It is an amusing website. The article on kangaroos is priceless. That being said, it has to a large extent been taken over by trolls, so you keep seeing things on it, that even the idiots there wouldn't write.
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A new medium for the spread of Right-Wing Ignorance
So, I'm at work today, sitting here in my tiny cubicle waiting around for my next smoke break, just sort of clicking around on the net aimlessly. For some reason I started looking into the theory of Intelligent Design, partly because I find it humorous, partly because it's so incredibly ridiculous and offensive (that, however, is a topic for another thread, I'm sure), and I happened across a website called "Conservapedia.com: the Trustworthy Encyclopedia." I nearly spat the coffee I was drinking all over my coworker out of sheer shock, and it took me a minute--staring, dumbstruck, in a kind of offended awe I have never before attained--before I regained my composure and got to reading a bit about the site.
Apparently, it's some kind of feeble counter to wikipedia, which--according to the site--is becoming "increasingly more anti-christian, and anti-american." Let me tell you what I find wrong with this, and I'll see if anyone responds, but before I do, PLEASE check out this site!
As every revolutionary knows, one of the first and most crucial steps to attaining social change is to enlighten the people of not only the reasons for some kind of drastic upheaval, but also to enlighten them of the truths and possibilities that their oppressors have previously hidden under a guise of lies and purposeful ignorance. To attack a database like Wikipedia is utterly outrageous, as this site serves as nothing more than what it claims to be: an online encyclopedia. That word, encyclopedia, is supposed to equate to a neutral source of information that is accessible by those who choose to read it, and the moderators of the site--as we all know from their constant headlines that say, "The neutrality of this page is in question" or whatever--are constantly trying to keep that balance in order. These fucking pompous, right-wing pigs are up-in-arms about a source of knowledge because it is just that: a means by which it might be possible for some individual or group to find out that OH MY GOD, the fucking idiotic governement lied to us, religion might not be all it's cracked up to be, and--worst of all--that the current administration's public opinion ain't all that high right now.
Secondly, this idiotic claim that Conservapedia.com is the "Trustworthy Encyclopedia" is an absolute fallacy from every angle you look at it. Trustworthy? Type in just about any hot issue in wiki, then take it to conserva, and you'll see the discrepency. Apparently, the word "Trustworthy" equates directly to "Slanted." I don't see this website as a matter of opinion. I see it as an attempt to counteract the damage to the (HA) pristine image of the Right Wing and the Bush Administration that might have been done by some "Leftist Wackjob" finding a few facts out on his computer. It is a way to silence any process of thought that might in any slight way contradict the not-so-subtle agenda of the idiot fascists we see in power right now. I do not see this as an alternative to knowledge, but instead a direct attack upon the most valued piece of equipment that is included in any change: the mind.
And to call this slight against mankind an encyclopedia is something far, far worse. Bullshit. Fucking absolute bullshit. This isn't an encyclopedia, it's so clear that this site is jaded by a wholly malacious and ignorant agenda, that the fact that it is a .COM and not a .ORG (like, oh say.. wikipedia) need not even be pointed out. It is shit like this that silences change long before it can take place. I'm pretty pissed, but let me know what you all think.
"Down with wars for empire!" -Mumia Abu Jamal
"In other words, I don't want to escape the plantation. I want to come back, free all my people, hang the motherfucker that kept me there and burn the house to the god damned ground. I want to take over the encomienda and give it back to the people who work the land... You can not change the past, but you can make the future. And anyone who tells you different is a fucking lethargic devil." -Felipe Coronel.
It is an amusing website. The article on kangaroos is priceless. That being said, it has to a large extent been taken over by trolls, so you keep seeing things on it, that even the idiots there wouldn't write.
It's frustrating to combat this kind of ignorance because many people will simply rationalize that "because its published it must be true". It's like debating someone who reads Ann Coulter and believes everything she says. They don't need citations for anything she talks about, they can just use her as their citation. Hopefully not many people will be so willfully ignorant that they would take "Conservapedia" as truth.
Often times that's the only way to combat things as ridiculous as Conservapedia. The rise of the trollatariat.
It's funny, because Wikipedia itself is pretty slanted towards the right as it is (albeit in a libertarian fashion). Conservatives just twist their panties at any amount of rational thought, it seems, even if it comes from a website that is nowhere near favorable to the left as it is.
YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS
lol look up the article on "communism"
Pure class. hahaha
Seriously I feel sorry for anyone who comes across conservapedia by mistake.
Bertrand Russell "The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation."
You'd be extremely lucky to see a troll article on there, or indeed an article written by anyone other than the admins - they tend to lock out editing and are very free with the banhammer. So unless one of the admins is a troll (which would be praiseworthy epic trolling) it's pretty much 100% pure fundy-conservative shit.
Sciences & Environment rocks my bedroom.
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"Frankly if we have a revolution and you stop me eating meat, I'm going to eat you."- The inimitable Skinz.
Be careful, lest the time comes where we have to weigh you against a duck.
it is pretty funny really. I know its "evil" and it spreads evil right wing propaganda. But it is pretty fucking funny. It called Obama a marxist or something. Funny stuff.
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I kind of like it. A different format, of course, but it does to Conservatism what RevLeft does for Communism. Some stuff makes sense, some stuff is written by loons but most of it is just an interesting perspective on the world written by people with a different outlook on things than one's own.
lol it said communism killed people, I thought it people killed people?
I suspect Poe's Law.
"We are now becoming a mass party all at once, changing abruptly to an open organisation, and it is inevitable that we shall be joined by many who are inconsistent (from the Marxist standpoint), perhaps we shall be joined even by some Christian elements, and even by some mystics. We have sound stomachs and we are rock-like Marxists. We shall digest those inconsistent elements. Freedom of thought and freedom of criticism within the Party will never make us forget about the freedom of organising people into those voluntary associations known as parties."
--Lenin
Socialist Party (Debs Tendency)
Way to do our work for us.
“Left wing, chicken wing, it don't make no difference to me.” - Woody Guthrie
fucking pathetic.
LOL, funny, I was going to post this exact contradiction but you beat me to it. What the hell is wrong with these people!?Way to do our work for us.
so, if i make an account there and try and work my way into their hierarchy, am i a bad person?
Why not create a RevLeftapedia or their already is one?
because we dont want to partake in there crappy match of seeing who can bullshit more.
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There are far worse websites than Conservapedia. If something this mild left you "staring, dumbstruck, in a kind of offended awe [you] have never before attained," then I'm worried you haven't been on the internet too much.
我们的原则是党指挥枪，而决不容许枪指挥党.
they obviously missed out on the various -chans. terrible bummer 4chan is gone or i could provide a link.There are far worse websites than Conservapedia. If something this mild left you "staring, dumbstruck, in a kind of offended awe [you] have never before attained," then I'm worried you haven't been on the internet too much.
so really tho, i made an account on their site, and i'm creating pages they don't have. i recommend others do this as well, and PM me if your serious about doing it right.
do it for teh lulz, brothers.
Hey, I have an account here at RevLeft, am I a bad person?so, if i make an account there and try and work my way into their hierarchy, am i a bad person?
