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And just like that, I had an attack of perspective. Why am I in this conversation? Everyone watching seems to understand that you're changing your story and talking nonsense, so it seems unnecessary for me to say anything else for their sake. And it seems highly unlikely that, on your side, you're going to suddenly come to some kind of realization along the lines of, "You know what? Reality does have an anti-Putin bias, and quite a strong one, so it makes perfect sense that a source that made an attempt at publishing objective truth would be against Russia in terms of the 'bias' of a lot of the facts that it publishes. As well as being against Israel, NATO, or 'the West' in general, when those governments in turn do terrible things. I think I should spend less time carrying water for genocidal maniacs who happen to wear the right color hat, and start being reasonable."
So I hope your talking points go really well. You've said that Wikipedia is terrible. Well done! Mission accomplished. Feel free to continue, I won't stop you.
Edit: Changed to "anti-Putin," I have no problem with Russia or Russians, just their government.
It’s not the anti-Russia slant that concerns me. It’s the pro-Ukraine/pro-NATO angle.
Good rule of thumb: if you’re having trouble figuring out who’s the bad guys, it’s the side with Nazi symbols on their uniforms.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/06/05/diev-j05.html
This is like saying "dollar bills are fine, I don't care for the backs but I really like the front side".
Only if you treat politics and morality like team sports.
If you’re capable of critical thinking, it’s possible to be opposed to both Putin and Nazis in Ukraine.
Please keep putting "Ukraine are the bad guys" stuff right next to "Wikipedia are the bad guys" stuff. I promise, it's totally accomplishing the mission and convincing everyone, and not at all a powerful living example of why maintaining free flow of information is an important thing, and no one particular government's perspective can be trusted to define the "correct" type of narrative and media literacy. You're killing it.
Sure. I’ll keep going.
Armies with Nazi symbols on their uniforms are the bad guys. Military alliances committing genocide are the bad guys. Common sense, right?
Philip would like everyone reading to believe that these organizations controlling what is permitted to stand as “truth” on Wikipedia is a good thing.
ETA: Keep the downvotes coming. When you’re flooding ‘Nazis bad’ and ‘genocide bad’ comments with downvotes, it reveals your manipulations for everyone to see. People need to know the narrative control is happening on Lemmy, too.
And this effort to drown it out helps people identify which accounts & communities are laundering this disinformation.