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[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 566 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Someone get this asshole to get into a submarine

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[–] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 255 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Alternate headline:

“Massive shitcunt threatens to destroy the actual best part of the internet to the surprise of absolutely no one”

is what they meant to say

Incidentally, do you guys remember when this fuckhead was a darling of the left?

These are strange times.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 146 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was a darling because he was a literally unknown person who introduced themselves with a controlled media profile who sold a way to approach the fossil fuel problem. The nice thing about the left is their views evolve rapidly to current events and Elon has been inescapable in media, so naturally he reveals his true neocon form.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (22 children)

Incidentally, do you guys remember when this fuckhead was a darling of the left?

And when was this? I cannot remember a time when a celebrity capitalist parasite was a "darling of the left."

[–] londos@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago (26 children)

I will admit there was a time when he was pushing electric cars while traditional auto manufacturers seemed to be dragging their feet. It felt like he was on the right side of a big issue and shaking things up. I think it's important to admit when we get it wrong. And boy did I get it wrong.

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[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 192 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Stop posting Musk's fucking face. This isn't tech

[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm so tired of seeing mean gross old white men scowling all over my damn feed any time anyone shares an article.

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[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 158 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Someone should tell Elon that an unprofitable website and a non-profit website are not the same thing.

[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He isn't doing it for profit, he wants control

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 148 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Deeply unwelcome. I hate that this is even a thought that he has had.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Buying and destroying Twitter started with a joke like this.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unless Wikipedia is a public company with fiduciary responsibilities, can’t they just say, “fuck you. No.”?

EDIT: They’re a non commercial 501(c)(3). They can say “fuck you. No.”

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 142 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I completely hate how something that is a rare Bastian of maintaining free and reliable factual information for the world is just a silly game for him. It sickens me. This is the kind of cartoon character rich villain that throws money a people and shouts at them to dance for him.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 131 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I donated to Wikipedia, today. A few bucks to a very valuable site.

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tax billionaires out of existence.

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[–] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 101 points 1 year ago (11 children)

Ive responded elsewhere in this thread, and think we are otherwise aligned against this cunt, so maybe, just maybe this is a good time to give Wikipedia one of your hard earned dollars? One dollar.

https://donate.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_to_Give

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[–] sirdorius@programming.dev 93 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Of course the community driven, anarchic nature of Wikipedia is a threat to the status quo of capitalists dominating society. Musk can't stand this, because it shows how ultra wealthy, incompetent dicktators like him are unnecessary.

[–] steltek@lemm.ee 31 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia is anything but anarchy. There's so much bureaucracy it would surprise even Kafka.

I also don't think Elon's psyche is built around an abstract notion of economic systems. He's simply a narcissist that desires shiny things, in a very basic and unrefined way. Rich people just want to add baubles to their menagerie.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 85 points 1 year ago (5 children)

DON'T YOU THREATEN SOMETHING I ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT, FUCKER.

But seriously, I can't imagine the fine folks at Wikimedia seeing what happened to shitter and thinking there's any value in having him in charge.

You suck, Lonnie. Go away.

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[–] Gamoc@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So he did get Twitter just to ruin it and take it away from the left. This proves it, because he wants to do it again to Wikipedia whilst calling it "Wokipedia" like a broken, right wing soundboard. Neither platform allowed lies and, since it's the right and their only move is lies, in his view that makes them biased. Elon intentionally sabotaged twitter because it wouldn't let him and his rich cunt friends lie and now they want to do it to Wikipedia. He genuinely doesn't have a moral foundation, it's just lies and manipulation all the way down to his shriveled, rotten core.

[–] microphone900@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I found this interesting article when trying to understand why he's doing what he's doing with Twitter. What was Elon Musk’s strategy for Twitter? - NBC News

On the day that public records revealed that Elon Musk had become Twitter’s biggest shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire and recommended an article imploring him to acquire the social network outright.

Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3,000-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, a playbook for the takeover and transformation of Twitter....

The text messages described a series of actions Musk should take after he gained full control of the social media platform: “Step 1: Blame the platform for its users; Step 2: Coordinated pressure campaign; Step 3: Exodus of the Bluechecks; Step 4: Deplatforming.”

That pressure campaign is against the Anti Defamation League which Musk has been trying to do.

So I guess he's doing it all for far right adulation.

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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 71 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ah. So this os the end goal - obtain very popular and influential things on the internet - in this case communication and knowledge/facts, and destroy them in such a way that only technofascists like himself can even find them remotely useful.

It’s the ultimate way to fuck up any democratic society and plunge the world further into chaos. What a dumpster fire.

[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

Seize the means of information.

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[–] hai@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to D**kipedia.”

This is what we’re working with. A small child.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He'll probably rename it "X-pedia".

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[–] NutWrench@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Musk is always looking for his next high. He desperately wants that bong hit of attention that getting his name in the news brings to him. He's an attention whore, who can afford to burn through billions of dollars. I'm surprised he didn't buy Reddit years ago.

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[–] cheeseburger@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least it reminded me to renew my annual donation to Wikipedia. Fucking Muskunt.

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[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I've donated in the past and, thanks to the big baby, I think I'll make a donation again

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[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 48 points 1 year ago (21 children)

“I will give them a billion dollars if they change their name to Dickipedia.”

is such promise legally binding in US? it would be fun to take billion dollars from him and i am pretty sure we could all survive wiki being renamed for a day...

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[–] diffuselight@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

Just facists destroying faith in everything that’s not them. Normal modus operandi. These people need sheep who are so confused what to believe that they don’t trust anyone anymore and instead substitute trust for blind faith.

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (11 children)

What about we all fund his trip to the Mars or whatever, but only one way.

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 38 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Hell no. Wikipedia is the last untainted place of the internet

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[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

He always talks a lot of shit and pussies out. He don't do anything unless by court order.

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[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hasn't he learned anything from Wikia/Fandom?

The WoWWiki and RuneScape Wiki communities ditched Wikia due to them plastering the fuck out of their wikis with tonnes of intrusive ads.

Heck, the WoW community had to ditch Wowpedia (WoWWiki's successor) to found a new wiki because Gamepedia was bought out by Fandom, the company that Wikia eventually became. Fandom ended up pulling the exact same shit soon after.

As for RuneScape, its wiki is hosted by Jagex themselves.

Musk buying Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation would end in financial disaster. Nothing would be stopping people from jumping ship to an alternative.

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[–] 018118055@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Elon, if you want to make money from the internet, move into a Skinner box panopticon where users can pay to give you electric shocks.

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[–] mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

God-tier title

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is Wikipedia even buyable by cunt muffins like Elmo?

It is a non-profit organization.

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[–] PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Does he have a billion dollars to spend right now? He's already lost at least 30 billions of twitter.

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[–] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I wonder if he didn't have his family's money, could he have been successful?

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[–] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 30 points 1 year ago

Don't you dare fucking touch Wikipedia

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