• PDFuego@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    “I do shoot myself in the foot from time to time, but at least you know it is genuine, not from the PR department,” he admitted.

    Well, at least the advertisers know he meant it when he literally told them to go fuck themselves. That’ll help, I think.

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      5 months ago

      What companies really want to invest their advertising in is a company with a completely incompetent CEO who is genuine about it.

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      5 months ago

      There’s a weird right-wing attitude that “it’s better to be an asshole who’s ‘real’ than to be nice but ‘fake.’”

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        “I’m just brutally honest.” - every emotionally stunted, edgelord, chore of a person in existence

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          “He just tells it like it is” - everyone in denial about how shitty he is.