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MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs (gizmodo.com)
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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Quick question, honest question......

At what point are the right happy?

Because the left will be happy when everybody has equal rights, and a high standard of living for everyone.

So, if that's the lefts benchmark of a great society, what's the right fighting towards? Money? Power? Control?

Then what?

When is America "great again"?

Because they've been pushing that slogan since the 80s. What's the endgame here?

Because from where I'm sitting, there is no endgame. Nothing will ever make them happy. Nothing will ever be good enough. So what the fuck is the point?

[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

They can’t be happy. The whole platform is to take the country back to before all of society started conspiring against the poor republican voter.

The big lie is that the dog can never catch the car because it isn’t trans people or immigrants or minorities that are oppressing republicans. It’s their politicians, the corruption that is ingrained into the system, and the rich that fight to keep the system rigged that are oppressing them and clearly republicans will never fix that

[-] spirinolas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Pretty much this. The moment they actual reach end-game they'll tear themselves apart. Fascism requires an enemy to survive. If there's none available, they'll turn inwards and cannibalize.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

The very rich will never be happy. If a billion dollars doesn’t make them happy, what the fuck will? They just want the ability to impose whatever shitty will they have upon everyone and because it will hurt a lot of people they are constantly afraid and that fear leads to them doing even more horrible things.

It’s a feedback loop that pushes them to do worse and worse things.

[-] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I don't know but I'm guessing there is a MASS GENOCIDE involved at some point.

[-] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Mass genocide? As opposed to what? Minor genocide? A genocide is a genocide, there are no adjectives to it.

[-] thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

They will never be happy.

[-] graycube@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think they are trying to go back to before they were grown up and had to deal with adult issues. They idolize their innocent childhood and some how associated that as the time when America was great. They find it really confusing that the child's perspective of that time window was flawed. They also find it confusing that different age conservatives all imagine a different time window for when life was good.

[-] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Most citizen level republicans generally believe what they want is good for people. They generally believe women aren’t capable and must be cared for. Or atleast deluded themselves into thinking to have and excuse for their lust. But either way they truly believe they are the good guys. They also believe in some instances the only way to help someone is to let them experience challenge and over come it. To them the only logical choice when presented with suffering is to over come it. Even if they have not had to suffer themselves so they don’t really understand what they are talking about. Most the time people are just stupid and don’t realize they won’t get what they want (generally the same thing as the left a happy well fed population). However there are certain more malevolence in some people at the higher levels of the movement which use the hatred and fear of the right to their own advantage.

Most of their ideas stem from fear of something and most the people in charge benefit from stocking their fears.

I know a lot of right wingers and have successfully brought a few back to reality. Most they time they are just confused.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Once they've dismantled all progress made towards equality, and they control all the resources again.

People think this is a new fight, but it's really the same one that we've been fighting forever. We just got too comfortable, and thought we couldn't lose so much progress so quickly.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

At what point are the right happy?

[-] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Also, they want streets full of Kluxers.

[-] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Honestly I wouldn't expect Kluxers and normal old world fascists to understand each other. One of them is about race, the other is usually about cultural and ideological divisions. Even if the latter use race as one excuse to murder someone en masse, it's not the core of their ideology, the core is that they should be able and need to practice to murder someone en masse. While American racists are something extremely weird.

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[-] OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fyi everyone: you can download the entirety of Wikipedia yourself from kiwix and it's only about 50gb for the whole thing, 100 with all images.

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[-] TechnoCat@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago

They're butthurt their changes to Wikipedia about Israel got removed for no citations.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

They're butthurt their changes to Wikipedia in general got removed for no citations

[-] teft@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Reality has a notable liberal bias so not surprising.

[-] rational_lib@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They're really against anything nice that can be achieved through cooperation, aren't they?

[-] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 week ago

Or education. They absolutely hate education.

[-] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

100% this. They don’t want educated people. And the news/media that does exist they want to control.

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[-] strung6387@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Republicans would be upset about Wikipedia being censored if they knew how to read.

[-] Corelli_III@midwest.social 3 points 1 week ago

downloaded a backup yesterday

everyone with sense and 160GB should do the same

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

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

[-] Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

already have it all downloaded

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"we've come to realize that people knowing stuff is a real problem for our agenda."

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

Why not? Fascists hate nothing more than truth.

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Our ace in the hole is history, we know already how this story ends. Stop letting them turn the damn pages.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They're gonna try to break everything so AI looks competent, because they can't make AI competent...

[-] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 weeks ago

This has nothing to do with AI and everything to do with their fascist attempts to rewrite history

[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

The poor getting knowledge for free?! This is America!!!

[-] WhatYouNeed@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

MAGA = Make Americans Gormless Assholes

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Ever since Covid19 I heard people saying "Wikipedia is not objective". Initially, a hard argument to go against, but my ultimate answer is this:
Encyclopedia Britannica is not objective either. No *pedia is, online or otherwise. Nothing is. And still Wikipedia is one of the best options out there, not lastly because of how it's organised. [That said, it does have - usually right-wing - strong bias in places, esp. non-English content which would need more eyes.]

I'm not surprised this is now mainstream MAGA speak.

I just hope Wikipedia is still international enough so that its content is ultimately out of the US government's reach.

They already have Conservapedia (click and weep), let them enjoy and contribute to it!

[-] Nico_198X@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

why doesn't wikipedia just move out of the US?

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Anyone know where to get a pre-inauguration copy of the Wikipedia corpus? I wanna pull that down onto my NAS, but didn’t think to do it at the time.

[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Chuck https://download.kiwix.org/zim/wikipedia/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2025-08.zim.torrent in the Wayback machine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download has a full list of various sources. Not all links include historical archives, though

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