• Davel23
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    3389 months ago

    Former President Donald Trump has sued the co-founders of Truth Social, alleging they mismanaged the social media platform early on and should therefore lose their stock in the company, which recently went public.

    If mismanagement is enough to prevent someone from owning stock, Trump should not own a single share of anything.

    • @[email protected]
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      879 months ago

      Well, honestly, Trump should not be allowed to own a single share of anything for many great reasons imo.

    • @[email protected]
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      299 months ago

      If mismanagement is enough to prevent someone from owning stock, Trump should not own a single share of anything

      I agree, though this is par for the course as Trump behavior goes. He’s got a long history of doing shady shit, screwing over partners and vendors.

      • Lemminary
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        159 months ago

        I’m glad that people are learning the hard way not to trust him, although I would’ve preferred it if they had listened. I’m enjoying this shit show!

  • originalucifer
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    2169 months ago

    i almost feel bad for these guys… but i dont. its common knowledge that no good comes from going into business with trump

      • @[email protected]
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        269 months ago

        Each one of Trump’s business partners thinks “I’m not gonna get screwed by this guy!” and in the end each one of them does.

          • @[email protected]
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            99 months ago

            nO oNe SaId He WaS a CoN uNtIl He RaN fOr PrEsIdEnT

            -my parents, who give zero fucks about all the counterexamples given to this idiocy

        • @[email protected]
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          69 months ago

          You’d think after walking past hundreds of guys with knife stabs in their back they wouldn’t enter a business deal with the dimwit waving a bloody dagger around.

      • fmstrat
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        79 months ago

        Took him in? They pitched the idea. They deserve what they get.

      • experbia
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        29 months ago

        there are always the people in every horror movie who think that if they deliver their friends into the open drooling maw of the monster stalking them, they’ll get a reward.

        the “reward” is usually at least as bad as their friends’ fate. it’s just narcissism really. they think they’re more like the enemy than they are like their friends, so it would be natural to spare them. but they’re all just meat to the monster.

        trump is just a shitty xenomorph. small hands instead of small mouth, and substantially less physically threatening. I think they both probably have the acid blood though.

    • @[email protected]
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      179 months ago

      I don’t feel bad in the slightest. Everyone knows Donald is a sociopathic grifter. These guys wanted to run a con with him and got burned. I hope their lives are full of misery.

    • @[email protected]
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      179 months ago

      In fact, they specifically targeted that demographic. They put their face inside a starving leopards mouth

    • @[email protected]
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      129 months ago

      Except me. Right? He totally promised to make me president of Puerto Rico.

      Because I’m one of the good ones.

      I’m the exception.

      Right?

  • Flying Squid
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    1999 months ago

    I was going to ask which one of these people is the biggest idiot and then I realized the answer was yes.

  • @[email protected]
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    1079 months ago

    Yes, truth social is completely impossible without trump. Nobody could possibly spin up a mastodon instance without a former president backing you. Just absolutely unheard of.

    • @[email protected]
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      579 months ago

      I mean the fact that they managed to run it in a way that was illegal was pretty uniquely impressive.

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            Idk violating gpl isn’t hard you just have to think of it as some hippy bullshit without teeth instead of what it actually is: a pretty radical legal framework for intellectual property to be distributed freely that has plenty of teeth and a strong precedent

            • @[email protected]
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              39 months ago

              I like GPL, but I thought it was basically just a contract.

              who pays for the lawyers? Unless you have more money than your opponent nothing has much teeth in the US.

          • Cethin
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            29 months ago

            This is from 2021. What happened? I assume nothing?

    • Jay
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      359 months ago

      I was going to comment that he’d win at that at least, but for some reason I think he’d fuck that up too.

  • @[email protected]
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    799 months ago

    He’s going to get that money any way he can. No one is safe. He will sue his own children if it bails him out.

  • @[email protected]
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    609 months ago

    “Without Mastodon , Truth Social would have been impossible,” the filing should have said said.

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          859 months ago

          That’s awesome. They had no significant development costs and still racked up a $15m loss in the last year. Yep, definitely a Trump enterprise.

          • @[email protected]
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            429 months ago

            That’s because they have no revenue and significant operating costs. Turns out there’s not much money to be made in providing a platform to Nazis and conmen. There are all the MAGA idiots on there, but what little wealth they have has already been tapped out by the dick pill salesmen, their pastors, and Trump himself (plus whatever the latest pyramid scheme they’ve signed up for this week is peddling).

            • @[email protected]
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              99 months ago

              Turns out there’s not much money to be made in providing a platform to Nazis and conmen.

              I love this. For some reason this particular train wreck is giving me a small glimmer of hope for the future.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              Turns out there’s not much money to be made […]

              Sadly I don’t think this is really true. That’s why at least some idiots think the platform is worth $11bn. Users don’t need to be wealthy, just stupid enough to click an ad for said dick pills.

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              19 months ago

              Theres lots and lots of money to be made. The poorest ones will happily go into debt to support the various grifters. Truthsocial is basically nothing but grifting posts of the Trump base.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 months ago

              Well sure, but I could provide a platform for Nazis and conmen for a hell of a lot less than $15m/year in operating costs.

  • @[email protected]
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    559 months ago

    He is in a legal battle every day of the week and GOP voters are like damn this guy is fit to be President again.

  • Panda (he/him)
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    359 months ago

    Breaking news: People who cozy up to face eating leopards will eventually get their faces eaten. More at 8.

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        9 months ago

        But he’ll sue himself with the wrong forms in the wrong court

          • @[email protected]
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            49 months ago

            I’ll always cherish trump for giving us that presser though. Like, EVERYONE knew they meant the hotel, and rather than changing venue when they couldn’t secure it, they grabbed something with the same name and pretended it was intentional. Just truly amazing. Like a child with a chocolate covered face saying the dog ate the cookies.

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              29 months ago

              I read a theory that they had to change the location because the hotel was near a school and someone in their group was legally barred from being that close to children.

              • @[email protected]
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                69 months ago

                While there was a sex offender that spoke at the conference, the Trump campaign actually changing the venue because of that one person implies either

                • they care about keeping sex offenders away from kids

                Or

                • they respect the law

                Since neither are true, I don’t think the theory stands up to scrutiny.

  • Maple Engineer
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    189 months ago

    Wait until all the rubes who bought stocks find out that they’re next. The fine print actually says that your stock purchase is actually just a non-refundable donation to the Donald J. Trump legal defence fund.