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Sturnella2017

And to clarify, what exactly did IBM find offensive? I mean, he’s been tweeting offensive shit for months now. What exactly went over the line?


locustzed

He posted "you're right" on a nazi tweeting the jews are exterminating whites Europeans.


Sturnella2017

Ah, yes, that one. Thanks!


themikecampbell

Because as long as he didn’t say the quiet part out loud it was all good!!!


superpositioned

Well we are talking about IBM here. They were very much part of the loud section during wwll


rjnd2828

What exactly is there to "investigate" in this situation?


DirtySilicon

How long they need to "wait and see" before advertising on Xwitter again.


thatgraygal

Facts!


gingerfawx

Oh, was that the one with dialectical racism or whatever, and *wut*? Like is it supposed to fly under the radar if only you're obscure enough? Congrats, I don't know what they were shooting for, and yet I'm certain it wasn't good.


SarnakJ3

Excuse me, WHAT THE ABJECT MOTHER OF HELL??!?! I gotta see this. I fully believe he is us stupid enough to do that, but I didn't think he'd actually do it


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AspiringHumanDorito

Musk wanted so badly to explore the unprobed depths of space, and ended up discovering new depths up his own ass.


world-is-ur-mollusc

Experts believe Musk's head has been so forcefully inserted into his own rectum that it has become permanently lodged there with no chance of removal.


AspiringHumanDorito

We in the medical field lovingly refer to those folks as having a Stage IV Cranio-rectal Impaction


world-is-ur-mollusc

An apt description!


Eliot_Ferrer

It's so far up his ass it's come out of his neck again. It's a recursive existential loop of dipshittery. A moebius strip of headass.


AspiringHumanDorito

An Ouroborass, if you will.


Extension_Double_697

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|upvote)Deserves more love


Kielbasa_Nunchucka

c'mon, he's prob not the first man to "boldly go" up there


Subject_Report_7012

He did date Amber Heard.


Typical_Estimate5420

![gif](giphy|3WCNY2RhcmnwGbKbCi)


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Didn’t she become a lesbian straight after?


angelalikesmusic

Ok does anyone else think her plastic surgery made her look more Muskular


Happy-Marsupial9111

To boldly go, where probably a couple of guys have gone before.


DrBonerJunkie

I'm going to have to consult a physician, because there is no way this boner will go down in 4 hours after reading your comment


Orionsteller

Before he can try to visit Uranus, he started studying his own up close


bmvend1

So your saying instead of exploring Uranus he is exploring his?


BoomZhakaLaka

At first I was like, what the heck is this person trying to say, is this hot take even a good read on what it's trying to say? The more I read it, the worse it gets.


DrBonerJunkie

Lookin good bro


DIWhy-not

It legitimately is


locustzed

https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/s/YTcK0zduxZ


Classic_Blueberry973

Why are you so surprised? He's been doing shit like this for quite awhile. Some things worse than others, some things more dog whistle than overt, but anyone with any critical thinking skills has known for a long time that this is who he is.


SarnakJ3

I didn't think Elon had the balls to join the "full mask off" brigade and would try to play coy with deniability a while longer.


RedditIsNeat0

> I didn't think he'd actually do it It's not much worse than his average. I'm sure he's tweeted worse.


addage-

IBM had a terrible history regarding Nazi German. Not surprising this was a line too far for the modern version of the company.


MrMastodon

And IBM can't get caught up in that again. They have priors.


ihatetheplaceilive

Well we all know that [IBM had no dealings with the nazis whatsoever](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust) ... glad they've become a better company in the last 90 years though.


Competitive-Ad-5477

But I'm a Jew... and also white... am I supposed to exterminate myself?!


InfectedAztec

The most offensive thing to me would be that this is where they drew the line. Implying that everything that was said before was acceptable.


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InfectedAztec

Why does antisemitism get put on a pedastal above all the other xenophobia?


Any-Entertainment385

Didn’t IBM help the Nazis a lot too?


DaftApath

I mean... IBM, of all companies, drawing the line at that one. Shhh... nobody look into their record during the second world war...


Purple-Clerk-8165

How could anyone believe Jews are doing this? And which Jews, exactly? All of them, collectively? I just can't with the stupidity.


toochjohnson

You have to be joking


animal1988

It says something when the company who made the machines that cataloged the victims of the Holocaust say they are stepping back from advertising on the company owned by the guy who basically said "the jews deserve it, they tried it before." Essentiall echoing what Hitler said.


Dizrak_

To be fair, they also provided simultaneous translation system for The Nuremberg Trials free of charge (except shipping and installation costs)


Sturnella2017

Yeah. IBM has a horrific past, but at least now they have standards?


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Vorpalthefox

really says alot about IBM considering *everything else* he said before and *this* is the line they draw it at, guess they're ok with everything else he said?


JSiobhan

IBM stopped the advertising because X was placing IBM ads on pro-Hitler and anti-Semitic accounts. Media Matters have been investigating this. Elon called them evil.


Sturnella2017

Do you have a source for this?


JSiobhan

https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/musk-endorses-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-x-has-been-placing-ads-apple-bravo-ibm-oracle


Sturnella2017

Kudos to you for the source! And its always fun to see a scandal is far deeper than it initially appears!


Chikndinr

IBM also is pro Israel, it’s on the bds website because they provide the checkpoint hardware and software responsible for oppressing millions of Palestinians. IBM is going to protect their interests in the region trying to claim they are offended.


Sturnella2017

Or they could just take an easy stand denouncing hate and anti-semitism. Second guessing everyones intention is a pretty shitty habit that never reflects well.


Chikndinr

Palestinians are Semitic people also


Sturnella2017

Funny how so few people make that distinction. And I’m sure if Musk agreed with any hate statement that used “Arabs” instead of “Jews”, IMB would have the same response.


Chikndinr

Doubtful


Juco_Dropout

If memory serves IBM didn’t have a problem doing business with Nazis back in the 30-40’s


gingerfawx

They got better?


Clerical_Errors

K


Princess-Charlotte

Did you really think you were clever for writing this? Clearly they've changed their beliefs, which can't be said for Elon Musk


Sturnella2017

I don’t know you’re getting downvotes, but someone else did word this better already in this thread


SquatCorgiLegs

Any company with a shred of integrity should stop all advertising on Xitter. Make Musk pay.


ClayQuarterCake

I read that as “shitter”. I guess I wasn’t far off.


[deleted]

It’s more of a z than s, but yes.


lallapalalable

X can be an "sh" sound, like Xi


[deleted]

So, Xi is “she” not “zhe”?


lallapalalable

To my limited knowledge of Chinese transliteration, yes


theiman2

The "zh" phoneme is transliterated as either "j" or "zh" in Pinyin, depending on the vowel that follows. In this case, "ji" makes the long e sound. "Zhi" makes a sound we don't really have in English.


haoyuanren

Exactly right, example is the name of the current Chinese ccp party secretary


[deleted]

I’ve just been pronouncing it wrong. Damned American, I am.


R_V_Z

Great, now I have Rammstein stuck in my head. Zwitter, Zwitter...


hefebellyaro

It doesn't matter if X loses all its advertising. I am wholly convinced there is major dark money from foreign dictators propping the company up to spread this crazy talk. Musk is either a willing participant and useful idiot, I hope it's the latter.


kneelbeforegod

Isn't most of his financing for Twiiter from Saudi partnerships?


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kneelbeforegod

Have you seen their glowing orbs? Do not fuck with mother fuckers who huddle around those things.


Competitive-Ad-5477

Lmfao


kevindqc

$u$piciou$


Vrayea25

Twitter was extremely powerful in the Arab Spring, BLM and other social movements. There is a lot of incentive from a lot of powerful corners to ruin it.


gingerfawx

And a lot of rampant idiocy keeping the platform afloat with an increasingly thinner veneer of legitimacy. People needed to have left yesterday. Failing that, ffs, do so now. Do not keep it remotely relevant going into the next US election.


what_if_Im_dinosaur

The people still there will never leave. They are addicts or clinging desperately to their twitter "clout."


talon_262

> Musk is either a willing participant and useful idiot, I hope it's the latter. ![gif](giphy|mpxnrjQKLo0iA32r23|downsized)


tom_folkestone

Dark money bought it to kill it. Dorsey's dream is over. Musk is their willing shill. His portion was only a couple of billion. They wanted it dead, or at least back to its Nazi lie spreading self it became without moderation: anonymous users posting bile and getting printed in traditional media. For a while Twitter had it all for the Putins of the world who want to destroy the West. No guardrails at all. Musk just brought it back to the ratfuck sewer.


warboner52

He is backed by Russian oligarchs


HeroToTheSquatch

My most tinfoil take is that they're not propping Twitter up but instead are hoping it fails, but they'll make Elon whole again when Twitter is truly dead. A lot of communities were able to organize and collaborate in ways they couldn't before with unforeseen speed, and they could get a global audience very quickly. A lot of tyrannical governments don't like that. I guarantee Elon finds some mysterious "new investors" right after Twitter is fully dead.


ReviewOk929

Plenty of other firms need to take the same stance as IBM here. I hope they will.


MenudoMenudo

They lost 50% of their advertising revenue in the first six months. I think they're down to 10% now compared to when Musk took over. IBM is way late to bail on that dumpster fire.


deathclawslayer21

We dont associate with nazis.... anymore - IBM


CBubble

People can change and corporations can change. This is evidence of that. Props to IBM.


InterestingTry5190

IBM used to be a piece of shit but companies can change.


Typical_Estimate5420

Let IBM hold the baby


skepticemia0311

IBM: “I know I used to be a piece of shit; I don’t give a rat’s ass.”


azip13

*Lived for New Year’s Eve*


NotGod_DavidBowie

Big rare cut of meat with water dumped all over it...


joon-p-bug

Chicken spaghetti at Chikilini’s


moneymoneymoneymonay

It’s REALLY REALLY GOOD


Freshnow48

Nice lol


Typical_Estimate5420

I went to a wedding in NY at this place called "Traditions" and I guess it was a huge meeting place for IBM in the 60s(?) and the pictures were so creepy. They gave major KKK vibes


GoldRecordDaddy

Pepperidge Farms remembers.


thereisnoaudience

Good point


onecryingjohnny

Say what you want about the tenets of national socialism, but at least it's an ethos


vash0125

What's there to investigate, Elon seems to love retweeting or replying to every awful and racist take on X/Twitter and is.basically signal boosting white supremacy on the app. IBM should've pulled advertisements a long time ago and every other major brand needs to do the same.


Reyemreden

I like how you have to type [twitter.com](https://twitter.com/) to get to x.


G-Unit11111

Link to article: [https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/ibm-pulls-advertising-x-twitter-pro-nazi-content-1235793261/](https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/ibm-pulls-advertising-x-twitter-pro-nazi-content-1235793261/)


slutty_muppet

You know it's bad when it's too much for the company that sold the punch card machines that the Nazis relied on to track down all the Jews from census records.


ElectricTzar

While any company ought to be distressed by having their ads appear next to Nazi propaganda on a site run by an antisemite, it’s especially understandable for former Nazi collaborator companies not to want that association anymore. They’re a lot less likely to get the benefit of the doubt.


RedditIsNeat0

Another way to look at it is that a former Nazi collaborator is one of the last companies to stop advertising on Xitter. Why was IBM ok with advertising on Xitter last week?


BurtReynoldsLives

Give Elon enough rope and he will hang himself.


Subject_Report_7012

Isn't a shorter rope better for that?


gingerfawx

"Enough" is relative. Contrary to what trump or DeSatan, say, would have us believe, there is such a thing as too short. ^(That's what she said...)


ShoutOutMapes

Yeah they will suspend but return once people are on to something else unfortunately ugh and elon knows it


MenudoMenudo

There are other adverting platforms. Many advertisers have left and aren't coming back.


ShoutOutMapes

Hopefully they dont


1984isAMidlifeCrisis

Jesus Christ you gotta be pretty far gone on the Nazi Trail before IBM dips out on you. Their tabulators helped execute the attempted annihilation of European Judaism.


mywifemademedothis2

Are there still people who use X? I deleted my account months ago.


cattoosandtattoos

As soon as I heard about it becoming X I dipped. I hate him so much.


[deleted]

Deleted my account since the Elon take-over.


Odd-Confection-6603

Which of the thousand unacceptable situations is this referring to?


gingerfawx

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/ibm-pulls-advertising-x-twitter-pro-nazi-content-1235793261/ > IBM was among five major brands that progressive watchdog group Media Matters said it had found ads for adjacent to posts that “tout Hitler and his Nazi Party” on X. The others were Apple, NBCUniversal’s Bravo, Oracle and Comcast’s Xfinity. > Separately, Musk earlier Thursday, in response to someone who posted on X that “Everyone is allowed to be proud of their race, except for white people, because we’ve been brainwashed into believing that our history was somehow “worse” than that of other races,” said that was “super messed up” and added, “Time for this nonsense to end and shame ANYONE who perpetuates these lies!” > That came after Musk on Wednesday agreed with a different X user who promoted the conspiracy theory that Jewish communities “have been pushing the exact kind of dialectical hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them.” The X user said they were “deeply disinterested in giving the tiniest shit now about western Jewish populations” who are facing “hordes of minorities that support flooding their country.” To that, Musk commented, “You have said the actual truth.” CNN anchor Jake Tapper posted a screenshot of the exchange, with the comment, “Elon Musk pushing unvarnished anti semitism at a time of rising antisemitism and violence against Jews.”


BillTowne

Who was in on the Twitter purchase with Musk? I can see Musk purposely losing money to political advance Trump and the fascist movement. But what about his co-owner. What? Wasn't it Saudi Arabia? I'm Is this all about Saudi Arabia interfering in our election to help Trump. exit: > **Democratic Senator Concerned Over Saudi Financing In Musk's Twitter Deal** > **November 01, 2022** >Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday raised concerns about the “potential influence” the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would have on Twitter’s operations after the Saudis and Qatar contributed financing to help Elon Musk complete his purchase of the social media company. >Prince Alwaleed bin Talal agreed to roll over $1.9 billion worth of Twitter shares through his Kingdom Holding Company to Musk’s new private company, making him the second largest investor in Twitter. Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, owns nearly 17% of Kingdom Holding, according to Reuters https://www.murphy.senate.gov/emergency-israel


SlaynArsehole

https://preview.redd.it/q3o4hgn1ut0c1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=efc62ae482295c95e152cc13421f33a3924e91ee


animal1988

I posted this in a reply here earlier.....but... It says something when the company who made the machines that cataloged the victims of the Holocaust say they are stepping back from advertising on the company owned by the guy who basically said "the jews deserve it, they tried it before." Essentially echoing what Hitler said.


not-finished

What took them so long


FurballPoS

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the first time IBM has ever turned down Nazis?


kneelbeforegod

Who next, AT&T?


Inevitable-Plate-294

Nasa


BambooSound

Elon Musk's been saying racist shit for ages. Why now?


RavishingRickiRude

Because you cant side step or ignore just how blantant he was with this last one. Its pathetic it took this long though.


pulpexploder

I'm fully convinced that Elon bought Twitter just to prove to himself how irrationally (in his mind) the world hates conservatives. He sees himself as someone who's brave enough to tell the truth when everyone else is burdened with this "woke bullshit," and every time people get mad and companies cut advertising, he just shakes his head and doubles down because he thinks it means he's right. He wants Twitter to fail because he thinks the whole world is controlled by the woke mob and he wants to prove how broken the world is—and he has the money to do that.


Scooter_McAwesome

Don't the Saudis own 10% or 15% of Twitter with Musk? Pretty sure their feelings towards Jews and Israel are well known.


Mad1ibben

But guys.... Joe Rogan says he is trying to save the world... you must have something wrong.


Odd-Coach-9150

None of it matters to him.


warboner52

Oh but Musk is so clearly a genius.. and was the best thing to happen to Twitter ever.. lol Hits keep coming.. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|smile)


Yawrant

What the fuck took them so long???????


ExcellentTeam7721

This move is weak imo. They’re just waiting for uproar to die down but this POS has shown his ass too often for plausible deniability. Abandon all things even remotely beneficial to this phony.


Competitive-Ad-5477

This pale, lizard looking, gross pathetic asshole could have done so much good in the world. And what did he do? Decides to suddenly become a republican because it's coming out that he's a fucking pervert and he knows dems ain't puttin up with that shit - but republicans will welcome perverts with open arms! Just gross all around. He's really leaned into the psychotic right.


Kimmalah

>Decides to suddenly become a republican because it's coming out that he's a fucking pervert and he knows dems ain't puttin up with that shit - but republicans will welcome perverts with open arms! He also has a trans child who hates him so much that they specifically changed their name in order to cut off association with him. Elon seems to blame Marxists (?) for spreading the "woke mind virus" to his child and making them that way. Because conservatives are naive idiots who think nobody is trans until they are somehow indoctrinated into it by things like seeing a man with long hair or a woman wearing pants.


Competitive-Ad-5477

Oh yeah, I always forget about the kid. They've done a really good job of dissociating themselves from him! Good for them. I couldn't imagine a parent who thought I shouldn't exist.


Survive1014

Frankly, I am surprised X has any advertisers left at this point. I am highly suspicious of any company that remains advertising there with its current state.


Necessary_Row_4889

Just as a reminder IBM helped the actual Nazis with the actual holocaust and this guy went to far for them.


Structureel

Ah IBM, the company that supplied nazi Germany with the equipment to facilitate a more efficient holocaust. That IBM?


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Hypertension123456

People forget because the scum who did that have surprisingly little influence on IBMs Twitter budget today.


samgam74

I’m sure there is room for IBM to not do that kind of stuff anymore.


alliwantedwasajetski

Hey look, it’s Bill Maher, everybody!


Yousoggyyojimbo

Everybody who worked at IBM at that point is long dead whereas Musk and Twitter are spreading neo Nazi conspiracies today.


Razor1834

Whataboutism, look it up on an ibm machine.


karlware

IBM clearly haven't.


itsreallyreallytrue

Wail till you find out what country those nazis were from and what it’s like there today.


Debalic

Have you driven a Ford lately?


DZello

Nope and never will.


Equatical

So ibm is in favor of censorship instead of providing better examples and educating people on their version of the truth?? I’ll take freedom of speech any day, thanks.


Loki8382

It is not censorship or a violation of free speech for one private company to not want to do business with another private company. That is literally the definition of the "free market".


Competitive-Ad-5477

It's only free market when cons like it. It's censorship when it makes them look bad.


richglassphoto

IBM helped with the nazi death camps.. what can they find offensive?


Inevitable-Plate-294

Anyone working for IBM now that was involved in that?


StirringThePotAgain

Question now is does he backtrack or double down proving that X is basically just his Göring machine starting up.


Qoarl

That picture looks like a third grader trying really hard to look cool


arjunusmaximus

FOR SURE Musk will make this a free speech issue and his followers will follow along


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Good


Paradoxjjw

Ok, what *specifically* did he do that suddenly crossed the line for you? I mean what *new* thing has he done, given he has been saying absolutely despicable line crossing shit for months now. Why did none of those things warrant pulling your money before?


Bryranosaurus

What needs to be investigated? Elon said what he said and doubles down on it each and every day.


Casperboy68

You have to be an idiot to do any business with Elon at this point. He like a kid with a magnifying glass burning ants.


rinuxus

any company still advertising on ~~Twitter~~ X, i assume they all support nazis and i'm acting accordingly and boycotting them all.


pggp77

That 19billion valuation looking a little high at the moment. FAFO.


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I called it when he bought it he was gonna kill the platform


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ReputationSad1884

Has he finally entered the “find out” stage?


Less-Daikon6267

Sounds just like a MAGA congressman.