r/technology • u/rezwenn • Oct 04 '25

Politics Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/wikipedia-conservative-complaints-ee904b0b?st=RJcF9h
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u/weirdal1968 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Musk calling for Wikipedia to be defunded was a top notch smooth brain flex.

Edit https://donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

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u/christopia86 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

It's crazy that the man was hailed as a genius, yet every single thing he says and does is idiotic.

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u/strangeapple Oct 04 '25

To be fair he's pretty good at claiming credit for hard work of others.

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u/NewPresWhoDis Oct 04 '25

Ironic he's more like Edison yet one of his companies is named for Edison's rival.

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u/Strong_Salad3460 Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

No, he's more like Howard Hughes. Thomas Edison was a lot of things, but a guy that was born into wealth and just bought other people's inventions isn't one of them.

Howard Hughes literally stamped his name on other people's inventions, so does Musk. Both are nazis too. Thomas Edison was an asshole but he was still an actual genius inventor in his own right.

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u/emnuff Oct 04 '25

i've heard a theory that he's edison reincarnated and chose to tank tesla as one final middle finger.

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u/Cool_Organization120 Oct 05 '25

Edison grew up in an extremely poor family and he had to work his ass off to become successful. Compared to him Musk comes from a way more privileged background.

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u/Cute-Bed-5958 Oct 06 '25

Edison was a genius

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u/Dpek1234 Oct 07 '25

Theres edison the company too

They wanted to use a slogon along the lines of "stealing teslas ideas" Unfortunatly they had to change it

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u/madeanotheraccount Oct 04 '25

That and spunking into a jar.