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fluxion ,

“Go fuck yourself.”

t_berium ,
@t_berium@lemmy.world avatar

‘The ones I called, the ghosts - I can’t get rid of them!’

samus12345 ,
@samus12345@lemmy.world avatar

Try this.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/449bc30d-35a4-4ae6-b2fa-5a24cd0a32e5.png

Atelopus-zeteki ,
@Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run avatar

Mastodon Social awaits! https://joinmastodon.org/

inb4_FoundTheVegan ,
@inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world avatar

“If someone is going to try and blackmail me with advertising? Blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? Hey Bob, if you’re in the audience. That’s how I feel, don’t advertise.”

  • Elon, 2023
BedSharkPal ,

Careful, you might convince Tesla shareholders to fork over a few more billion to keep the big brained genius motivated.

teletext ,

“Give me 60 billions this year, or the Tesla stock will lose even of more of its price next year!” – Elon, probably.

Tyfud ,

That’s pretty much exactly what he claimed.

Diplomjodler3 ,

Go fuck yourself! Is that clear?

Can I have a few billion now too?

barsquid ,

If the market were rational that would have been the end of Tesla. It takes some extreme brainletry to turn a huge market advantage into actively losing ground to new entrants. And he is still at it. Being a dimwitted Nazi on Twitter is his top priority. Tesla sales will continue to spiral down the drain.

(Yes, if the market were rational the end might have come sooner, but certainly giving billions to a brainlet actively sabotaging the company should end it.)

Censored ,

Remember he is exceedingly wealthy, so he can buy Tesla stock through third parties to prop the price up without alarming investors. No, it’s not legal, but we all know the man doesn’t give a shit about the law.

octopus_ink ,

I think this should be posted as a comment to every article about this.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/69f8a77c-76a3-43ef-9c36-03e085270fdb.jpeg

Buffalox ,

What’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word, because the amount of pearl clutching is just too insane in America?

Ah yes that’s the amazing freedom of speech Americans are so proud of, except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.

My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!

satanmat ,

“For the children “ …. Like none of them have ever heard bad words…. They must be protected at all cost.

Like a person who likes to grab them by the pussy…

Buffalox ,

Yes and they may actually reelect that criminal traitor malignant narcissist SOB! .
That’s the the country that refuses to regulate guns despite massive amounts of school shootings, but won’t allow words to be written or said because that is apparently more harmful than bullets!!!

It’s absolute insanity.

irreticent ,
@irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

I’m not the one who told corrected you earlier, but ket me reiterate…

You are incorrect in your assumption that our “country,” government, etc. censors our speech. Some people choose to self-censor and the government has nothing to do with that.

Also, you seem confused about what free speech (see: first amendment) actually means. This XKCD might help explain it to you.

TheRealKuni ,

The government does actually censor broadcast television and radio. I can’t remember why they’re allowed to.

orclev ,

There’s no regulation, we can and do say fuck without any problem. Some people prefer not to swear either for personal, social, or religious reasons. They chose to self censor not because they had to but because they wanted to. You’re reading an awful fucking lot into a random ass image some anonymous user posted in a comment.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Can confirm, am American and try to avoid swearing, not because there are penalties (friends, coworkers, etc swear all the time), but because I don’t like swearing. I find it makes me an angrier person, so I just don’t do it.

If you want to swear, go for it, it really won’t offend me. But I won’t swear in return. Different strokes for different folks.

scarabic ,

There’s so goddamn much to swear about in these fucking times we live in that I really respect anyone who can still hold their shit together enough not to.

Eldritch ,

Or if you’re someone who uses speech to text on your phone. Nearly every system that I’ve ever used asterisks out everything after the first letter. It can be a lot of extra effort to go back and fill the fucks in. But if there’s one fucking thing worth doing fucking right. Fucking filling out those fat fucking fucks is fucking it. It’s one of the most fucking versatile words on the planet. It can be a fucking adjective, one of the most versatile verbs no matter what fucked up tense you choose, and even a motherfucking noun.

Sidyctism2 ,

Sorry your phone/ textingapp does what? What app/ phone do you use? Ive never encountered or even heard about that

mzesumzira ,
@mzesumzira@leminal.space avatar

They’re not talking about texting apps, it’s keyboards and speech to text engines that often have a profanity filter, which usually is on by default.

I disable it on everything every time I change phones or format, but not everybody tinkers with settings.

You probably default to a keyboard without profanity filter.

Sidyctism2 ,

Ahh ok

Buffalox ,

we can and do say fuck without any problem.

Not on public TV you can’t. Beep beep beep Fucking idiots.

orclev ,

You can, most networks just decide not to. Broadcast TV (which hasn’t really existed for I think more than a decade now) had restrictions about swearing (and other content) enforced by the FCC as it used a public good (RF bands). Cable TV (and now streaming services) are and pretty much have always been unregulated.

TV Networks, being companies trying to make money, opt to self censor so as to appeal to the largest number of viewers, but that isn’t anything to do with the government, it’s 100% a business decision.

Buffalox ,

tvguide.com/…/tv-censorship-nudity-profanity/

swear words that are still taboo on broadcast TV to this day – ended up causing the highest court to rule that the Federal Communications Commission had the authority to regulate what viewers see on broadcast media.

orclev ,

Yeah that entire article basically agreed with everything I said. Technically broadcast TV does have some limitations enforced by the FCC (because it uses radio to transmit) even to this day, but broadcast TV is basically dead. I actually thought they had shut those stations down a few years ago, but I guess they’re still around. Regardless there are absolutely no government regulations that control what’s shown on cable and streaming services. 100% of censorship that occurs there is a business decision by the TV Networks and has absolutely nothing to do with the government.

octopus_ink ,

My god American regulation is so idiotic sometimes!!!

Dude, some person made that meme, and that person chose to use asterisks. It’s no more complicated than that.

What’s it say? Go find yourself? Go Fill yourself? IDK is this some game you Americans have where you have to guess the word

Apparently our ability to figure out a word from context is pretty much higher than yours though.

Kecessa ,

Swear words? Boobs? Hell nah

Someone getting shot ten times? PG-13

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I think it’s hilarious that there are swear budgets for various ratings. I’m pretty sure adults can tell whether a movie is intended for kids or not, and they’re the most sensitive to foul language.

I personally choose to not swear, but I watch and listen to plenty of content with vulgar language of all varieties, it really doesn’t bother me, so I don’t see why it’s so taboo in movie ratings…

radicalautonomy ,

You think that’s bad, get this. In most US states (47), public school students are required by law to recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States once per school day, though…for most of those states…students may opt themselves out.

However, in four states (Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and Utah), students may not opt themselves out. The school must receive a written statement from a parent or guardian in order to be exempt.

I have taught in Texas public schools since 2005, and I brought this up with an attorney for the teacher organization I joined (not a union as Texas bans collective bargaining for state employees, so our dues are really not much more than lawsuit insurance). He told me that, in the eyes of the state courts, children under the age of eighteen not being yet adults do not enjoy the same right to freedom of speech that adults do. Hence, in the eyes of the courts, a school district would be within their rights to fire a teacher who does not do their part to ensure all students under their purview recite the Pledge during the time it is spoken over the school’s PA system (and the Pledge to the Texas state flag, also mandatory), 1st Amendment be damned.

Thankfully, I got a gig teaching in Oregon next year, so I am heading northwest (through the also miserable states of Utah and Idaho unfortunately) and never looking back.

CodexArcanum ,

Ah Texas, where children can’t make decisions or be held accountable in any way, unless they’re brown skinned and can be accused of a crime, then they must he tried as adults and sentenced to life as an imprisoned slave.

Jakdracula ,
@Jakdracula@lemmy.world avatar

This Oregon?

rop.org/uia/…/oregons-hard-right-history/

radicalautonomy , (edited )

You don’t want to play this game with me, son. Whatever you hurl at me about Oregon, I’ll lob back at you something twice as bad about Texas.

I get that Oregon has its hard right people. Hell, most states do. But at least my trans kids gender identity is protected by state law, and my having a trans kid won’t result in me being on the governor’s fucking hit list.

razorwiregoatlick ,
@razorwiregoatlick@lemmy.world avatar

What are you talking about? There is no law or regulation requiring that text to be censored. They did it because they wanted to.

MacStache ,

What the f*** dude calm down.

Electric_Druid ,

You’re reading into things way too much here, man.

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

except they don’t actually have it, they are just indoctrinated to think so.

What are we not allowed to say, exactly?

Buffalox , (edited )

Ha you don’t even know, that so funny. Look up freedom of speech index, and see the difference to countries that have better freedom of speech than USA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Press_Freedom_Index

Sidyctism2 ,

Which still has fuck-all to do with the asterisks in the picture, because the creator put those there himself

helenslunch ,
@helenslunch@feddit.nl avatar

I didn’t ask about any indices, I asked what you think we’re not allowed to say.

Buffalox , (edited )

For instance in schools you are not allowed to talk about gender identity in some states.
Often you are not allowed to teach about slavery either.
You are also often not allowed as a teacher or just working at the school to say if you anything other than straight.
That would actually be illegal to enforce in countries with better protected freedom of speech.
One school banned a graphic novel Maus about holocaust despite it has won a Pulitzer.
Aaron Swartz was persecuted by authorities to the point of suicide for legally copying and trying to make information available to the public, that should by definition of the terms they were kept, be available to the public, but were not.
In the military you are not allowed to say you are gay.

The terrorist acts has secret courts giving secret organisations power to silence companies on for instance when information is demanded on users from companies like Google, Facebook, Microsoft Apple, also when the demands are illegal by normal law, generally because they are too wide. Other often targeted companies are also mail services with increased security. This is monitored by a secret club in congress. This is part of what Obama called a “balanced” approach.
Failure to respect these secret courts, will result in you being judged by same secret courts!!!
You are not even allowed to seek outside council or mention it to anybody for help on what to do.

In much the same way there are restriction on the “free” press, which make it impossible for the press to air concerns. This is probably why you have a multitude of stories like this:
pewresearch.org/…/most-u-s-journalists-are-concer…

What’s notable is that the more experience a journalist has, the more likely he is aware there’s a problem. But there are no specifics on exactly what the problems are.

On public TV you cannot air profanity:

tvguide.com/…/tv-censorship-nudity-profanity/

outlined the swear words that are still taboo on broadcast TV to this day – ended up causing the highest court to rule that the Federal Communications Commission had the authority to regulate what viewers see on broadcast media.

Beep beep beep, it’s so incredibly stupid!!!

So maybe the meme was self censored, but it was out of a habit of doing so because in some situations you MUST, meaning your freedom of speech is restricted. By doing so on the meme, it parrots more official channels.

USA is probably the most censored country of the free world they claim to protect, and you don’t even know it!?!?!

EldritchFeminity ,

Welcome to the hypocritical world of Puritan culture.

Some of the earliest British settlers in the US were so extremist that the Church of England kicked them out after they tried to assassinate the king and replace him with a puppet of their own to force their beliefs on the rest of the country.

It was partly these crazies that started the whole sex and bodies=bad and shameful thing in the US that advertisers still believe in today. And swearing is yet another of those weird things. But sex sells, so it’s okay to imply it as long as it’s selling a product and no other time.

scarabic ,

Fuck you, Jack.

Censored ,

Say stupid things, people treat you like you’re stupid, stupidly cry about how freedom of speech should prevent people from treating you like the idiot you are.

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

It’s right there in the 4th paragraph of the article itself.

irreticent ,
@irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

You mean you actually read the article? Blasphemy!

CarbonatedPastaSauce ,

Somebody has to do the dirty work.

Kowowow ,

Someone needs to make a drawing of it because when he originally said it he opened his mouth wide and through his head back like was a literal puppet

Censored ,

I’m surprised nobody saw his forked lizard tongue when that happened!

NewNewAccount ,

Wowow! That was so long ago! Literally dozens of weeks ago! I’m sure this full-blown narcissist has seen the error of his ways and changed his mind. Surely.

uriel238 ,
@uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Yes. Elon should approach his advertisers on bended knee – after changing Twitter back to Twitter, and creating a proper moderation system that filters out neonazis and Russian AI Trump-bots.

Oh, George Washington rode the waves
Abe Lincoln wore his hat with praise
Thomas Jefferson, the sandy king, and
Teddy Roosevelt, the beach-hiking thing
Barrack Obama, surfing gracefully
Historical presidents at the sea!
– @hisvault.eth

scarabic ,

Musk sheepishly suggested that he didn’t mean “advertisers as a whole.”

“Advertisers have a right to appear next to content that they find compatible with their brands,” he told ad giant WPP CEO Mark Read during an interview on Wednesday. “What is not cool is insisting that there can be no content that they disagree with on the platform.”

How is that “not cool?” I don’t understand how he can possibly object to a company spending their advertising dollars wherever they damn well choose to. He repeatedly makes it clear that he feels entitled to their budgets. There is zero basis for that. I truly cannot fathom how he can be so dense about this.

Metacortechs ,

He can object because he’s decided that’s what is right. Literally nothing else matters.

The piece of shit that used to own my company is like this. His decision is correct and gospel, and if you don’t agree or if it’s provably false you are wrong. And it’s your fault you are wrong, because he has decided it to be correct.

scarabic ,

Right but the bubble of rightness you speak of is usually only assumed to include the company staff. Really powerful CEOs have their board inside the bubble too, or even public investors. But Elon thinks the customers work for him too. That’s really beyond the pale.

Metacortechs ,

No argument here. Just highlighting the absolutely insane mindset of business owners/CEOs at all scales.

Censored ,

This is the most upvotes I’ve seen on a Lemmy post so far… Granted, I’ve only been here a couple days, but still!

Zink ,
  • Elon with TSLA stock at 2023 levels, lol
eestileib ,

Calling out Bob Iger in particular was the cherry on top.

Massive hubris.

pr06lefs ,

aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won’t someone give him some money?

Atelopus-zeteki ,
@Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run avatar

No! Well, some idiot will. But not this idiot! Have you ever heard of Mastodon Social (https://mastodon.social/)?
https://joinmastodon.org/

QuantumSoul ,

What do you mean ? (sources)

Nurse_Robot ,

Google “Elon Musk Nazi”, and/or “Elon Musk genocide”

Cocodapuf , (edited )

Google “any name Nazi” and you’ll get results. The question was what are you referring to.

Also, I can’t believe this community would down vote anyone for asking for sources, that’s disgusting. I’m disappointed Lemmy.

Nurse_Robot ,

If you’re so disgusted and disappointed, why don’t you try to find a different community?

Cocodapuf ,

It’s hard to feel disappointed about something you don’t really care about. That is to say, the reason I feel disappointed is because I like this community and I want it to be a place for civil discourse. Conversely, I’ve given up on Reddit, so nothing that happens there can really disappoint me any more, I no longer care about it.

I’m not going to make a fuss about something that doesn’t impact me, but I will make a fuss about something I believe in, like Lemmy.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

They asked for a source in the comments about an article that has sources. RTFA.

QuantumSoul ,

The article is just a collection of hyperlinks. Useless article and I will not look through all of them, and I couldn’t even know they were talking about something from the article anyway

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

So you were downvoted for not bothering to read or even skim the article to do a minimum amount of looking on your own to see what they were talking about.

QuantumSoul ,

Don’t pretend like the downvoters read anything

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

Don’t pretend like that’s an argument for you to not bother to read anything and ask others to spoon feed you information.

QuantumSoul ,

Stop being so toxic. Usually bold claims like that have nothing to do with the article

QuantumSoul ,

Exactly. Having sources is the minimal starting point to make an opinion. That’s not because this community is supposed safe that I could trust any user information

QuantumSoul ,

Yes very sourcy

Nurse_Robot ,

I’m not the one who made the claim, just giving the most basic of research advice

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

There are links in the actual article being discussed here.

sp3tr4l ,

I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

He’s the closest person on earth to becoming Horatio from the Endless series, yet he’s also basically a badly written Bond villain.

What a pos.

nyan ,

I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

Jail would be too easy for him. I want him to be on “Would you like fries with that?” for a living. Forced to pander to the people he looked down on in order to put food on the table. Bonus if he also has to work three minimum-wage jobs he hates for a total of sixty hours or more a week.

sp3tr4l , (edited )

This would happen in a just world.

It won’t though.

Reminds me of the recent millionaire guy who got lambasted on YT (i think his actual posts were on TikTok?).

Guys, I am going to lock up my money, my phone have no contacts and go to a new city and start from nothing and earn a million dollars in 30 or 90 days or something.

Whoah big surprise, a few weeks in he has to call the whole thing off for health reasons.

OMG he got robbed? Lost his paper work and thus couldn’t get the right aid? The shelters are full? Sleeping outside in a city is extremely dangerous and unhealthy? Your hygiene suffers? No one talks to you or treats you like a human being?

In a just world we’d put the income tax levels back to around FDR levels and thus be able to actually fund social programs and eliminate a great deal of the wealthy’s massive over representation in politics.

Instead it looks like we will be making a b-line toward theocratic corporatocracy.

Blargh.

Edit: Income and Corporate tax levels.

Nougat ,

Literally all he needs to do is shut the fuck up and collect money, and he can't even manage that.

Fapper_McFapper ,

But if I keep my mouth shut how will I assert that I am the most important human on the planet?

ThePowerOfGeek ,
@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world avatar

Nope, he can’t manage that. Because he’s an attention-whoring malignant narcissist.

I can’t wait for the bubble of mystique to pop on this arsehole, if only so we don’t have to ever hear from or about him again. Sadly, there are still plenty of rubes in his cult of personality and greedy investors willing to ride his coattails. So I’m not holding my breath.

pumpkinseedoil ,

Doesn’t even have to collect money, he could just sell everything except SpaceX and still live a happy life and fly to Mars one day.

Cocodapuf ,

If only… That’s the universe I want to live in.

downpunxx ,

all a show, elon bought twitter at the behest and with the investment of the saudis to kill it because they were getting too much heat for kashoggi. the fascist virtue signaling is all just a bonus for him, because he's a racist child.

AmbiguousProps ,

Eh, I think that might be too smart for Musk. I don’t doubt the Saudi’s investment but that investment only came after the SEC forced him to take the “deal” (since he couldn’t keep his mouth shut even when around SEC officials). In other words, I think the Saudi’s saw their chance and took it.

meldroc ,

Go anti-woke, go broke, Apartheid Boy!

Balinares ,

Go fash, lose cash. 👍🏻

Allonzee ,

I, for one, would like to hear Elon beg.

finley ,

I was gonna say: I’d pay just to see that!

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

He was tolerated as a phreak, but he mistook that tolerance as adulation.

Ultimately his arrogance, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny, and intolerance, leads to ignoring rather than tolerating the phreak.

ThePowerOfGeek ,
@ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world avatar

Oh there’s still far too much adulation. All those Tesla bros, for example. Given what an insufferable turd Musk is, and the crumby reputation Teslas have, I don’t understand it. And I don’t think I ever will.

dogsnest ,
@dogsnest@lemmy.world avatar

Agreed.

neidu2 ,

Didn’t he tell advertisers leaving to go fuck themselves? I don’t expect a very long queue of returning ones.

fluxion ,

Surely the appreciate the “authenticity” with which he told them to “go fuck yourselves” before flip-flopping and begging them to come back?

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

“I’d rather be told to ‘have a nice day’ by someone who doesn’t mean it than be told to ‘go fuck yourself’ by someone who does.”

impure9435 ,

Go eat a dick Elon

palordrolap ,

Asking him to auto-cannibalise? I like it.

maxenmajs ,
@maxenmajs@lemmy.world avatar

Is he trying to put on a good appearance for the advertisers? I thought it was strange that he didn’t have a transphobic streak of Twitter interactions this June. Very out of character.

sensiblepuffin ,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

Maybe that big bonus package that the board approved stipulated that he must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.

CileTheSane ,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

he must not, quote “say anything stupid” for a little while.

Did they sew his mouth shut?

sensiblepuffin ,
@sensiblepuffin@lemmy.world avatar

Can’t stop there, you’d have to break his SIM card and tape a sign to his forehead saying “DO NOT LET THIS MAN TWEET”.

rami ,

huh. that is unexpected isn’t it?

givesomefucks ,

“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.

He’s been brainwashed by his fans if he thinks that somehow makes it better.

Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier. It’s not a value that’s always good in every context. And the worst thing he could be doing is doubling down on his opinions and policy.

If he left the company is the only way this would help, he wouldn’t even be a fall guy because most of this is entirely his fault

otp ,

Reminds me of the people who say things like “I say it like it is, and most people don’t like it”…not knowing that the reason they don’t have many friends is because they don’t have a filter and don’t think they need one, lol

But this looks like Elon Musk admitting that he’s genuinely an idiot, lol

glimse ,

Yeah I robbed that gas station but at least some crime boss didn’t make me do it. It was genuine so you should forgive me

SkaveRat ,

Like, authenticy is good for good things, but it makes shitty things even shittier.

sounds like he needs that PR department

thesohoriots ,

That and a set of kneepads.

IphtashuFitz ,

💩

rtxn ,

That’s pretty much how he kept the public image of “eccentric genius” for so many years. I once read an article (can’t remember where, don’t care enough to search) that said that SpaceX had/has a team whose entire purpose was to babysit Musk when he had a temper tantrum. The team formed organically, like a cyst around a foreign object, and minimized damage to PR.

When Twitter was infested, it didn’t have this immunity and now the world (or those of us who care) knows how much of a shithead he is.

Shdwdrgn ,

I’m still trying to figure how anyone (including Musk) ever thought he was a genius? Like ok so he has a lot of money that he throws at interesting problems, and those problems attract actual geniuses to solve, but what has Musk himself ever done except be an employer? It reminds me of all the talk about how Edison was supposed to be a genius, when the reality was that he ran a sweatshop to steal other people’s hard work.

dustyData ,

No one who knew him probably ever did. This is par for the course with billionaires. People see a walking paycheck, they want their ear and their investments. So they flock to him to get their dream projects done, knowing fully that he will steal and claim any success while throwing them under the bus for any setback. Everyone thinks they can control the dragon. But when he is controlling the actual operations usually shit just goes in flames. That’s everything he is ever been.

Bennettiquette ,

but which would you say came first: The Dragon or elon being perceived by others as The Dragon?

i’m sure, as with any big personality, this relationship evolves concurrently and interdependently. I just wish more had seen through him sooner. it was not difficult to predict that he would ultimately undermine himself faster than he would naturally fall out. we will keep seeing more of his type unless we can get a bit faster on the uptake.

dustyData ,

It’s been reported he had babysitters since PayPal days. They knew what a shitty manager he was all along. But he had money and was friends with people with even more money.

sudo42 ,

This happens to anyone rich and/or famous. People flock to them to attempt to ply them with flattery or leach money in some way. Consider how many people say that Trump is a genius.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Idk, I’d prefer if CEOs were more transparent and why mistakes happened instead of the generic PR nonsense of: “We messed up, and we’re sorry. We’re taking time to review what happened to make sure it never happens again.” That kind of statement only matters if there’s some way for the public to know what happened and verify that it actually won’t happen again.

That’s not what we’re getting from Elon, so screw him, but I just figured I’d point out that this particular broken clock could say something close to what we probably all want.

theneverfox ,

Trouble is, their main job is to game public perception

A transparent, honest CEO would win a lot of people over (although they’d also probably be less likely to ignore the horrible decisions that require apologies)

Just remember - generic PR apologies are an attempt at mimickingv leaders actually taking responsibility for a mistake. The transparency will just become as soulless and corporate as the apologies are now

We need to fix the system to remove the incentive to put heartless demons in positions of power

andrew_bidlaw ,

Authenticity only works when you don’t jump ships and stay on point. Not for billionaires, tho.

barsquid ,

“Shoot oneself in the foot” is a really charitable description of “inviting all the worst Nazis back on to social media and removing fact checking.”

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