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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

People aren't moving away from it. Of course they come back

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

IBM helping out the Nazis is pretty par for the course

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Still, “under $2,000” for a corporation of that size is a surprisingly low amount, compared to the others. Not even worth the negative publicity. Odd choice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, a history joke! Don't forget Coke(Fanta)! Also, the history of Volkswagon is pretty interesting.

The surprising part is, despite everything Henry Ford believed, I don't remember ever hearing Ford being on that list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

We have Teslawagan and Xoebbels now as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I get the first one.......no idea what the second references. It sounds like if something from transformers were crossed with the matrix, and handled by santa claus.

Which if that existed sounds kind of terrifying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Goebbels plus X/Twitter. Goebbels was Hitler's propagandist

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 hours ago

Oligarchs get cozy with oligarchs, what a shocker.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 hours ago

And nobody was surprised. I predict most advertisers will return by the end of January for the same reasons they left previously: It's the right business decision at the right time. Remember that the next time a corporation makes a pledge. It's always about money.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

It’s time to drop Disney+.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 54 minutes ago

We just did. Only reason it took this long is because it auto-renewed this time last year for a year slightly ahead of when we thought it was gonna do that. Oops.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Should have 5 years ago. Mostly cause fuck disney, but I get why you had it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 57 minutes ago

We've dropped it October 2023. Fuck them Zionist shits.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago

Death to Comcast, Disney, and IBM.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is it bad that for a brief moment when you said you were switching to a local fiber provider, I thought you were talking about making sure you tdke healthy poops?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Local fiber is the 100 mile diet of colon health.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Did anyone read the article? Besides the top 2, these amounts are paltry:

Data by MediaRadar showed that Comcast, which spent less than $1.5 million on X this year, was followed by Warner Bros. Discovery at $1.1 million, whose ads are supporting theatrical releases of movies, and Disney at under $550,000. Lionsgate spent less than $230,000, while IBM allocated under $2,000.

That's embarrassing.

[–] [email protected] 137 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

“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.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nuh-uh! Americans can't be terrorists cuz Americans kill the terrorist, like Malcolm X and Jamal Khashoggi... Wait, are we the bad guys?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Always have been.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

......wait, but I wasn't playing socom.....

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

In reality this is just them playing along, if anyone were to do anything drastic to these companies they would have a very bad time.

[–] [email protected] 150 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 hours ago

And lifting their a## up, so they are better accessible

[–] [email protected] 76 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

IBM itching to get involved with another genocide. They can track all the undesirables digitally much easier now!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

With DB2? Ha! Don't make me laugh.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

This is beautiful! It's like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

in the future, it will be a privilege to die

i am not joking either.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Well the ones who didn't vote obviously weren't too bothered by fascism and racism either, apparently

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, fair point. Or saw that both sides probably lead to the same end eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

The “almost” in this statement is absolutely crucial. Nicely done.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 hours ago

Horrible timing. Millions are leaving and going to BlueSky.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Going after the coveted racist bot market.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

They can eat their shit

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Of course they are they only care about money.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

Maybe they dont want to fall out windows. Remember who people voted for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

May as well it's not like they'll be paying for many impressions.