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[–] [email protected] 185 points 11 months ago (19 children)
[–] [email protected] 87 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can't imagine they wouldn't get forced to take it down.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I guess all he does is baiting headlines

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

he'll only stop when it stops working. not happening anytime soon, sadly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Elon is the master of baiting.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Fuck all their neighbors, I guess

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Jesus fucking christ, how is that still standing

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How often do you get to break the law as a billionaire before you have consequences?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

All of the times.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

Is that on purpose or is the thing so badly made that it's blinking like that?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bad Chicken! Mess you up!!

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Seriously? It's the actual sign?

[–] [email protected] 123 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For once I hope the fine is not based on revenue

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Aren't there usually minimum fines anyway even if they're based on revenue?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah probably, just my poor attempt at a joke about X's business rather than a genuine hope.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Who cares? He won’t pay it just like he doesn’t pay the rent lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

That's fine just board up his doors and tell him that he is unable to do any business until the fine is paid and then the offending material will be removed from the building by city provided workers and you take until his check clears the bank in order to finish and allow him back into the building you barricade off every single entrance and prevent entry to the building until you're done just say it's for safety sake we had to take this much time to make sure we did it correctly unlike what you did.......

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

A fine for the billionaire rich is meaningless in most cases :/

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Seriously?

A perfect summary of the public’s reaction to the entire rebrand.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

And is that a CCTV camera on the right?

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago

Well that looks like shit.

It's perfect.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This has gotten WAY out of hand.

A bad idea is one thing. They happen all the time. Many executives would sell their souls for the kind of recognition that the blue bird had, but I suppose a good marketing team could have pulled off a successful rebranding.

This whole “x” fiasco, however, is a series of bad ideas done hastily, sloppily, and with little to no planning. It’s completely unjustifiable, from any perspective - unless you’re Elon, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All those blue bird icons on millions of sites. Good luck getting those to change to x. Of all the dumb moves Musk has made, this ranks as the second dumbest. Of course, the dumbest move was paying 44 billion dollars for a site that realistically was worth 5-10 billion, and that was before that knucklefuck took over and ran it straight into the ground.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Yeah. The more I think about it, the worse it is. Lately, I’ve been wondering how many businesses have professionally printed “Follow us on Twitter!” stickers in their windows and signs by their cash registers. Your local pizza place probably does. That kind of visibility and awareness is priceless.

Is Elon going to ship tens of thousands of replacement signs? No. Are business owners going to pay to replace them themselves? Some, maybe, but even then it won’t be a major priority. Hell, I didn’t take one elective class in marketing, and even I have a better understanding of the value he’s throwing away.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I mean all I have heard for days now is about this X thing. He memed it into existence and now it's incredibly recognizable and talked about non-stop. God he's such an ass.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago

Just one of the many signs this was a rushed decision he forced through without consulting anyone

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago

It's amazing how countless people have labeled Elon a shit-posting edgelord, and yet, he keeps trying so damn hard to tell the world what we all already know.

We get it, dude. Now shut the fuck up and do a days worth of work for once in your life. I think we're all quite tired of billionaire's at this point.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I'd surely be walking into the building every morning with a paper bag over my head if I were somebody who was still stuck working there.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have to imagine the only people who are still working there are just trying to stay in America.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago

This. Many of the people who still work there have no other choice. Their citizenship is tied to their employer. I feel sympathy for them.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

he wants to be a Furher so badly

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

He’s definitely one step furher.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Just needs to add feet on to the X

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It look like vandalism, someone broke into the building at night to put on their crappy sign.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

This kind of describes what's actually happened.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

I mean someone who could do it professionally would probably professionally say no to such an illegal job

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

I didn't realize he did it all himself.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

What in the actual fuck?

This is like a physical embodiment of Poe's law.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

just barons doing baron things.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

All the money in the world can’t buy taste

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I thought it was a collapsed crane until I've seen the Lego holding it. Did a three year old build this? Those small bricks aren't meant for young children, they can inhale them.

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