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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/elon-musk-declares-it-is-war-on-ad-industry-as-x-sues-over-illegal-boycott/


Alt text: A fake tweet in which Elon Musk laments how he's running out of money to run X/Twitter because he's a very litigious man. The actual text follows:

Data $4,000,000 Rent $680,000 Lawsuits $500,000,000 Labor $2,400,000 Candles $3,600 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my website is dying

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stop spending money on lawsuits

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's my emotional support lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Load-bearing lawsuit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

I let my lawyers file lawsuits sometimes, as a treat.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I estimate you could save 98.6% of your expenses by cutting all legal costs if you stopped being a massive piece of shit

[–] 5C5C5C 9 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago

That lawsuit might be the most pathetic one I have ever heard of. It should be thrown out but Muskrat filed it in North Texas for a reason.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Where's the budget for his bootstraps?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

His dad paid for those, they are made of emeralds and blood.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

if im not wrong twitter is still using bootstrap for bits and pieces of its website so it should be already included in its operational costs.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Is he saying that's lawsuits against him? Or cost of lawsuits he's filling against others?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

given its a fake tweet, both?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

First one, then t'other.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He could easily save 3600 if he just burned the lawsuit files

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Sounds like a plan! You're hired!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Did he really just openly plagiarise Dril's second best known tweet?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sound suspiciously like what Elons Fediverse account would say.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

No, he would steal it from me, say he made it, and then threaten to sue me for pointing it out/give me a pony.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Ok it's fake, never mind.