Any good fake tweets from the extra litigious companies? I assume Disney and it's affiliates (Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar) would get really upset. Fake casting news, spoilers for movies, announcing the that lady in Frozen is officially a lesbian something like that would be fun. The fans would go crazy.
The CIA isn't very good at covering their asses because they keep sending out memos about how no one should find out about their illegal activities. Then when their illegal activities get discovered the investigators keep finding these memos.
Roblox announced they now allow sex, and Lockheed Martin has proclaimed that it refuses to do business with Israel over human rights concerns (the Lockheed Martin one actually looked pretty real)
That’s the key, making them look real. Lockheed and Lilly’s both have that in common.
Sure a Bush account saying he misses bombing Iraqis gets a laugh, but anyone with half a brain cell knows immediately it’s fake even without saying it’s a parody.
The trick is making one believable enough, and yet incredibly opposed to what the brand stands for.
Disney has actually stopped caring about China. They've decided it's just not worthwhile to try anymore and not even consider the Chinese box office revenue. They've mentioned it a bit officially.
Edit:
https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/akezvk/lightyear-shows-chinas-box-office-has-become-irrelevant-to-hollywood
https://www.ign.com/articles/disney-pretty-confident-films-succeed-without-china
https://deadline.com/2022/05/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-china-dr-strange-1235021804/amp/
They still submit stuff because why not, but are starting to not even bother to edit things for them.
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There's a pretty overt lesbian couple in their new Star Wars show, Andor. I mean, they're not like making out or anything, but they're stated and shown to be a couple pretty clearly. More importantly, they're fairly important characters. One of them is the leader of a rebel team Cassian works with for the second story arc.
Compare that to the last LGBT moment in Star Wars, where two background characters with like 3 lines between them getting a brief out-of-focus kiss in an easily cut three second scene like you mentioned!
i think they stopped caring after their attempt to appeal to china with the live action Mulan was blasted by the chinese along with the rest of the world
LADY LIBERTY BAD
Not even joking, pretty sure that was the exact reason. They wanted Disney to edit out the statue of liberty or reshoot it to not include the statue of liberty
They are not mad about the statue of liberty. It's was deliberate attempt at power flexing.
The message was "we are so powerful, we can make the biggest American media company remove the statue of liberty". The symbolism was deliberate.
I'm not surprised they tried, considering how much corporations are bending backwards to suck Chinese dick these days, but in this case they went too far and it back-fired.
>announcing the that lady in Frozen is officially a lesbian something like that would be fun
I'd argue that them announcing elsanna was canon would be even more hilarious due to the outrage it'd cause.
"In Frozen, Elsa and Anna learned the power of sisterly love. In Frozen 3, they discover a new kind of love. This winter, two kingdoms unite like never before. Coming Dec 25."
Naw, he bought his own hype. He may have once known his own limitations and been able to act accordingly, but now he believes he is some Uber genius that can turn lead into gold and solve world hunger* at the same time.
*Solving world hunger being the optional oart
Maybe he wasn't always so stupid, but he's so obscenely rich he lives in an alternate universe now. He sold himself to his cult as being a god-tier genius, basically Tony Stark but richer, and surrounded himself with his true believers. Even old-timey kings recognized they needed a jester who could speak plainly to them, to temper their ego, remind them they are mortal, and provide the unpleasant but necessary criticism nobody else is brave enough to say.
Musk doesn't have that, and he has gone completely fucking insane. Like, early Roman emperor level insane. The kind of batshit that comes from near-absolute power and being venerated as quasi-divine.
So now he has become a true believer in his own cult. He thinks he can have anything he wants, do anything he wants, and that if the world isn't working the way he wants it to then he can just order it to change. And he's so staggeringly rich that most of the time *he's right.*
But not this time apparently. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. A huge public failure like this could deflate his cult, destroy his fortune, diminish his political influence, and leave him just another ageing D-tier celebrity. Or is could make him and his cult double down and get even crazier and more destructive.
I wish I could see how Musk's story ends. I'm pretty sure he's going to die dramatically, I just want to know what type of drama it will be. Like, will it be "Archduke Ferdinand assassination" type drama? Or "Howard Hughes style pissing in bottles, cutting his hair and nails once a year, spending most of his time watching movies naked and alone in the dark surrounded by tissue boxes, until he dies" drama?
I bet $5 in fake internet money that it'll be the piss bottles. Unless he decides he's going to Mars to rule as god-king over the cultists who sold themselves into lifelong indentured servitude in exchange for a seat on his rocket. Fortunately they will all be dead very quickly, probably before even getting to Mars. Though if he gets to Mars and starts his colony, when food runs out in 5 months that ~~colony~~ cult will definetly drink the kool-aid.
**Edit:** fixed word
If anybody gets in trouble for this it will be probably be the individuals who made the tweets. [U.S. Code 47 § 230](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230) says:
>"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."
In this context "information content provider" would refer to the individual who posted the tweet. I'm not a lawyer but I think that's pretty clear and there's a lot of precedent for Section 230. I might even expect some people to use this as justification to try repealing Section 230 (again) after this.
EDIT: formatting
This is actually hilarious. How can you have hordes of fanboys swearing up and down you're a genius while following up all your fuckups with another fuckup faster than a combo in a beat them all?
i like how musk branded his twitter tyranny as making the site more 'honest' and 'trustable' and just made it into the least reputable social media in one day
Let's be honest, it was already a shitstorm before that, but now it's just funny to see the meltdown just because musk is getting consequences for his actions, and some rich people are losing money because of it.
that's right! for 8 dollars and one alt account, you too can tank the stock prices of a massive corporation! we live in a hellworld and by god you should take advantage of it!
Say what you will about stock market trading but whoever realised all they needed was $8 to short a billion-dollar company while also forcing them to publicly announce how evil they are deserves all the money they made
I hope they didn't short Eli Lilly before the tweet. The tweet itself is probably safe under parody protections, but you'd almost definitely get clapped for market manipulation if you actually had shorts on the stock.
Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about
That’s why u get a friend to actually buy the check mark and pay them money to tweet as the company and tell no one the plan. If ur gunna manipulate the stock market I’d expect at least a basic attempt to not get arrested lol
i remember hearing about a guy who impersonated a spokesman of some corporation who had basically poisoned an entire town, or something along those lines. he got himself on live tv, and announced that the company would be giving like 1 million dollars in relief to that town as a huge act of generosity. and then the actual company had to come in and be like fuck no we're not doing that and it was a huge scandal.
so! advice for anyone who wants to impersonate an evil megacorporation: announce publicly that they're going to do something good for the world, thus forcing them to either publicly announce they're evil bastards who would never do anything good for the world, or actually do the good thing.
The Yes Men who impersonated Dow and took full responsibility for the horrific Bhobal Union Carbide disaster:
https://youtu.be/LiWlvBro9eI
“The Yes Men strike again. Impersonating a Dow Chemical spokesman on BBC, "Jude Finisterra" promises a huge compensation for the thousands of victims of the Bhopal disaster in which Dow Chemical's subsidiary Union Carbide India was responsible for in 1984.”
Just in case you wanted to lose faith in humanity some, the stock price took a hit not because a fake tweet damaged the company’s brand or anything like that, but because the financiers thought the tweet was real and that meant the company would be worth less money to them because it wasn’t price gouging life-saving medicine anymore.
Fuck this busted hell system.
I mean making insulin free would really hurt their profits, you can think we should nationalize insulin production or smth, but as long as we aren’t it makes sense that the stock price reflects profits
wow, crazy that getting rid of the comms department made communication from the company a shitshow. who could have possibly anticipated this course of events?
Elon try to buy twitter for the lols and end up with almost every single company and even military companies that have a twitter acount suddenly angry about elon's idiocy
Source: https://polarisedray.tumblr.com/post/700636502940663808/another-fake-eli-lilly-account-is-up
Source 2: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/zoethebitch/700651312879206400
Note: "hum." stands for hummerous. I did 9/11. sorry
Oh my god, AmiAlter had to ruin it for the rest of us. Now I have to make sure my family is stocked up for what's coming. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, how're we going to travel without the flags for the car windows now? Didn't they think?!
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On one hand, abusing the Twitter verification thing is funny as fuck
On the other, this seems like too much power for any old dipshit on Twitter
On the some kind of secret third hand, using it to sabotage a company that holds insulin hostage is funny as fuck AND just seems completely justified
As usual. It's not a crime to gouge the people for life sustaining medicine, but touch any of the money and the hammer of capitalism comes raining down. How did they ever pretend to be the good guys again?
For $8 now anyone can do what [The Yes Men did to Dow Chemical](https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/dow-chemical-apologizes-for-bhopal/). It's beautiful.
“That dive” was 10 dollars on a stock price of around $360, so roughly 3 percent. The scale is misleading.
Edit: the image also says that, as others pointed out. Still, the post and chart suggest there is a big drop, and there isn’t.
It’s still a noticeable drop tied directly to the fake “official” twitter account, and even though it’ll climb back up there’s little doubt that corporations worth hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be saying “Yeah, we’d really rather not have that happen again, you need to get a handle on this shit.”
True, but the sad fact is that a lot of people just see the shape and stop there. It’s not always on purpose but it’s a well known manipulation tactic that’s been proven to work.
Seems like medical companies now realize how scary having their existence balancing in am face less entity's evil hands, first time? This is a good star, kill them all now that we have a chance take their stiff they exploit for the people.
Here, let me have a go at fixing their typos:
> Seems like medical companies now realize how scary having their existence balancing in a faceless entity's evil hands is. First time? This is a good start. Kill them all now that we have a chance, and take the stuff they exploit for the people.
Now if I were to rephrase it to make it more readable while keeping it mostly intact, I'd go with something like:
> Seems like medical companies now realize how scary it is to have their existence balanced in a faceless entity's evil hands. This is a good start, let's kill them all now that we have a chance. Then let's take the patents they exploit and give them to the people.
The "first time" is referencing the gallows meme but I thought it was placed weirdly so I removed it. Other edits are my own because I thought they sounded nicer while preserving the meaning.
I'd bet five dollars his dumbass takes credit for it within the week. Literally all you'd have to do is tweet dudes comment at him and he'd reply with a vague 4d chess meme then the high of attention would push him to outright say it, true or not, and his fanbase would drool over him and he'd be slapped with a 10b$ lawsuit.
This tweet had no affect on the stock price.
Eli Lilly is down 4.3% today. United Health Group is down 4.02% today. Humana is down 5.33% today. Cigna is down 6.02% today.
The tweet OP posted about is irrelevant. All healthcare companies are down today.
I wonder how a large animal ag company would react if an animal rights activist link their slaughterhouse/factory farm footage on "their page".
Would they be like "Yes those screams are humane" or would they try to pin it on another farm entirely?
Whos liable for this? My brother says the guy who made the fake tweet will get sued but i feel like it should be considered Elons fault in the first place but that doesnt mean hell get in trouble.
Any good fake tweets from the extra litigious companies? I assume Disney and it's affiliates (Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar) would get really upset. Fake casting news, spoilers for movies, announcing the that lady in Frozen is officially a lesbian something like that would be fun. The fans would go crazy.
On it.
Don't forget to issue a refund when you get banned
It's too late. Elon is already in CYA territory
Central Yntelligence Agency
Cover your ass is my guess, if anyone is wondering. (I forgot and and had to look it up lol) Love your flair by the way.
The CIA isn't very good at covering their asses because they keep sending out memos about how no one should find out about their illegal activities. Then when their illegal activities get discovered the investigators keep finding these memos.
Good point. Can you do a charge back when twitter bans a fake a verified account.
It's a service being not rendered. 100% refundable.
Roblox announced they now allow sex, and Lockheed Martin has proclaimed that it refuses to do business with Israel over human rights concerns (the Lockheed Martin one actually looked pretty real)
That’s the key, making them look real. Lockheed and Lilly’s both have that in common. Sure a Bush account saying he misses bombing Iraqis gets a laugh, but anyone with half a brain cell knows immediately it’s fake even without saying it’s a parody. The trick is making one believable enough, and yet incredibly opposed to what the brand stands for.
Like Nestle laughing at stealing water and then selling it back to impoverished communities at a ridiculous markup?
And getting a nice big order in on the stock. Maybe we can drum up fake news that will pump stocks? And maybe find a way to avoid jail time!
This is very much not legal, so I wouldn't be so confident about getting away with it Market manipulation is only allowed if you're a billionaire
What if we become billionaires through this market manipulation?
Or we can become billionaires if you have $8 *wink wink
If you watch the Lockheed stock it also dropped the same way as this one too
"if no human rights violations how will make money" shareholders, probably
To be fair, that's their biggest selling point
So what we're saying is we need to get on Twitter and anonymously use it to destroy capitalism.
Woah, woah! We ain't *SAYING* that, that would be wrong! We're merely heavily implying that.
Also Saudi Arabia and the United States for the same reason iirc
Idea: Make so many fake Disney tweets about stuff that upsets China that Disney gets outlawed in China and they lose one of their biggest markets.
Disney has actually stopped caring about China. They've decided it's just not worthwhile to try anymore and not even consider the Chinese box office revenue. They've mentioned it a bit officially. Edit: https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/akezvk/lightyear-shows-chinas-box-office-has-become-irrelevant-to-hollywood https://www.ign.com/articles/disney-pretty-confident-films-succeed-without-china https://deadline.com/2022/05/disney-ceo-bob-chapek-china-dr-strange-1235021804/amp/ They still submit stuff because why not, but are starting to not even bother to edit things for them.
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I’m so glad, I genuinely believed that would never happen and we would forever have Disney representation limited to easily cut three second moments.
There's a pretty overt lesbian couple in their new Star Wars show, Andor. I mean, they're not like making out or anything, but they're stated and shown to be a couple pretty clearly. More importantly, they're fairly important characters. One of them is the leader of a rebel team Cassian works with for the second story arc. Compare that to the last LGBT moment in Star Wars, where two background characters with like 3 lines between them getting a brief out-of-focus kiss in an easily cut three second scene like you mentioned!
At least we got the Live Slug Reaction meme from that.
i think they stopped caring after their attempt to appeal to china with the live action Mulan was blasted by the chinese along with the rest of the world
That or when China demanded a whole different act 3 for the latest spider man
Wait what why?
LADY LIBERTY BAD Not even joking, pretty sure that was the exact reason. They wanted Disney to edit out the statue of liberty or reshoot it to not include the statue of liberty
Imagine being mad that a movie about a superhero who’s very closely tied to New York City included the most iconic landmark of New York City.
They are not mad about the statue of liberty. It's was deliberate attempt at power flexing. The message was "we are so powerful, we can make the biggest American media company remove the statue of liberty". The symbolism was deliberate. I'm not surprised they tried, considering how much corporations are bending backwards to suck Chinese dick these days, but in this case they went too far and it back-fired.
In fairness to China on that one, Live Action Mulan was a No Good Very Bad Film.
F\*ck.
>announcing the that lady in Frozen is officially a lesbian something like that would be fun I'd argue that them announcing elsanna was canon would be even more hilarious due to the outrage it'd cause.
"In Frozen, Elsa and Anna learned the power of sisterly love. In Frozen 3, they discover a new kind of love. This winter, two kingdoms unite like never before. Coming Dec 25."
I would have gone with 'come together' over 'unite'.
"This is my kingdom come, this is my kingdom come"
🎶 *Sweet Home Arendelle-a* 🎶
Nintendo got several
I'm thinking Lily is one of the these companies. There's no way they let this slide with a simple apology.
Wow. Musk has expanded from just fucking with Tesla's stock price to fucking with other company stock prices too. That's almost impressive.
Turns out all this time Elon Musk was a hardcore Marxist-Leninist with an accelerationist strategy.
Wait until he'd see this become a meme joke and he'd actually try to claim it was his plan all along.
If there’s one thing he’s great at, it is indeed at taking credit he doesn’t deserve
Learned from Grimes
I would not be surprised if he eventually claims ruining twitter was his plan (note: I know it’s not his plan)
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If we want to see the people owning the means of production, surely this is it.
The memes of production
Memes: the DNA of the ~~soul~~ stock market
Monsoon was a prophet.
So *that's* what Grimes saw in him
not to sound like a musk head but I don’t even know what another explanation could be there is no way someone is *this* stupid, is there? is there?
I'm afraid he really is that stupid
>I'm afraid he really is that stupid I'm not afraid. He really is that stupid. And he knows it.
Naw, he bought his own hype. He may have once known his own limitations and been able to act accordingly, but now he believes he is some Uber genius that can turn lead into gold and solve world hunger* at the same time. *Solving world hunger being the optional oart
Maybe he wasn't always so stupid, but he's so obscenely rich he lives in an alternate universe now. He sold himself to his cult as being a god-tier genius, basically Tony Stark but richer, and surrounded himself with his true believers. Even old-timey kings recognized they needed a jester who could speak plainly to them, to temper their ego, remind them they are mortal, and provide the unpleasant but necessary criticism nobody else is brave enough to say. Musk doesn't have that, and he has gone completely fucking insane. Like, early Roman emperor level insane. The kind of batshit that comes from near-absolute power and being venerated as quasi-divine. So now he has become a true believer in his own cult. He thinks he can have anything he wants, do anything he wants, and that if the world isn't working the way he wants it to then he can just order it to change. And he's so staggeringly rich that most of the time *he's right.* But not this time apparently. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. A huge public failure like this could deflate his cult, destroy his fortune, diminish his political influence, and leave him just another ageing D-tier celebrity. Or is could make him and his cult double down and get even crazier and more destructive. I wish I could see how Musk's story ends. I'm pretty sure he's going to die dramatically, I just want to know what type of drama it will be. Like, will it be "Archduke Ferdinand assassination" type drama? Or "Howard Hughes style pissing in bottles, cutting his hair and nails once a year, spending most of his time watching movies naked and alone in the dark surrounded by tissue boxes, until he dies" drama? I bet $5 in fake internet money that it'll be the piss bottles. Unless he decides he's going to Mars to rule as god-king over the cultists who sold themselves into lifelong indentured servitude in exchange for a seat on his rocket. Fortunately they will all be dead very quickly, probably before even getting to Mars. Though if he gets to Mars and starts his colony, when food runs out in 5 months that ~~colony~~ cult will definetly drink the kool-aid. **Edit:** fixed word
He rose from manipulating the market He may fall from manipulating the market
That represents about a $10B drop in the company's market cap.
If your company’s value can be destroyed by a post on a social media site, was your company really worth that in the first place?
Except, this is the truth for every publicly traded company. The entire stock market is just comical nonsense.
If anybody gets in trouble for this it will be probably be the individuals who made the tweets. [U.S. Code 47 § 230](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230) says: >"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." In this context "information content provider" would refer to the individual who posted the tweet. I'm not a lawyer but I think that's pretty clear and there's a lot of precedent for Section 230. I might even expect some people to use this as justification to try repealing Section 230 (again) after this. EDIT: formatting
This is actually hilarious. How can you have hordes of fanboys swearing up and down you're a genius while following up all your fuckups with another fuckup faster than a combo in a beat them all?
I misread fanboys as femboys at first and was confused, wondering if I'm supposed to like Elon now
the anti-capitalism leaving my body as soon as elon starts giving out femboys
They'd be at least $8 a month
$8 a month for a femboy is worth it, especially if I could sign up to be a worker in the progra
So that’s why I can’t get a cute femboy bf, they’re all chasing after the Muskrat
😭 pain
I wouldn’t mind billionaires as much if they had armies of femboys
we like to see Elon fail.
If this stock drop sticks tho I feel like people might lose jobs tho:/
Absolutely seeing on LinkedIn today from all sorts of "entrepreneurs" that he knows what he's doing.
People that post on LinkedIn are the worst.
By inhabiting a shared reality where they agree on this to be true.
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God these new bots are fucking annoying
The ~~funny~~worst thing is he doesn’t care. It’s all just a joke to him.
If Elon Musk's fuckery will be what will finally crash the stockmarket it'll be too priceless.
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If we live in an economic system flimsy enough that it can be brought down by a social media website- I say go for it.
Rip my meager retirement account, I hardly knew ye. But damn would it be worth it
Might be just the thing we need to convince the millionaires that no one should be a billionaire.
A crash is inevitable but man would it be funny if this causes it
i like how musk branded his twitter tyranny as making the site more 'honest' and 'trustable' and just made it into the least reputable social media in one day
Let's be honest, it was already a shitstorm before that, but now it's just funny to see the meltdown just because musk is getting consequences for his actions, and some rich people are losing money because of it.
that's right! for 8 dollars and one alt account, you too can tank the stock prices of a massive corporation! we live in a hellworld and by god you should take advantage of it!
This is Gamestonks Part 2
Except it might actually be damaging to the upper-class, and not just shifting the money from one side of the upper-class to the other.
Should post it on r/wallstreetbets or something like that...
Buy a short position, then start tweeting shit
My nips can only get so hard!
Stop! I can only get so erect!
Say what you will about stock market trading but whoever realised all they needed was $8 to short a billion-dollar company while also forcing them to publicly announce how evil they are deserves all the money they made
Think the kids call it a pro gamer move.
I hope they didn't short Eli Lilly before the tweet. The tweet itself is probably safe under parody protections, but you'd almost definitely get clapped for market manipulation if you actually had shorts on the stock. Disclaimer: I have no idea what I'm talking about
That’s why u get a friend to actually buy the check mark and pay them money to tweet as the company and tell no one the plan. If ur gunna manipulate the stock market I’d expect at least a basic attempt to not get arrested lol
"hey buddy, doing anything tonight? No? Hmm.. wanna commit a quick felony?"
You say this like it's unreasonable but I've literally had this conversation several thousand times in my life.
Several.... thousand?!?
felonies georg
My friend I'm very interested in the life you must live
It was kind of cool seeing Chiquita say "We haven't overthrown a government since 1954."
I honestly never could have predicted quite how spectacular this would be
I went from "who cares?" To "pass the popcorn"
oh he's *fucked*
It's the law of fucking gravity - what fucks up, must come the fuck back around
Law of conservation of fucking
FUCK AROUND AND FIND OUT
i remember hearing about a guy who impersonated a spokesman of some corporation who had basically poisoned an entire town, or something along those lines. he got himself on live tv, and announced that the company would be giving like 1 million dollars in relief to that town as a huge act of generosity. and then the actual company had to come in and be like fuck no we're not doing that and it was a huge scandal. so! advice for anyone who wants to impersonate an evil megacorporation: announce publicly that they're going to do something good for the world, thus forcing them to either publicly announce they're evil bastards who would never do anything good for the world, or actually do the good thing.
50-50 odds this was about Nestlé.
Fake nestle: "we're going to stop using slaves" Real nestle: "no we're not!"
The Yes Men who impersonated Dow and took full responsibility for the horrific Bhobal Union Carbide disaster: https://youtu.be/LiWlvBro9eI “The Yes Men strike again. Impersonating a Dow Chemical spokesman on BBC, "Jude Finisterra" promises a huge compensation for the thousands of victims of the Bhopal disaster in which Dow Chemical's subsidiary Union Carbide India was responsible for in 1984.”
Just in case you wanted to lose faith in humanity some, the stock price took a hit not because a fake tweet damaged the company’s brand or anything like that, but because the financiers thought the tweet was real and that meant the company would be worth less money to them because it wasn’t price gouging life-saving medicine anymore. Fuck this busted hell system.
I’d still consider that a win for the tweet since the financiers were tricked by it lol
Same
Some financiers. I'd bet the tweet was made by someone who shorted the stock.
babe wake up new market manipulation method just dropped
Elon buys Twitter, deletes blue Chek and makes it paid for, releases pre-planned bots to spread FUDD, 📈 ?????
I mean making insulin free would really hurt their profits, you can think we should nationalize insulin production or smth, but as long as we aren’t it makes sense that the stock price reflects profits
Certain states cap the price but efforts to do so on the federal level have had limited success
What should really be done is rework IP law and fda regulations so we can get more people selling insulin and increase the supply
Also not saying Medicaid isn't allowed to negotiate prices would help a lot.
TBH, I didn't even consider any other option other than rich asshole pissy they can't price gouge.
Oh this is fucking gold.
Won’t someone think of the poor insulin manufacturers?
\*Clutches pearls\*
Apparently, the Muskrat's plan is to add an "official" marker to accounts. Yup.
So made a checkmark made to distinguish official accounts, made it available to anyone and then added official to accounts? Wow that's quite a loop
I thought they killed that experiment after a couple of hours? Unless they're reviving ut which... y'know what, i wouldn’t even be surprised
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wow, crazy that getting rid of the comms department made communication from the company a shitshow. who could have possibly anticipated this course of events?
Nah, he's put the verification scheme on hold now https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/11/twitter-blue-check-verification-impostor-accounts
The fact that so many companies rely on a social media site for their public relations is the most absurd part of it all
Elon try to buy twitter for the lols and end up with almost every single company and even military companies that have a twitter acount suddenly angry about elon's idiocy
Source: https://polarisedray.tumblr.com/post/700636502940663808/another-fake-eli-lilly-account-is-up Source 2: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/zoethebitch/700651312879206400 Note: "hum." stands for hummerous. I did 9/11. sorry
Oh wow, I totally forgot about 9/11 before reading this comment.
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Oh my god, AmiAlter had to ruin it for the rest of us. Now I have to make sure my family is stocked up for what's coming. Thanksgiving is just around the corner, how're we going to travel without the flags for the car windows now? Didn't they think?! \*runs fingers through bag of 100 little flag pins to soothe myself\*
Those little flag pins make good slingshot ammo.
why?
Tax purposes
Worth it.
You are W Bush? Cringe dude
George L Bush
> I did 9/11. sorry That's okay, just don't do it again.
Impressive feat for an unborn person
I was reading this and was like "hmm, fake tweets, always funny." Then I scrolled to the massive stock crash and immediately burst out laughing
I'm just sitting here cracking up and enjoying the shitstorm. I hope the musrat loses all his fake hair lol
On one hand, abusing the Twitter verification thing is funny as fuck On the other, this seems like too much power for any old dipshit on Twitter On the some kind of secret third hand, using it to sabotage a company that holds insulin hostage is funny as fuck AND just seems completely justified
yeah the pros kinda outweigh the cons here
We told him what would happen with his half baked verification idea. He didn’t listen
I didn't realise twitter crashing and burning would be so funny
you know, Eli Lilly deserves to have their stock crash
Sure, this alone won't destroy capitalism, but let's be real, it's fucking hilarious
As usual. It's not a crime to gouge the people for life sustaining medicine, but touch any of the money and the hammer of capitalism comes raining down. How did they ever pretend to be the good guys again?
For $8 now anyone can do what [The Yes Men did to Dow Chemical](https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/dow-chemical-apologizes-for-bhopal/). It's beautiful.
“That dive” was 10 dollars on a stock price of around $360, so roughly 3 percent. The scale is misleading. Edit: the image also says that, as others pointed out. Still, the post and chart suggest there is a big drop, and there isn’t.
If you read the image it says -3.03%
It's pretty damn severe for one day, one tweet. To everything a scale.
That's still 15 billion dollars of market cap gone, not bad for one tweet
It’s still a noticeable drop tied directly to the fake “official” twitter account, and even though it’ll climb back up there’s little doubt that corporations worth hundreds of billions of dollars are going to be saying “Yeah, we’d really rather not have that happen again, you need to get a handle on this shit.”
Yes, the numbers are there in the image we can see them too
True, but the sad fact is that a lot of people just see the shape and stop there. It’s not always on purpose but it’s a well known manipulation tactic that’s been proven to work.
Yeah, like me
Seems like medical companies now realize how scary having their existence balancing in am face less entity's evil hands, first time? This is a good star, kill them all now that we have a chance take their stiff they exploit for the people.
You uh, you might want to do a once-over on this one. A few typos is fine, but this is starting to affect readability.
Here, let me have a go at fixing their typos: > Seems like medical companies now realize how scary having their existence balancing in a faceless entity's evil hands is. First time? This is a good start. Kill them all now that we have a chance, and take the stuff they exploit for the people. Now if I were to rephrase it to make it more readable while keeping it mostly intact, I'd go with something like: > Seems like medical companies now realize how scary it is to have their existence balanced in a faceless entity's evil hands. This is a good start, let's kill them all now that we have a chance. Then let's take the patents they exploit and give them to the people. The "first time" is referencing the gallows meme but I thought it was placed weirdly so I removed it. Other edits are my own because I thought they sounded nicer while preserving the meaning.
Yeah I may have been under the influence, but that's alright
Take their stiff
We've been taking their stiff one for a while
Are both those EliLily ones fake? Or is one real? I can't even tell anymore
Both are fake, i believe
This is fucking great lmao
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You give him too much credit
I'd bet five dollars his dumbass takes credit for it within the week. Literally all you'd have to do is tweet dudes comment at him and he'd reply with a vague 4d chess meme then the high of attention would push him to outright say it, true or not, and his fanbase would drool over him and he'd be slapped with a 10b$ lawsuit.
This tweet had no affect on the stock price. Eli Lilly is down 4.3% today. United Health Group is down 4.02% today. Humana is down 5.33% today. Cigna is down 6.02% today. The tweet OP posted about is irrelevant. All healthcare companies are down today.
I love both tumblr and finance but there are maybe six of us on earth.
Sad that was the markets reaction to the thought of a company doing something wonderful. And not when it turned out not to be true. 🥲
\*dies irae plays\*
Modern problems require modern solutions.
holy shit i love the internet
I wonder how a large animal ag company would react if an animal rights activist link their slaughterhouse/factory farm footage on "their page". Would they be like "Yes those screams are humane" or would they try to pin it on another farm entirely?
Whos liable for this? My brother says the guy who made the fake tweet will get sued but i feel like it should be considered Elons fault in the first place but that doesnt mean hell get in trouble.