Submitted 1 year ago by nadram@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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.
Downvote Musk spam.
The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the 24 hour news cycle. Don’t be a useful idiot.
Sorry i wasn’t in the loop when we decided to stop talking about the town clown. I guess I’ll stop being an idiot now. Thanks for the advice.
Wikipedia should counter by offering Elon $4 to go towards paying off his massive hole from buying Twitter. 😂
He doesn’t need to pay. Twitter is already worth less than the debt, if he continues to break that company apart there’ll he no reason to even consider paying the debt off.
The debt is a tax writeoff. The entire company is a tax writeoff for him and his clique.
This will allow them to gain billions more without spending a cent in taxes.
That’s not how debt works, he almost certainly pledged assets and a personal guarantee against it. This is known as collateral.
The banks take the collateral when you stop paying.
We already have Dickopedia elon, it's called twitter and YOU paid $44 billion for it.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
wikipedia foundation's financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
how's twitter doing lately, elon?
wikipedia foundation’s financials are solid, stable, and healthy.
Are they though? They’re asking for money constantly
I mean, donations are their only income so they have to ask but that doesn’t mean they don’t get enough.
They have more money then they know what to do with and blow a shitloas every year
They have more than enough money
Guillotine that nazi fuck. Way past time for some French revolution.
Ah rivermonster an insane and not upstanding citizen of society
I will always proudly be a danger to Nazis and fascists.
Take Money.
Re-Name to Dickipedia.
Re-Name back to Wikipedia.
Laugh about Musk.
Profit.
bold of you to assume elon would pay up
Even better, tell him sure thing, send the money, and then just don’t change it.
I am so, so tired of this tedious man child.
So he’s offering that money to name it after himself?
I’m not even clicking on that link, I never click on stuff with that turd’s name on the headline, just wanted to make the joke.
Don’t think he needs that domain when he’s already got:
FigurativelyHumongousButLiterallyTinyDick.com
Disappointed that it isn’t real
More evidence to support taxing the fuck out of billionaires. No one needs that much money.
I’m starting to think this guy isn’t very wise about spending his money.
Or just in general.
He doesn’t need to be, that’s the worrying thing…
He’s trying to distract from the probe into Tesla’s range. It’s working.
Wait, what?
There’s a federal probe into Tesla lying about their vehicle range. He’s throwing a fit and closing that it could cause great harm to the brand.
That man child has the emotions and humour of a little kid, I swear.
Never donated to Wikipedia before... this shit changed that in a hurry.
Likewise. Jumped at it immediately
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.
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.
In practice organizations don’t have mechanizms to secure such amounts of money. It would be a massive cake to divide.
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
No reason. It would require elon to be part of and he will destroy it like twitter.
Also his endgoal is most probably to control what’s written about him
I offer Elon $1 to change his name to Doge McCumStain. I hope he will accept my generous offer.
I’ll offer him $10. As a measurement of a percentage of my personal wealth I am offering double what Elon is offering.
I challenge elon to give the one billion to me and I will give him back double
He clearly has the level of self-respect required for such a dignified name. And I doubt he’s ever passed up an opportunity to make a quick buck.
Maybe Elon should just donate a billion because he supposedly cares about free information so much?
Oh, but you see, information is really only free if it's something Musk agrees with.
Why do we let this man-child have billions of dollars?
Because our capitalist system requires psychopaths to function and rewards psychopathy.
Yep also narcissism and casual cruelty
Pathocracy
Nah the most efficient system humans ever imagined can’t be that bad. Infinite growth sounds very logical
He paid 44bln and hasn’t even changed twitter.com yet. Don’t expect him to pay up.
Sounds like a good idea for a wikipedia page. Put Elon’s picture on it.
For shits and giggles, the Foundation should absolutely get lawyers to put together a binding agreement to this effect and send it to Elon to sign.
… and then watch him run away
And let him destroy wikipedia?
You are aware that Musk isn’t doing what he’s done to Xitter because he’s stupid, right? That he’s very intentionally destroying the platform, and that was a platform purchased at 44 billion?
Seriously?
It’s not like he’s buying it, it’s just an agreement on a change of name
You are aware that Musk isn’t doing what he’s done to Xitter because he’s stupid, right?
I can’t say I’m aware of that
and he’d definitely pay too.
Just like he fought Zuckerberg, and how he followed through on the Twitter purchase without having to be forced!
don’t forget about his full self driving cars by 2015
He can totally pay rent and severance fees if he wants to, he’s not a fraud, he’s got plenty of liquid assets! It’s just those dang antifa lgbtq liberal woke communist advertisers that keep pulling out for no reason at all, everyone will get their money, promise!
Knowing him he’d pay the billion in doge coin and tank the value of the coin the next day just out of spite. He’s only doing this because he’s mad he can’t control or buy Wikipedia to stop telling uncomfortable truths about him.
Chance the name for an hour, display only Elon’s wiki page and sue the dickhead.
All it takes for you guys to donate is for Elon to make a dick pun about your name?
If I can get him to do mine will you donate to me? I’m broke af I could use it.
For a billion I’d change my name to that.
The unspoken part is that you have to sue Elon to actually get paid.
That's what escrow is for
Does he stipulate for how long? If not, change it for a day, take his money, change it back, and give Elongated Muskrat the finger.
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.
he seems to be speed running the tesla bankruptcy arc
I’d give Elon 1 billion picoDollars to change his name to Dickipedia. Rounded down.
Wikipedia is already rich enough, donate to the contributors instead
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Brimos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
All of the wrong people have money.
TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Or money turns them into all of the wrong people.
argh_another_username@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Bullshit. They were born this way mainly because they were born rich.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
No. Assholes are assholes, and Elon is just an asshole with money.
Compare this man child to a billionaire like Yvon Chouinard, founder of the company Patagonia, and you’ll understand that money doesn’t change good people.
aceshigh@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s the effects of capitalism. It’s pathocracy.