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[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Someone get this asshole to get into a submarine

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only more billionaires tried to visit the Titanic.

[–] fisco@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all say they work well under pressure after all.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And if they have trouble surfacing they can pull themselves up by their bootstraps

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In the Black Sea.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Titan submarine, right? We want nothing but best for dear old Elon.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only the most "Innovative" of submersibles will do.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t think anyone has ever made a submarine out of toilet paper tubes, masking tape and blu-tack. This is the peak of innovation.

[–] Ersatz86@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Alternate headline:

“Massive shitcunt threatens to destroy the actual best part of the internet to the surprise of absolutely no one”

is what they meant to say

Incidentally, do you guys remember when this fuckhead was a darling of the left?

These are strange times.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was a darling because he was a literally unknown person who introduced themselves with a controlled media profile who sold a way to approach the fossil fuel problem. The nice thing about the left is their views evolve rapidly to current events and Elon has been inescapable in media, so naturally he reveals his true neocon form.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The nice thing about the left is that they have some critical thinking abilities.

Made it more broad and concise for you.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Incidentally, do you guys remember when this fuckhead was a darling of the left?

And when was this? I cannot remember a time when a celebrity capitalist parasite was a "darling of the left."

[–] londos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will admit there was a time when he was pushing electric cars while traditional auto manufacturers seemed to be dragging their feet. It felt like he was on the right side of a big issue and shaking things up. I think it's important to admit when we get it wrong. And boy did I get it wrong.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It felt like he was on the right side of a big issue

No. No, he never was. Any leftist will tell you that the only solution to the car problem is public transport... not silly attempts to make individual cars more "eco-friendly." That's not leftism - that's what we call "green capitalism." And leftists have understood that loooong before Phony Stark skipped South Africa to avoid being drafted into the SADF to uphold the white supremacist state he benefited so richly from.

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think you could be a little more careful in your angry smearing of conscientious objectors please?

My brother dodged the draft. He’s a theologian who spent years in exile due to his refusal to serve the corrupt apartheid government.

Give a fuck about Edolf Twitler or don’t but leave the rest of us out of this. Cunt is your problem now anyway.

Just, mind the facts while you rant if you don’t mind. Please.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you think you could be a little more careful in your angry smearing of conscientious objectors please?

Perhaps you need to stop smearing conscientious objectors by pretending Phony Stark was one - you might just as well pretend Donald Trump was a conscientious objector if you apply that label to Musk.

It's out in the open now - Musk is as much a white supremacist as any National Party goon. And, like a lot of rich white kids whose families got rich off the opportunities and impoverished black labor the Apartheid-regime provided them with, Musk felt himself too entitled to actually do the dirty work himself. It was common knowledge here in South Africa at the time - the rich white kids from rich families got to opt out of the war, despite the fact thet they benefited the most from the Apartheid-regime.

It is true that some of those rich white kids actually were against the Apartheid-regime... but Musk wasn't one of them. His blatant support for white supremacism and his enabling of right-wing ideology proves that beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly. If the reason you are "conscientiously objecting" is because you're a rich Nazi shitheel who is too much of a pussy to fight for anything yourself, no one cares because you obviously don't have a real conscience to be conscientous with.

He is clearly fine with sending others to fight his battles for him. Can he be any more the Gen X version of Trump?

[–] Meowoem@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

You're pushing a very niche view as if it's universal, I get why you're doing it but you're wrong to. There is no single solution to transport requirements and while the vast majority of leftists of course agree public transport is vital it's not a magic solution for everything and outside the car hate bubble is very rare for anyone, even a leftwing person, to be staunchly anticar.

You might not like it but it's reality.

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Someone should tell Elon that an unprofitable website and a non-profit website are not the same thing.

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Stop posting Musk's fucking face. This isn't tech

[–] Veedem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I donated to Wikipedia, today. A few bucks to a very valuable site.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Wikipedia should run a fund raiser: "Give us a billion dollars or we'll change the name."

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Deeply unwelcome. I hate that this is even a thought that he has had.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buying and destroying Twitter started with a joke like this.

[–] Crikeste@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Unless Wikipedia is a public company with fiduciary responsibilities, can’t they just say, “fuck you. No.”?

EDIT: They’re a non commercial 501(c)(3). They can say “fuck you. No.”

There's that, and the fact that Jimmy Wales might have a reverse uno card, as he is quietly developing a free and non profit social media platform of his own called trust cafe.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well I’m sure glad someone looked into that. Still, I’m anxious he might try to do Bad Things™ to it. Ya know, like he does whenever he gets some idea in his head about something, and then Bad Things™ happen to it.

[–] catgirl2005@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anything that stops Elon Musk from buying Lemmy or Mastadon? Even if everyone were to migrate over to the Fediverse, what stops these websites from being bought as well?

[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can't "buy" Lemmy or Mastodon any more than you can buy email or World Wide Web

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've donated in the past and, thanks to the big baby, I think I'll make a donation again

[–] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? Wikipedia makes a huge profit from donations that get put into trustees pockets. Fuck them.

[–] MaryAnna@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“People will come up to me during fundraising season and ask if Wikipedia’s in trouble,” said Andrew Lih, an associate professor of journalism at American University and the author of “The Wikipedia Revolution.” “I have to reassure them that not only is Wikipedia not in trouble, but that it’s making more money than ever before and is at no risk of going away.”

In the fiscal year that ended last June, WMF reported net assets in excess of $77 million.

source

Suggestion: Donate instead to long time contributors directly

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hell no. Wikipedia is the last untainted place of the internet

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Some parts of wikipedia are biased as fuck... specially the ones covering politics of populist countries. There are armies of tankies bending reality to their likes and needs.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can a wiki editor plz change his main profile pic to that balding paypal one he loves so much? k thnx bai.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

As fun as that would be, we actually have standards, unlike Elon.

[–] hal_5700X@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago

DON'T YOU THREATEN SOMETHING I ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT, FUCKER.

But seriously, I can't imagine the fine folks at Wikimedia seeing what happened to shitter and thinking there's any value in having him in charge.

You suck, Lonnie. Go away.