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    “X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

    There’s the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

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        Nuh-uh! Americans can’t be terrorists cuz Americans kill the terrorist, like Malcolm X and Jamal Khashoggi… Wait, are we the bad guys?

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      In reality this is just them playing along, if anyone were to do anything drastic to these companies they would have a very bad time.

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      It doesn’t work that way with advertising. They need to go where their customers go. Bots don’t buy.

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        They don’t need to advertise anywhere.
        They’re going to twitter for a reason.

        “X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer

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    When have Comcast, Disney, or IBM ever have been on the wrong side of history? /s

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    This is beautiful! It’s like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.

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      A majority of American citizens who voted…that’s an important distinction. Roughly 29% of voting age american citizens and 22% of all american citizens - a sizeable minority but a minority nonetheless - voted for fascism and racism.