Now is a good time to flood Wikipedia with donations. For the first time in my life, i have just donated to them and will do so again. You can do it too for a minimum of €2, no requirement for recurring donations or any nonsense.

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      10 months ago
      1. Rename to elonpedia for a day
      2. Demand the billion dollars
      3. Find a young attorney to sue pro bono on the grounds that Elon is a dick
      4. Laugh about the fact musk has to pay attorneys to defend himself in court.
      5. ???
      6. Profit.
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      10 months ago

      More that it’s a confirmation that having money doesn’t make you a good person.

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      There’s not one single person in the world who should own a thousand million dollars, never mind hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars.

      The pure existence of billionaires is unethical and immoral - doesn’t matter whether they’re being stupid and fascist in public, or quietly pulling strings and bending society to their will in the background.

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    He’s trying to distract from the probe into Tesla’s range. It’s working.

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          Are they really tho it just seems to me like you just really don’t like anyone with a differing opinion after a quick glance through your comments I could be wrong dare I say but after looking through your comments it looks like you think anyone remotely right wing is a big nazis facist boogeyman sure there are some people out there with those beliefs but there generally quite small in numbers

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              Define nazi for me tell me what does the word nazi mean and do this without searching it up I also want you to read my comment again as nothing I’ve said makes me a nazi tankie or any other political extremist

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    We already have Dickopedia elon, it’s called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
    ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

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    10 months ago

    Sounds like a good idea for a wikipedia page. Put Elon’s picture on it.

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    wikipedia foundation’s financials are solid, stable, and healthy.

    how’s twitter doing lately, elon?

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    To everyone thinking Wikipedia should go with the deal and then change the name back.

    It’s like taking money for doing d*ck tatoo on forehead and then doing laser removal, humiliation. No foundation or company should show they are craving for money by doing anything someone would pay for.

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      I think you call his bluff, play chicken with him. See what he comes up with as his terms to the agreement, read the contract, have lawyers check it for loopholes and it they find one, sign the deal and exploit it.

      Then donate the money to another foundation.

      At some point I’d be willing to bet he would back down and not follow through, but anybody that is in a position to call him on his bullshit should do it

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        No reason. It would require elon to be part of whatever position and he will destroy it like twitter.

        Also his endgoal is most probably to control what’s written about him

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      Honestly, they’d be stupid not to take it.

      Imagine how much you could do with a billion. It’d perpetually sustain the organization, it’d allow them to hire translators and writers, resulting in better content for all of us.

      Hell, I’d take it, and 99.9% of people on this planet would too.

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        Honestly, they’d be stupid not to take it.

        Did he offer them a legal contract? Because otherwise he’s just flapping his fat lips, seeking attention like a toddler.

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        In practice organizations don’t have mechanizms to secure such amounts of money. It would be a massive cake to divide. Dirty money is dirty money, don’t show Elon Musk he can de anything.

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          Worst case, they can keep chugging along without any changes, except maybe stopping the donation “nag”.

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    More evidence to support taxing the fuck out of billionaires. No one needs that much money.

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      Get the money first. You don’t want to end up in a long, protracted legal battle because he offered you money in a social media post. It’s how he ended up with Twitter.