Jimmy Wales

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6,110 appearances 12 recordings 11 series first heard Jun 2023 last heard 21 Jun

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The Little Things · Jimmy Wales on why the internet is such an angry place · 8 May 2026 podcast

online, and it's people just screaming at each other, I'm just like, I don't want to deal with this.

This is not fun.

I don't want to be here.

Which means my voice isn't going to be heard in that debate, because it's like, I just can't take it.

Now, obviously, I'm very fortunate in life and so forth, so I'm, you know, I always say, you know, whatever.

Can't really say anything mean to me, because...

I mean, I created Wikipedia, so I'm pretty comfortable with myself, you know?

And so sometimes people say, yes, that lunatic, that crazed lunatic, Jimmy Wales, I'm like,

pretty much not a lunatic.

I might be wrong about something and maybe I've behaved badly on occasion in life, but I'm definitely not a lunatic.

So you can't really hurt my feelings by saying that.

So I don't know really why you're telling me you think I'm a lunatic.

Yeah, I mean, I think there's definitely something to that.

And I think it's hopefully that is a political opportunity for someone, you know, because I and, you know, because, you know, I've put a lot of thought into trust lately and I, you know, I've really come to the conclusion I would rather vote for a politician who I think is a trustworthy human being than

even if I disagree with some of their major policies, than to vote for someone because of policy who I think is probably not a good person.

Because when push comes to shove, that person who has campaigned on policies I agree with, but they don't seem trustworthy, they're gonna abandon those policies the minute

you know, like whatever, for whatever reason, I can't trust that they're going to actually do the thing that I elected them to do.

So it's really more, you know, I always say I was really happy and proud of America when

we had Obama versus McCain because I was like, you know what?

I've got agreements and disagreements with both of them, but they're proper people.

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