• bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
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    “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.

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

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

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      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.

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      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.

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

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      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

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        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!

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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?

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    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.