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Source thread Like...what is going on?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thread contains a good example of how cult-like they are:

Admin telling them off for using Wikipedia (even though he's used Wikipedia plenty of times)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Prolewiki curiously runs a severe deficit of citations. The references list on any entry is tiny.

What's hilarious is that they claim Wikipedia is CIA propaganda, when their own article on gulags cites... The CIA.

Someone make it make sense, please.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love how almost all of their sources come from fake news sites.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Comrade, are you saying that https://stalinistkatyusha.wixsite.com is not a reliable, unbiased source? To the gulag with you.

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

Why am I disappointed that site doesnt exist?

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

Someone needs to buy the domain and make it into a web 1 style shitpost. Just a background video of a katyusha firing with soviet march nlaring and a dancing stalin jpg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

These people who are allergic to grass really love an echochamber

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yakub is a few decades old at this point. Its just a black supremacist myth. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_(Nation_of_Islam)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a good thing I ignore what stupid cults thinks. Thanks for the link though, it’s entertaining.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay, but what about a smart cult?

Cause getting piss drunk with a Dionesian Cult sounds like a smart (and fun) thing to do. Just hope you dont get dismembered.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I prefer stupid cults of another nature. Praise "Bob" and St. Stupid! Chaotic cults are cool too, hail Eris.

[–] FilthyShrooms 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Babe babe wake up, new white people lore dropped

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This isn't "new." This is Farrakhan bullshit from the Nation of Islam, iirc from the 70s. Iirc he also says he has a UFO or some shit, dude is batshit, and idk why I am seeing an increase in people spreading their segregationist rhetoric but frankly I don't like it. Playing right into the culture war.

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

And they have the gall to call us racist

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

wHiTe PeOpLe ArE nOt A rAcE!!1!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk who "they" are, but this seems troubling.

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

That fake myth might just be older than tanks, let alone tankies. The guy who pulled the story out of his ass certainly is, at any rate.