Not just “pedophile”, but “child rapist who was close friends with the most notorious child sex trafficker in modern history and transparently had him murdered to cover it up”.

So vindicated.

Stop spamming LLM slop, OP.

Peace for our time!

I agree with that, and I think that one comment below has it wrong. My comment wasn’t a defense as much as it was a neutral clarification for readers at home™. I try to offer additional context when Wikipedia stuff gets brought up on Lemmy, because 1) selfishly, I think demystifying it makes it more likely that new people try editing, and 2) with Wikipedia being a major anchor of the modern information ecosystem, it’s healthier for said ecosystem if people better understand what goes into it.

I guess people don’t read anymore?

You hopefully saw that I linked the article size guidelines above alongside the 21,000 words figure. That page is only 1700 words, so feel free to give it a read and see if it soothes your curiosity for why we have them (definitely feel free to ask if any claims made seem dubious or terminology is unclear).

Keep in mind that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and that this singular “article” represents nearly 50 pages of prose in 12-point, single-spaced print – the size of a novella. Wikipedia articles are meant to be encyclopedic treatments of their subjects, not dissertations on them.

Edit: just checked, and the “Download as PDF” of this article is 153 pages long.

Okay, I can give a bit of insight into why this isn’t just a shitpost on behalf of Wikipedia’s editors. For various important reasons, we have guidelines on article size, and while it’s not hard-and-fast, 10,000 words is generally the point where most editors will start wanting to trim material from the article or branch it off into more specific subarticles. An article with more than 15,000 words should “almost certainly be divided or trimmed”. For context, the article on “World War II” has 13,000 words, and that’s because there are literally tens of thousands of other articles about that war containing offloaded details within details within details.

The article “False or misleading statements by Donald Trump” currently has 21,000 words. It’s utterly giga-fucked compared to any other article I’ve ever seen on the English Wikipedia. And when e.g. the “COVID-19 pandemic” section already has the listed “further information” articles of: “COVID-19 pandemic in the United States”, “COVID-19 misinformation by the United States § Trump administration”, and “Communication of the Trump administration during the COVID-19 pandemic”, what are you even supposed to do? It’s fucking impossible.

I know exactly what you mean. I just don’t want people to lose sight of the fact that Charlie Kirk had no actual principles in any capacity. He said and did whatever helped him in that specific moment.

everything he said and stood for

Charlie Kirk stood for nothing besides Charlie Kirk. Kirk was a lying grifter. He would have loved everyone treating him with empathy, because he didn’t ever actually care about empathy generally; he cared about hurting other people to his own benefit, and that meant eliminating empathy towards them.

“Moved on by now” here means “probably wouldn’t even have heard about it.” At least we can take comfort knowing that, unlike the first-grader, Charlie would’ve surely been proud to know he was a sacrifice on the altar of the Second Amendment.

I do know the story. Did you mean for this to be a top-level comment?

And why is he “King” Lot in this? I actually can’t tell if this is 7D gigabrain satire or if this comes from some loose recollection of hearing a Bible story 20 years ago.

Edit: also, the image looks GPT-generated. What the fuck is up with the boy’s Polnareff-ass head, why is his left leg melting, and how is the dad’s left arm wrapping around him?

Because “asks them to leave” wouldn’t be as juicy to their fascist, racist audience as “asks them to self-deport”. The latter unduly connotes guilt in a way the former doesn’t and makes the regime seem more powerful.

Not just a pedophile: a pedophile who’s acted on that urge – a child rapist.

I didn’t know so much “no contact” could exist in such a small space.

“Russia invades Ukraine.” “Um ackshually many Russians do not support this move.”

You understand how discussing groups as a singular entity works, right?

New Deltarune mod idea where Gay Putin, Bald JD Vance, and Xinnie the Pooh replace the main trio, respectively.

Should’ve gone the 4Kids One Piece route and turned it into a lollipop.

Did… Did they censor the cleavage?

AIPAC dark money paying for itself thousands of times over.