Lmao

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    166·
    3 months ago

    Conservapedia, like the incel wiki, are windows into parallel universes and both are proof, that ours isn’t the worst timeline after all.

  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.worldEnglish
    137·
    3 months ago

    “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.

    • RandomVideos@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      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

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        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?

    • kameecoding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      28·
      3 months ago

      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)

      • Notyou@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        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.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      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.

      • Soup@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        3 months ago

        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.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
          25·
          3 months ago

          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.

          • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
            5·
            2 months ago

            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.

            • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Authoritarianism 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.

            • ReCursing@lemmings.worldEnglish
              21·
              2 months ago

              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 Scotsman anarcho-communists

  • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
    751·
    3 months ago

    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.

  • carl_dungeon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    73·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • pingveno@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Largely written by and for right wing angry fundie home schoolers. You’re not wrong.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    532·
    3 months ago

    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.

        • xenoclast@lemmy.worldEnglish
          10·
          3 months ago

          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

        • DarkCloud@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          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’.

        • BlackmistEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          Authoritarians, who want to paint anything “liberal” as the enemy.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      313·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
        8·
        3 months ago

        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.

  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zoneEnglish
    32·
    3 months ago

    Hitler was just really passionate about giving free healthcare to Jews, LGBT, intellectuals, Romani, slightly swarthy people, etc etc.

  • Fontasia@feddit.nlEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    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

  • Glytch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    How is this list organized? It seems like they randomly wrote names down as it came to them.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      131·
      2 months ago

      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.

        • AVincentInSpace@pawb.socialEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        2 months ago

        It’s an internet encyclopedia built for and by conservatives. Literally everything on there abruptly pivots to barely relevant Bible study.

        • BluesF@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I’m used to UK conservatives. They don’t like poor people, I think religion is really a minor issue for most of them though (after all it does generally preach kindness to the poor).

          • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            Yeah I suppose I should have prefaced it with American conservatives. Because American conservatism is thoroughly wrapped up in Christian authoritarianism.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        In order to understand it you have to understand its creator: Andrew Schlafly: he’s an electrical engineer and lawyer and his mother is Phyllis Schlafly, a lawyer famous for her militant opposition to feminism and the Equal Rights Amendment, a proposed amendment to the constitution that reads:

        Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

        Phyllis wasn’t just some opponent of that amendment, no she was probably the primary reason it failed.

        In short: there’s no reason why that website should be in any way sane just as there’s no reason its founder should be in any way sane. He really likes to critique physics theories that he doesn’t understand by citing philosophy and theology.

      • ArchRecord@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Several parables in the Bible foreshadow the insight of quantum entanglement about paired photons having opposite spin

        Interesting, I wonder what their evidence is for that-

        by contrasting two men in their relationship with God. The Prodigal Son contrasts two brothers, two churchgoers are contrasted in Luke 18:9–14 , and two brothers are further contrasted in Luke 21:28-31

        Just… 2 people being compared?

        LOL