User:Mgasparin/sandbox2

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The biggest edit war I've ever been involved in.

Overview

Donald Trump and Mike Pence were inaugurated as president and vice president, respectively, following their upset victory over Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Senator Tim Kaine in the 2016 presidential election. Millions of people across the US and around the world protested his presidency on January 21. In a series of memoranda, President Trump removes the US from the Trans-Pacific partnership (TPP), reinstates the Mexico City policy and overturns President Obama's halt on Keystone XL construction. President Trump signs Executive Order 13769, commonly called the "Muslim ban", preventing entry from several countries that have muslim-majority populations. A stay of execution on the order is granted by the District Court for the Western District of Washington.

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	Remember how much fun you had playing with blocks as a kid? Now that you're a mature adult, you can collect blocks with adult letters, and they're not only stackable, they're collectable. Mgasparin (talk) 04:19, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Can You Read This?

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Eye Sea a White " Pool Stick " "A"
"Perfect" Pool Pyramid with " A" Gloriously Gorgeous Golden Rainbow
Passing Pure Precious Perfect Q Ball and Ate Ball in The Right Pocket, amen.
Sincerely Stoned,
"High" Priest, amen.

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Response to Claims of Bias

From a discussion at Talk:Donald Trump about a perennial claim of left-leaning bias. EEng quoted a conversation from BMK about bias on Wikipedia. It is stated quite eloquently and provides a short and succinct rebuttal to the oft-repeated claim of "leftist" bias.

I think this is a great opportunity to quote something said by one of our esteemed fellow editors in a similar context some time ago: The so-called "liberal media" is biased towards reality, and the alt-right is biased towards anything that supports their ideology, which is, generally speaking, not reality-based. We are an encyclopedia, therefore we reflect reality, not any ideology. The right sees this and says "Ah, see, Wikipedia is supporting what the liberal media says, therefore Wikipedia is biased towards the left," but that's only because they see things through the filter of their POV, while we do our very best not to be biased towards anything except what is real and verifiable. The alt-right media are not, for the most part, reliable sources, since they have been shown to have been wrong again and again and again, and have an overall tendency to report whatever they believe, regardless of its relationship to reality. Thus we are forced to use reality-based media, which the alt-right sees as liberal or "leftist", which is actually ridiculous, since no mainstream American media outlet is anywhere near being left-wing -- but, then, the alt-right makes no differentiation between "liberal" and "leftist". In short, it is wrong to point the finger at Wikipedia as being the genesis of the problem, which originates in the minds of the ideologues of the right. There is no "leftist view" to Wikipedia, that's an artifact totally created in the perceptions of rightists. Our viewpoint is centrist, just as that of the "liberal media" is. The fault is not in us, it is in those who cannot differentiate their ideology from reality. EEng 23:52, 28 November 2020 (UTC)