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Conservapedia, like the incel wiki, are windows into parallel universes and both are proof, that ours isn’t the worst timeline after all.
It almost looks like incredibly well done satire
Poe’s law.
Damm, getting a sneak peak on what the enshitification o Wikipedia will be like.
Would wikipedia even meet the requirements for that?
Wikipedia is a volunteer run nonprofit with enough money to be stable. I donate from time to time, but it really isn’t susceptible to enshittification.
“Hitler was a socialist! It was in the name!” “China is communist! It’s in the name!” “North korea is communist! It’s in the name!”
“Kamala harris is a communist! She is with the democratic party, but that does not mean she is one. 🤡” “Trumps wouldbe-assassin was not a republican. He might be registered as such, but that does not suit my agenda 🤡.” “Everything i read or hear, i see as fact or not based on what helps me most 🤡”
These people are absolute fucking clowns and it’s impossible to talk or argue with them because they are not grounded in reality. It is exhausting.
“Cheesecake is cake! It’s in the name!”
Cheesecake is not cake? Have i been living in a lie my entire life?
It’s a pie and/or tart. I’m sorry to have to tell you this and strip more of your innocence away.
When my family puts candles on one, sings “Happy Birthday” to me, and slices it up for everyone, then it’s a cake.
I think you’ll find there’s a lot of people who are happy getting birthday pies.
Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.
Oh yeah. Then why kamala be dum?
Stupid lib
Man, I had to check your post history to know you were messin’ with me. Your conservative impression is spot on.
Could you imagine of Adolf Hitler named and said thjngs that were lies with the purpose of manipulating people and getting in power? Thankfully, we live in a timeline where he cant lie
I can’t imagine being a voting-age adult and not immediately understanding that these people are full of shit? You don’t even need to know what specific words mean to see what they’re doing. It’s so fucking dumb and childish.
I can’t imagine being a voting-age adult and not immediately understanding that these people are full of shit?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis
Try huffing leaded car fumes for 20 years first. Then immerse yourself in Reagan-Era propaganda for the next 20. Finally, miss out on the biggest bull market in history because you put all your retirement savings in canned tuna and collectible gold coins like all your very wealthy online friends told you to.
Now you’re in your late 60s, your kids and grandkids never talk to you, you’re scrapping by on Social Security after five years of killer inflation, and all you can do every day is sit in a dingy suburban ranch house watching “Mexican Muslims Have Caravaned The Border And Stolen Our Jobs” every waking hour.
There’s a Trump rally in town. All your friends are going. And the booze is free. Who are you voting for in November?
There is a growing populace of people who actually believe the world is flat.
I mean, it’s not really growing anymore as far as I know.
Always create an in group and an out group, these labels aren’t meant to be accurate for them, they don’t care, they just want to have a word for those people there who we don’t like and dehumanize them, if they could they’d just use the N word for everyone
Infamous liberal
Adolf Hitler
So…half the conservative base agrees with a librul?
Their opinions on reality are not consistent. They will warp their minds into whatever twisted shape is required if they get to hurt the “other” (whoever that happens to be this cycle)
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Their opinions on reality are not consistent.
I’m constantly reminded of that 90s (I think) country song. “You’ve Got to Stand for Something or You’ll Fall for Anything.”
Many of them just keep falling for the next lie, even while the previous lies are being corrected. They never stop for a minute and think the place they are getting their info from is bad.
No no no. This is Adolf Hitler [bad, because National Socialism Volkswagon Bailout Lost The War].
You’re thinking of Adolf Hitler [good, because Based Chad Hates Immigrants Retvrn To Tradition].
Two totally different guys.
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Yes, but he also killed the guy who killed Hitler.
“everyone I don’t like is a liberal”
I wonder why they put Hitler on the list then.
They love pretending loke Hitler, the universal symbol for evil, was a socialist. They fuckin’ love fascism and everything he did but they have to pretend like what they’re doing is different.
They also have no idea what “liberal” means, but that’s the case with most words exceeding six letters.
Similar to socialists being in denial over how antisemitism can get them to go along with fascists. People on the fringes of politics tend not to be able to see themselves for what they are. Communists and Fascists are both authoritarian just with a slightly different grift. But when the fascists play up the greedy capitalist jew angle, the socialists jump on board with fascism along it with the rest of the useful idiots.
Are we playing the “socialism and communism are different things” game today? Because that’snnever fun.
Authoritarians aren’t communists. They’re just appropriating the term.
Are we playing the anarchists and communists are the same thing game today? Communists absolutely can be authoritarian, anarchists can’t anarcho-communists aren’t but not all communists are
true Scotsmananarcho-communistsAuthoritarianism isn’t something anyone should want so authoritarians need to make some kind of grift to convince people to go along with it. But it ultimately has the same result. Someone becomes dictator by promising to make a country stronger, while someone else becomes dictator by promising equal, it all ends the same.
I mean China is obviously a fascist government today (no matter what they call themselves) but where was the revolution that caused this massive shift from the “far left” to the “far right”? There wasn’t one because it’s just authoritarianism, the only change was which propaganda is used to justify authoritarian power.
He was a filthy painter, that’s why. Now, if he had painted with a gun…
Liberal arts?
#COMMUNIST
Hussein. 😪
They just love saying Obama’s middle name like it’s some kind of gotcha. What they don’t seem to get is it doesn’t mean anything unless you’re a racist piece of shit.
Barack Obama is clearly the cousin of Saddam Hussein, the 20th hijacker on 9/11.
Hahah - I thought this was a joke, I can’t believe it’s a real thing. It reads like an angry fundie 14yo wrote it.
Largely written by and for right wing angry fundie home schoolers. You’re not wrong.
Every single republican is also a liberal. It’s the dominant ideology of capitalism and its state.
The difference is that the liberalism of republicans is more “classic” in that it’s heavily mixed with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, etc.
There’s only two kinds of liberalism; economic, and social.
Why do we separate the two? Who does that serve?
Historically it used to be used like: “I’m socially liberal but a fiscal conservative”
The reality is that translated to: “I want to fund everything I want but never give money or resources to people that aren’t like me”… good old institutional racism and bigotry with a nice facade
Conservativism as an ideological definition is a branch of liberalism.
Well, this is LeftyMemes, so there’s a preference for the left here.
Free market Capitalists dislike the population being able to make/recognize the distinction. Because there’s a certain kind of “Liberal” who are only Liberals when Liberalism economically benefits them, but become Conservatives (and even radically right wing Conservatives) when Socially Democratic policies, or talk of taxing wealth becomes popular.
Donald Trump, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and others have all worn the mask of a “Liberalism” that refuses to to make this distinction (between social and economic liberalism).
A Liberal who is an economic liberal but doesn’t seek progressive improvements to society, isn’t a liberal at all. They’re a conservative in waiting for the moment things progress too far.
Thus leftists are served by keeping this distinction in mind. Learn it. Recognize who will kick up a fuss and change teams, and remember that they have a limited use, and will eventually go no further (or worse, become a major hindrance). You need an exit strategy for those people.
Otherwise progress gets maligned in the name of maintaining the ‘status quo’.
Authoritarians, who want to paint anything “liberal” as the enemy.
When you say liberal, do you mean social liberalism or classical liberalism?
Modern socialism is made up of people that get hard over the thought of leading a worker’s revolution while being completely incapable of having a conversation with anyone in the working class.
Like what’s the goal in redefining terminology to be different from common usage? It’s not enticing anyone in the working class to join your movement, that’s for sure. Most people don’t even understand what the hell the average socialist is even talking about at this point.
I agree we can get up our own asses with the terminology, but in this case just skimming the Wikipedia page will reveal that the concept of liberalism encompasses almost all dominant political parties’ philosophies.
even they should know the difference between librul and commie, right?
They literally don’t
No, liberal, commie, fascist, are all just interchangeable terms for “people I don’t like”
The people who curate the site? Absolutely. The people who frequent the site…? ehhhh
The people who curate the site are out of their damn minds
I interacted with them a bit when the site was starting out. You’re being quite generous. Bunch of nutters.
I think it’s hard to overstate how insane they are but this should be a good starting point: Biased but amusing source they can’t edit And here’s them directly arguing against the theory of relativity
Hitler was just really passionate about giving free healthcare to Jews, LGBT, intellectuals, Romani, slightly swarthy people, etc etc.
Free hair cuts, de-licing and showers too.
And they all got a unique free tatoo!
How very liberal of them.
If i didn’t know any better I’d say that was sarcasm :o
Clearly I’m misinformed on Hitler tho and they’re definitelyNOT labeling him with their no-no word in order to pretend they aren’t fuckin Nazis themselves.
Gotta make sure to include the Hussein in Obama’s name
Can’t last let us forget that he’s probably related to Saddam somehow.
Have they listened to Bill Maher lately? I don’t think he’s liberal anymore.
I think he is, unfortunately. he’s just mask-off about it.
Is…liberal? Or do you mean neoliberal?
Liberals don’t run around scared and clutching their pearls all the time, you get more views if you sell rage and fear. Conservatives love to be angry and scared all the time.
I wouldn’t be surprised if somewhere in the terms of use for that wiki that they clarify that they are not liable for any trust users put in the articles and the tagline “trustworthy encyclopedia” cannot be enforced
How is this list organized? It seems like they randomly wrote names down as it came to them.
It’s a Wiki, so you can just pop in and add a bullet point however you like, assuming you have an account.
This probably was crafted by a small pool of die-hards who dropped a name on the list any time they found out someone existed who made them mad.
It’s specifically Conservapedia. They once tried to make their own translation of the Bible because they thought existing ones were too liberal.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:The_Conservative_Bible_Project
Edit: almost forgot. The guy who runs it is the son of anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly.
That was a fun fucking read. Amazing.
Talk about a fall from grace.
I clicked through to their article on Conservapedia because I was curious what they had to say about it and
Conservapedia, also known as “The Trusworthy [sic] Encyclopedia”, is essentially an American-exceptionalist and dominionist group blog, disguised as a half-functioning wiki. The website was created by God-King Andrew Schlafly in 2006 because of his belief that Wikipedia is deceitfully riddled with “liberal bias” and “atheist bias,”[note 1] because apparently the best way to solve real or imagined bias is to create a website that is biased in an opposite way. The vast majority of articles go out of their way to blame pretty much everything negative on “liberals” (which they use as a catch-all snarl term for anyone and everyone who disagrees with them on just about any given issue — which happens to be everyone),
I have to say I find it kind of funny that a site calling itself “RationalWiki” would use language like this. I have my doubts that it is possible to violate Wikipedia’s “encyclopedic tone” guideline any harder.
Not PZ Myers! D:
I can’t believe they spelled his name right for once.
Stalin was totally a lib tho
“We can’t do communism, we have to keep the state and enact a series of slow reforms. Also jail all the gays”
Eh, I dunno that I’d actually characterize him as a liberal so much as him being an authoritarian that just pushed whatever happened to serve him at any point. Kinda in the same vein of fascists not having any economic ideology, just whatever serves their ideal of the state at any given moment. So yeah, I certainly agree with your sentiment that Stalin certainly was not a communist, but more because he only cared about gaining/maintaining power rather than actually subscribing to any economic theory.
Stalin was by most accounts a true believer in Marxism-Leninism. There are simply too many unforced ideological-caused errors for it to be anything else, like Lysenkoism rejecting Mendelian genetics because the fascists loved it and it raised questions of eugenics.
The Stalinist economic plans were thoroughly Marxist. The problem there (as far as Stalin’s true believer status is concerned) was not ideological.
He was just a drunk, paranoid, murderous asshole. Socialists simply don’t like admitting that they’re as vulnerable to hypocrisy and corruption as anyone else.
Marxism-Leninism is a form of liberalism.
That’s technically an opinion.
