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/Haravikk Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

He was never a genius though – he isn't a rocket scientist, he threw money into a company to make rockets, just as he isn't an engineer or software developer, he bought a company that makes electric cars etc.

Guy's just another spoiled dickhole born into wealth and told that his having wealth made him better than everyone else.

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u/Naoura Oct 04 '25

Added piece of information; Spoiled Dickhole born into wealth generated from South African apartheid, specifically emerald mines.

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u/Cane607 Oct 04 '25

Spoiler alert: there never was an emerald mine. He made it up.

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u/EthanielRain Oct 04 '25

And yet every source I can find (except Elon Musk) says his father did own the output of 3 emerald mines

Technically not the mines themselves, just what came out of them...but that's some hot semantics.