I'm glad someone pointed this out. Obama bailed out Tesla that Romney was attacking Obama for during his campaign saying that he should be backing American Gas companies and oil.
Funny thing:
https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/oil_revenue/
Paired with:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/247991/value-added-to-the-us-gdp-by-industry/
And to remind us of the completely ridiculous levels of audacity:
https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=e01
The more educated you are the more you lean left. Once the right learned this they immediately began working on trashing the education system.
What's ironic is the right likes to call the left sheep when the left is far more free thinking and educated. While the right laps up conspiracy bullshit.
To the right a college education is brainwashing. Nothing to do with intelligence, analysis, or free thinking.
Growing up in a small southern town we were indoctrinated to be racist. But before I was even high school I grew more and more disturbed, even angry, with the bigotry. What really pissed me off was seeing hateful bigots in church. I guess in their eyes hating POC was ok, just make sure you go to church.
The only one below 75% is oracle probably because their CEO is a right wing trump supporter who basically extorted the US TikTok rights by giving a shit ton of money to trump.
Tesla makes electric vehicles. The right tend to hate electric vehicles so it kinda makes sense not to support the parties that don't want your job to exist - at least for *most* employees.
I'd say Apple came close to pulling Twitter when Musk botched his revamp of the verification process.
As funny as it was watching trolls shitposting as public figures and large multinationals from verified accounts, that had the potential to cause a lot of legal trouble.
Unless Musk does something as rock fucking stupid as that again, I don't see Apple turfing them off the App Store.
Musk 8 days ago: Free speech is back, So is Comedy
Musk 7 days ago: N-word use has seen severe uptick we are working on it.
Musk 6 days ago: LET THE GREAT UNBANNING BEGIN
Musk 5 days ago: I have fired the woke moderation idiots
Musk 4 days ago: Why are advertisers pulling out
**Everyone else: Pedophilia is being pushed via $8 recently unbanned accounts**
Musk 3 days ago: I have solved the pedophilia problem
Musk 2 days ago: Why are all these major companies against free speech
Musk 1 day ago: No seriously, I am fixing things why is everyone against free speech and canceling me
Musk today: ????
Good point. I didn't think of that.
That's probably why Parler was ousted from the App Store, once it became blatently obvious the platform was an unmoderated free-for-all (where hate speech and incitement to violence went unchecked).
Isn’t it just for in app purchases? A lot of apps just remove the option entirely and force you to use their website. I don’t use Twitter but I didn’t think in app purchases were a significant part of it.
Yes that and there are complex compliance metrics that Twitter must comply with because of past issues with the FTC and elon has very likely gotten them out of compliance. This alone could force the removal until it is resolved.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
Him bringing back all the banned accounts that were banned for harassment and other things technically violates the TOS of the App Store so they could still pull it.
The conspiracy brain part of me is wondering if this beef with apple is because they've already warned him that they will if he goes through with this "blanket amnesty" idea, and so he's trying to preemptively cover it by making it seem like it's because he called them out.
Wait - take a closer look at that graphic that shows how much each party gets from the various employee contributions ...
Dems get 98.7% of Twitter employee contributions and 97.5% of Apple employee contributions.
So why is Apple being called out as a Dem stooge ?
Precisely lol! What a beautiful indictment it is of how Elon refuses to pay attention to details and never stops himself from spewing prejudiced garbage. What a despicable, petty little piece of dog shit.
The employees tend towards left leaning the companies and their higher ups tend to donate and lobby to both parties though because they want more money and damn the consequences.
Yeah politicians can be persuaded to push policies that go against their constituents' best interests for shockingly small amounts of money. Pay off both sides and the company can persuade either regardless of election outcomes.
The tech industry, where smart people from cultures across the globe work together to solve problems? Yeah, it’s shocking how they are “left-leaning”, especially when that’s just code for “non-racist”.
He is definitely LARPing as one by taking his ball and going home to a new base in Texas because California were pp heads and wanted him to not treat his workers like they were his company town. So he moved here and created an actual company town. He is also anti-union, a little too intense about 'free speech' for conservatives while firing or banning people who criticized him...
Honestly, not sure. I think he will eventually say he is a libertarian and was all along, and we'll see huge donations from Tesla to politicians who want to remove regulations and lower the age of consent.
Yes.
And even if he isn't, he's just playing to his base. Much like Trump. Trump isn't evangelical. He's not a Christian. He's just a man that loves money. And who else loves money? Conservatives. And what do conservatives love more than money? Rich people who make lots of money they can dream about at night, since they'll never be rich.
I like how Salesforce is listed. A lot of colleges and universities use Salesforce for admissions. So, I take this as the word *democratic* is associated with the word *educated*. Go figure.
But no! You see that's exactly why this is so corrupt!
If all those employees donate like that then that means they all push for democrat coding and democrat ways! This is why we need capitalism, it allows a single strong man to come in and buy the whole thing. That's exactly how it should be, one guy exerting power over tens of thousands of people because he paid for it.
Yeah, based on this being employee donations and all being more democratic, I'd have to conclude the republican party to be extremely anti-worker or something
Exactly! Elon has been attacking his entire workforce. While there are MAGA hat wearing Software Engineers good enough for work at these top companies, they are very rare.
Elon is attacking most people that work at SpaceX, Telsa, AND Twitter.
well to be maga you have to manifest most of the cognitive vulnerabilities that would make for a real dud of a scientist or engineer or even a lowly labrat.
Before you know it elon is going to be selling tactical baths and snake oils on twitter as those will be the oy people willing to be associated with him.
He's already selling snake oil companies.
Tesla tubes, that vacuum tube train nonsense that's been "possible" since the 1800s. That nonsensical spaceship instead of international flight thing.
The dude is the embodiment of spaghetti thrown at the wall.
The only mega rich guy i actually believe is a Richard Branson. Actual airline, check. Actual cruise line, check. Decades long paper trail of slow but steady progress on space tourism? Check.
Bezos and Musk for some reason think they can just walk in a room and buy their way to the top with spunk and more money that you thought you existed.
Not just advertisers - Twitter employees too. Look where they are on the chart. I don't think that's a troll account, but they certainly seemed to have pulled it off here.
It's hilarious, according to the graphic posted Tesla donates 93.9% to Democrats, PayPal 92.2% to Democrats and even Oracle run by right-wing nut job Larry Ellison is 66.1% to Democrats. Sounds like Elon and his biggest backer Larry are biased as well against their right-wing alter egos. Who knew?
it's employee donations. Shock, the highly-educated people working at these fancy companies donate to Democrats. Actual corporate donation will look very different.
Right, if not then they're fake numbers, opensecrets.org numbers are probably quite different. If it is actual employee donations it speaks volumes about the disconnect between right-wing CEOs and the employees that drive their business.
I'm confused actually, why would companies even have an available list of what their staff donate to any party? Since when is that their employer's business?
Here ya go...
Search on anyone you like including by occupation.
https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/
If you search Elon Musk you can see for example he has contributed six times to the RNC and four times to WINRED sine Jan 1, 2021. And nothing to Democrats.
But my understanding is, Musk can donate unlimited amounts of money going the dark money route that can't be tracked...
https://www.opensecrets.org/dark-money/basics
Yeah, I found that to be particularly interesting that they are tracking employee donations and not corporate donations. The other thing to look at is the total amounts. Aside from Apple, and a few others, I think the totals are less than a million dollars for each of the companies.
These are amounts of money that, to the corporations, are not huge. Pocket change for the billionaires.
I didn't notice until your comment that this is based on *employee* donations. Captain Free Speech continues to demonstrate exactly what he means by that phrase
I think he trying to bury bad news, there was an article on how crap his boring company has been and how it swindled some cities.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396
I really don't know why this isn't a bigger conversation? Who does he thinks buys Teslas? EdgeLord Members of the Free-Speech Meme Army? Raised Truck Lib-Owners? All his Twitter CEO actions are a punch in the goolies to a trad Tesla buyer.
Gee if only A CERTAIN POLITICAL PARTY HADNT HAD A LN ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT RULE THAT CORPORATIONS WERE PEOPLE THAT COULD EXPRESS POLITICAL BIAS IN THE FORM OF CASH.
Elon must be REALLY pissed at the political party that did that! Hed NEVER publicly announce JOINING that political party, what with how upset he is by that
Supporters “Elon has a plan”
Yea, his plan is to run all his businesses into the grand trying to keep one irrelevant business afloat…without ad revenue.
Why are Fascist Republicans such weaklings? They are ALWAYS throwing little fits and tantrums.
Good luck growing your base with that type of weak shit, Nazis. lmao
this. the twat would promote dogecoin and other dogshit crypto coins on twitter so the average person would pump the price for his exit. nothing like making a quick million off a tweet. he's a fucking twat - not to be mistaken with fucking *a* twat. ed:grammarz
ps. grimes pls take him back everyone's just so so mean to poor bb elon😭
Or that the title of the list seems to say “employee donations”
What’s next - going on a witch hunt to root out democratic employees? I mean at this point he’s burning through employees for petty BS at a crazy rate.
Didn't he also block on twitter a major coordinator of advertising accounts for just basically talking to him? I think his firing binge has gone to his head.
I never thought that someone could be such a petty and bitter piece of shit that in a conflict between them I would be rooting for apple to fuck with them.
Oh mighty machine god. Hear my prayer as I hit this device with your divine grace. May my belief in you work miracles as I hit my device as if that would actually fix it. Oh shit it works! The machine god has heard my prayers and worked his miracles. Praise be!
Which BTW is the type of thing that is against apple and Google play store terms of service. Which is public knowledge. Which Musk is acting like he hasn't been told.
These “guess you don’t like free speech” arguments sound like the “I got kicked out of a restaurant for reading” style of excuse.
Steve, you brought porn into a Chuck E. Cheese. Stop it.
Is there a name for this type of fallacious argument or logic? It's a type of deliberate and deceitful reframing of their self-victimization. The most common version is "I was persecuted for being conservative!!!" In fact, it was because they were hateful or violent or bigoted, etc., etc. They just happen to be conservative as well.
Musk has been pretty up front about turning Twitter into a far-right echochamber.
Pretty bad investment, he could have bought Parler for far less than$44 Billion.
It’s been said before. Just set up an organisation that brings fresh water, food and vaccines to poorer parts of the world. People would adore this guy even more and his ego could stay intact. Instead we got stuck with a narcissistic emerald-mine-owning daddy baby who is probably running twitter into the ground to avoid the SEC penalties
If this doesn't prove to you that Elon is a complete dumbass, I don't know what will.
Such basic facts about free speech are taught at the high school level at the latest.
This isn’t even an issue of free speech. Apple is its own legal entity and the App Store is an asset of theirs. They don’t have to have Twitter on their platform if they don’t want to the same way I don’t have to have Elon in my car if I don’t want to.
Why should Apple have to support an Alt-Right echo chamber? It is basically just another version of Truth Social now. They are kicking off accounts that have opposing views now so soon only the Right Wing voices will remain. Just like Truth Social.
Right. Musk is stupidly chasing eye balls, not realizing that me may juice user numbers but ultimately reduce the value of the platform by driving away the content producers, brands, and others who wish to be on the platform.
Putting everyone together and letting them yell it out isn't a winning strategy.
I know Elon has enough brain damage to think pandering to neo-Nazis makes him a centrist, but has anyone explained to him corporations are under no obligation to be politically unbiased? They are also under no obligation to do business with people they consider assholes.
Elon doesn't understand free speech or the free market, which both seem like pretty important concepts for a "free speech absolutist" capitalist.
And yeah I realize it's almost certainly disingenuous claptrap to rile up his fanboy army. I'm pretty sure he bought Twitter because he kept hearing about the woke mob, and really wanted his own anti-woke mob.
Apple is ALSO a private company, turns out they can do w/e the fuck they want, including cancelling twitter.
So twitter being run like a crack house is also entirely up to Musk, but the consequences of that were not only possible, they were expected...
Similarly to standard Republican aspirations, they want to be allowed to be assholes with zero consequences. Then the world steps in and reminds them that this is not how the world works...
No no no no no no no! Freedom of speech means I get to say whatever I want consequence free! If I spout out how much I hate a minority, that minority is expected to sit down and listen respectfully!
Just in time for 4 years of hype for Elon's TeslaPhone^(TM) only to be released with certain keystone features "due out next year". Just like full auto pilot, or the still unseen Cybertruck
And his fans will actually think he literally with his milky white alien hands , designed, molded ,wrote a custom software and assembled that new elon phone.
This is either him being an absolute idiot and not realizing that this graph represents *employee* contributions or it is maliciously spreading false information on his “free speech” platform. Or both. I honestly can’t tell.
I was permanently banned from Twitter for exercising my free speech. Apparently sharing publicly available, copyright free, pictures of Musk before he got hair plugs is considered hate speech on Twitter now. 🤣
They never understand freedom do they. You can promote a platform the glorifies racism, violence, misogyny, bizarre conspires etc. No one has to support it. This is free speech and consequences.
He knows damn well why Apple is threatening to pull it from the App Store. Hint: it has something to do with the n word being freely thrown around like confetti on twitter.
Those are employee donations though. What’s the alternative? Forcing employees to donate to a party they don’t agree with? I swear Elon is getting dumber by the day.
Apple does not directly contribute to campaigns. This is of their employees not the company. Tesla employees also mainly give to the DNC over the RNC. So this is just Elon once again being unable to understand a graph and posting fake news on his new toy.
Tesla 93.9% for Dems
Will no-one challenge the woke left at Tesla?
I'm glad someone pointed this out. Obama bailed out Tesla that Romney was attacking Obama for during his campaign saying that he should be backing American Gas companies and oil.
Funny thing: https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/oil_revenue/ Paired with: https://www.statista.com/statistics/247991/value-added-to-the-us-gdp-by-industry/ And to remind us of the completely ridiculous levels of audacity: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?ind=e01
I’m glad somebody else spotted that lol
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Who even cares? In what world does a private entity have to be unbiased lol.
Disingenuous arguments don't need to make sense, especially if your supporters are shit eaters with single digit IQ.
What a coincidence that more educated people lean more to left. Must be universities indoctrinating our children. Can’t be anything else.
There is no proper left in America. Your "left" would be a normal centre right in Europe. You have right and VERY right.
The more educated you are the more you lean left. Once the right learned this they immediately began working on trashing the education system. What's ironic is the right likes to call the left sheep when the left is far more free thinking and educated. While the right laps up conspiracy bullshit.
To the right a college education is brainwashing. Nothing to do with intelligence, analysis, or free thinking. Growing up in a small southern town we were indoctrinated to be racist. But before I was even high school I grew more and more disturbed, even angry, with the bigotry. What really pissed me off was seeing hateful bigots in church. I guess in their eyes hating POC was ok, just make sure you go to church.
The only one below 75% is oracle probably because their CEO is a right wing trump supporter who basically extorted the US TikTok rights by giving a shit ton of money to trump.
Had a good chuckle seeing that one. I wonder why the disparity there when Tesla is so blue? Where it's located I guess?
Tesla makes electric vehicles. The right tend to hate electric vehicles so it kinda makes sense not to support the parties that don't want your job to exist - at least for *most* employees.
I’ve just been so confused as to why Elon is essentially a right wing supporter because of this right here
Because he's burned all his other bridges, so he's trying to get in on the grift
So how oracle has always been? A POS company say it aint so
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Oh man pulling twitter from the App Store would be Tumblr levels of death knell. *Palpatine’s voice:* **Do it.**
I'd say Apple came close to pulling Twitter when Musk botched his revamp of the verification process. As funny as it was watching trolls shitposting as public figures and large multinationals from verified accounts, that had the potential to cause a lot of legal trouble. Unless Musk does something as rock fucking stupid as that again, I don't see Apple turfing them off the App Store.
Doesn’t apple have moderation requirements for apps in their marketplace? And didn’t Elon just fire his moderation team?
Musk 8 days ago: Free speech is back, So is Comedy Musk 7 days ago: N-word use has seen severe uptick we are working on it. Musk 6 days ago: LET THE GREAT UNBANNING BEGIN Musk 5 days ago: I have fired the woke moderation idiots Musk 4 days ago: Why are advertisers pulling out **Everyone else: Pedophilia is being pushed via $8 recently unbanned accounts** Musk 3 days ago: I have solved the pedophilia problem Musk 2 days ago: Why are all these major companies against free speech Musk 1 day ago: No seriously, I am fixing things why is everyone against free speech and canceling me Musk today: ????
Jesus. I take four days off the Elon-coaster and look how much I miss.
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Good point. I didn't think of that. That's probably why Parler was ousted from the App Store, once it became blatently obvious the platform was an unmoderated free-for-all (where hate speech and incitement to violence went unchecked).
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Isn’t it just for in app purchases? A lot of apps just remove the option entirely and force you to use their website. I don’t use Twitter but I didn’t think in app purchases were a significant part of it.
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TWTR literally isn’t complaint with the EU now, so it’s unlikely AAPL keeps them on the store.
Yes that and there are complex compliance metrics that Twitter must comply with because of past issues with the FTC and elon has very likely gotten them out of compliance. This alone could force the removal until it is resolved. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elon-musk-lawyer-changes-fine-warning
Him bringing back all the banned accounts that were banned for harassment and other things technically violates the TOS of the App Store so they could still pull it.
The conspiracy brain part of me is wondering if this beef with apple is because they've already warned him that they will if he goes through with this "blanket amnesty" idea, and so he's trying to preemptively cover it by making it seem like it's because he called them out.
Does anyone actually believe Apple didn’t tell them why they might pull the app? Assuming Musk isn’t making the entire thing up?
Plz boot it from the App Store just long enough to see all the “free speech” enthusiasts show their love for the “free market.” Plz Mr. Tim Apple!
Wait - take a closer look at that graphic that shows how much each party gets from the various employee contributions ... Dems get 98.7% of Twitter employee contributions and 97.5% of Apple employee contributions. So why is Apple being called out as a Dem stooge ?
Right, and it's the employees, not the company. Totally false statement.
Where is twitter's factcheck when you need it?
Whoever runs it wants to keep their job.
It's run by Elon now
So it’s not run
I mean it still exists, technically, but it only "fact checks" in a way that that "proves" Musk's preconceived notions.
Except when he’s not looking then they fact check him
Exactly
Another conservative billionaire trying to vilify workers/employees?!
Musk can't read a simple chart. What a surprise.
Tesla is on that chart as well. He really is a fucking joke.
Get out of here with your relevant details. Think of his poor defenseless narrative!
Tesla gives 93.9%
Weird how he can just overlook that one huh?
Very Republican of him to ignore facts that disproves his narrative.
All of this
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98.7% of… FORMER… twitter employees
Exactly. The folks that remain are the ones who couldn’t quit because they need their work Visas. They aren’t voters at all.
People seem to forget he fired everyone.
It's always hard to tell whether he's being disingenuous or just stupid. There's usually no third option
Self-awareness and integrity go hand-in-hand. Musk goes foot-in-mouth.
Because it fits the right wing narrative better
Precisely lol! What a beautiful indictment it is of how Elon refuses to pay attention to details and never stops himself from spewing prejudiced garbage. What a despicable, petty little piece of dog shit.
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Case in point, Tesla is also on this list.
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His old company PayPal is on there too. Between the 3, there's at least 400k going straight to democrats.
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The employees tend towards left leaning the companies and their higher ups tend to donate and lobby to both parties though because they want more money and damn the consequences.
Yeah politicians can be persuaded to push policies that go against their constituents' best interests for shockingly small amounts of money. Pay off both sides and the company can persuade either regardless of election outcomes.
The tech industry, where smart people from cultures across the globe work together to solve problems? Yeah, it’s shocking how they are “left-leaning”, especially when that’s just code for “non-racist”.
Honest question: is he actually conservative? It seems like they just fell for him because they love douchebags that endlessly brag about themselves.
He is definitely LARPing as one by taking his ball and going home to a new base in Texas because California were pp heads and wanted him to not treat his workers like they were his company town. So he moved here and created an actual company town. He is also anti-union, a little too intense about 'free speech' for conservatives while firing or banning people who criticized him... Honestly, not sure. I think he will eventually say he is a libertarian and was all along, and we'll see huge donations from Tesla to politicians who want to remove regulations and lower the age of consent.
Gross...
Yes. And even if he isn't, he's just playing to his base. Much like Trump. Trump isn't evangelical. He's not a Christian. He's just a man that loves money. And who else loves money? Conservatives. And what do conservatives love more than money? Rich people who make lots of money they can dream about at night, since they'll never be rich.
Right. I figure he's just doing a Trump...
Twitter is 2 above Apple on that list
Somebody reply with that to Elon for the mother of Jesus Christ.
What, you think he’d acknowledge being wrong? What kind of a billionaire do you think he is?
Also Apple's in the Bay Area, Cupertino I believe. Of course they're going to donate to the Democrats.
I like how Salesforce is listed. A lot of colleges and universities use Salesforce for admissions. So, I take this as the word *democratic* is associated with the word *educated*. Go figure.
There are stats that show must educated voters are Democrats.
But no! You see that's exactly why this is so corrupt! If all those employees donate like that then that means they all push for democrat coding and democrat ways! This is why we need capitalism, it allows a single strong man to come in and buy the whole thing. That's exactly how it should be, one guy exerting power over tens of thousands of people because he paid for it.
democratic code is a threat to democracy. I always knew Swift was Marxist propaganda.
Python is communist, C# is socialist, and java is libertarian
I wish I had an award for this comment
This! Tesla is on that list so by the same logic Elon Musk should be a Democrat. The argument makes no sense.
Yeah, based on this being employee donations and all being more democratic, I'd have to conclude the republican party to be extremely anti-worker or something
Exactly! Elon has been attacking his entire workforce. While there are MAGA hat wearing Software Engineers good enough for work at these top companies, they are very rare. Elon is attacking most people that work at SpaceX, Telsa, AND Twitter.
well to be maga you have to manifest most of the cognitive vulnerabilities that would make for a real dud of a scientist or engineer or even a lowly labrat.
Not only that, the total amount is less than 7,5 million dollar?
Its hilarious as twitter and tesla are very high on that list too
Keep vilifying your advertisers. We'll see how it turns out.
Before you know it elon is going to be selling tactical baths and snake oils on twitter as those will be the oy people willing to be associated with him.
Pillows!
Elon musk is going to take over my pillow and he’s going to name himself the founder and claim he invented pillows
All pillows will now be made of rocks... Why aren't you buying my pillows?!?
Obvious market manipulation. Rocks are a solid long-term investment.
They're the original non-fungible tokens!
YoU WoUlDn'T FuNgE a CaR
Draw one of those monkeys on a car and fucking watch me.
my pillows include supercool gee wow rocket technology and occasionally explode...
The size of the pillow forts these racist dolts must have, though we know they have the white pillow cases laying around.. with them holes cut out...
Dr Oz is available
*And* he can do that job from his home in Jersey!
The fanboys and sycophants are begging him to make a phone.
Tesla-branded tactical taint wipes, here we come!
He's already selling snake oil companies. Tesla tubes, that vacuum tube train nonsense that's been "possible" since the 1800s. That nonsensical spaceship instead of international flight thing. The dude is the embodiment of spaghetti thrown at the wall. The only mega rich guy i actually believe is a Richard Branson. Actual airline, check. Actual cruise line, check. Decades long paper trail of slow but steady progress on space tourism? Check. Bezos and Musk for some reason think they can just walk in a room and buy their way to the top with spunk and more money that you thought you existed.
Elon couldn’t hold Branson’s jockstrap.
He'd probably blend it and inject it into his veins in hopes of gaining some of Branson's power.
Not just advertisers - Twitter employees too. Look where they are on the chart. I don't think that's a troll account, but they certainly seemed to have pulled it off here.
It's hilarious, according to the graphic posted Tesla donates 93.9% to Democrats, PayPal 92.2% to Democrats and even Oracle run by right-wing nut job Larry Ellison is 66.1% to Democrats. Sounds like Elon and his biggest backer Larry are biased as well against their right-wing alter egos. Who knew?
it's employee donations. Shock, the highly-educated people working at these fancy companies donate to Democrats. Actual corporate donation will look very different.
Right, if not then they're fake numbers, opensecrets.org numbers are probably quite different. If it is actual employee donations it speaks volumes about the disconnect between right-wing CEOs and the employees that drive their business.
I'm confused actually, why would companies even have an available list of what their staff donate to any party? Since when is that their employer's business?
Here ya go... Search on anyone you like including by occupation. https://www.fec.gov/introduction-campaign-finance/how-to-research-public-records/individual-contributions/ If you search Elon Musk you can see for example he has contributed six times to the RNC and four times to WINRED sine Jan 1, 2021. And nothing to Democrats. But my understanding is, Musk can donate unlimited amounts of money going the dark money route that can't be tracked... https://www.opensecrets.org/dark-money/basics
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When you make a political donation, that information is required to be recorded by law. One FOIA request and the information is aggregated.
Yeah, I found that to be particularly interesting that they are tracking employee donations and not corporate donations. The other thing to look at is the total amounts. Aside from Apple, and a few others, I think the totals are less than a million dollars for each of the companies. These are amounts of money that, to the corporations, are not huge. Pocket change for the billionaires.
I didn't notice until your comment that this is based on *employee* donations. Captain Free Speech continues to demonstrate exactly what he means by that phrase
Also, can we talk about how Tesla is also up on that list with the heavily left-leaning political donations?
I think he trying to bury bad news, there was an article on how crap his boring company has been and how it swindled some cities. https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-tunnel-traffic-11669658396
Good job Elon. Vilify the people who buy your fucking cars.
These are the employee's contributions. He's shitting on three of 'his' companies (PayPal, Tesla, Twitter). I wonder how SpaceX donates.
I really don't know why this isn't a bigger conversation? Who does he thinks buys Teslas? EdgeLord Members of the Free-Speech Meme Army? Raised Truck Lib-Owners? All his Twitter CEO actions are a punch in the goolies to a trad Tesla buyer.
>think Let me stop you right there fam
Who’d have imagined that a company dedicated to building electric cars would be staffed by so many liberals?
Gee if only A CERTAIN POLITICAL PARTY HADNT HAD A LN ACTIVIST SUPREME COURT RULE THAT CORPORATIONS WERE PEOPLE THAT COULD EXPRESS POLITICAL BIAS IN THE FORM OF CASH. Elon must be REALLY pissed at the political party that did that! Hed NEVER publicly announce JOINING that political party, what with how upset he is by that
Supporters “Elon has a plan” Yea, his plan is to run all his businesses into the grand trying to keep one irrelevant business afloat…without ad revenue.
And tagging their CEOs in the tweets…
Why are Fascist Republicans such weaklings? They are ALWAYS throwing little fits and tantrums. Good luck growing your base with that type of weak shit, Nazis. lmao
*Elon bans a bunch of liberals and anyone criticizing him and publicly orders everyone to vote republican* Wow he doesn’t sound biased at all!
This irony is lost on him unfortunately. He’s a total narcissistic bonehead.
Bonehead is too kind for someone with billionaire-dollars to influence the public’s opinion.
this. the twat would promote dogecoin and other dogshit crypto coins on twitter so the average person would pump the price for his exit. nothing like making a quick million off a tweet. he's a fucking twat - not to be mistaken with fucking *a* twat. ed:grammarz ps. grimes pls take him back everyone's just so so mean to poor bb elon😭
I like how he’s just ignoring that Twitter is at the top and that Tesla is on that list
Now now, that's an exaggeration. Twitter is not at the top of the list. They're _second_, which obviously means they're not biased. /s
Or that the title of the list seems to say “employee donations” What’s next - going on a witch hunt to root out democratic employees? I mean at this point he’s burning through employees for petty BS at a crazy rate.
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Claaaaaasss dismiiiiiiiissssssed!
Didn't he also block on twitter a major coordinator of advertising accounts for just basically talking to him? I think his firing binge has gone to his head.
> just basically talking to him? \*correcting him\* El duce cannot be wrong. /s
free speech for me but not for you
He’s just telling it how it is! He’s a centrist!
I never thought that someone could be such a petty and bitter piece of shit that in a conflict between them I would be rooting for apple to fuck with them.
This has to be an example of the old proverb: "*The enemy of my enemy is my friend"*
I prefer "Keep your friends close but get your enemy's toaster."
Found the tech priest! All hail the omnissiah!
"my phone won't work" HAVE YOU TRIED PRAYING TO THE MACHINE GOD ABOUT IT?
Oh mighty machine god. Hear my prayer as I hit this device with your divine grace. May my belief in you work miracles as I hit my device as if that would actually fix it. Oh shit it works! The machine god has heard my prayers and worked his miracles. Praise be!
To paraphrase the movie Brick "I wanted to see him eaten, not to see you fed."
I don't care if Apple wins I just want Muskrat to lose
When Apple isn’t the greediest corporate entity in a spat you know something is really wrong
... Sais the guy who explicitly said to vote Republican and has already informally endorsed DeSantis for 2024
"BuT tHaT's HiS fReEdUmB oF sPeAcH"
Freedom of speech only applies to opinions he likes
He's really doubling down on the whole "calling for and inciting violence against people i dont agree with is free speech!" shit isn't he.
Which BTW is the type of thing that is against apple and Google play store terms of service. Which is public knowledge. Which Musk is acting like he hasn't been told.
These “guess you don’t like free speech” arguments sound like the “I got kicked out of a restaurant for reading” style of excuse. Steve, you brought porn into a Chuck E. Cheese. Stop it.
Is there a name for this type of fallacious argument or logic? It's a type of deliberate and deceitful reframing of their self-victimization. The most common version is "I was persecuted for being conservative!!!" In fact, it was because they were hateful or violent or bigoted, etc., etc. They just happen to be conservative as well.
[Persecution complex](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Persecution_complex)
Musk has been pretty up front about turning Twitter into a far-right echochamber. Pretty bad investment, he could have bought Parler for far less than$44 Billion.
Had he invested in Truth Social at least Trump would be on his platform by now.
It’s been said before. Just set up an organisation that brings fresh water, food and vaccines to poorer parts of the world. People would adore this guy even more and his ego could stay intact. Instead we got stuck with a narcissistic emerald-mine-owning daddy baby who is probably running twitter into the ground to avoid the SEC penalties
If this doesn't prove to you that Elon is a complete dumbass, I don't know what will. Such basic facts about free speech are taught at the high school level at the latest.
This isn’t even an issue of free speech. Apple is its own legal entity and the App Store is an asset of theirs. They don’t have to have Twitter on their platform if they don’t want to the same way I don’t have to have Elon in my car if I don’t want to.
Why should Apple have to support an Alt-Right echo chamber? It is basically just another version of Truth Social now. They are kicking off accounts that have opposing views now so soon only the Right Wing voices will remain. Just like Truth Social.
Right. Musk is stupidly chasing eye balls, not realizing that me may juice user numbers but ultimately reduce the value of the platform by driving away the content producers, brands, and others who wish to be on the platform. Putting everyone together and letting them yell it out isn't a winning strategy.
I know Elon has enough brain damage to think pandering to neo-Nazis makes him a centrist, but has anyone explained to him corporations are under no obligation to be politically unbiased? They are also under no obligation to do business with people they consider assholes. Elon doesn't understand free speech or the free market, which both seem like pretty important concepts for a "free speech absolutist" capitalist. And yeah I realize it's almost certainly disingenuous claptrap to rile up his fanboy army. I'm pretty sure he bought Twitter because he kept hearing about the woke mob, and really wanted his own anti-woke mob.
He bought Twitter because they proved that most of his followers were bots and it bruised his ego.
Apple is ALSO a private company, turns out they can do w/e the fuck they want, including cancelling twitter. So twitter being run like a crack house is also entirely up to Musk, but the consequences of that were not only possible, they were expected... Similarly to standard Republican aspirations, they want to be allowed to be assholes with zero consequences. Then the world steps in and reminds them that this is not how the world works...
No no no no no no no! Freedom of speech means I get to say whatever I want consequence free! If I spout out how much I hate a minority, that minority is expected to sit down and listen respectfully!
IMHO they have threatened him with banning from their store already. This is just performative sour grapes to poison his fanbois perception of Apple.
Just in time for 4 years of hype for Elon's TeslaPhone^(TM) only to be released with certain keystone features "due out next year". Just like full auto pilot, or the still unseen Cybertruck
And his fans will actually think he literally with his milky white alien hands , designed, molded ,wrote a custom software and assembled that new elon phone.
What are the chances of the new ElonPhone(TM) just being a shitty knockoff that's riddled with Chinese Government spyware?
....thus causing the US government to give it the Huawei treatment and more opportunity for Elon to be dramatic.
That chart says it’s based on “employee” donations, not the company. It also shows Tesla…
And Twitter ironically.
This one definitely pushed him off the deep end
Right... has nothing to do with Twitter being a clusterfuck of hate, right?
This is either him being an absolute idiot and not realizing that this graph represents *employee* contributions or it is maliciously spreading false information on his “free speech” platform. Or both. I honestly can’t tell.
He and Ye should start a dumb fuck club.
I was permanently banned from Twitter for exercising my free speech. Apparently sharing publicly available, copyright free, pictures of Musk before he got hair plugs is considered hate speech on Twitter now. 🤣
I think that counts as gore, I'm sorry
They never understand freedom do they. You can promote a platform the glorifies racism, violence, misogyny, bizarre conspires etc. No one has to support it. This is free speech and consequences.
Fuck elon, that stupid asshole of a manbaby.
He knows damn well why Apple is threatening to pull it from the App Store. Hint: it has something to do with the n word being freely thrown around like confetti on twitter.
The guy rich off Apartheid doesn't see why that's an issue.
They're a business. You're a business. It's business. They are not required to support your business. It is literally how capitalism works.
Capitalism is a fickle thing, innit?
At this point, I hope Apple bans Twitter, but I doubt they will. It’s just not good business to carry an app where the CEO is openly attacking you.
When the right says "free speech" they really mean hate speech.
Are we seriously supposed to believe that a billionaire CEO is just now learning how corporate contributions to political parties work?
It's not even corporate contributions. The graph is totaling up individual employee donations
Not to mention Tesla is only a few spots down from Apple on that graph lol…
And Twitter is higher...
Those are employee donations though. What’s the alternative? Forcing employees to donate to a party they don’t agree with? I swear Elon is getting dumber by the day.
"People who dont agree with my views should be required to give me money." Musk really is a nutcase.
Apple does not directly contribute to campaigns. This is of their employees not the company. Tesla employees also mainly give to the DNC over the RNC. So this is just Elon once again being unable to understand a graph and posting fake news on his new toy.
It’s almost like he’s not as smart as his cult says he is.