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Why does the website look like a video game?
by pottertheotter 5mo ago
Why does the website look like a video game?
- MSFT_Edging 5mo agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticization_of_politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticization_of_politics
- netbioserror 5mo ago[flagged]
- adi_kurian 5mo agoHmm. I just read the page. It's about a famous concept that came from a book written by a Jewish Marxist who fled Nazi Germany. he wrote it in Paris in 1935 as the Nuremberg Laws were passed. Killed himself in 1940 trying to escape the Gestapo. He's not hiding any of it. Masquerade is a bit rich.
- netbioserror 5mo ago[flagged]
- weakfish 5mo agoAn article about a topic doesn’t mean it’s endorsed - are you seriously suggesting that Wikipedia shouldn’t host an article that describes a theory if you don’t like the theory?
- netbioserror 5mo agoAre you seriously suggesting an encyclopedia should be packed with crackpot conspiracy theories, academic charlatanry, quackery, and agitprop? Or does that not defeat the point? Keep the author's biography, but his "theories" are best left for a footnote in the biography, or websites that explicitly serve as a museum for failed ideas.
- weakfish 5mo agoA) that’s a very biased view of it that you clearly are emotionally invested in B) an encyclopedia should describe all things factually. It’d be one thing if it described it as truth, but describing it truthfully is far different
- netbioserror 5mo agoA) Non-argument. B) Repositories of knowledge should not contain anti-knowledge.
- weakfish 5mo agoSince you can just counter anything I say with calling it “anti-knowledge,” I’ll leave you with a profound quote: “That’s just like, your opinion, man”
- netbioserror 5mo agoAgitprop like "aesthetics are fascist" is pretty blatant opinion. Live up to your own standards.
- weakfish 5mo ago? I never said I agreed with the theories presented in the article. I just believe in free speech :)
- netbioserror 5mo agoThe entire Internet can bear the burden of free speech. I hold encyclopedias to a much higher, gatekept standard.
- daveguy 5mo agoThe blatant dumpty astroturfers are getting annoying, aren't they?
- adi_kurian 5mo agoBeing a dunce seems more likely than taking cash from the Russians but what do I know.
- daveguy 5mo agoYou're the one who said Russia. Could be a dunce, but just as easily an llm farm of the GOPs. We all know they aren't exactly ethical. But also, they have clearly made dunces out of a lot of people.
- chadgpt2 5mo agoInteresting idea, thanks for the link
- tencentshill 5mo agoBig Balls at the national design studio. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national-design-studio/ https://www.wired.com/story/doge-operatives-joining-national...