“If someone is trying to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself,” and then adds, “Hey Bob.”

By Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor
VT

There’s no denying Elon Musk’s awareness of the ongoing culture war, having already experienced considerable pressure and faced derogatory name-calling. However, the situation escalated significantly when Musk directly told advertisers, particularly Bog Iger of Disney+, to go…well, let’s hear it from the Rolling Stone:

“It’s gonna kill the company,” Musk lamented of the ongoing boycott, adding, “That will be what bankrupts the company and that is what everybody on Earth will know.”

“Don’t advertise,” said Musk while speaking on stage at the summit moderated by Times financial columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin. After Sorkin asked, “You don’t want them to advertise?” The X CEO promptly answered, “No,” before continuing: “If someone is trying to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money? Go fuck yourself. Go. Fuck. Yourself,” and then adds, “Hey Bob,” presumably directed at Bob Iger, CEO of Disney — one of the companies who is boycotting X…

Concern over brand safety on X has spiked after Musk endorsed a post accusing Jewish communities of promoting “dialectical hatred against whites.”

It couldn’t be clearer. What we’re witnessing is individuals like Musk recognizing a malevolent force fostering hatred and conflict. Musk observes that a particular ethnic group has been prominently involved in this conflict.

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