• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    Instead of whining like a 5 year old, why doesn’t he use his obscene wealth to pay an army of Chinese internet trolls to rewrite Wikipedia to his liking? I bet Wikipedia and the regular contributors wouldn’t even have the resources to withstand the assault and correct the untruths faster than they’d be created.

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      5 months ago

      Not to give them ideas but couldn’t he just fund his own fake Wikipedia clone? X-cylipedia or some shit? Claim it’s the truth and it’s very existence becomes a PR trap for the media who will cover it like hotcakes for free

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        4 months ago

        Not to give them ideas but couldn’t he just fund his own fake Wikipedia clone?

        Isn’t that basically what conservapedia is?

        (Link is not to the actual site, but rather to an article about them - not giving that shithole traffic)

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        4 months ago

        If people with this mindset could be happy with just having their own thing, not polluted with the ideas of others, there would be no conflict. Unfortunately the mindset requires that there can’t be other people in the world doing their own thing.

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      4 months ago

      Chinese internet trolls

      You know you can hate somebody without associating them with Chinese people, right?

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        4 months ago

        You know you can say “Chinese troll” without hating anybody, yes?

        As in “the person is a troll” and “the person is Chinese”. No hate anywhere: it’s just two facts that happen to go together quite well because China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

        You need to stop thinking everything in terms of how racist it sounds.

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          4 months ago

          China is kind of notorious for being the place where you can find internet trolls for hire for cheap.

          Reflexively associating people & things you dislike with an ethnicity is a form of hate, and you are doing it. After all, America has plenty of – hell, I’d argue more – easily bought trolls available, and yet I don’t seem to see a whole lot of people bringing up their nationality so much, assuming they mention them at all.

          And I’m not going to ignore racist statements just because pointing it out causes tension.