Conservapedia: The Encyclopedia for Conspiracy Theorists

[@jackrutledgegoembel5896]

They list Suicide Squad as one of the greatest Conservative films because it portrays Harley Quinn as wanting to be a housewife. No fucking joke.

[@S.D.323]

well she may be a homicidal lunatic but at least she wants to submit to her husband (presumably Joker)

[@Laurabeck329]

You mean a lesbian with a PhD in pschology who escaped an abusive relationship is their perfect tradwife? WHat?

[@extraterrestrial8888]

​@@Laurabeck329shit i know a lot of perfect tradwives then. The only issue is they're in high school and have drag personas.

[@AnmEEE-e6g]

Exactly 💯

[@dimetrodon2250]

She was groomed, abused, and tortured to be that way.

[@brettd2308]

So Conservapedia is bonkers, but funnily enough, the parts about the Star Wars Original Trilogy being anti-Vietnam War and the celebration scene being based on Triumph of the Will are probably the most accurate things on that site. George Lucas has confirmed both of those things himself.

[@artificialgravitas8954]

At least the Vietnam part was a good thing... but that last bit is creepy [assuming it is so]

[@brettd2308]

@@artificialgravitas8954 Well, Triumph of the Will is still studied in film classes for its cinematography, and the impact that propaganda has on film technique is a wider discussion in film. Lucas was born in 44, and said that when he was growing up studying film, Leni Riefenstahl's work had the most stunning cinematography he'd ever seen, despite its propaganda content. So he copied a lot of the Riefenstahl's framing when he was trying to get the same impact - many scenes featuring the Empire and Vader are directly lifted from scenes in Riefenstahl's Nazi propaganda films. I think the rebels getting the celebration scene instead was supposed to be an ironic subversion, or maybe he just liked the scene so much he stole its framing anyway.

[@ashleyneku5432]

@@artificialgravitas8954 Lucas was a film student. If you've ever been in a film class, you study propaganda, and whether or not you like it, Triumph was one of, if not the most successful propaganda films of all time, made on a limited budget for a sole purpose, which it achieved. Lucas and many other directors have often based works on insidious, dastardly films and pieces, because it's what they studied. Nobody analyzes the content of Triumph, just the cinematography, use of props, framing and editing.

[@blindeye-phone2068]

Is that really a bad thing though?? Conservatives act like showing both sides of a war is terrible.

[@chavaspada]

Brett DuVale and the university degrees thing was true as well...

[@SoSoKayla]

Conservapedia, free from reality bias.

[@robertnett9793]

Yup. Because those pesky facts are always in the way...

[@amehak1922]

Reality has a well known liberal bias

[@gigilaco]

This applies to both left and right. Failing to point out the other side makes this comment ironic.

[@ragglerock2682]

​@@gigilacodo you see a progressivepedia pinning all the world's problems on white Christians and cultural Hitlerists?

[@DanialTarki]

⁠@@amehak1922Not really. See also the comment right above this one.

[@sabrinamcclain162]

Wait, they compare the rebels from Star Wars to the Nazis because of the award ceremony when the bad guys are literally called storm troopers?

[@artificialgravitas8954]

And are an Empire... who want to last a thousand years... and have those helmets... and work minorities to death in camps

[@Thedisastermaster9]

Yeah, the empire always seemed to be based on the Nazis.

[@ApeX-pj4mq]

The creators even admitted that it was based on the third reich

[@Code_Dee]

Not only is the Empire heavily influenced by Nazis, but the entire movie series was a condemnation of the Vietnam war. Try to explain that to conservative fans of Star wars; that yes the Empire are Nazis, but the Empire is also the American military industrial complex. Then watch the brain meltdown.

[@Lycaon1765]

I think Lucas was just inspired by nazi propaganda filming techniques in general.

[@FrankieW00FR]

Okay so... Are you sure this wasn't made by the Onion?

[@dylandubeau]

I am not sure.

[@laurenf.7922]

I am going to be honest, so many people believe it. So I don't think anyone knows

[@RodrigoSilvaRocha]

Or The Babylon Bee

[@MissAnn999]

More like made by someone whose mother founded the Eagle Forum, which makes the John Birch Society look centrist.

[@DarthNicky]

It wasn't. Andrew Schlafy is the son of Phyllis Schlafy

[@Crick1952]

About the Star Wars part. The entire original trilogy IS anti-Vietnam war though. George intended the original Star Wars as a kind of loose sequel to Apocalypse Now (which he wrote) in which the US becomes even more imperialistic as time progresses. I got all this in his biography.

[@brettd2308]

Wow, TIL George Lucas wrote the early drafts of Apocalypse Now. I just spent a good while reading up on his early plans for directing the movie, until he passed it off to Coppola.

[@Crick1952]

@@brettd2308 Absolutely incredible right? If you're interested in this stuff I would highly recommend reading "George Lucas: A Life" by Brian Jay Jones. The biography details his life from birth to him selling Lucasfilm to Disney and it blew my mind learning about all the things George worked on and influenced in his life. I'm not really exaggerating when I say he built most of the second half of the 20th century and set the foundation for the 21st.

[@MCDreng]

Yeah the entire Star Wars part seemed pretty correct to me, surprisingly for Conservapedia.

[@VinVonVoom]

​@@brettd2308George Lucas was also assistant editor on The Godfather.

[@TonySamedi]

Black Panther on the greatest conservative movies list....I'm....WAT?

[@dylandubeau]

From their entry... " The Black Panther recognizes both the importance of helping those in need, as well as not going beyond one's governmental authority. Though there are plenty of pagan religious references, the film appeals in some ways to a general sense of Christian morality and governmental justice, and it never diverts into political correctness about black supremacism."

[@TonySamedi]

@@dylandubeau Ya know, most of the site I'm sure is 100% "This is what these people actually believe" but that one entry I desperately want to be trolling. "Not going beyond ones governmental authority" ... because they're kings and have no authority that can tell them not to do that? Maybe I'm just in shock they're not whining about the Colonizer line like it seemed most who'd be likely to endorse the website did when the movie came out.

[@brunor.1127]

WAKANDA IS A ETNO ESTATE THAT HAS ISOLATED ITSELF FROM THE WORLD WITH WALLS AND POWER FIELDS IT HAS AN ARCHAIC GOVERNAMENT SYSTEM AND EXPLORES ITS NATURAL RESOURCES WITH CARING ABOUT THE FUTURE< ITS BASICALLY DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTERS WET DREAM that wasn't hard

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

I mean, NPC is right, Wakanda is a literal ethnostate, and a highly isolationist monarchy as well. I am not suprised that right-wing nutjobs like it.

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

Huh? I seriously have no idea what you are saying. English is not my native language, so if you want to have a debate about... whatever it is you just said, it would be great if you could repeat it a bit more clearly.

[@fl00fydragon]

PLEASE READ THIS TO PROTECT YOUR SANITY! DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT pause the video to read the entirety of the madness that's contained

[@clonecamando9]

I did and I doubled over laughing. I think i pulled something while doing so tbh.

[@fl00fydragon]

@@clonecamando9 see, it physically harmed you.

[@clonecamando9]

@@fl00fydragon oh my god it did!

[@paddleduck5328]

Floofy 😆 thanks for the warning

[@comradecrustacean2842]

It HAS to be satire. They listed Two Trucks by Lemon Demon as one of the greatest conservative songs of all time.

[@M4t_P4tGT]

This is the funniest shit I’ve heard all day this can’t be real

[@slimestudios9748]

the FNAF 2 song is listed there aswell -- supposedly it's about "the liberal agenda to permit abortion"

[@elenahaya1195]

I think It started seriously,but people started trolling with time

[@forestbr34th54]

its really funny too because conservative doesnt strictly imply american. there are conservatives everywhere. so the wikipedia isnt even comprehensive on its own topic

[@radiatorbacon5239]

I am planning to be a criminalist and criminal justice is almost as important as forensic science and criminology when it comes to being qualified for any criminal justice job. The only reason people don't get these jobs/don't use their degrees is because they realize that it is nothing like tv, and that you can't be Dexter without devoting your life to blood splatter analysis and competing with all of the other blood spatter analysts.

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

That sounds a lot more fun, I think.

[@LunaHarp91]

It's so funny how hypocrites always claim to be against hypocrisy.

[@gnupfo]

That‘s really hypocritical of them.

[@truefanforum3273]

Luna Harp I guess something is only wrong when someone ELSE does it. When the hypocrite does it, they come up with all kinds of convoluted reasons why it is okay. It's basically Olympic level mental gymnastics.

[@remielpollard787]

the concept of irony is beyond the reach of most single brain-celled organisms

[@gur262]

So Donald Trump has values afterall, mostly Hollywood values

[@zeyode]

Everyone's a hypocrite when it comes to something

[@colinsmith929]

Conservapedias original intent is 100% real. It's been around since the Bush years. Now I don't know if every article is written by true believers but it doesn't really matter if the people consuming it are true believers.

[@Gloomdrake]

I imagine there's no real quality control

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

Maybe I'm doing what they do about video games, but looking into their mindset to the Star wars series, I think its pretty clear that they honestly love the idea of a totalitarian dictatorship based on their values and just can't stand they don't get to dictate and call the shots on what is considered right and wrong anymore without opposition. While video games and movies don't tell alot about a person, their opinions and views on them, especially particular ones, are telling. Also I never thought I would see the day where the Star Wars ending music is played with a Nazi gathering.

[@hedgehog3180]

I feel like it's telling how quickly they identified the Empire as the US and how much that offended them.

[@DanuProductions]

"Wikipedia is to biased" HoW tO sAvE yOuRsElF fRoM hOmOsExUaLiTy

[@Electro_Katarina]

I want to see them try to "cure" me.

[@myarmsrgone]

I'm incurable

[@isaiahscobel]

Put the fries in the bag bro it’s literally a sin

[@myarmsrgone]

@@isaiahscobel we're all sinners

[@KindlyKalen]

@@isaiahscobelwe are all sinners here 😏😏

[@charlesjoseph9842]

Speaking of the whole "liberal movie" thing, my super conservative mother won't let me watch Wall E because its apparently "leftist propaganda made to indoctrinate kids into believing in global warming." She literally freaks out and says that there's no way I'm ever going to watch that movie every time it even briefly comes up in conversation. I'm seriously considering finding a way to watch it behind her back to see what the big deal is. Mind you, I'm SEVENTEEN FREAKING YEARS OLD and I'm going to have to be super sneaky about watching this children's movie if I decide I want to see it.

[@waltergrimminger6191]

Charlie Jay - You obviously have access to the internet. _Wall E_ is available on the internet.

[@epictoast]

have you watched it yet

[@LuluFluffs]

It's been 5 years we must know your thoughts on Wall-E

[@arandomhashbrown3756]

Have you watched Wall-E?

[@abrissimon914]

How was Wall-e?

[@Glossynews]

It's not satire. It's delusion. It's a sickness. There are no "edit' pages. It's disgusting.

[@Werezilla]

I feel all articles on conservapedia should conclude the following quote "And I based that on absolutely nothing."

[@coreylineberry8557]

Technically (and not to defend them,) the statements about the original trilogy of Star Wars being anti-Vietnam and the Triumph of the Will thing are true... Lucas actually said them.

[@stefansevcik1877]

OK, give us explanation what so called "LGBT" abstract attributes spread in other encyclopedias are in your opinion based on and how scientifically can be resolved whether a person belongs to those categories or not. Are they based on anything else than "feelings", perhaps similar to those you are using in your post "I feel"? As one saying claims, feelings can be deceiving.

[@apatheticobserver5290]

@@stefansevcik1877 What the actual flying fuck are you talking about? Where did that come from? You aren't making a point, if anything you're just rambling with bits of unnecessary snark thrown in.

[@stefansevcik1877]

@@apatheticobserver5290 Can you put into quotation marks what you have trouble to understand? Otherwise it is not possible to get your point. My entry was about consistency of Werezilla's attitudes: he claimed "I feel all articles on conservapedia should conclude the following quote "And I based that on absolutely nothing" so I challenged him: "OK, give us explanation what so called "LGBT" abstract attributes spread in other encyclopedias are in your opinion based on and how scientifically can be resolved whether a person belongs to those categories or not. Are they based on anything else than "feelings", perhaps similar to those you are using in your post "I feel"?"

[@Boppercat]

@@stefansevcik1877you do know the op was talking about the vast majority of entries, like counterpoints to evolution, that’s definitely wrong! It was a general statement, Wikipedia is not free from scrutiny either.

[@rasmusdamkjr5270]

Basically all of Conservapedia: "That's a nice argument, why don't you back it up with a source?" "My source is that I made it the fuck up."

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

Prolepedia too. Prolepedia is basically Conservapedia but for tankies which also dabble in outright lies and conspiracy theories.

[@rasmusdamkjr5270]

@therealspeedwagon1451 Never heard of Prolepedia until now.

[@LikeTheBuffalo]

That was some serious effort put into those fake degrees. Kudos for going the full nine yards.

[@dylandubeau]

Haha thanks. They were fun to write. Pause on puppetry if you like.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

@@dylandubeau Was the last one in Aurebesh? What did it say?

[@puellanivis]

@@Dorian_sapiens Yes, it was Aurebesh, but with a weird font that flipped horizontally capitalized letters. (Aurebesh as designed has no distinction of case.) The title of the major was Environmental Science, and had his name in all caps. I didn’t read any of the other content of the degree though.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

@@puellanivis Awesome, thank you!

[@plasticiconoclastic]

​@@dylandubeau I like that the "Golf Course Management" degree comes from Trump University.

[@nathanlevesque7812]

Videogames as art is just controversial to elitists who believe that only "fine" art counts. I'll give you three guesses as to whether or not that translates to 'a bunch of a stupid sophistry' or 'an academic circle jerk' (hint: it's both). Stories are art. Music is art. Animation is art. Videogames are capable of being all three at the same fucking time. Interactivity does not change this. Dancing is also art and guess what? It's how you interact with music.

[@WoohooliganComedy]

I forget where I heard the quote (paraphrased), "literature is high art - illustration is high art - literature combined with illustration is only fit for children and the mentally deficient". It was a criticism of the same academic circle-jerk people saying that comic books aren't "art".

[@mydiamonds8912]

I love playing the violent game of Cities:Skylines

[@priestofronaldalt]

While not violent it does encourage getting an urban planning degree

[@abrissimon914]

​@@priestofronaldalt Also the game is made by Finnish developpers so it is peak leftist propaganda

[@rainbowlack]

Nothing brings on murderous rampages quite like uhhhhh Google Solitaire

[@myarmsrgone]

I love playing the excessively gory and r rated shantae: half genie hero

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

And i love playing the violent game of Animal crossing

[@d3athmak3r3]

Not a single citation in the article on feminism for the first three paragraphs.

[@nowyuosee109]

And they also externally linked to Paul J. Watson and Steven Crowder. That should tell you all you need to know about the site.

[@fnln3011]

Baking as a woman's activity is about as arbitrary gendered as a thing can get. Like what about baked goods is inherently feminine?

[@WoohooliganComedy]

It falls in that broad category of genderless things that people weirdly think are gendered, like when Vanity Fair snarked at Clinton and told her to take up knitting and people complained that it was sexist. But in the same sentence they recommended "improv comedy" as a possible hobby, which is ironic because comedy is one of the laundry list of bizarre things that sexists have historically said women couldn't do well, along with cooking, or advertising (Mad Men), or having any kind of job at all. 🙄

[@M4t_P4tGT]

Overthought it and now cooking and baking are a butch/femme lesbian couple

[@Attaxalotl]

Baking is an activity for anyone who wants fresh baked goods.

[@jacksonvoet8312]

Honestly, yeah. Why is that stereotypically feminine? I like cooking, and I’m perfectly confident in my identity as a male. Then again, these jokebags think that women belong in the kitchen, so I guess it tracks.

[@Commager88]

I love how "American Psycho" is a "Patriotic Title." You shouldn't have to be told its a critique if the title includes the word, Psycho.

[@WoohooliganComedy]

Although they did seem pretty psyched about seeing "American Carnage". 😛

[@amehak1922]

The website is pretty much a whinefest about "liberal bias"

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

And is trapped in a conservative bias echochamber

[@quesocoatl21]

Social Justice is a whine fest about "white racism/privilege/whatever" the difference is that liberals actually exist.

[@quesocoatl21]

@Snoi Med I said that white privilege/whatever doesn't exist. It was a response to Ameha. "...did you try to validate this site's crazy illogical rants by comparing it to SJW's crazy illogical rants?" No attempt to validate anything just blasting and knocking liberal egos down to size by reminding them that they aren't particularly rational or immune to stupidity and craziness.

[@quesocoatl21]

@OneFourFive It's called tit for tat response and it works a hell of a lot better than ignoring them.

[@jjju3]

@@quesocoatl21 lmao this bih doesn't know enough about society and classism to know about white privilege This is what we mean when we say conservative echo chamber, do some proper research hun.

[@xWood4000]

I would really like it to be a joke but sadly it seems like a lot of articles are serious.

[@artificialgravitas8954]

DEUS VULT YOUR EXECUTION FOR NOT BELIEVING THE DIRECT DIVINATIONS OF THE LORD'S MOST FAITHFUL SERVANT ALIVE ;)

[@xWood4000]

@@artificialgravitas8954 I SHALL BE PUNISHED FOR MY UNBELIEF ;)

[@bigburd875]

"When facts offend me, they are no longer facts, they become propaganda." -Albert Hawking, 2018

[@spongebobsquarepants8403]

Well facts are still fact even when they're offensive

[@1grapefruit]

@@spongebobsquarepants8403 just wanted to remind you of this embarrassing comment, still a Ben Shapiro fan or did you grow out of it?

[@spongebobsquarepants8403]

@@1grapefruit damn, I don't even remember writing this. But do let me explain myself: - I do still believe that, wether or not they hurt your feelings or offend you, facts are still objectively facts. - I also now believe that the wrong kind of people can use these true facts to validate and reinforce their prejudice and harmful beliefs. - What IS true can then become part of what isn't. Furthuring misinformation in the world. Ultimately what Ben Shapiro said is true, facts really don't care about your feelings. Where he's wrong is how he uses these facts to peddle his bullshit and make it seem like the right and true. Facts don't care about your feelings, but people should, in any case.

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

​@@1grapefruit What embarrassing comment? It's certainly not the one above.

[@1grapefruit]

@@skateboardingjesus4006 average "facts over feelings" ben shapiro watcher

[@ZephLodwick]

From all I can gather, the website started off genuine. But I'd guess that there can't be enough people dumb and tech-savvy enough to compile a website of its size. I'd guess many of the editors are just trolls who're playing along for the laughs. However, much like 4Chan, the lines between trolling and sincerity are blurred. Editing on this website for long enough must cause the propaganda to get to your head.

[@sanityscraps]

They did actually model that scene after Triumph of the Will, though it wasn't an endorsement of the original but a critique of Riefenstahl. Lindsay Ellis has an amazing video about this, I think it's called something about the Ideology of Star Wars.

[@nisseheim4996]

Can't deny that Riefenstahl was a good film maker. Too bad she furthered the nazi cause with her work, but her visuals were undeniably influencial on the industry. As long as the purpuse of a movie is not fascist propaganda I don't see the problem with taking a leaf out of her book. Triumph of the will is a visually impressive part of movie history and can be viewed as such.

[@MCDreng]

​@@nisseheim4996also there's only so many ways to film a ceremony like that with a long procession and have it look good

[@parallaxnick637]

Do people still care about Conservapedia? RationalWIki gets more views than it does.

[@artificialgravitas8954]

They would answer that that is fake news

[@citycrusher9308]

@Analyzing Male Slavery Hey, that is a good point

[@zac5572]

@Analyzing Male Slavery scientific consensus agrees with feminists dude lol, maybe you're wrong.

[@salvage64]

@@citycrusher9308 He didn't make any points. He just made a bunch of accusations.

[@IAmNumber4000]

Analyzing Male Slavery Nice b8

[@ireneaquablue]

"When we tried to add information about creationism to the article about evolution, it was taken down." Well.... Yes..... Because the article isn't about creationism.....

[@burgersfrompigs]

I bet there's another article for creationism

[@sloppyjoe9156]

In highschool I was part of a mentorship program for ASD youth and noticed that my mentee/friend had very recently gone from being politically inactive/neutral to becoming very hard right. I talked with him calmly and rationally to try and figure out why because his newly found extreme views were starting to affect his social life. It turns out that while he had leaned conservative most of his life because of his upbringing he had been reading conservapedia literally and taking it as equal fact to other more established websites. I am in college now and just found out he was accepted to the same college and am very proud of him but am worried that how views have not leveled themselves out in the year I have been gone and am worried to how he will be received. If anyone has any advice on how to proceed I would greatly appreciate it.

[@jerkyy04]

Yeah, I also have ASD/Aspergers and after I read article such as from Conservapedia I can't stop thinking about that, because I often firstly believe in informations that I am reading or hearing and I am reacting impulsively. Also, I feel the need to adapt to some view points and I not know what is right, because I am not very decisive. Even with my knowlegde and experience, that negates that 'facts' from the site, it takes me some time to realise that. So, the best option for me is closing the tab after a 'quick' check-up of the content.

[@MCDreng]

That has nothing to do with his autism or reading things literally, he was already primed to believe that kind of stuff in his upbringing

[@vyasalwar2346]

The Conservapedia article on the French Revolution is oddly accurate, given that it essentially formed the modern left.

[@justcallmeSheriff]

The whole point of conservatism is to be a reaction to the liberal movements that started with the French Revolution. There is no need to exaggerate when dealing with the core issue

[@stilltoomanyhats]

Would be even funnier if the video game article transitioned seamlessly between the evils of video games to how great video games were until they were ruined by pronouns.

[@randybrush9872]

It is definitely not satire. Just look at their sponsors. It is designed to confuse and suck your time. Always remember that people prefer being lied to...smh...I guess it's just easier to pretend than think. Good vid, thank you for posting...LLP

[@dougs7367]

They could still be satirists laughing all the way to the bank with money from the clueless sponsors.

[@giorgospapoutsakis5271]

It's easier to fool people than to convince them they've been fooled -Mark Twain

[@LakesideTrey]

1:26 - add information about creationism in an article about evolution - edits is removed - censorship?

[@Solscalr]

My favorite article has to be the George Orwell one where they try to olay him out to be a super conservative person who criticizes libreal ideologies with his books. Also the evolution page is also pretty wild.

[@Wulture]

The evolution page requires a mental illness level of creationism

[@AIRburst95]

Environmentalism is bad... mmkay

[@quesocoatl21]

If the left cared about the environment they wouldn't allow mass migration.

[@AIRburst95]

Why? Is it because consideration for protection of the environment will always be more important than human beings to environmentalists/leftists? Nice strawman 😂

[@quesocoatl21]

@@AIRburst95 What danger are they supposedly in? They're economic migrants at best.

[@AIRburst95]

What example of danger would you want me to present to you in order for you to accept that their attempts to seek asylum at overflowing ports of entry is legitimate and not strictly based on monetary benefit for themselves? Outside of anecdotal evidence, which is always unconvincing, I’m pretty sure you could research this issue for yourself and come to the conclusion that you’re wrong. I wouldn’t personally ever subject myself to thousands of miles of walking for a (maybe) better economic opportunity

[@hedgehog3180]

@@quesocoatl21 What immigrants? I feel like you slipped up and revealed that you just say this about all immigrants and don't care about the facts.

[@Wiggyam]

11:25 The Democratic party founded the Ku Klux Klan, but this was before the parties completely changed values. If you were a republican then you would be a democrat now. «Knowing Better» has a great video on this.

[@JoniWan77]

And it was the Southern Democratic party nonetheless. Back then the differences geographically were more distinct than those of the parties itself.

[@marciaosullivan3200]

It's pointless going on about who's parties were the least awful back in the day as all parties evolve

[@Erika-gn1tv]

... I'm just gonna go play a video game about lesbians consorting with the devil to get my mind of this. Yes, it's a real game.

[@dylandubeau]

What! What's it's called?

[@Erika-gn1tv]

Not Exactly Normal We Know The Devil. It's a short narrative game about three lesbian teens at a chistian camp for troubled youth spending the night in a cabin talking about shit, getting drunk of their asses, making out in the closet (a literal one) and getting turned into demons. It's both rather sweet and kinda creepy.

[@dylandubeau]

Interesting! I may have to check it out.

[@brunor.1127]

is it porn? it sounds like porn

[@dadgbe4834]

you know you're a lesbian when you can tell exactly what game someone is talking about from a description like that... we are so content starved

[@allosaurustime]

I read the video game article since the release of this video. They had changed it almost entirely and made the “video game bad” claim a lot less pronounced. Lmao

[@tarkelprice6875]

You forgot how George Orwell is one of the best conservative writers of all time

[@lazy747unitedairlines]

he volunteered for the republicans in the Spanish civil war no?

[@isaiahscobel]

ROFL this man unironically anti-authoritarian no way this man was conservative

[@Chrischi3TutorialLPs]

About the entire ceremony scene, while there certainly is an overtly political message to triumph of the will, from what i know about that movie, it was pretty impressive from a cinematic point of view, at least at the time. The ewoks being based off of the vietcong is not too surprising, afterall, there are only so many ways you can do guerillia warfare, and Vietnam is probably the best known example of that to this day, even more so back then when it was still in public memory. Besides, if theyre gonna mention the similarities between the ceremonies in triumph of the will vs a new hope, i feel they should also bring up the death star run compared to the dam attack in Dam Busters, depicting a british bombing raid against a german dam.

[@McDeus]

To my knowledge, the reason Leni Riefenstahl got hired to direct Triumph Of The Will is that she was more or less the most famous and critically acclaimed movie director in Germany at the time. She'd made a documentary about the 1936 Olympics that was a major success, and she was known to filmmaking circles as a major groundbreaking innovator in cinematography. Like, Hitler's instructions to Goebbels were along the lines of "I want this movie about me to be the greatest fucking movie ever made, so go get me the best damn movie director in the whole country to direct it." (For example, I've had people who would probably know whether this is true or not tell me that she was the original inventor of "slow-motion" filming, which doesn't seem an impressive innovation now but obviously would have been very noteworthy the first time you saw it if it had never been used in a movie before.) So she was a very talented filmmaker, and that means there's a lot of very good cinematography on display in Triumph Of The Will just as there's a lot of impressive cinematography on display in every movie she ever made. I'm not a movie-history nerd (I mostly know this stuff because I'm a WWII-history nerd), but the movie-history nerds I've known have said some pretty similar things about the movie Birth Of A Nation--which was also apparently quite an impressive achievement in terms of technical cinematography when it was made, despite the fact that it's a propaganda film for the Ku Klux Klan, like Triumph Of The Will was an impressive achievement in terms of technical cinematography despite also being a propaganda film for the National Socialist German Workers' Party. Riefenstahl obviously got a whole lot of criticism after the war for her willingness to be involved in the whole thing, with her not entirely convincing response to the controversy being a claim that she herself "saw the film only as a documentary" and "just couldn't pass up the opportunity to film an important event in world history" (this argument isn't helped by the fact that several parts of the movie include footage that was obviously scripted and staged and not real footage taken at the event itself). But yeah, it's basically the kind of movie you'd get if somebody like Kim Jong-Un or Saddam Hussein hired Stanley Kubrick to make a movie about himself. The entire movie's contents would just be rank propaganda glorifying an evil dictator, but there would definitely be a lot of cool-looking shots in it.

[@RushFreak]

Holy moly, this is like one of those parody websites in the Grand Theft Auto universe on steroids. And, unfortunately less funny...

[@peterw4910]

It was made sincerely and I expect a lot of the people who post stuff on there are sincere. But Im pretty sure some of it (Especially the article talking about you) was satire. This is a huge problem with stuff like this as people can say such insane and hatefull things and if they are called out on it, they can just say "Its satire. Its all a joke" while they really do mean it. Ive seen this happen a lot with the alt right. It starts with posting Pepe memes and joking about Kekistan. But slowly it becomes more serious. I had a friend who went down this exact path, who started with memes and jokes, and is now watching KZbinrs who talk about cultural marxism and white genocide. Conervapedia may be funny to look at and laugh at how silly it is. But Im pretty sure it also acts as a place for people to experiment with the very extreme ideals that started it.

[@plasticiconoclastic]

Kind of like those dog-whistlers and their _"It's okay to be white"_ crap, as if any significant number of people, other than the fringe, ever said it wasn't. If I wasn't already misanthropic, I might be genuinely distressed by any of this.

[@astracrits4633]

So it's kind of like how the Flat Earth Society came to be, but backwards?

[@Cosmo_raptor]

I love the idea that people tried to edit the Wikipedia page about evolution to talk about intelligent design instead of, you know, making a page about intelligent design

[@sevgar5128]

Oh yeah Wiki pedia has a lot of liberal and atheist biases , so lets make our own wiki with our own biases, we win

[@RockfordRoe]

Fun fact, the "Liberal Obsession" page was made by Ace McWicked from RationalWiki as a parody. After a few sysops and Ace himself pointed it out, Andrew and Ken decided to keep it up.

[@daithiocinnsealach1982]

No, it is not satire. I was in this culture for 15 years. I still have close family and friends immersed in it. It is very very real.

[@alexguy7395]

I love how this website says “it’s been so long”, the fnaf 2 song, apis an abortion allegory.

[@Electro_Katarina]

And conservatives call us snowflakes.

[@JoelLundqvist98]

Yeah, kind of funny.

[@Erik-zr6wy]

and sad

[@jerrell1169]

>Using Conservapedia as a legitimate way to judge all conservatives

[@jaymiddleton1782]

@@jerrell1169 it's funny how conservatives need alternative facts to maintain their views.

[@ginge641]

That's because retards of both sides are complete snowflakes with no understanding of nuance.

[@liamosterhout6538]

video games being linked to athiesm is actually hilarious.

[@jeiku5314]

This site is one of the most American sites I have ever seen.

[@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus]

Same, lol. I am really baffled about this whole Creationism thing in particular... Here in Europe, this is not even a topic. Creationists are as much socially accepted as flat earthers, which basically means... not at all.

[@artificialgravitas8954]

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus Well actually America accepts those too now... yeah it's getting worse

[@ApeX-pj4mq]

Artificial Gravitas You guys got a kayak and a good paddle, come over here if you want XD

[@JackgarPrime]

The Most American Wiki In The History of America?

[@Erik-zr6wy]

@@wasserruebenvergilbungsvirus Same!

[@StevenEveral]

Who wrote these articles, some home-schooled, right wing, psycho-Christian? * Looks up Andrew Schlafly * Oh. 🙄😒

[@BrandenMcNabb]

I am a conservative, and I am ashamed of the idiots who wrote those biased entries on that website. Please, do not think that all conservatives are this stupid. Even though I have a different political stance than you, some of us conservatives still have a functioning brain and can be reasoned with.

[@BrandenMcNabb]

@Angel Fox Unfortunately, murder is illegal where I live.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpl9761]

I know that not all conservatives are stupid but there are plenty that fit the Bill.

[@BrandenMcNabb]

@@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpl9761 Unfortunately, I'm related to a few a the stupid ones lmao. And to be fair, there are many conservative ideas I don't agree with. A massive military budget would be an example. And then there's the times when I'm arguing with my family because they don't know the difference between a fact and an opinion. Pollution is a fact. Windmills producing less energy than the energy required to make them is not a fact. Honestly I'd probably consider leaving the conservative side and becoming liberal if it wasn't for one particular thing. I won't say what it is because I don't want this to become a political argument/debate. I like the civility so far.

[@yourfriendlyneighborhoodpl9761]

@@BrandenMcNabb agreed i see nothing wrong with what you said. I tend to see some good ideas on both sides.

[@wordzmyth]

It must be difficult to see your reasonable traditional values being twisted so far that wrong and right aren't clear anymore. Conservatives in your position are being ignored right now as extremists grab power.

[@EnLaLuna23]

Damn, there go my plans to major in golf management.

[@waltergrimminger6191]

Claudia - I don't understand why Conservapedia would disapprove of 'Golf Management'. It was a major offered byTrump University, which was a scam, aka capitalism in action. Conservapedia considers capitalism to be sacred.

[@Gloomdrake]

@@waltergrimminger6191 also you'd think they'd love golf

[@cogsworther1639]

I know that this isn't the most important thing, but the second sentence in the article on feminism features two semicolons in a row, and the second one is incorrect because the next clause has a coordinating conjunction. It's just. . . so badly written on a basic functional level. I would bet dollars to donuts that whoever wrote that just included semicolons because they thought it made them look smart

[@1homelander179]

Conservapedia: Wikipedia, when it doesn't match with your reality.

[@salsicha5305]

I mean, conservapedia is wrong about pretty much anything, but star wars is indeed pro north Vietnam and anti-american. George Lucas has very openly stated that himself, it is an anti imperialist/anti American movie and that's a good thing, that's the part they're wrong.

[@Crick1952]

0:16 is one rollercoaster of a read Edit: Though I did just check it out and that page sadly doesn't exist

[@PaladinGuy]

"Truth has a known liberal bias." -Stephen Colbert

[@Kalumbatsch]

"Reality has a well-known liberal bias" is the actual quote.

[@Machiroable]

from Stephen Colbert, somebody that has a really clear bias and thinks it is reality,

[@plasticiconoclastic]

@@Machiroable That quote really triggered the fuck out of you, huh? This is the second post from you that I've seen related to this quote.

[@sergeantbatman]

Generally, you'd pick a decent quote from a good source.

[@Horny_Fruit_Flies]

@@sergeantbatman If you knew the context within which the quote was used, you would know that it was a joke at a White House Correspondents Dinner in 2006 where he was roasting the war criminal Bush.

[@Slattery777]

@1:24 made me really sad. I hope this is fake because that girl is a good actress if she's not genuinely naive - because she seems to be. I have way to much to say about this for a comment - but yay for not exactly normal posting again! Makes my day every time.

[@Darticus42]

The sad thing about that is, there's plenty of Wiki articles dedicated to discussing exactly what she's describing. All they're doing is putting it in the wrong article, and dismissing their simple misunderstanding of the medium as a rejection of their ideas. Just like how you shouldn't give facts about and beliefs of the Democratic Party in an article about the Republican Party & vice versa. Removing irrelevant content isn't "censoring", if discussing the arguments of both is important then go to the separate and distinct article presenting those points, and link to that somewhere in their respective articles instead E.g. Evolution > Outline of Evolution > Creation-Evolution Controversy Creationism > Creation-Evolution Contdoversy

[@LVoidtheEndless]

12:54 They did know that Banes whole “the city belongs to the people now” in Dark Knight Rises was a disguise for their real plan of just blowing up the city because Batman killed their boss

[@Danube-TV]

No way! The actual LVoid!

[@Mittzys]

You know an encyclopedia is trustworthy when there's no sign up button!

[@1981Mog]

So next time your at a wedding, stand up and loudly condemn it as a disgusting recreation of The Triumph of the Wills. Then report back on how it went. With video.

[@ethancheung2696]

1981Mog 😂

[@Iggy253]

I saw a video where someone was reading Conservapedia and one article try to politicise the titanic tragedy

[@Checkers1993ify]

Aw man, that kid talking about adding stuff about creationism to the Wikipedia page for evolution sounds like she's had way too much sugar

[@plasticiconoclastic]

I'd say it's too much religion.

[@that_pac123]

ATHEISM IS A SYMPTOM OF PLAYING VIDEOGAMES, I'M DEAD

[@Droemar]

The saying is "hell is other people." The people who edit Conservapedia live in a fearful hell of their own making. I can't imagine living in a world where you constantly have to refuse responsibility for anything while constantly grooming yourself for impurities.

[@dutchik5107]

Wait? It was born out of the evolution entry not being about creationism?!? Did they even know how wikipedia works!?!

[@sneetsnarts1150]

This is the third or fourth video I’ve seen from this channel but I have to say the editing is really fucking good imo keep it up

[@RachelJade70]

Watching this in 2024 is wild bc I forgot that conservatives used to be anti-nazi 🙃

[@Onur_G]

if it wasn't made by the onion (lol) this is the danger of radical conservatism

[@demondeity9816]

When it said that video games cause atheism was the best part 10/10

[@Abigzerolol]

This looks like something straight out of the GTA Universe

[@okayillprobablygo4480]

One of the biggest disappointments of my life is looking up metal gear solid on this and finding no results.

[@BlueSky......]

I don't get it, the bikini posters?

[@okayillprobablygo4480]

@@BlueSky...... mh nah, more like I’d wanna see what theyd say about the pretty apparent anti war/ nuclear warfare message the series has.. and yeah, maybe the bikini posters too.

[@CausalityLoop]

I literally laughed out loud at the 'hearsay society' entry, coming from people who believe the Bible literally.

[@badbeardbill9956]

The Winter Soldier in the movie Winter Soldier is actually two people. A winter soldier is a soldier that stays when things get rough. Bucky is the antagonist named the Winter Soldier, but the winter soldier of the title is Captain America, loyal to SHIELD as it should be, whereas the majority of SHIELD is loyal to HYDRA. Those that turned or whatever were summer soldiers.

[@FrankieW00FR]

...You know. When I asked if it was from the Onion. I was hoping that this was all some sort of joke. In the last 6 years we have learned that NO, This is not a joke and IT'S ONLY GETTING WORSE

[@Nilsy1975]

Speaking as a British Conservative, that site is awful. I wouldn't ever use it.

[@Dr.BestBuy]

British conservative is like an American liberal. A British liberal thats a means you're a hardcore communist in the US

[@zuiop9993]

@@Dr.BestBuy And what would a British communist be in the US? Possibly the reincarnation of Stalin ;)

[@LachiBoii]

@@zuiop9993 I would think that it'd somehow be even worse haha.

[@awesomelyshorticles]

What's a British liberal like? I've never gotten an answer to that when I ask.

[@hedgehog3180]

@@Nilsy1975 Sargon is a member of UKIP, how is he a liberal.

[@DumOcaso]

“The Beatles ("Fab Four") sang depressed, atheistic and druggie-content rock music” this is the first sentence in their article about the Beatles let that sink in

[@rynieryarom4277]

10s in reading that page about NEN was hilarious

[@dylandubeau]

Haha thanks. It's since been deleted sadly.

[@S.D.323]

@@dylandubeau they were just upset it was speaking truth to power

[@ronnycook3569]

Video games were clearly always aimed at teenagers and children. That's why the first ever video arcade machine, Pong, was first placed in a tavern, which is where most children hang out.

[@democracy_enjoyer]

3:53 had me dying from laughter, hows playing a game going to cause you to turn into an atheist?😂

[@galaxybiscuit]

It also describes it alongside ailments 😂😂😂

[@TolkienStudy]

This is one of the most underrated channels on KZbin in my opinion. I always am pretty happy when I see one pop up. And I haven't seen many because I want to save them to discover later.

[@puppyqueen5688]

of course when you vandalize the page for evolution it gets removed, wikipedia as a page on creationism.

[@blockfan1234]

I looked and saw that the page for "atom" isn't actually that wrong (outdated and only really fits slightly beyond high school physics), but no blatant misinformation. The normal wikipedia page on it still has a reference list about as long as this page though

[@sparklestarspompomunicorn]

the thing about Star Wars is that it’s all true. the medal scene evokes the triumph of the wills because george lucas went to film school, where they learnt about film history, where, yes, he would’ve learnt about that film. this is a discussion in the film world: how incredibly problematic films- like triumph of the wills, or birth of a nation- have had massive continued influence on the film world thanks to them being some of the first films to employ specific techniques, eg. the drone shot in triumph. and the vietnam critique thing is a pretty damn accurate reading. as well as the prequels. the whole “indoctrinating kids” thing is also true, i guess, in the same way that paw patrol indoctrinates kids into thinking cops are good. and not even on that level- the allegory is not something little kids are likely to unpick unprompted, lol. conservapedia makes star wars sound way cooler than it actually is. it can be racist if you apply a even modicum of critical theory. but it’s complex. and conservatives hate complexity.

[@Halfmeca]

😊

[@LVoidtheEndless]

18:33 Conservapeidia: sources are wrong because I said so

[@Dorian_sapiens]

Is Conservapedia a joke? Well.... It's meant to be taken seriously. But it's still a joke.

[@truefanforum3273]

I completely agree about the site's problem with sources. On the main page, off to the side, is a list of headlines. One day I saw a headline about a story that, I guess, "proves" creationism. The headline included three links. I checked out each link, and found three websites that reposted the EXACT SAME article. There was no attempt to clarify or add to the information of the article, just cut and paste. But, if you don't examine the links, it just seems there is a lot of evidence to backup a claim. I think they've used the same trick on multiple occasions, but I am not sure. It has blessedly been a long time since I visited this "encyclopedia".

[@plasticiconoclastic]

A lot of people are _extremely_ lazy and don't know the meaning of research; they'll just assume that the site that feeds into their cognitive biases has already vetted those "sources," and even if they didn't, they don't give a fuck. I generally don't write people off, and there's no kind way of putting it, but these people are just fucking dumb and depressingly ignorant. I don't like the internet meme culture much, but "brainlet" is one that comes to mind when thinking of the sorts of people that Conservapedia caters and panders to. What more can you say about people who will conceive of conspiracy narratives to explain away why they're too drowning-on-drool fucktarded to edit an article on Wikipedia?

[@truefanforum3273]

plasticiconoclastic True. I don't want to write off people either, but anyone who thinks Conservapedia is a viable, accurate source of information is terrifyingly stupid. Wikipedia has issues to be sure, but at least there's some sense that they strive for accuracy.

[@scottblackburn7192]

I like how many of their star wars takes are just a completely accurate reading of the political messages of the franchise.

[@scottblackburn7192]

Also, pointing out the sweeping influence of Triumph of the Wills on modern cinematography and editing it not untrue either, although interpreting that as and endorsement of nazism is definitely a big stretch, especially in an (at the time) pretty explicitly anti-authoritarian franchise

[@Bone1996]

I mean, the site's founder is the son of Phyllis Schlafly, so that should've told you everything going into this

[@macuss87]

Does anyone know how much traffic this site receives?

[@skaarphy5797]

No, but I've read that it's quite unpopular even among conservatives. It's just too far out, and their approach of constantly hitting you over the head with their bias while claiming to be objective is too much even for those who might agree with them in some areas. It is popular among a certain segment of the homeschooling crowd, though. Those who fear to send their kids to school because of "liberal indocrination".

[@waltergrimminger6191]

@@skaarphy5797 - I assumed Conservapedia's biggest fans were liberals who thought it was funny.

[@roselynn6753]

Conservapedia is extremely fascist tbh. It's actually pretty scary sometimes.

[@0205-z9y]

I'm a neo-fascist and I think they're fucking bonkers

[@quesocoatl21]

Since libtards are the ones who edit it because they have nothing better to do than be wiki vandals does that make liberals fascist.

[@JoelLundqvist98]

Well the word "Globalist" is a dog whistle for Jews after all.

[@badboje6040]

Silly? Yes. Fascist? Please don't use words who's meanings you don't understand.

[@roselynn6753]

badboje not really sure how else to describe an authoritarian ideology that places huge emphasis on tradition,fear mongers about minorities,thinks war is always good,and looks at starship troopers and Dredd as ideal societies.

[@landylocked]

The Star Wars Vietnam part was edited perfectly😂

[@pjb3150]

This site should be a facial workout site. Eye rolling, smiling, laughter and making a big O with one's mouth is excellent exercises for keeping one's face toned. :-p

[@walt_the_dolt]

Imagine not being able to enjoy a movie because it's "liberal"

[@justinhanna9152]

That lady talking about intelligent design being censored at the start should know that intelligent design has its own wikipedia page