Something somewhat akin to conservapedia, but, y'know, the exact opposite. Over the past few weeks I've been noticing a bit of a liberal/imperialist bias in a lot of wikipedia's articles and there never seems to be much information on more leftist policies and movements. Rational Wiki seems to be okay, but thought I'd ask if there's better sources for basic information.

  • Melon [she/her,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Rational Wiki is full of angsty atheists, with the related positive and negative baggage. Their good stuff is limited to basic things like their convenient alt-right dictionary and pseudoscience debunking.

    People have already brought up wanting a site wiki so this site can absorb the last missing quality feature that raddle has

      • StalinistApologist [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I sometimes attend a rationality meetup and on zoom a few weeks ago a libertarian asked which food delivery service she should use "to be a good capitalist". I said there's no such thing as a good capitalist, that I'm a communist. Dead. Silence. Then the moderator changed the subject...

        • Vattier [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          What exactly is a "rationality meetup"?

          "Libertarian asks how to order 'the best capitalist' food, some guy replying "ACAB, I'm a communist', everyone goes silent" does sound like a good bit tho.

          • StalinistApologist [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            lesswrong.com or slatestarcodex meetups. i dont read either site. quality of the meetup really depends on who shows up and if the loudmouths ever stop dominating the conversation and the topic of the day.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    this is a good idea. could start with some of the more important wikipedia articles and rework them to debunk anticommunist lies

  • spectre [he/him]
    3·
    4 years ago

    It'd be cool to have a MediaWiki instance attached to this site. Hopefully it wouldn't get editorialized into tankie-central, though there could certainly be a section of an article for full out ML/anarcho-/MLM/post-left perspective of course.

    • wombat [none/use name]
      2·
      4 years ago

      Hopefully it wouldn’t get editorialized into tankie-central

      hopefully it would

      • spectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Im extremely ML sympathetic (I hope my comment history shows this), but canonizing some of the perspectives I see on here in any way would be insufferable.

    • vertexarray [any]
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      4 years ago

      Multiple perspectives coexisting on a wiki article is my favourite shit

      • spectre [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah they just need to be couched or isolated in a separate section instead of the main body imo

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Perspectives are one thing, but if claims rest on imperialist propaganda it's not gonna be much better than Wikipedia.

        I'll be honest, I don't have much faith in an anarchist "perspective" on Maduro, for instance.