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wuhan_2020_tour 5 points ago +5 / -0

Is this similar to fortifying an election?

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wuhan_2020_tour 8 points ago +8 / -0

Charlize "shockingly available" Theron has this mother beat; her adopted black son said he wasn't a boy at age 3, so naturally she started transitioning him.

Or, if you want a real rabbit hole, look into Jazz Jennings.

In 2018 there was an article covering the "debate" over whether 3 is too young. In 2021, I wonder if anyone who disagreed would be branded a transphobic extremist.

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wuhan_2020_tour 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'd say "journalist" is generous. If you find ten minutes of entitlement and hysterics entertaining, this is Tara Dublin.

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wuhan_2020_tour 4 points ago +4 / -0

It could've been funny with better delivery, and saying "funny joke" fewer times.

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wuhan_2020_tour 4 points ago +7 / -3

To be sure, he didn't actually say that. He referred to "violent extremists at home", but it's CNBC who infers he is "appearing to reference the Jan. 6 Capitol riot".

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wuhan_2020_tour 5 points ago +5 / -0

Haven't they gotten the memo? Right-wing groups are not allowed to hold protests anymore. If they do, they can be attacked at will by counter-protesters, and will be arrested if they defend themselves, and probably even if they don't. They'll be charged with made-up crimes and be called terrorists even if they just stand around and chant.

This is in contrast to left-wing protesters, who can burn down city blocks, throw bricks at cops, and loot businesses, and suffer no consequences, and be called heroes by the media.

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wuhan_2020_tour 8 points ago +8 / -0

It's been deleted and no one archived it.

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wuhan_2020_tour 22 points ago +22 / -0

They had to give the media a few months to create the perception that this was an "insurrection" and "attempted coup" rather than a few rowdy protesters getting carried away, just as they were given time to claim that Brian Sicknick was bludgeoned to death, just as they claimed Trump's followers plotted to kidnap the governor of Michigan, ... and so on for too many things to list.

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wuhan_2020_tour 1 point ago +1 / -0

There have been numerous attempts to create competitors of Wikipedia with different policies to fix these problems: Wikinfo, Citizendium, Infogalactic, Everipedia, and many many more. The problem is that Wikipedia is a natural monopoly. Few people will expend effort writing and maintaining articles for a small project that almost nobody uses.

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wuhan_2020_tour 2 points ago +2 / -0

The talk page is "semi-protected", which means that, no, fresh accounts cannot comment on the proposal. And even if one managed to, it would be immediately dismissed as a "single-purpose account".

Most Wikipedia editors who invested time and effort trying to fix the article have long since given it up as a lost cause. A dedicated mob of established administrators with endless time on their hands have blockaded even the smallest of sensible edits.

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wuhan_2020_tour 20 points ago +20 / -0

GorillaWarfare is one of Wikipedia's most aggressive propagandists. Just look at her edit history; it's all stuff like this.

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wuhan_2020_tour 23 points ago +24 / -1

This is fake news with a clickbait headline. If you scroll down, all it says is that, because his intake form says female, "This could mean that Chris will be placed in a women’s prison". But that's just them speculating, and it's not how it works. Virginia's system has policies on this, and there is almost no way they'd put him in a women's jail or prison.

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