For a person known for exaggeration and lies, that’s possibly the biggest lie he’s told yet.
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And yet one of the world’s richest men offering to buy a major non-profit web organization is the sort of thing that should be newsworthy, you know, in the abstract. I guess the takeaway is that we live under an oligarchy of puerile idiots who badly need to pay taxes. 
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I’ve donated in the past, wasn’t really considering it this year, but now I will just because he is such a dickhead.
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We can add “brand value” to the list of business concepts that this Galtian tycoon doesn’t understand or thinks others don’t understand. Along with “paying your bills”.
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“I’m not a fool,” says man who spent $44 billion to purchase a social media site only to run it into the shitter in less than a year.
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But that’s not quite what he said. Read the tweet closely. It’s quite a laugh once you see it.
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What are the odds that lots of people do the same, and Lone Skum later takes credit for increasing donations to Wikipedia? 
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First of all, I doubt elongated muskrat has $1B available to give to wikipedia…
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The “It’s a Wikipedia Michael, how much could it cost to run” is the exact same attitude he had toward Twitter prior to the acquisition, and continues to hold. His idiotic staff and resource slashing was all based on the absolutely clownish assumptions of “free speech is easy, just let it all through!” and “how many servers do we need, each xeet is only 140 characters?” How did drawing precise focus on his specific, ongoing and very public failures by crowing the exact same bullshit about Wikipedia seem like a win?
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I cannot wait for the day I never have to hear about this idiotic asshat again.
What an overgrown ‘Veruca Salt’, with less than half her intellect…
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He really is stuck on this 12 year old sense of humor…
Musk’s “offer” stems from an earlier tweet where he criticized the Wikimedia Foundation for wanting so much money.
I mean, I do kinda get this. Not about wikipedia specifically. I don’t even know their budget, but it is a pretty large site, I imagine it takes a lot to maintain and moderate it, as well as server costs.
But, it seems so many companies with various simple services employ a ton of people and spend a lot of money, and I just don’t understand where it all goes. Like Patreon - you’re a middle man. A payment facilitator. How do you not make money hand over fist constantly?
Then again I am a dumb dumb baby who don’t know how these sorts of companies work, so…
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In fact, what he typed was: I mean, I’m a not fool lol.
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I judged a debate competition this weekend where most of the prompts were basically “we should NOT build many giant statues of Hitler” and then some poor kids had to argue the opposite.
Basically, I was just judging the coin flip half the time, because the prompts were so very “ripped from the headlines”, and that means the default sides (Fox News or MSNBC) were basically already picked for them, and the strong tendency was for these kids to fall back into these sides*. So, unfortunately, whoever flips Fox News - unless they’re a very clever debater - is kinda fucked with me. If I already heard your arguments on Twitter and judged them unfavorably, I don’t know how I can vote positively for the exact same arguments.
The kids arguing anti-UBI in the finals fell back to “we need the money so Elon can take us to Mars” and included the point “if you tax billionaire [so people can survive] the harm is equal to the gain”.
I don’t usually get angry at the children in these debates, but talk about misjudging who you are talking to. Pro-tip, debate kids: if your judge looks Twitter age, he might not be Elon’s biggest fan. As I put it, “I believe he’ll get us to Mars right after he rescues those kids with his submarine”
- (Pro or anti school vouchers was one debate topic, with a judging pool that included half public school teachers and contract judges and half rich parents; nobody’s that impartial - I at least let the kids know they game they’re really playing; hell yeah you should be researching your judges and cold reading them in debate i.e. CIA training camp)
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If I ran Wikipedia, I’d add notes reminding everyone that Elon Musk is Earth’s Dumbest Billionaire, with a certified IQ of 63.
Also, I’d list him as deceased, and every day post a new, humiliating way he died. Choking on fish heads, being eaten by aardvarks, drowning in a toilet, getting launched into space in a cyber truck…
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I’m incredibly tired of wealthy edgelords trying to use their economic might to make the rest of us monkeys dance for their amusement. See also: Steve Kirsch.
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“I’m a not fool” says it all.
Good thing he said that because there I was thinking he was a fool.
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So, it’s helping to create right wing debate-dude-bros… great.
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He can’t even follow through renaming his own website.
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