They should be losing fucking money hand over fist, is the problem.
If you think Elon is being honest about ‘breaking even’, you haven’t been paying attention. Twitter is in the hole, and he’s lying through his fascist little teeth to either save face, or manipulate some sort of upcoming move.
Aw geez, what a shame. As if Neo-Goebbels is going to shut his propaganda arm over something as trivial as money.
With the site now serving as an outlet for right wing narratives and misinformation that benefits the administration, there will be an incentive to prop it up financially if need be. Banks have been trying unsuccessfully to offload their debt used to finance the acquisition, so it seems investors aren’t as confident in the site’s long term profitability even with its newfound role.
And then right after he sues the people for not advertising
No you’re not
Twitter broke barely even
You paid twice it’s worth and then within 2 years got it to only 20% of its value, pushing away all power users and advertisers.
You’re bleeding money like there is no tomorrow and you’ll still be bankrupt or jailed soon enough. If not during Trump’s presidency, then most certainly after it
Awww, is the world’s greediest man not making enough money?
Go fash; lose cash.
Turns out, nazi business is bad business
“There’s no business for Nazi business! From no business I knowww!” - Ethel Merman
I just gave upvote 88 and now I’m sad.
Thank you for your service 🫡
Do we need a catchy “go Nazi get…____” catchphrase? It was such a g when the right wing did it! They do love a good catchphrase. Easier to remember.
Go nazi go bankrupt? Go nazi get Luigied? Go nazi get nasty? Go nazi get ,
How about “Go Nazi get shot in the head”
A lot of people have pitched ideas, and this one is my favorite.
Doesn’t rhyme and gets right to the point. This has my vote. Mocks the entire idea of having a cutesy catchphrase. But is a catchphrase in itself. And one that isn’t even catchy. Love it.
I’m gonna be that guy and say most of this misses the mark. The point of stupid catchphrases is to make it extremely obvious why something is wrong in a manner that is personally relatable to the audience, nuance be damned. Not only does this not do that, it implicitly agrees with the original premise. Let’s look at common examples and retorts.
“Black lives matter” -> “All lives matter”
The initial phrase is short punchy and too the point, but the retorts is as well. Instead of trying to address the issue, it reframes the original to give it a meaning that it doesn’t have. (Black lives matter too)->(Only black lives matter). An effective* retort, but not a cache phrase of its own, lest the person be caught looking “liberal”.
“Global warming” -> “Look, a snowball/Why is it so cold?”
This retort does the same thing by instead taking the words literal meaning and misinterpreting it deliberately, rather than engaging with the vast body of science that backs it up (our actions as humans have caused a consistent rise in global temperature averages which has caused ecological disasters and a financial apocalypse). The retort moves the perspective away from the original wide view point, and directs your personal attention to the “snowball/cold” (it’s cold, therefore it is not warm) despite being incredibly stupid, this comes off as smug to their team, so they are going to repeat it. Excellent thought termination.
“Eat bugs” -> “Shrimp is bugs”
Congratulations to all of you that remember the original lemmy raids and psyop posting, so I’ll go through this one for fun. This one stems from a right wing conspiracy theory claiming that due to impending food shortages all regular food will be given to rich elites and we will all be forced to eat bugs. Uhhhhh??? (Food anxiety, antisemitism?, “economic anxiety”/suffering under capitalism, invocation of gross) Shrimp is bugs succinctly acts as a retort because it reframes the issue. Bugs ain’t cheap (you won’t be forced to eat lobster???) Shrimp aren’t gross/unfamiliar (Don’t tell me you’ve never had seafood). Destroying a global cabal in under three words might take some workshopping. (half point for smug because it is stating the obvious)
“Couch-fucker/Weird” -> no retorts yet …
10/10 no notes lmao. Being verifiably false and still accurate gives you the smugness point off of the bat. “Weird” invokes the gross which reduces support for people that wear spray tan makeup. Couch fucker is both distinct and specific enough to to be remembered, succinct in criticizing Vance’s lack of charisma and hot-topic-esqe makeup, and cannot be easily misinterpreted without ceding the entire argument.
“Go woke go broke” -> Go Nazi get shot?
A retort should be:
- Be smug/obvious about it. (x)
- Make the people saying it seem gross/weird/weak. (x)
- Explain/refute/sidestep the issue. (x)
- Under 4 words/Writable with emoji. (✓)
I’m much more fond of “Follow your leader” although that’s a general insult for people that are going mask off.
Much more fond of something that is inherently dismissive of the point like “go sleepy, baby”. Always mock the fascist.
Go nazi declare bankruptcy
Redpilled? Get killed
Go fash lose cash
Lick boot, lose loot
Go right eat shite
All incel, no braincells
Nazi salute, go destitute
ADL? Common L
Ku Klux? Lose bucks
Go apartheid, all downside
You’re hired!
“Fascist around and find out.”
Nazi business means no business
A victory for the free market
Too bad MIC doesn’t operate on free market.
Hopefully as bad as nazi archaeology
I think it’s time to fire half of the people! That will help.
Starting with everyone that wrote the least amount of code. I only want to see overly complex code for hello world!
hm, someone told me it was so easy to cut wasteful spending.
Wouldn’t barely breaking even actually be exceptionally good in the history of twitter? I though it had been burning money from its conception.
No, Twitter had started making a profit when he bought it. The last year they had a court case which made the year a loss, but the years before were profitable.
You’d expect it – most online companies do, as it makes sense for companies with high fixed costs and low variable costs – to have a growth phase, during which it loses money but aims to grow by being maximally appealing. Once it’s grown as far as it reasonably can or as money permits, the growth phase ends and the monetization phase begins. Twitter’s growth phase was over. It would never have been expected for Twitter to just lose money forever.
Does stagnant actually mean negative?
Musk also said that the company could become cash-flow positive “within months” nearly two years ago, and it still faces over $1 billion in annual interest payments on the loans.
3 months maybe, 6 months definitely
There’s no fucking way they’re breaking even.
@breakfastmtn @cm0002 it already bought an election, how much it is worth?
Yeah. Bought an election for a bum who doesn’t understand loyalty or how to pay his bills. Lol.
What a Dumbass.
The advertisers are coming back, I swear!
Please come back, But do go fuck yourselves!
