Conservapedia - An encyclopedia you can trust

Yeah I think most of the right wing's policies are straight up economically driven. This guy can tell himself schools are hated because FACTS and SCIENCE vs. THE BIBLE but i think really it's that Republicans want to cut the hell out of spending and lower taxes for rich people.

It takes training for years to reject what is true. That training starts in a million Sunday schools and carries on through home schooling or private religious "education" and is completed in a hundred alternative Christian "colleges." It is sustained by a network of magazines like Christianity Today, World and many more. It has its own celebrity culture with heroes that no one outside the religious ghetto has heard of but who are selling literally millions of books to their followers.

This is Orwell's doublethink in action, i.e. setting up a comprehensive programme of deliberate misinformation, by people who actually seem to not realise that they have set up a network with the express purpose to mislead through lies and/or are perpetuating all that deliberate misinformation

i get those sorts of book donated to my work ~every single day~

i get four times as many nora roberts but

the scale of self-deception required to knowingly operate such an elaborate scheme of nonsense with utter conviction is just astounding xxp

oh yeah i think the BCE/CE thing is kinda ridiculous too because it's not like the whole counting system isn't still based on jesus (although i mean BC is one thing but AD is a little pushy) but it's still lol that this was what made him realize a revolution was necessary. xps

I kinda love SEO now, all urls are great

http://www.conservapedia.com/Mystery:Did_a_Fake_Fidel_Castro_Meet_the_Pope%3F

Space Jam 1996 PG Michael Jordan uses the help of beloved children's characters from the '50s (a simpler time in America's history) to beat back foreign invaders who wish to take away our freedoms.

Native American is a term that can either refer to an American Indian or to anyone born in America as an American.

http://conservapedia.com/Essay:Greatest_Conservative_Songs

Union Sundown 	Bob Dylan 	The title says it all. 

Thank god conservatives have stopped putting "Won't Get Fooled Again" on these fucking lists.

"Waiting List" Dr. Octagon A powerful song about socialized medicine and rationing

finally convinced that site actually is a joke

"No Children" The Mountain Goats A song about a marriage falling apart because the couple has no children to hold the family together.

Let It Be - The Beatles - Very popular in Russia under the Soviets

Wait, what?

"Pray" MC Hammer Working hard and giving thanks.

Animal Collective, 'Chores' - "Now I've got these chores / and I'm not gonna hurt no-one" -- Hard work is praised and violence is discouraged. A scary song for liberals!

Chris Mooney covers Conservapedia in his great new book, excerpted here:

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2012/03/chris-mooney-republican-brain-science-denial

He mentions that Schlafly's arguments are horrible b/c they're not arguments to persuade at all; they're more an inner re-affirmation of belief an recitation of tribal slogans. Dude does this shit to buck himself and his team up, not to convince others.

Ticket to Ride The Beatles Lyrics describe anti-feminist attitude

OK, i just...what?

"I Won't Back down" Tom Petty
Talks about not backing down from a fight. Can be compared to not loosing the Iraq War.

tbf a lot of early John Lennon tunes have a pretty anti-feminist attitude

if you can tell me what ticket to ride is about i'd love to hear it

http://conservapedia.com/Essay:_Beautiful_songs_written_about_atheism

hurrrr

Hard work is praised and violence is discouraged. A scary song for liberals!

It's true! Liberals hate hard work and love violence!

Drifting along with the tumblin' tumbleweeds

Indeed, a beautiful song

Bodies The Sex Pistols Profane but graphically anti-abortion.

glad these guys have their priorities straight.

Betcha they're Slayer fans too!

It's So Easy Guns N'Roses Lyrics describe anti-feminist attitude

Abstinence advocate Lolo Jones will need to hurdle over liberal claptrap in addition to what's on the track in order to win a medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics; even some in the media are now rallying to her defense against the unjustified criticism of her by the liberal media.

The Netherlands is a very secular and pro-evolution country. In 2007, it was estimated that they produced 80% of the world's bestiality films. See: Netherlands and bestiality

Wait, Lolo Jones is an abstinence advocate?

So sad. ;_;

YOLO Jones on the other hand is unbelievably promiscuous.

Advocating abstinence has zilch to do with promiscuity.

Conservapedia is consistently a great example of the reflexive "always defend the in-group / always denigrate the out-group" thing that authoritarians do

xp you're gonna have to explain that one to me.

Are joke sports ruining the 2012 Summer Olympics? For example, why are Olympic medals for Great Britain in dressage even counted in the medal totals???

At the halfway point in the 2012 Summer Olympics, an underachieving nation is Australia, which has drifted leftward politically and is being outdone by its much smaller, more conservative rival of New Zealand.

Soccer is a popular joke sport played with a round ball propelled mainly by kicks from a player's foot.

Australia, which has drifted leftward politically

what the absolute fuck is this shit

my wife refuses to believe that the whole site isn't just a put-on

even by nutbaropaedia standards that's completely bonkers

xp your wife could well be onto something

http://conservapedia.com/Joke_sport

Joke sports are games that are poor substitutes for athletic endeavors that bring out the best in human achievement with a underlying purpose to the event. The inclusion of many joke sports in the 2012 Summer Olympics detracts from the serious events.
The lamestream media publicize joke sport winners more than world records set in real sports, which distorts the legitimacy of the Olympics.
Examples of joke sports include:
Badminton
Beach volleyball
BMX cycling
Rhythmic gymnastics
Soccer[1]
Synchronized swimming
Swimming relays[2]
Table tennis
Women's boxing and wrestling

A note on terminology

In the United States, "football" refers to American Football. Outside the United States, "football" refers to soccer

Evidently they've never seen Australians, New Zealanders, or Canadians play football....

Swimming relays are demoted to a "joke sport" because real relays use batons, but they don't use them in swim races. Duh - you'd whack the swimmer in the next lane with the baton with every butterfly stroke.

Damn liberals soiling the purity of relay sports by not requiring batons in the pool. It's yet another cog in the culture of permissiveness the liberal establishment is forcing on all of us through sport, comics, television, and music.

during the Modern Olympic Games, the pagan origins of the Olympics have been replaced by faith-based achievement by the participating athletes.

Women's boxing and wrestling

This is the most revealing (not that misogyny needs to be outed with these guys). Why would a sport shift from non-joke to joke just based on the gender of those involved. Well, whatever - they're an irrelevant bunch of anti-intellectual fools.

Would love to see Katie Taylor or Nicola Adams in a ring with Andrew Schlafly and still see if he thinks it's a joke sport.

Let me explain where the socialism section came from. I had seen on the main page that day, there was a front page news entry from a blog (possibly two or three blogs) comparing soccer to socialism. I don't remember if the blogs were being serious or satirical, but it was on the front page of Conservapedia. I then happened to stumble on the Soccer article and noticed it had been changed to "a popular Socialist football sport" with no explanation given.

with no explanation given.

solitary comments that effortlessly summarise the spirit of conservapedia

Boxing is still very popular, possibly having roots in ancient Greek styles of boxing, although with certain and clearly defined roots in the bare-knuckle fights in England in the early-modern era, being given modern rules in the 19th century by the Marquess of Queensbury.
When women participate in it, boxing is a joke sport.