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Hey, have you guys heard of this lolcow:

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They say he's pretty much on the right-wing spectrum - homophobic, sexist, xenophobic.
 
Hey, have you guys heard of this lolcow:

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They say he's pretty much on the right-wing spectrum - homophobic, sexist, xenophobic.

He also voted for Obama and believes in a large welfare state. Chris is an opportunist, not any follower of a distinct ideology.
 
Might as well post this here as it sort of fits. Doubt this thread'll still be open in the morning. Have something that is conservative (as in the American political party) whilst at the same time not amounting to someone said they don't like Obama in an overly melodramatic manner.
Whilst I doubt there's enough weirdness to justify being a Lolcow. If we're simply putting stuff that could be relevant, Conservapedia (http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page) can sometimes be funny. If it wasn't obvious from the name, it bills itself as a American right wing alternative to Wikipedia. In practice this tends to amount to a small band of admins calling everything they like Christian/American/Conservative and anything they don't like Liberal/Darwinist/Atheist. This tends to lead to a rather... One sided view of things.
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The site proclaims that it supports the idea of the 'Best of the Public' being better than experts- which is to say that people not actually experts are sometimes able to offer insights which the experts would be unable to perceive. Strangely though in the site itself new contributors trying to point out flaws in articles tend to run afoul of the '90/10' rule which proclaims that 90% of a contributors contributions should be to articles and only 10% should be spent on the talk page.
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This wouldn't be an issue except that the people most supportive of the issues in bias in the site also tend to be the most prolific and thus capable of invoking the 90/10 rule with effective impunity and their debating skills tend to be fairly circular. For example here, User: Conservative defends his work in the article 'Atheism and Bestiality' by advising those who claim he's biased to read his article on 'Atheism and mass murder'.
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By the way, Conservative is one of the sites main members and apparently has a major hatred for Atheism, as in it isn't unusual to see this on the recent changes page:
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He also has a tendency to make pages in the 'humour' category each one with the majority of the content in images with lengthy captions and links to more articles in the same category with the same pictures and captions. His attempts at satire also give us 'Essay: The transitional animal the flying kitty?' which has the same gif repeated over and over for an entire page (http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_The_transitional_animal_the_flying_kitty?).

Finally, Conservapedia has a few 'side projects' of it's own, which help to illustrate the sites weirdness. For example 'Conservapedia's law' states that the amount of new conservative words and phrases doubles every century. Examples of Conservative words to prove this amount to basically anything such as 'abstract nonsense' (because you can use it to apply to the beliefs of Liberals), 'act of God' (because anything religious is automatically conservative) and 'atheistic' (no idea). Another example project is the 'Conservative Bible Project' since Conservapedia as a site tends towards the view that the Bible is the most important conservative work and is infallible as it was inspired by God. However apparently many modern Bible's contain liberal bias and thus cannot be trusted.
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To counter this the site is encouraging members to re-write passages of the Bible in a more conservative manner. Funnily enough according to the site, George Orwell was a conservative though I suspect he'd agree that the double-think required to claim the source you were re-writing infallible is pretty impressive.

In closing, Conservapedia is a site completely oblivious to the fact that it is a pot calling an entire kitchen black.
As you may have noticed, even then it pretty much amounts to a poorly ran wiki the mebers of which just so happen to be biased towards right-wing views. Doubt I'll ever mention it again, it's not really got any content that is especially lolcow-ish rather than just SJW-tier arguments from the opposite end of the political spectrum (and honestly even then with less hatred).
 
Might as well post this here as it sort of fits. Doubt this thread'll still be open in the morning. Have something that is conservative (as in the American political party) whilst at the same time not amounting to someone said they don't like Obama in an overly melodramatic manner.
Whilst I doubt there's enough weirdness to justify being a Lolcow. If we're simply putting stuff that could be relevant, Conservapedia (http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page) can sometimes be funny. If it wasn't obvious from the name, it bills itself as a American right wing alternative to Wikipedia. In practice this tends to amount to a small band of admins calling everything they like Christian/American/Conservative and anything they don't like Liberal/Darwinist/Atheist. This tends to lead to a rather... One sided view of things.
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The site proclaims that it supports the idea of the 'Best of the Public' being better than experts- which is to say that people not actually experts are sometimes able to offer insights which the experts would be unable to perceive. Strangely though in the site itself new contributors trying to point out flaws in articles tend to run afoul of the '90/10' rule which proclaims that 90% of a contributors contributions should be to articles and only 10% should be spent on the talk page.
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This wouldn't be an issue except that the people most supportive of the issues in bias in the site also tend to be the most prolific and thus capable of invoking the 90/10 rule with effective impunity and their debating skills tend to be fairly circular. For example here, User: Conservative defends his work in the article 'Atheism and Bestiality' by advising those who claim he's biased to read his article on 'Atheism and mass murder'.
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By the way, Conservative is one of the sites main members and apparently has a major hatred for Atheism, as in it isn't unusual to see this on the recent changes page:
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He also has a tendency to make pages in the 'humour' category each one with the majority of the content in images with lengthy captions and links to more articles in the same category with the same pictures and captions. His attempts at satire also give us 'Essay: The transitional animal the flying kitty?' which has the same gif repeated over and over for an entire page (http://www.conservapedia.com/Essay:_The_transitional_animal_the_flying_kitty?).

Finally, Conservapedia has a few 'side projects' of it's own, which help to illustrate the sites weirdness. For example 'Conservapedia's law' states that the amount of new conservative words and phrases doubles every century. Examples of Conservative words to prove this amount to basically anything such as 'abstract nonsense' (because you can use it to apply to the beliefs of Liberals), 'act of God' (because anything religious is automatically conservative) and 'atheistic' (no idea). Another example project is the 'Conservative Bible Project' since Conservapedia as a site tends towards the view that the Bible is the most important conservative work and is infallible as it was inspired by God. However apparently many modern Bible's contain liberal bias and thus cannot be trusted.
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To counter this the site is encouraging members to re-write passages of the Bible in a more conservative manner. Funnily enough according to the site, George Orwell was a conservative though I suspect he'd agree that the double-think required to claim the source you were re-writing infallible is pretty impressive.

In closing, Conservapedia is a site completely oblivious to the fact that it is a pot calling an entire kitchen black.
As you may have noticed, even then it pretty much amounts to a poorly ran wiki the mebers of which just so happen to be biased towards right-wing views. Doubt I'll ever mention it again, it's not really got any content that is especially lolcow-ish rather than just SJW-tier arguments from the opposite end of the political spectrum (and honestly even then with less hatred).

I would definitely consider Andrew Schlafly (owner of Conservapedia) to be a lolcow. He runs it like a dictator, and the slightest disagreement will cause a ban and accusation of being a liberal (to him, the worst insult ever). This caused a schism when Philip J. Raiment was banned, and he created another creationist right wing wiki called "A Storehouse of Knowledge." So yeah, he's enough of a nutcase that even other creationists think he's a nutcase. He also has the weirdest laugh ever.

Another hilarious one was unskewed polls. Before the 2012 election, the polls were showing Obama in the lead. Clearly, this had to be biased polling, so this guy made a website that "unskewed" the poll to be more accurate (Romney winning). Just consider it a done deal, Romney's got this one easily. That nerd, Nate Silver, i's gonna be soooo embarrassed when all that math and statistics doesn't pan out...

"Unskewing" was probably the most-used punch line in a joke the next day.

Oh, but he can explain it: http://www.thewire.com/politics/2012/11/guy-who-unskewed-polls-has-sad-sequel-unskew-vote/59199/
Barack O'Fraudo. Yeah, he was completely right the whole time with the "unskewing", but Obama Cheaatedddd!

When you find yourself stuck in a hole, keep digging.
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Straight down.
 
From what I've seen, Iconoclast and ADF aside, political beliefs haven't been the hallmark of lolcowdom, just a sidenote. And really with those two it's more the fact that they're so far to right and the left respectively that it's hilarious. Or, it's Iconoclast calling himself a TRUE and HONEST conservative while unemployed and living with his mom and brother or ADF trying to attach as many labels of oppressed people to him in order to be the most oppressed person ever.

But, yeah Andrew Schafly is a joke.
 
I sat down and had a think about this thread, and I think this thread is kind of asking for drama. Locking for now.
 
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