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People are replying to his comment by saying they're gonna put his approval of them on their resumé.

The wiki page can currently be summed up with "Hamas is responsible because the US says so."

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[-] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 63 points 11 months ago

Unrelated, but I have personal beef with Wikipedia because they've locked editing of some pages about Wales on account of what they call vandalism and "not fitting the relevant style guide" when Welsh users try to update place names where the English name for it has been officially dropped.

As a compromise, they sometimes have the official name in brackets after the English.

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[-] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 60 points 11 months ago

"Neutral point of view" among westerners means exactly as much as Gamers being apolitical

[-] MarxusMaximus@hexbear.net 57 points 11 months ago

There's an alarming amount of people who don't seem to understand that neutral on Wikipedia means "reported by western media". They straight up have rules against critical analysis. A source is either approved or not and by sheer coincidence, western media is all approved and all media in countries opposed to the US is not approved. If the NYT says the earth is flat and CGTN says it isn't, Wikipedia has to say the earth is flat, those are the rules.

[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 54 points 11 months ago
[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 44 points 11 months ago

Wales has visited Israel over ten times. He has said that he is "a strong supporter of Israel". In 2015, he was awarded one of the Dan David Prizes, an international award of $1 million given yearly at Tel Aviv University (10 percent of the prize goes to doctoral students); Wales was chosen for spearheading what the prize committee called the "information revolution."

I'm sure he has no bias guys

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 37 points 11 months ago

My personal jihad against Wikipedia can be summarized by the fact that every single one of the wikipedia pages I specifically bookmarked over the course of my doctoral program for containing huge amounts of specific scientific data otherwise not available unless you want to buy a few hundred scientific papers (this was pre scihub) have now been merged with giant vague general introductory articles on the topic seemingly written for the children of liberals on their first day of school. I mean fuck man, most of those molecular biology pages were written by the scientists that discovered the shit. Fuck those guys, I guess

All that shit is just gone like it never existed, and this cicjsucjer keeps asking me for money ! which I used to happily donate, but no, now he wants to do another bullshit vanity project of idk scanning all art ever into VR or whatever the fuck, instead of spending two cents a month on the server space it would have taken to keep those fucking expert level pages on their own, but because your loser ass wikiexperts dropped out of middle school in order to homeschool themselves at the university of hentai they can't tell the difference

[-] git@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago

Helpful tip for the future is to use the article’s permalink to link to that specific version in history or better yet use an archive site or use your browser to save a complete local archive of the page.

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[-] wahwahwah@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Sounds like the wiki-dorks get flustered seeing information they're too dumb to understand. A lot of fake intellectual Reddit types don't like being reminded that they're not epic polymaths just because they binge watch video essays.

[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 28 points 11 months ago

we just do not know?

[-] D3FNC@hexbear.net 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"As always, sieg heil,

Jimmy Wales"

[-] StalinistApologist@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

Thank you, Hexbearians.

[-] galoisghost@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago

This community is becoming /r/conspiracy. Calling out someone for obviously ignoring the genocide is one thing. Trying to paint someone who acknowledges that there are competing propaganda efforts as bad because they don’t black and white pick a side, is how you get the next QAnon.

[-] wantToViewEmojis@hexbear.net 63 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It was very obviously israel that struck the hospital, to even entertain the idea that it wasnt is pure racism,

https://nitter.net/evanhill/status/1714366113818038412 Read the thread, watch the video

Palestine does not have such large munitions, otherwise tel aviv would be a smoldering pile of rubble

By pretending this wasnt definitly israel you ARE "ignoring the genocide" a genocide isnt a magic word that dissapears a people, a genocide is a concrete set of actions composed of slaughtering civilians. THIS IS THE FORM WHICH THE GENOCIDE IS TAKING

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

https://www.channel4.com/news/who-was-behind-the-gaza-hospital-blast-visual-investigation

even certain western outlets are saying more investigation is needed to determine considering how much Israeli state lies.

Wikipedia's 'NPOV' is a bullshit concept. There is no such thing.

"Earth could be spherical or it could be flat, no one knows"

"Most people believe Holocaust happened but there are some deniers"

"Some people believe COVID vaccines contain microchips, though this is disputed."

All these could be considered neutral statements but if one were to see it an actual article they would think its ridiculous because Earth being spherical(ish) is the reality, Holocaust did happen and COVID vaccines do not contain microchips. Why should bullshit "theories" be entertained?

Also Gaza doesn't even have power or water right now, what 'propaganda' effort do you think Hamas or PIJ is doing compared to a state funded and propped up by a superpower

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[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 39 points 11 months ago

This you? You clearly already thought we've lost the plot, so have wandered in to stir the pot, if you'll excuse the mixed metaphors.

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 27 points 11 months ago

lol pronouns and content warning for animal abuse and their products really triggers libs

[-] the_kid@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago
[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago

It's so funny how much they whine about the pronouns. If it was a choice between male/female/other they'd be fine with it, but blob-on-fire PRONOUNS blob-on-fire are too much.

[-] mar_k@hexbear.net 12 points 11 months ago

Going by spelling and phrase choices, l'd say the majority of them are youngish Americans who're still naive enough to believe extreme left-wing/anarcho political systems aren't just as controlling of the populace as the political systems they despise. Either that or they crave big state control systems because the feel a lack of control in their own lives and want a political daddy to make the decisions for them.

Wow really got us there communism = big goberment

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[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago
[-] stevatoo@hexbear.net 31 points 11 months ago

Valuing your career over thousands of dead civilians is bad.

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

Even if we accepted your terminally muh both sides-brained argument that there are two competing propaganda efforts, one of them is backed by the full force of the Western media.

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 23 points 11 months ago

oppa gangnam style

[-] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 16 points 11 months ago

/r/conspiracy

farquaad-point redditor! lemmitor

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