IBM, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and Lions Gate Entertainment have collectively spent less than $3.3 million on X.
    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      12 minutes ago

      I think it’s more trying to win political favor by spending big with the company owned by a member of the incoming presidential administration.

      Or it’s just wanting to market their ads on that platform and as you said, not having the balls to stick to their boycott

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I was going to say that’s incredibly on brand for Disney. Everything I have ever heard about Comcast seems to back up this move.

      I’m surprised about IBM though, more because I didn’t realize they were still around than anything else.

      • Zacpod@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 hour ago

        IBM sold “inmate” counting machines to Nazi Germany. Like, sent techs there to the camps to size up the requirements and everything. It should NOT come as a surprise that they’re back on X - they’ve never had an issue with Fascism (or any other ism) as long as they had money to spend on overpriced iron.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      202·
      16 hours ago

      I have no love for big corps, but they’re likely just reading the writing on the wall. they have to deal with retribution for the next 4-12 years and they have no interest becoming the rebels. I’m kinda impressed they stepped away at all other than it probably was money spent for nothing.

      • fern@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
        261·
        14 hours ago

        IBM supported the Nazis, and if they’re the only tech giant not fighting musk they’re going to get the kickbacks. Corps dont do “writing on the wall” anymore, they chase money, which may look similar but the goals are different.

    • rational_lib@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      13 hours ago

      Doesn’t matter. They’re not doing it to get people to see their ads, they’re doing it to bribe Elon since he has actual political power now. Kind of like how oil companies buy ads on news media, even though you don’t need to be persuaded to buy oil - it’s to buy favorable coverage.

      • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        10 hours ago

        My electrical utility (PG&E) advertises all the time. Like what am I gonna do, not buy electricity? It’s so obviously just a bribe to the media companies.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    58·
    21 hours ago

    wow who could have predicted this considering they’re the same companies who said they wouldn’t donate to republicans after january 6th three months before they started donating to republicans again.

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2819·
      21 hours ago

      My favorite lemmy bubble is the smug woke ( idiot leftists, who think they are smart but aren’t) who think Kamala lost because she didn’t take a stance on Gaza and people abstained in protest and not because of sexism and racism.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        114·
        13 hours ago

        I think you’re also missing a huge part of it. People don’t care about Gaza nearly as much as people here think, nor do people care about her race or gender much.

        You can see a massive shift in betting odds and polls around the time she had an interview where she said she wouldn’t have done anything different than Biden. My general perception is that she didn’t really have a plan, and I think that’s true for the public. I also think the public didn’t like the comparison of Trump with Hitler. Trump, on the other hand, claimed to have a plan for fixing the economy, and I think that resonated with people, especially since the economy was good under Trump. They see the inflation during COVID as Biden’s problem (I personally blame supply chain disruption mostly, and also Trump’s spending), and Harris refused to throw Biden under the bus.

        I personally blame Harris’s loss on three things:

        • late entry - Biden should’ve dropped out sooner so they could have a real primary
        • lack of real difference vs Biden
        • running mate choice - should’ve picked Shapiro from Pennsylvania, not Walz

        I don’t think her being female hurt her, and it probably helped her appeal to female voters vs Trump, and Obama winning implies race doesn’t matter much either. To me, it comes down to policy and lack of a primary. People wanted change, while she offered more of the same. If you don’t believe me, watch some interviews with people in swing states and listen to what they’re most interested in.

      • discount_door_garlic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        16 hours ago

        I mean, there’s no singular reason for Kamala’s loss - but abstentions over the middle east were still a reasonably noteworthy problem for the campaign.

        With that being said… more broadly, people are just generally awful and a lot of people bury their heads in the sand rather than acknowledging how backwards the majority really are.

        • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 hours ago

          This happens a lot when on all major platforms, there’s nothing (not discussion, not ballot initiatives, not informational pieces about causes) that allow you to take direct action. When things broke out in Ukraine and Russia invaded there were people who jumped on planes to go fight. People were posting donation pages everywhere. People were actively rallying against actions they felt were wrong with avenues to help that were meaningful and available to the average human being.

          We just don’t have that in any political election and since it’s a lot of the smaller elections that matter, it’s important to note this deficiency. People who feel a call to action, but not a way to enact change get overwhelmed and despair. Lemmy is one of the only places I see giving information about candidates in local and rural elections (and even that isn’t wide spread and mostly happens on community pages like the one for people from Maine or Chicago, or wherever).

        • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
          62·
          13 hours ago

          Maybe I am too european but I have seen two people lose to Trump and one overwhelming win against him and only one of those had a penis.

        • Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          15 million blank ballots is why she lost, but it doesn’t say why those 15 million didn’t show. If you think 15 million people, or even a majority of them, who are largely, older, white, men, did it to protest gaza, I got news for you. It isn’t just the governments, and corporations, that don’t assign value to palestinian life.

          • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            42 minutes ago

            No they were not largely older white men. And the Gaza issue has a ton of support on the left which would be more readily apparent if it wasn’t so viciously censored by the media and Harris’ own administration.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.eeEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    That would be REALLY Corrupt if simply buying Ads on a Website was Enough to allow you to DIRECTLY INFLUENCE the President Of The United States! Fortunately Trump DIDNT put the Owner of X in charge of Important Oversight Decisions!

    • MisterD@lemmy.caEnglish
      203·
      1 day ago

      When Hitler needed to track the unwanted in his concentration camps, IBM was there.

      Today, Trump has selected IBM due to our experience in this field of Fascism.

      FYI: while this is not true, I’m sure most Americans will believe it.

    • magnetosphere@fedia.io
      29·
      1 day ago

      Still, “under $2,000” for a corporation of that size is a surprisingly low amount, compared to the others. Not even worth the negative publicity. Odd choice.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      Ah, a history joke! Don’t forget Coke(Fanta)! Also, the history of Volkswagon is pretty interesting.

      The surprising part is, despite everything Henry Ford believed, I don’t remember ever hearing Ford being on that list.

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.eeEnglish
    2191·
    1 day ago

    “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.

  • Justin@lemmy.jlh.nameEnglish
    1142·
    1 day ago

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