ShimmeringKoi

joined 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Not even just "crumbled". They were crumbled

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is almost as good as when my roommate tried to tell me that the fact that SSI lets you buy sauces to cook with is socialism

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

That's specifically what happened to lemmy.ml recently

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Both Wikipedia and Prolewiki are biased,

Yes

but Wikipedia is biased to the wrong direction

Uh huh

I like Prolewiki's bias more than I like Wikipedia's bias. Therefore, Wikipedia is not reliable on the topic of Authoritarianism."

Aand here you lose me. The fact that you have to assign them a frivolous reason to choose one definition over the other (I just like it lol) as opposed to this choice being the outcome of any assessment of their relative usefulnes as analytical tools kind of gives away your game here.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"They have no freedom there because my rulers told me so"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it a byword for "largest system of prison slavery in the world?" amerikkka-clap

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

You at least don't seem vitriolic so I'm gonna link you a 2 minute music video that addresses exactly this concern

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I think we agreed to use it less for diplomatic reasons or something

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Nobody said it's not; the concept of an unbiased party, like so many other liberal frictionless spheres, doesn't exist and so is a useless hueristic for determining the veracity of information. The better question is what are this source's biases?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where'd I say the DPRK needs prison reform? Hard to assert such a thing without knowing it's actual conditions.

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