Everyone knows Wikipedia is a tool of the Left. - It scrubbed JD Vance's medals from his prior service with the Marine Corps
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🤢 These people are sick! 🤮
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I think it became a tool of the left. There apparently was some altruism at the beginnings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nupedia Sad. One day there's hope for something with the unsoiled truth for us all.
twstalker - https://twstalker.com/richardgrenell/status/1822960206881620062
So unfair! 😤
Has he spoken at all about his military service. It seems like his book glossed over everything but boot camp, or maybe I just forgot. Did he see combat?
IIRC, 6 months in Iraq as a USMC correspondent. So in theatre, and potentially receiving fire, but not directly in a combat unit other than attached to one for reporting purposes.
You guys realize that Wikipedia is open source, right? That the users are the ones making the edits? That anyone can edit it? Right?
Because I keep seeing comments like this that makes me think you guys have no idea how Wikipedia works. It's also the reason why everyone should take everything on Wikipedia with a grain of salt, not merely the things you don't agree with.
Scroll down to the bottom of that Wikipedia entry and it will have a blue bar with "last edited by". Click on that, read through it until you find the reason why someone edited information out. If you think they were wrong, edit it yourself.
I have to say that it's stuff like this that makes me wonder sometimes about how people view information sources, in general. It's like some knee jerk reaction that people have whenever reading something they don't like. They just go straight to "The left is controlling everything! Everyone is against us!"
It just reeks of victimhood mentality.
It's open source information. YOU have just as much ability to edit that page as anyone from the left does. Also, it doesn't inspire much confidence that people don't seem to understand how Wikipedia works in the first place. Just sayin'.
How many times has that happened to you and on which posts? I'd like to see some examples.
So none, then.
It would be just as easy for liberals to accuse Wikipedia of the exact same thing.
If you think it's something they do and they do it often, it would be easy to provide examples.
First, I was talking about Wikipedia only. I never brought up MSM or Google or CNN and the only reason you're doing so is to muddy the message. And what the hell does it matter where I was during covid?
Second, it's not the sign of a rational being to view things in such concrete black and white. You're trying to argue that because Wikipedia (among others) are not 100% perfect it means that what you claim about them (they're run by leftists/favor libs/whatever) is true. That's not how reality works.
Third, you still haven't posted anything that supports your claims. Over six hours since this conversation and still nothing. It would be much faster, easier, and actually effective if you would just post whatever you can to support your claims. But you won't, because you can't, because you didn't have anything that pointed to your claims other than what you just felt like believing. And you'll continue to waste time and effort going around in circles arguing because you're just not emotionally capable of accepting you might be wrong about something. YOU are the one wasting time here.
Who are "they"? The people who edited his page? As in, basically anyone, which was my entire point to begin with?
Or if that is not who you were talking about, who are "they"?
I just wanted to take this opportunity to clarify why I made these posts here.
It's because of exactly what u/24Tango mentioned here. What is going on with some of these Wikipedia entries.
First, many here really do seem clueless on how Wikipedia works. They have no idea that they can edit pages. Why does this matter? Because we need to have everyone we can making edits as needed. Just look at the edit history of Robert Malone's page as mentioned and you will see why that is important.
Second, it's not just that people need to make edits, but they need to make sure those edits are backed up with sources. This is why I ask people for evidence of things they claim and I point out huge, gaping holes in their logic. Because, sadly, not everyone is good at making good arguments. And that's what we need to be doing.
So we can either throw out the victim card and whine that Wikipedia likes liberals more than us, or we can remove our thumbs from our asses by learning about what we're talking about and learning how to make solid arguments and then actually doing it.
But some people must just like how it feels to have their thumbs up their ass, because they fight like hell to iustify doing it. 🤷♀️