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Baraadmirer said:
If anyone wants to read a "summary" of sperg thoughts (which has been collapsed), here you go:
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It says a lot about what a site of pathetic lunatics wikipedo is that they tolerate a raving nutjob like this while also maintaining a fake suicide hoax claiming that an obviously still alive person killed himself. Good job wikipedo.
 
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AnOminous said:
It says a lot about what a site of pathetic lunatics wikipedo is that they tolerate a raving nutjob like this while also maintaining a fake suicide hoax claiming that an obviously still alive person killed himself. Good job wikipedo.
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Given that both of these are about about users wanting to go against the consensus set by the media, and getting shot down by Wikipedian bureaucracy, it's hard not to feel at least some sympathy for Aspaa. It's clear he thinks the media is wrong to say the pandemic is over and a lot more time would need to pass before we let our guard down. But of course, the similarities end there.

If COVID really was the existential threat that the news made it out to be in 2020, I daresay Aspaa's reaction would be proportionate. But he's seemingly too autistic to download the NPC update that replaces COVID with Ukraine, so he's now one of a dwindling minority who want the pandemic covered in the same doomsaying tone that news outlets had two years ago.

Still, It's not as if he has some unique insight into the disease that the mainstream news is ignoring. His complete mental retardation around COVID is almost certainly media-induced.
 
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Save the Loli said:

This holiday is so great it even has its own flag! All those faggy holidays like Christmas and the 4th of July WISH they had their own flags too! I'm going to fly this above the Pride flag today!
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Is the flag backward? Idk art terms so I'm not sure how to describe it, but having the letters on the right side makes it seem super heavy and unbalanced. Normally if a flag is unsymmetrical they put the heavier side on the left where it would be attached to the poll making it look supported. (Sorry for explaining like a retard...)

See how the writings are on the right giving extra weight to that side?
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If a flag is unsymmetrical it looks better to put the busier side on the left. I can't think of a nation that breaks this rule.
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FILTH Tourist said:
Is the flag backward? Idk art terms so I'm not sure how to describe it, but having the letters on the right side makes it seem super heavy and unbalanced. Normally if a flag is unsymmetrical they put the heavier side on the left where it would be attached to the poll making it look supported. (Sorry for explaining like a retard...)
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FILTH Tourist said:
If a flag is unsymmetrical it looks better to put the busier side on the left. I can't think of a nation that breaks this rule.
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Not to be that guy, but Vatican City is a notable exception to this rule. (And it is a rule most flags follow, but you did say you couldn't think of a single one that didn't.)

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One could argue that Sri Lanka kinda breaks it.

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Artsakh definitely breaks it, but has limited international recognition.

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How many other Wikipedia admins are also admins on RationalWiki? Obviously there was shit like Louwrong and David Gerard (a sexual pervert) back in the day but it seems like there must be more of a crossover now given how Wikipedia is almost identical to RationalWiki whenever it deals with anything even remotely partisan.
 
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On a whim, I decided to check out the wiki page for Rhys McKinnon, an MTF trans lolcow who became infamous for competing in women's bicycling events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Ivy
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/dr-ra...onica-mckinnon-foxy-moxy-sportisaright.49422/

Keep in mind that his real name is Rhys McKinnon. He trooned out in 2012 and changed his name to Rachel McKinnon, and then in Dec 2019 he changed his name again to Veronica Ivy. He didn't give a reason for the latest change, but most posters in his KF thread believe it was to try and bury bad press about himself after getting into a lot of embarrassing controversies and Twitter slap fights in 2019.
Wikipedia, of course, is more than happy to carry water for troons, even if it's to cover up their bad behavior. Notice how there isn't a single mention of his birth name in his wiki article, and they also moved the page from "Rachel McKinnon" to "Veronica Ivy" less than a month after he changed his name.

Someone asked about this in the talk page:
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Good point! Rachel Dolezal legally changed her name in 2016 to Nkechi Amare Diallo, probably in part to avoid her past controversies, but Wikipedia never moved her page over to her new name. Some furry-sounding editor even admits that Wikipedia has no internal consistency and that LGBTQ articles get special treatment. :story: And I have no doubt he would say it's a good thing, too.

God, I'm so tired of people bending over backwards to accommodate troons. It's so common, and even troons who've committed violent crimes or have creeped on women/children have no problem changing their names to bury their past. Very frustrating.
 
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Temperance XIV said:
On a whim, I decided to check out the wiki page for Rhys McKinnon, an MTF trans lolcow who became infamous for competing in women's bicycling events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Ivy
https://kiwifarms.net/threads/dr-ra...onica-mckinnon-foxy-moxy-sportisaright.49422/

Keep in mind that his real name is Rhys McKinnon. He trooned out in 2012 and changed his name to Rachel McKinnon, and then in Dec 2019 he changed his name again to Veronica Ivy. He didn't give a reason for the latest change, but most posters in his KF thread believe it was to try and bury bad press about himself after getting into a lot of embarrassing controversies and Twitter slap fights in 2019.
Wikipedia, of course, is more than happy to carry water for troons, even if it's to cover up their bad behavior. Notice how there isn't a single mention of his birth name in his wiki article, and they also moved the page from "Rachel McKinnon" to "Veronica Ivy" less than a month after he changed his name.

Someone asked about this in the talk page:
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Good point! Rachel Dolezal legally changed her name in 2016 to Nkechi Amare Diallo, probably in part to avoid her past controversies, but Wikipedia never moved her page over to her new name. Some furry-sounding editor even admits that Wikipedia has no internal consistency and that LGBTQ articles get special treatment. :story: And I have no doubt he would say it's a good thing, too.

God, I'm so tired of people bending over backwards to accommodate troons. It's so common, and even troons who've committed violent crimes or have creeped on women/children have no problem changing their names to bury their past. Very frustrating.
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Reminder that pronouns, even those of fictional people, are now more important than the deceased.
 
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Temperance XIV said:
God, I'm so tired of people bending over backwards to accommodate troons. It's so common, and even troons who've committed violent crimes or have creeped on women/children have no problem changing their names to bury their past. Very frustrating.
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It's almost like if anyone says anything good about a troon you should just ignore it because it's fake bullshit just to push an agenda. And if anyone is wailing about "deadnames" it is because they are upset at their status as a registered sex offender.
 
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Kiwi & Cow said:
Has that been posted here before? I hope not.
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All the 'Cultural Marxism' term was was a sort of short hand term for Gramscian schools of thought. And like it shows, the older (more honest) Wikipedia admitted it was a tendency of some Marxist thinkers. None of the people who even used the term exactly agreed with each other about the definition; really it is strongly associated with paleoconservative thinkers of the 1990s, not neo nazis.

The same hobbyhorse wikipedia editors who transformed it into a 'conspiracy theory' are the same ones who now pretend that the Frankfurt School was some kind of fringe group; no, The Authoritarian Personality, their 'school's most famous work, was highly influential in universities and academia.
 
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