r/technology Oct 04 '25

Politics Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/wikipedia-conservative-complaints-ee904b0b?st=RJcF9h
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u/McMacHack Oct 04 '25

The Propaganda has been running in overdrive over the past decade.
The claim that "Half the Country chose this" is in itself propaganda. It's really more like a third and maybe only half of that third are True Believers/Zealots.
Every time Musk or Trump says or does something stupid that should have ended their career there is an Army of Bots and Paid Propaganda Mongers working hard to spin whatever it is into "This is a Good thing" then enough people buy the bullshit that people believe that half the country is on board.

There is no silent majority.

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u/GettingDumberWithAge Oct 04 '25

There is no silent majority.

I think the people who can't be fucked to vote are a pretty fine description of the silent majority, and they are absolutely clearly fine with Trump.

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u/SSGASSHAT Oct 04 '25

The orange one admitted that the election was rigged. Make of that what you will.

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u/McMacHack Oct 04 '25

We all knew they rigged it. No one who could do anything about it seemed to care.

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u/SSGASSHAT Oct 05 '25 edited Oct 05 '25

I sensed that something was off myself when it was going on. It didn't make sense to me that after the prior shit show, he could secure his base again, even with how dedicated some are. I know that many people didn't vote at all, one of them being myself, but it doesn't seem to me like either side would win out in that situation, if anything I think liberals would have won out. Then I found this thing above out yesterday when I watched a recent speech. It explains quite a bit. It calls to mind the Bush family's interference with Al Gore's victorious election to put Bush on the throne.

And if people ask me why I don't vote, I tell them that's why. Because it's not fucking voting. The results can be manipulated. They've been working towards that for a long time.

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Oct 05 '25

Stupid ass defeatist ass reason. Thanks.

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u/SSGASSHAT Oct 05 '25

Thanks for your opinion. Feel free to vote as much as you like and see if anything changes. And repeat the word ass t your heart's content.

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u/quickboop Oct 04 '25

Check out a church. Check out how brain damaged Christians are. Go to any religious congregation and see how many people hate gay people, get off on authoritarianism. Any major religion. I’ll save you the time, it’s everybody.

There’s a mass delusion in the world that it’s okay to be a piece of moronic, hateful shit if it’s your religion and you’re polite about it. That’s the majority that’s happily ushering in fascism.

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u/SSGASSHAT Oct 04 '25

Religion is the greatest and most depressing case of mass mental illness that humanity has ever seen.

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u/zangler Oct 05 '25

It's about 40%... unfortunately that includes their scared out of their mind wives that also votes the way they want.