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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Yessir, i do believe that the information on Wikipedia resembles the truth a lot more than anything that comes from lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.net.

Yes, I do: because it confirms the things you already believed

Because Wikipedia gives me sources i can read up and decide myself if that’s bullshit or not

And do you? Do you read all those books from Anne Applebaum and similar right wing pundits? Do you read all the reports from far right think tanks like Australian Strategic Policy Institute? Do you read claims of not just the publications, but the save individual people, who have consistently repeated every verified lie to come out of the US state department, from WMDS in Iraq to babies in ovens in Gaza? How exactly are you "deciding for yourself" if that's bullshit?

And also because Wikipedia leaves politics aside as good as they can

They really don't. Not that it's even possible to "leave politics aside" when talking about things that are political. Thinking they do is basically admition that you consider your politics "the default".

if your perception of reality has anything to with what the world at large has agreed on, but there i lost ya, didn’t i?

You really want to commit the argument "it's true because it agrees with the average political position of westerners?" (because by "the world at large", you, naturally, where only talking about westerners.)