yourselves' isn't such a bright idea, fuckwit.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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You can also have friends if you just pay mercenaries to kidnap them from the street at gunpoint. Many many great friends at any time.
You just know that's going to be exhibit 1 for the defense.
Fucking fascist Nazi man baby doesn't like when advertisers do what he tells them, and then continues to do so when he realizes that was a bad idea.
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I’m honestly blown away that Nestle stopped or reduced advertising. It seems like twitter is exactly the home for such a terrible company.
Not if there's fewer there to see ads. They're still a business with a bottom line, even if what they do is terrible.
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The company might be terrible, but most of their buyers are normal people who either don't know what brands belong to them, or don't care enough to carefully investigate everything they buy. And those normal people are the ones the ads need to reach. If they leave twitter, what's the point of advertising there?
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All the defense has to do is play the clip of him openly telling advertisers not to advertise and he'll get laughed out of court.
Most politicians are bought for less than a million. The guy has hundreds of billions. I imagine he can buy a few judges along the way.
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In an actual court? In Trumps america?
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You know you've fucked up when even Nestlé doesn't want to work with you...
Obligatory Fuck Nesté
When people go we may use child slaves in our supply chain, steal and ruin water supplies, and bribe medical professionals to get discourage breastfeeding, but you're too fucked up for us to work with then you know you've fucked up.
To be clear, its not that twitter is too fucked up for nestle to work with, they absolutely would if they thought it would benefit them. Its that twitter has become so toxic that they see advertising there as a net negative.
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The lesson here is to never start advertising on that platform. You’re less likely to be sued by Musk if you never start advertising in the first place. Advertising on his platform is an unnecessary risk for your business:
Preach. Never do business with a professional troll.
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Can someone explain to me how you can sue over a business choosing to not spend their advertising dollars on a particular service? I mean Elon specifically told his customers to “fuck off” and now he’s suing them?!? I just don’t understand these petulant little man children being so litigious when they get their feefees hurt.
Easy, you pack courts with shills, you eliminate government oversight, and then you do whatever you want.
The actual "easy" part is that you can sue anyone for pretty much anything. Suing is entirely different from winning the case.
Why they think they have a chance of winning is the weirder question, especially when Musk publically told the advertisers to go fuck themselves.
Don't have to win, just drag the case out, causing both sides to spend fortunes on legal fees. Guess who has the most money.
X has an estimated market cap of $9.4 billion, whereas Nestlé has a market cap of $219 billion. That's a corporate superpower with no qualms about monopolizing freshwater or bait- & switching breast milk formula from babies. And it's just one of the companies they're taking on, with a shitty case to boot. So yeah... if I was Elon I would keep my head down.
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Nothing says you believe in free market competition more, than suing another private business, trying to force them to give you money
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How long until Tesla sues me for buying a Toyota?
Can you please tag this elon, so that our spam filters work?
It's not practical to censor "x"
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Last year he told everybody to go fuck themselves. Now he's crying. If there is somebody who needs to be deported, is it his narcistic, selfish, apartheid's ass.
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Hey Elmo, you told the advertisers to “go fuck yourself” in no uncertain terms, even repeating yourself for dramatic effect.
Hey I’ve got an idea Elmo. Go fuck yourself.
In a sane world, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court.
It's harder to laugh it out of court when the plaintiff is in the government himself.
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If suing companies for not advertising on your platform made any sense, porn sites could sue almost the whole economy.
i don't understand how it's a boycott or how is illegal or unfair
It's not a boycott, neither is it illegal. He's literally just being a crybaby and believes that anybody not pandering to his business model should be forced by the courts to give him money regardless.
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How dare your company not advertise on my company cause I’m a racist wanna be nazi twat.
No better way to get people who used to voluntarily give you money to give you more money than threatening them.
Oh yes Nestle, the infamously lefty liberals.
Throwing a temper tantrum because no-one wants to play with you. What a child!
Are boycotts illegal? In this case I doubt there was an organized attempt, just some companies making individual business decisions. But even if Twitter can prove there was a boycott, is there a law against that?
Boycotts are absolutely legal, you are completely entitled to decide who you don't want to do business with. However, illegality is no longer required for the justice system to be weaponized against you, and President Musk just wants to make an example to others who might not want to do business with an actual Nazi.
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Yes, sue literally every company in America, nothing could possibly go wrong.
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This donkey about to get taught a lesson by nestle. He probably thinks he's hot shit now but he poked the devil.
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Life goals, don't fuck up so bad that even Nestle wont work with you!
Suing companies for not advertising on a platform For Nazis, By Nazis™. 🤡
tHe mArKeT WiLl ReGuLaTe ItSeLf!
How is this even a thing? Is a bank run considered collusion? If the platform no longer offers the audience I want to reach then I should be able to stop advertising on it. It just happens that the audience of may companies at once left the company. Who is even entertaining this lawsuit?
i wounder if he will actually get a court to order that every person in the world owes him money.
cause that seems to be what he is working towards.
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YouTube 10 years ago: we’re becoming as straight-edged as possible to keep advertisers around
Twitter now: Fuck you (wait we needed you)
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