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[-] elucubra@piefed.social 123 points 3 weeks ago

What the hell does the house oversight comitee have to do with a private endeavor?

Even if there was such bias, doesn't the 1st amendment cover it, as it does Fox, for example?

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 weeks ago

forgot about Epstein yet?

[-] dan1101@lemmy.world 113 points 3 weeks ago

There is nothing to investigate, Wikipedia is a private organization and if it has a bias it is none of the government's business.

The party of "small government?" "Don't tread on me?" What the hell happened, Republicans?

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 3 weeks ago

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

Conservatives only care about small government when they are the ones being oppressed by the federal government. Like when Congress passed laws banning slavery.

But they care about federal laws being forced onto states when they are the ones doing the oppressing. Like when they passed the Fugitive Slave Act.

They don't care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

You forgot the scare quotes around "oppressed."

They don’t care about their hypocrisy and, if anything, makes them want to do it more.

Hypocrisy is a feature because it serves as a demonstration of their power and impunity. The message is "of course we're being blatantly hypocritical; what are you gonna do about it, peasant?"

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

In Hungary we have a saying: "The problem isn't what he did, but that he was busted doing it." since the Gábor Kaleta and József Szájer cases, and the Hungarian PragerU clone Axióma kind of implied this, essentially saying "leftist hypocrisy proves that the left's views are unfeasible, rightist hypocrisy proves that people on the right are humans first and foremost".

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sorry, but that's all permanent political -isms. To find -isms which are not centered around that proposition, you have to leave politics and look for various ephemeral ideas, which only become popular in response to disturbances.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 3 weeks ago

Facism happened. Governement run by Captialists.

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 weeks ago

pretty much predicted by Jack London in The Iron Heel in 1908 but people have been saying it longer than that.

[-] Eldritch@piefed.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yep. The United States was one of the bigest inspirations for Nazi Germany. It goes back to the countries founding unfortunately.

They only ever cared about white supremacy. All that other stuff was bullshit.

[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That’s only when it’s private companies they like.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 weeks ago

Every time I see a Don't tread on me flag, 50/50 it's also flown side by side with a thin blue line flag. Makes me cringe

[-] db2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

That was always an obvious lie.

[-] kikutwo@lemmy.world 56 points 3 weeks ago

I'd say when open source seems organized against you, you might be the problem.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 27 points 3 weeks ago

Reality has a non-frothing-at-the-mouth-oblivious-cult-member bias to it

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

But that really is a bias too. Everything has a bias relative to most existing points of view. That's why the "free speech" thing was invented, because when your world is larger than one isolated village or even one isolated, even if moving, royal court, then you can't make everyone think the same subjectively correct way. Free speech was a way for nations to survive modernization. There are more dimensions to the world than any single person understands enough to not be what you said. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is an idiot in something and would want to shut everyone up in that dimension.

Not only it's a right first and foremost of those you disagree with, though, but it also can't ever be based on good will. It can only be based on inability to break by force. Like any other institution.

I think many bad things in our reality are due to reliance on good will having been covertly put into many key places of the mechanisms.

[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 42 points 3 weeks ago

Good thing I downloaded it then because it's probably going to be blocked in the US next.

[-] fluxion@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck you fuck you fuck you. Investigate Truth Social, Twitter, the Smithsonian, the FBI, the DOJ, the President, Congress, the DoD, the DoE, the NSA, and the Supreme Court, if you are worried about bias.

[-] iThinkDifferentThanU@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

might as well say hunt down and take out

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, truth and reality have a bias against fascism.

[-] manxu@piefed.social 25 points 3 weeks ago

Scientific proof that we are in the dumbest timeline.

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 3 weeks ago

1st amendment mf. Wikipedia can have an article convincing people 2+2=5 if they want and it is protected speech you fascist assholes.

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

They're scared of self-governing NGOs and free fonts of knowledge.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 weeks ago

aaaand just donated another $100 to Wikipedia.

[-] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago
[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

The biases:

  1. Calls Israel's genocide a genocide.
  2. Does not state, that the "judeo-christian" god is real, and that the creation myth is real. Does not state that evolution is a "discredited theory", using arguments from the Discovery Institute as citations.
  3. States that trans people exists, citations point to actual studies, articles don't automatically redirect to an article about "narcissistic personality disorder", currently existing article on NPD does not list "gender confusion" as a potential sympthom, and no links to websites of christian "psychologists" (read: theologists with a doctorate) offering "therapy" (read: exorcism, forced prayer, forced conversion to fundamentalist christianity.
  4. Does not call liberalism a "childish psychosis".
  5. Lists actual COVID death numbers, does not call mRNA vaccines "modified RNA", does not reserve autism spectrum disorder only for boys that are extremely low functioning.
[-] thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

don’t forget climate change

[-] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 weeks ago

On July 4, 2026, nothing happened on Lafayette Square in Washington, DC, USA.

(And if something happened, its because they were viOlEnT riOToRs and we had to send in the tanks to restore LaW aNd oRdEr!!!)

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 3 weeks ago

to be fair their thing is whining about shit for a day then moving on to different shit to whine about

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 weeks ago

So what if it was?

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 10 points 3 weeks ago

"Anything that says Hitler was bad, slavery was bad, and that Donald Trump isn't literally God is biased and must be changed!"

[-] handsoffmydata@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 weeks ago

If you don’t have a [Kiwix Server] spun up, do it today!(https://kiwix.org/en/)

[-] HakunaHafada@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

This is a very neat thing, thanks for sharing!

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Organized bias is illegal? Of course in this context its simply the truth.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

Selfhosters, that is your cue if you haven't already made at least a local mirror

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

"organized bias" lmfao. Did you you mean jewish lobbies getting people fired and Israeli state flooding google ads with war propaganda?

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Oh look, it's HUAC II!

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

So the truth is organized bias?!?

[-] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Can't it just relocate to say... Switzerland

[-] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like it's back to Encarta for me, looking forward to Mind Maze

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