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Elon Musk’s X Still Down in Brazil After Company Sends $5.2 Million Fine to Wrong Bank
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Twitter. Twitter twitter twitter.
Xitter. Xitter xitter xitter.
(pronounced shitter)
Also
‘He took to Twitter and tweeted a tweet.’
Should now be
‘He took to Xitter and xat a xit.’
The X being pronounced ‘sh’ every time.
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First time I saw a print of the headline I thought it was fake lmao.
It's like an old kind of onion headline, before someone fucked with the timeline and realities got mixed up.
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Did Musk e-transfer it himself? How could Xitter possibly mess this up?
Well, when you fire all the competent people solely so that you can brag about the number of people you fired…
Trump's government efficiency guy in action, folks!
Sounds like the guy I want to be running emergency management!
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Keep in mind this is "X, the everything app". Musk expects it to be your one stop on the internet for everything, including online banking.
PayPal is already shitty enough at it is, we don't need another crappy payment app.
Anyone who wants the internet to be like this... It's hard to describe adequately.
The idea makes me as angry as I was when I was a kid and first heard about the destruction of the library of Alexandria. It is a deep dark rage.
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Why do they keep using younger pictures of him for these articles? Why don't they show him the way he is right now?
Everytime I think I'm a little "out there", I remember THIS dork exists, which frees up my mind to do other things.
Like put on a mushroomhead XX logo painted jason mask, a diana ross wig, and flannel shirt so I could go to a Fiona Apple concert, mostly against my will, get up to the front of the stage and start waving my hand enthusiastically and yell "HI HIPPIE LADY!!! HELLO!!! HELLO HIPPIE LADY!!! HIIIIIII!!!!" as her bassist had to walk off stage from laughing too much, Fiona Apple looking annoyed, and 2000 people all glaring daggers at me. Luckily the crowd was 100% females besides me. So no violence towards my antics actually took place.
Times are crazy. Especially when I remember that story is like 20 years old.
Wait… You did this?
This was the first warning. We all saw him cosplay as a Matrix extra, and we did laugh at him, but we didn't bully this dork ass bitch enough.
I don’t think bullying dorks who cosplay as their cyberpunk OC will help. Bully billionaires instead.
I think he could have got two birds stoned at once with this one.
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This is entirely on Twitter. For your average person, sending a court-ordered fine to the wrong institution means it hasn’t been paid.
Plus, theres the fact that Musk is completely untrustworthy. After all the effort it’s taken to get Twitter to pay up, I wouldn’t restore their ability to earn income from Brazilians until the fine was secured thoroughly and correctly.
The xitter lawyers claim that there was no bank account indicated anywhere so they "had to guess" and are demanding xitter to be unlock as they paid the fine.
In other words, either they're grossly incompetent and can't read, or they're playing malicious by trying to abuse some loophole or anything to ultimately not pay the fine
EDIT: For some clarification, there is no information publicly available as to where the lawyers sent the money to, only that it wasn't the account linked to this fine, and that the lawyers are demanding the service to be restored because they claim the fine was paid, but the correct account hasn't received the money, so the fine is not paid. Alexandre de Moraes has asked Caixa Economica Federal (one of the government banks and the only one that deals with this kind of thing) to "fix" this issue so the attorney's general office can analyse the process and decide on restoring xitter's service. Elon Musk, X and the law firm representing them in Brazil are in absolutely no position to contest, much less demand, anything from the supreme court or the attorney's general office. Their actions have shown time and time again that they have no intention to play fair and regularise the issues, and they'll try what they can to create instability, animosity and general distrust against Brazil's judicial system.
The information regarding payment details for fines is ALWAYS clearly detailed on every notice, there is 0 chance that they forgot to include it or they've made a mistake and added a different account.
The more I read into this the more it looks like the law firm is being malicious instead of stupid, they're trying all that they can to not pay this fine (on behalf of X & Co.) and also create instability/animosity against the supreme court, specially considering what Musk has done and been doing for this whole case.
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I wouldn't trust Musk for anything!
Not for a million dollars, not for a Brazilian dollars, not even for a trillion dollars!
There’s those tiny regressive Republican 1950’s entitled white thumbs—
👍🏻”AYYYYYYYYYY!!!”👍🏻
Why you gotta do Fonzie like that?