From the bowels of the internet...
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I bring you conservapedia: http://www.conservapedia.com/Main_Page
My current favourite article: http://www.conservapedia.com/Liberal
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lol. So that's what Ron's been up to lately!
Fantastic find, Remus. I see your tuition money is well spent.
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Dang, I too thought it was an elaborate prank.
From Wikipedia: "Schlafly, a social studies teacher for the Eagle Forum University educational program,[13] created Conservapedia as an instruction tool for homeschooled, high-school-level students that he taught."
An instruction tool! I cannot but deem Mr. Schlafly a malicious and obscurantist corrupter of young minds.
Shame on him!These truly are odd times.
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Odd that it should pick on Hitler, having taken a big page out of his book...."Repeat a lie often enough and people will begin to believe it."
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I was reading and clicking through the site for a full couple of minutes, chuckling away with my irony hat firmly on my head when I realised that Conservapedia IS NOT IRONIC, IT IS SERIOUS. I had to read further for another minute to confirm that it wasn't written with tongue in cheek. I mean who, in earnest, splices an image of Darwin and Hitler together as the accompanying picture to an article drawing comparisons within their writings (and Richard Dawkins for good measure)? Conservapedia founder, lawyer and social studies teacher Andy Schlafly, apparently.
In fact, check out the Richard Dawkins article- it actually contains a subsection implying his role in the suicide of a 22-yr-old man as he had read Dawkin's book, become an atheist and (following the logic here?) therefore decided to kill himself. I'm sure the fact that he was a military veteran (presumably meaning he had seen active service, Conservapedia doesn't enlighten us any further) didn't have anything do with his psychological problems. Because reading a best-selling book is more likely to cause you to suffer severe mental illness than active service in war. Now that was writing with tongue in cheek.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Richard_Dawkins#Implication_in_the_death_of_Jesse_Kilgore
From the bowels of the internet indeed!
Interesting find Remus, now any chance you can unfind it?
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I also thought that guy was joking, when reading about what liberalism and liberalists mean for conservatorists, me being a liberal in a general politically unaffiliated sense and now i'm like
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Now i know Americans never understood what liberalism really is but this guy really takes the cake.
It's sites like these
that sometimes make me want the internet be censored 
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What scares me the most is that some people will undoubtedly try and peddle this site as a good resource.
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