RationalWiki - Whiny hugbox for spergs and a clusterfuck of neverending drama on a rapidly declining website.

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Emil Kirkegaard is a gay nerd and child porn defender.

How much of a gay nerd is he? Well, he wrote a 6,000 word blogpost about how he is mad that he didn't get paid by Elon Musk for being the first person to post someone else's image on Twitter. He posted someone else's image- a graph that he had no hand at all in creating- on Twitter. Then someone else posted the same image and Elon Musk reposted it. He feels he deserves money for this.
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Is the lawsuit over him being criticised for being a child porn defender?
 
Markass the Worst said:
Is the lawsuit over him being criticised for being a child porn defender?
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Kirkegaard still owes $60,000 to some English guy who he tried to sue in the English courts (a very easy venue for defamation suits, IF YOU AREN'T WELL KNOWN TO BE A PEDOPHILE) for (entirely correctly) describing him as a "pedophile", so I doubt it.
 
The greater a'tuin said:
Nice to see this agitprop shit fest not only has a thread, but is apparently on the verge of collapse. I recall a really stupid argument they made about black crime, something like "South Africa has a white population but still has high crime rates therefore blacks are not behind increased crime!!". IrrationalWiki is more like it.
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Years ago, on the RationalWiki page for "race realism", amongst the walls-of-text DEBOONKING it there was a particularly deranged argument along the lines of "Races can't be different in intelligence because intelligence is always beneficial, so according to evolution all races would be equally intelligent."

Not only is this statement theoretically insane because that's not how evolution works—it frequently settles for adequate as well as merely "different" as opposed to superior—but it's obviously, concretely not true because, well, animals are all less intelligent than humans. You might as well say that DEBOONKS evolution. It's ironically predicated on the same level of logic as the classic "If evolution is real why are there still monkeys???" It's all a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works.

RationalWiki editors should obviously know why these arguments are wrong because the website was essentially created to debunk Christian creationists and then expanded to broader subject matter, so there's literally zero excuse for this. It's all an agenda.
 
Murenu said:
Years ago, on the RationalWiki page for "race realism", amongst the walls-of-text DEBOONKING it there was a particularly deranged argument along the lines of "Races can't be different in intelligence because intelligence is always beneficial, so according to evolution all races would be equally intelligent."

Not only is this statement theoretically insane because that's not how evolution works—it frequently settles for adequate as well as merely "different" as opposed to superior—but it's obviously, concretely not true because, well, animals are all less intelligent than humans. You might as well say that DEBOONKS evolution. It's ironically predicated on the same level of logic as the classic "If evolution is real why are there still monkeys???" It's all a fundamental misunderstanding of how evolution works.

RationalWiki editors should obviously know why these arguments are wrong because the website was essentially created to debunk Christian creationists and then expanded to broader subject matter, so there's literally zero excuse for this. It's all an agenda.
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I take the attitude that African Americans are so freakishly violent because they share a lot of genetic admixture with Scots-Irish, who are historically freakishly violent, and this aided their ancestors to propagate their genes. (Everyone knows a nigger with 5 babymammas; the Appalachian peoples did this before them)
 
neger psykolog said:
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The Rational Media Foundation page is filled with a bunch of drama:
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If someone wants to do a deep dive of the wiki page above it might be worth it, I don't really have much interest in the Rational Wiki personally but there's lots of details there.
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I menaged to archive the first tweet on GhostArchive and an archived discussion on the Wayback Machine mirrored on Archive.today. Looks like ED will have to update their Rationalwiki entry.

Btw, on a off-topic sidenote, here the recent archived copy of Rationalwiki's fork SJWiki. https://web.archive.org/web/20230212101849/http://sjwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page
 
It looks like they're getting hit with another 8 lawsuits and that 2 moderators have been targeted:
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happy to see a bunch of sanctimonious shitlibs realize they can't just defame people with no evidence
 
The RW page on Emil O. W. Kirkegaard, the suspected dark lord behind the takedown effort, has been purged.

Here's an archive of what it used to say

And some of the plaintiffs:
Jonathan Anomaly
Russell T. Warne
Michael Woodley of Menie
Jonatan Pallesen
Jan te Nijenhuis
James Thompson
Noah Carl

The lawsuit by Noah Carl was voluntarily dismissed so it looks like he got what he wanted.

Also found Curtis S. Dunkel who no longer has a page either. The archive from June 1st says he has filed a lawsuit but I couldn't find it. I guess he's one of the new batch of eight.
 
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Rudolf's Friend said:
So are we seeing Total RationalWiki Death right now?
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Possible but not guaranteed.

If (and this is a huge if, IANAL) I am reading the post right the mods are pulling some corporate sleight of hand where the old LLC that currently owns RationalWiki is being dissolved + or - concurrently with the formation of a new LLC that will assume ownership. Since the defamation suit was filed in New Mexico and the old LLC's ties to that state are the only reason venue is proper there, dissolving the LLC should force the suit to be dismissed. Refiling against the LLC would make no sense since it will no longer exist and the suits against individual members would have to be refiled in appropriate venue(s). Depending on the specifics of the case this could take the form of a single lawsuit against all of them or lawsuits against individual members. Again, IANAL but my understanding is that suing them all in the same suit requires there to be more of a connection between the defendants than just allegedly defaming the same plaintiff. So if forming the new LLC goes as planned, the new LLC + the site itself should be protected in the short term.

In the longer term there are several ways this could still kill the site - the new LLC could fail if nobody joins the board for fear of being sued. Given that the Kirkegaard guy who filed the first suit has a huge chip on his shoulder, he could recruit some other plaintiff whose page was not deleted to sue and effectively nullify the benefits of forming the new LLC.

I also have a hard time believing that there is no way to either keep the old LLC alive for the purposes of the suit or hold the new LLC, which is transparently an attempt to reconstitute the old one without the legal issues, liable for posts made while the old LLC was still in existence - if an LLC can dodge potentially or certainly ruinous suits by disbanding then effectively reincorporating in a different state, it is very hard to believe that RationalWiki would be the first ones to figure this out.

The other way the site could die is if it starts settling these suits by deleting pages . . . at which point the floodgates would open, swaths of pages would be taken down to avoid litigation, and the site would be so hollowed out that the userbase would probably go away.

ETA: To be clear, the mods are most likely hosed - unless they live in a state with a strong anti SLAPP law and find a competent defense attorney so confident s/he can win on an anti SLAPP motion that s/he agrees to work on contingency, the costs of getting through a motion to dismiss alone are liable to be 4-5 figures and it seems like Kirkegaard is more interested in making them bleed than shaking them down for a settlement.
 
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