• 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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      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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      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.

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    I hope they stop. Don’t advertise, If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is." - Elon Musk, November 27th 2023

    Less than seven months later here we are. lmao

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    “Fuck you… … Please give me money?”

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    “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.

    OR…

    “I suck. All this stupid and immoral shit you see, that’s all me, baby. I’m solely responsible for what you have come to know as one of the worst things. I made that. I’m a tool.”