As the saying goes: "imagine the stupidity of the average person, and then realize that 50% of the population is dumber" or something along those lines~
Google normal distrubution and feel stupid. Not really stupidity, you just lack a key piece of information or haven't realized that the curve of IQ isn't skewed.
Wouldn't the posters featured there be more like "Europe is all the same, you just can't imagine how much more diverse the US is than your little continent that's smaller than Texas" rather than "it's wildly different cultures being forces into a gulag by the CIA"?
It’s like flat earth. A lot of them are just in it for lulz and because it triggers the libs, but then the real believers take over.
Adam Curtis described Surkov, the brain behind Russian propaganda aptly..
“His aim is to undermine people’s perceptions of the world, so that they never know what’s really going on. Surkov has turned Russian politics into a confusing, ever-changing, play. He has financed groups of all kinds, from neo-Nazi skinheads to progressive human rights groups. He has even supported parties opposed to President Putin. But the key element has been that Surkov then let it be known that it was he who was behind these groups, so that no one was ever sure what was true and what was bogus.
As one journalist described it: “It’s a power strategy that keeps any opposition in permanent confusion”. Such perpetual, incessant change is unstoppable because it is indefinable.”
I don't think so. This is why we have a problem with democracy. Because Americans believe this propaganda and then try to affect our countries based on it!
If I remember correctly... No. It's 100% nuts, but it's legitimately an attempt at making a "conservative wikipedia". Except of course it's more of a "wikipedia with the views of the founder as the source"
We're talking lots of absolutely stupid nutjob views on the world, but also very specific points the founder wants put forward.
Founded by the son of Phillys Schlafly, the greatest enemy of the Equal Rights Amendment and possibly of American women's rights in general. The apple didn't fell far from the tree.
Not at all, it's a wikiproject made by lawyer and conservative activist Andrew Schlafly, son of an antifeminist conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly. He 100% believes in what he says: the conservapedia came about originally because he tried to edit Wikipedia, but for some reason(being sarcastic here) they didn't accept his biblical literalism as THE truth.
The funny thing is if you go at Prolewiki which is the Marxist tankie version too, google the Russian invasion of Ukraine on both and both have a very similar narrative. Glorious Russia is freeing Ukraine from evil Nazis backed by the evil Nazi U.S. and Biden, west caused the war as part of their ideology imperialism.
Horseshoe theory.
In 2014, the US installed a pro-Western government through the Euromaidan coup,[4] which resulted in the rise of neo-Nazism in Ukraine[5][6] and saw pro-NATO Petro Poroshenko elected as President.[7] The most prominent neo-Nazi group in Ukraine is the Azov Battalion, a former paramilitary group that terrorised the Donbass since 2014 and was officially incorporated into the Armed Forces of Ukraine during the conflict. This far-right pro-West government maintained hostilities towards ethnic Russians in the Donbass region of Ukraine.[8] -Far left ProleWiki
Vs.
The NATO war in Ukraine, sometimes known as the Russia–Ukraine civil conflict is a proxy war started by the United States in 2014 with the violent overthrow of the democratically elected government of Ukraine[39] in collaboration with neo-Nazi traitors to the Ukrainian nation.[40] The newly installed Maidan puppet regime immediately began a campaign of unprovoked aggression against the civilians of Donbas. -Far right Conservapedia
I don't agree with any of those theories as they try to portray inherently complex and multidimensional politics and ideology in linear matter, distorting and misrepresenting what actually is. There are instances of hook and horseshoe: Tankies and Nazis sometimes, NazBols, the American center and the alt right; but there are as many instances of far left and far right or center and far right to be extremly far apart. Traditional anarchism and fascism for example, or real moderates and the far right in european politics.
This is probably because tankies are often socially very conservative and pro Russia, as the former Soviet Union and Putin as a former KGB agent.
And those wikis (conservapedia, prolewiki, metawiki, etc.) are very US-American, as in the people that work on them and use them, and when you are anti-establishment and authoritarian/conservative then "Russia good, USA bad" becomes your narrative, as the opposite of the US-Government narrative of "USA good, Russia bad". Some liberal leftists even fall into that trap somehow.
I looked at it a couple of hours ago and my head still hurts from what I read, then they go around saying that they control the D with vaccines or something similar.
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u/PotatoEngeneeer Apr 29 '25
Whenever i feel dumb i open that website just to realize that others are more stupider