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  • Mudface@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•They use to tell us we couldnt trust Wikipedia. Now we know. Wikipedia is the only website you can trust.
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    1 year ago

    A lot of the political entries are written with a bent towards being sympathetic with leftists.

    The Kyle Rittenhouse article spends a lot of time on how Rittenhouse ‘appeared in conservative media’ or ‘appeared with conservative personalities’ which is a pretty weird thing to say, if you don’t already understand the political undertones of the Kenosha riot.

    When you click the article for the Kenosha riot, it’s titled ‘civil unrest in Kenosha’ and focusses a lot on what a reader would perceive as positive aims of the riot. Protesting racism and police brutality, and doesn’t focus at all on the crime, danger, guns, vandalism, arson, etc

    That article mentions BLM and when you read that article it makes sure to state that BLM protests were ‘largely peaceful’ and totally misses the amount of deaths and destruction that had happened at them.

    The BLM article, if written like the Rittenhouse article, should focus a fair amount in the organizations ties to Marxism, the overthrowing of capitalism and colonialism, but doesn’t.

    Wikipedia articles are written and edited and maintained to push a narrative.

    If you agree with the narrative, you probably like that it does this. If you disagree, you probably don’t bother reading Wikipedia very much.

    The issue with sources, is that a lot of ‘sources’ for stuff like this are already heavily curated to paint a picture the editors want to put on front street.

    And anything that would combat that narrative is just outright banned from the site.

    A lot of citations with politically charged topics are just opinions anyway. There is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answer or sources on the war between Palestine and isreal, for example. But if Wikipedia editors want to push propaganda for either side over the other, all they have to do is only cite pro-Palestinian or pro-Israeli sources.

    This is easily exploitable by editors for whatever narrative they choose to push.

    Wikipedia is not an exhaustive gathering of all relevant information, it is a carefully curated propaganda machine for the editors.

  • Mudface@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?
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    1 year ago

    Omg, bro don’t spout this communist manifesto shit at me please!

    And to the second part “then we’ll just make more tires” is where the devil is in the details. How is that organized? How is that, more importantly, enforced?

    You can’t just “bourgeoisie” and the. “We’ll just make more” and skirt off into the sunset. How will we, how exactly will we, make more tires?

    Like really dive in here, because this is where the rubber meets the road. How do we ‘just make more’? Where do the workers come from? How do they know we even need to make more tires? Who tells them? And what happens if …. No one shows up to make any more tires?

    What if everyone is too busy hiking, or learning a new language, or doing art or writing great novels to make more tires?

  • Mudface@lemmy.worldtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What would you do if Capitalism didn't curb your potential and force you to sell most of your time?
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    1 year ago

    Seriously, what is your expectation? What standard of living and what level of effort are you not reaching, or are extending too much effort to achieve?

    Why is life not coming close to satisfying you? Is it because people have more than you do? Is it because people have less?

    I think stating expectations is pretty important.

    Me? I want to earn enough to support myself, my family a couple of dogs, have two cars and a house and raise smart and healthy and vibrant children.

    I want a lifestyle where I can travel once in awhile, I can pay for the things I enjoy in my leisure time and recreation.

    I want to send my kids to summer camp and soccer and gymnastics, I want to buy my wife things she likes for Christmas and birthdays and anniversaries.

    If I want all of these things, I have to go out and get them. If I wait for the government to give them to me, they’ll never come.

    Now are your expectations in line with, or above or below what mine are? Does it bother you that people have more than you do?

    I don’t need a yatch, or my own spaceship. I wouldn’t even know what to do with those things if I did have them.