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'''Uncyclopedia''' is a parody encyclopedia project created in January 2005<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20110108053209/http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-interview/the-brains-behind-uncyclopedia</ref> to lampoon [[Wikipedia®]]'s extensive coverage, by mirroring their style of articles. As of July 2019, it has over 32,000 articles.<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> Popular topics parodied include [[Global warming]], [[Evolution]] and [[Creation]], the [[Bush]] administration, [[Conservapedia]], and popular culture. A recurring old joke on the site is making up [[Oscar Wilde]] quotes as well as quotes by [[Chuck Norris]], Captain Obvious, [[Kanye West]], and Russian Reversals.

Uncyclopedia's userbase, despite being a parody of [[Wikipedia]], supports much of the same liberal material that Wikipedia does. It was hosted by [[Wikia]], [[Jimbo Wales]]' for-profit webhost, until 14 May 2019. Its lack of standards results in an obviously liberal stance, and much of their satire is directed at Christian and Conservative values. In particular, their article on Conservapedia is composed mostly of hate speech, blatant lies, and labeling Conservatives as "retards". In addition, they attack creationism using a "pro-creationist" article, which mocks creationism by phrases like "evolution will get you sent straight to hell" and "Darwin was a **** Satanist". As 2011, very few pages are in their "Liberal" category.

On January 5, 2013, the majority of Uncyclopedia's userbase migrated to an independent fork located at en.uncyclopedia.co after a long history of disputes with Wikia. A significant number of users remained with the original Wikia site, however, partly due to disagreements with the fork editors.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20170706151550/http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Official_Move_Date_Announced:January_5th</ref> On 14 May 2019, Wikia shut down uncyclopedia.wikia.com due to violations of their content policy, and it was moved to independent hosting and the domain uncyclopedia.ca.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20190512232714/http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Uncyclopedia_is_moving#mw-content-text</ref><ref>https://risteq.net/wikis/2019-eviction-uncyclopedia.php</ref>

Uncyclopedia is far from family friendly; it contains many offensive words and images in its articles. Shortly after [[Jerry Falwell]] died (15 May 2007), Uncyclopedia presented an article with the following highly offensive statements:

{{QuoteBox|'''BREAKING NEWS!''' 
'''Jerry Falwell has died.''' 
'''DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE MEAN OL' WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!'''}}

{{QuoteBox|Dr. (it is a little known fact that he earned six PhDs) Jerry Fartwell (born: Breadline Era, died: Nappy Headed Imus Era) was a fat [obscenity deleted] bastard and famous mongoloid who re-instituted the hangman's noose in Lynchburg, Virginia (1956).}}

'''''Update'':''' Uncyclopedia finally deleted the Jerry Falwell article on 10 November 2007.<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Jerry_Falwell</ref>

Uncyclopedia also has an article labeled "Bad Right Wing Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense".<ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Bad_Right_Wing_Jokes_and_Other_Deleted_Nonsense</ref> This is an example of Uncyclopedian censorship. Material that is considered serious is generally deleted because it isn't considered humorous.

Articles at Uncyclopedia may also be deleted by being placed on QVFD (Quick Votes For Deletion)<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/QVFD</ref><ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/QVFD</ref> or VFD (Votes For Deletion).<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/VFD</ref><ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/VFD</ref> The difference between the two pages is that only new pages may be put on QVFD and it only takes one administrator vote to delete the page on QVFD, whereas older pages that are not featured may be put on VFD, and it takes 4 or 5 votes net in favor of deletion to delete a page on VFD. Only registered users are permitted to vote on VFD.

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The Passion of the Christ

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{{Infobox Film
| name=The Passion of the Christ
| image=The-passion-of-the-christ.jpg
| caption=Theatrical Poster
| director=[[Mel Gibson]]
| producer=Bruce Davey Mel Gibson Stephen McEveety Enzo Sisti
| writer(s)=[[Benedict Fitzgerald]] Mel Gibson
| starring=[[Jim Caviezel|James Caviezel]]
| music=John Debney
| cinematography=Caleb Deschanel
| editing=John Wright
| distributor=Icon Productions
| release date(s)=February 25, 2004
| running time=127 min.
| language=Aramaic}}

'''''The Passion of the Christ''''' was a movie produced by [[Mel Gibson]] and bankrolled with his own [[money]]. The film is based on the last 12 hours of the life of [[Jesus]], as read in the [[Gospels]]. Gibson felt that God wished him to make this movie as a "repayment" for the forgiveness of God.

==Plot==
The film opens with Jesus in the midst of an agonising struggle between his human and divine wills on the Mount of Olives. He temporarily leaves his prayers, and finds St. Peter, St. John, and another disciple sleeping against a tree. Waking them up, He demands to know why they could not watch one hour with him. They respond back with concern, asking whether they should summon the other Apostles. Jesus responds that he doesn't want them to see him in such a horrid condition and orders them to keep watching and to pray.

Meanwhile, [[Judas Iscariot]] stands before Caiaphas and the Sanhedrin. Caiaphas casts him thirty silver pieces to reveal where Jesus is.

Meanwhile, Jesus continues to be endlessly tempted by Satan to abandon the idea that one man can redeem the sins of the world. Jesus agonises over His coming death, but resists all temptation by calling on his Heavenly Father. Then, however, the Temple guards arrive with Judas. Jesus tells the guards, straight up, who he is. Judas then steps up and kisses Him on the cheek to identify Him further. Jesus berates Judas for betraying the Son of Man with a kiss. As Jesus is being shackled up, St. Peter attacks Malchus, one of the High Priest's servants, with his sword. The attack slices off Malchus' ear. Jesus goes to it, picks it up, and holds it against the guard's head, while ordering Peter to drop his sword. Peter does so, and we see the guard's side of his face, as though nothing happened to it. Malchus is stunned. The Apostles flee in terror. Jesus is then dragged away by the guards, leaving Malchus kneeling there, amazed and deeply touched by what has just happened.

We then see the Blessed Virgin waking up from what seems to be a nightmare. Mary Magdelene is concerned and asks whether she is alright. Mary responds by quoting from the prayers of Passover, "Why is this night different than other nights?" Mary Magdalene responds, "Because once we were slaves and we are slaves no longer." Suddenly St. John bursts in, telling them both that Jesus has been arrested.

As Jesus is being taken to the palace of Caiaphas, he is beaten with his chains and is repeatedly punched in the face, leaving one eye swollen shut. Judas is sitting under a bridge, when Jesus is thrown over it by the Temple guards. Judas looks on with agony and shame.

At the temple, Jesus sees Mary, Magdelene, and John. Jesus then recalls a tender memory of building a table for a rich man and joking about it with his mother. We then cut back to Jesus standing before the Sanhedrin, including Caiaphas. The Virgin Mary, Mary Magdelene, St. Peter, St. John, and Judas watch from afar as the temple priests denounce every doctrine that Jesus has taught, including that he is the King of the Jews, and the events of the Last Supper. Jesus is asked if these accusations are true. He responds by speaking the ineffable Name of God and declaring further that they will see him sitting at the right hand of the Father. Horrified by Jesus's "blasphemy," Caiaphas rends his garments and screams. The infuriated priests beat Jesus and spit in His face. He is then condemned to death.

A horrified St. Peter attempts to flee, but is seized by several people who point out that he is a disciple of Jesus. St. Peter denies it each of the three times it is pointed out. As Jesus turns around and bores into him with His one open eye, Peter is overwhelmed with guilt and shame. When the Blessed Virgin attempts to comfort him, Peter flees, crying that he is unworthy and bewailing what he has done. Judas goes to Caiaphas and pleads with him to release Jesus and to take back the money. However, Caiaphas refuses to accept it back, declaring that if Judas thinks he has betrayed innocent blood, it is his problem. Judas angrily throws the money on the Temple floor and runs off griefstricken. As he sits by a fire, two children approach him and ask him what's wrong. When Judas curses them, they turn into demons. They chase Judas, tormenting him as he flees outside the city walls. The next morning, Judas finds the donkey from Palm Sunday lying dead and being devoured by maggots. Unable to live with his shame, Judas hangs himself.

Meanwhile, the Temple priests bring Jesus to the court of [[Pontius Pilate]], so that he may be crucified under [[Roman Law]]. Pilate angrily demands to know whether they always punish their prisoners before they are tried. But after Caiaphas declares that Jesus has declared Himself the Messiah, Pontius privately examines Him. He offers Jesus a goblet of wine, but Jesus, having vowed to no longer drink the fruit of the vine at the Last Supper, politely declines. Pilate asks whether He is the King of the Jews. Jesus responds that His kingdom is not of this world and that if it were, His servants would never let Him be handed over to His enemies. He further declares that all who hear the truth hear His voice. Pilate cynically retorts, "What is truth?"

Pilate returns to the crowd and orders the priests to bring Jesus before King Herod Antipas, because Jesus is a Nazarene, and thus one of Herod's subjects. Caiaphas angrily protests but grudgingly obeys. Herod is an effeminate bisexual, deeply impressed by reports of Jesus's miracles. But when Jesus remains silent and will not respond to his pleas to work "a little miracle for me," Herod mocks Him, laughing that Jesus is just "crazy." When the priests return him to Pilate, he is not pleased. He asks them what they feel a fair punishment would be, and the crowd, bribed by the Temple priests, scream out "Crucify him!" Pilate refuses, fearing that Jesus's followers will revolt and that the ensuing bloodshed will turn the Emperor against him. Instead, he orders Jesus to be flogged, hoping that the sight will make Caiaphas and his cronies reconsider their desire for the [[death penalty]].

At a broken pillar, two Roman soldiers are to carry out the flagellation. They each pick up wooden rods and commence brutally striking Jesus on the back with them. He is bruised, bloodied, and beaten, and sinks to his knees. The Blessed Virgin, Mary Magdelene, and St. John all watch, utterly shattered. To everyone's astonishment, Jesus wills himself back to his feet, even after the beating has exhausted the guards. They angrily put down the rods and each pick up a cat-o-nine tails, and continue. This tears up Jesus' skin and flesh to the point where his left rib cage is visible. He seems on the point of death before Abenader, the centurion who will later become St. Ctesiphon, angrily orders the flogging to cease, saying that they were not authorized to scourge him to death. The soldiers grudgingly put down their whips and release Jesus, but they have to drag him away because he is in so much physical agony.

The Blessed Virgin and Mary Magdelene are presented with linen towels by Claudia Procles, Pilate's wife, who is just as crushed as they over what has just happened. They both go down to the courtyard and begin mopping the blood with the linen. Magdelene weeps as she remembers how Jesus saved her once from being stoned to death for her sins.

Jesus is seen in a barn-like room, sitting against a wooden post. The two Roman soldiers who flogged him drive a crown of thorns into his scalp and spit on him. He is given a red soldier's cloak and mockingly treated with royal homage. "Hail, King of the Worms," laughs one of the guards. Jesus is then brought back to Pontius Pilate. He is disgusted by how badly beaten Jesus is. He asks the rioting crowds if they are satisfied, but Caiaphas demands more. He still demands that Jesus be crucified. In a last ditch effort to make the whole crisis go away, Pilate forces Caiaphas to choose between the release of a "notorious murderer" named Barabbas and clemency for Jesus. Caiaphas is so filled with hatred for Jesus that he cries "Release Barabbas!" Pilate disgustedly washes his hands of the whole affair and declares, "I am innocent of this man's blood." He orders Abenader to do as Caiaphas demands.

We then see Jesus walking between two other thieves being crucified. The two beside him are tied to just a part of their cross—Jesus has to carry his own huge cross. Jesus embraces His cross, prompting mockery from one of the thieves. As he walks with it, he is endlessly beaten and yelled at by the crowds and the Roman soldiers alike. The Blessed Virgin, Mary Magdelene, and St. John follow him.

Down a small alleyway, Jesus trips and falls with the cross. The cross crushes him, Mary runs up to her son, flashing back to a time when he fell as a small child. As she reaches him she tries to comfort him, saying, "I'm here." Jesus looks at her, and wills himself up to carry his cross, and, quoting the Book of Isaiah declares "Behold, Mother, I make all things new." He stands up and continues on his way.

As Jesus keeps walking, he continues to fall under the weight of the heavy cross. The guards mock him and whip him each time. Abenader approaches again and, noting how weak Jesus has become, orders the soldiers to help Jesus carry the cross. Instead of doing it themselves, they find a man in the crowds, Simon of Cyrene, to help Him carry it. He grudgingly agrees to help.

As the two keep going, Jesus falls without the cross. Simon isn't able to hold it by himself. A riot breaks out, with groups of people fighting to get a chance at beating Jesus. Guards fight them off, and as that happens, St. Veronica approaches Jesus with a cloth and a pitcher of water. Jesus uses the cloth to wipe his bloodied face with. However, as he goes to take a gulp of water, a soldier walks over and kicks the cup over, and drives Veronica away. As the procession continues the viewer sees that Veronica's veil has been imprinted with the image of His face.

While the soldiers continue to beat Jesus with whips, Simon angrily threatens to not help with the cross if they don't stop what they're doing. They scornfully call him "Jew," but they grudgingly oblige. The procession continues, headed for Golgotha, or "The Place of the Skull."

Once there, Simon is ordered to leave. As he is driven away, he looks into Jesus's one eye with love and pity. We see Mary, Mary Magdelene and John again. They all watch as Jesus is stretched onto the cross. They nail both of his hands, tearing his right arm out of the socket in the process in order to make it fit the pre-drilled hole for the nail. In the midst of His agony, Jesus prays for mercy for all the sinners of the world, crying "Forgive them, Father. They do not know..." They then bind and nail his feet. They flip the cross over on Jesus' frontside. However, Jesus is elevated off the ground. The guards then flip the cross back over and raise it. As the cross is raised, we are taken to a flashback of the Last Supper, considered by [[Roman Catholic]]s to be the first Mass. We watch as Jesus Elevates the Host.

On the cross, he is mocked by Caiaphas and the Temple priests, and by the thief to his left, who tells Him to save them all if he is truly the Son of God. Jesus prays, "Father forgive them, they known not what they do." The thief on his right tells Caiaphas, "Listen, He prays for you." The [[Good Thief]] then tells Jesus his punishment is just, and that Jesus would be justified in condemning him, but he says, "Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom." Jesus tells the thief "On this day, you will be with me in paradise." As the other thief cackles with laughter over this, a crow comes from the sky and plucks his left eye out.

Jesus is getting weaker, and it is getting darker and darker out. Mary and John approach Jesus on his cross. Jesus declares, "I thirst!" A sympathetic Roman soldier named Cassius, later to become St. Longinus puts a sponge on a spear and soaks it in vinegar. Jesus tastes it and then turns his head aside. The Blessed Virgin pleads with Jesus to let her die with him. Jesus then tells Mary that John will now take care of her, and tells John that Mary is now his mother. Jesus then cries out in Hebrew "Father! Father! Why have you forsaken me?" Jesus then looks down upon them, saying, "It is finished." Mary Magdelene weeps. Jesus then looks upward and gasps "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." The pupil of His one eye dilates, and He exhales his last breath.

Suddenly there is a very violent earthquake. All the people run away, and the soldiers are ordered to break the criminals' legs. The Roman soldier Cassius breaks the legs of the thieves to Jesus' sides, but when he comes to break Jesus' legs, there's another tremble from the Earth. He tells Abenader that Jesus is already dead. Abenader orders him to, "Make sure." Cassius then drives a lance into Jesus's side. Blood and water pours from the wound as Cassius falls to his knees. It is at this moment that everyone, Romans and Jews alike, realize they have indeed killed the Son of God.

In the depths of Hell, Satan screams in impotent rage, knowing that his power has been broken forever.

That night, Jesus is removed from the cross. Mary embraces the body of her son in a manner reminiscent of [[Michelangelo]]'s [[Pieta]]. She stares blankly ahead, her eyes a mirror of her broken heart.

Three days later, the morning light of Easter Sunday streams into the garden tomb. As the rock rolls away, we see Jesus in healthy form. He stands up, and we see the hole in his hand from the nail. He walks out of his tomb to triumphant music, and the credits roll.

==Reaction==
Gibson was not even able to find a major distributor for his film. For a year before the movie was even released, and well before it was first previewed or seen, attacks on the movie began starting with a ''New York Times'' story attacking Gibson's father in March 2003. This turned out to be coupled with personal attacks on Mel Gibson with such titles as "Krazy Mel" and more attacks on his father and on Gibson's choice of church to worship. Calls to Gibson to denounce his father for his views, most famously in the Diane Sawyer television interview, were ignored by him. The ''New York Times'' continued with an ongoing campaign against Mel Gibson and his family.<ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00E4D61F3CF93AA35750C0A9659C8B63</ref><ref>http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/9/20/215906.shtml</ref><ref>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E6D8133EF931A3575BC0A9659C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2</ref>

Nevertheless, the movie went on to be a blockbuster grossing over $370 million in the U.S. and over $600 million worldwide,<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=passionofthechrist.htm</ref> an especially unheard of showing for the time of the year it was released.<ref>It was released around Easter; most major films are released either in summer or near Christmas; however, the release date allowed it to capture the #1 box-office ranking on its release weekend and it would rank #1 for three additional weekends.</ref> Cries of [[anti-Semitism]] were largely silenced as people saw the movie. With so many critics denouncing the movie without having seen it, Mel did an end around and went directly to church pastors, who were almost unanimously supportive and told their congregations.<ref>http://www.sharethepassionofthechrist.com/links/Endorsements.pdf</ref> The movie had more pre-ticket sales than any film in history.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335345/trivia</ref> Monetarily, it was the most successful Christian film ever.<ref>http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=passionofthechrist.htm</ref>

For Mel Gibson it was a personal affair. Thick-skinned by the nature of the business, he still did not expect the virulent attacks.

For the star, [[Jim Caviezel]], though he has not starred in major films, as of 2018 he is co-star of the CBS television show ''Person of Interest''.

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Discordianism

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'''Discordianism''' is a parody religion.

Discordianism, ostensibly, is the worship of [[Chaos]], personified by the Greek Goddess [[Eris (mythology)|Eris]] (or [[Discordia]], if you're feeling Roman.) As alluded to above, depending on who you ask, it is either a religion, a philosophy, a way of life, or the greatest in-joke ever perpetrated (or all at once.)

==Truth (by way of disclaimer)==
''All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and false in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true and false and meaningless in some sense.''
<nowiki> - translation of the full name of Sri Syadasti, one of the five apostles of Eris</nowiki>1

Discordians are forbidden from believing anything they read.2 Including this.

Documenting anything in relation to Discordianism is exceedingly difficult. One reason is the somewhat lax approach to truth described above. Another is that many (most? ''all??'') Discordians participate in actively spreading misinformation. Some do so as a religious observance, others out of a sense of self-preservation. Many just do so because they find it fun. Some allude to a deeper conspiratorial motive behind all this misinformation, but others claim that these conspiracy theories are themselves examples of misinformation.

Another reason for the difficulty is that every Discordian is, per Discordianism, considered a [[Pope]], and is therefore empowered to make changes to Discordianism as a whole. This results in mass chaos (which was almost certainly the point.) The upshot is that any two Discordians may tell you completely contradictory things about Discordianism - and both be right.

==History (rumored)==
An unsubstantiated rumor, whispered in dark alleys, hints that Discordianism was created at about the same time as Scientology, as part of a bet as to who could create the most popular "fake" religion. Many Discordians vehemently deny this rumor, feeling that it makes their religion look ridiculous. Others fervently embrace it, for precisely the same reason.

Other rumors include:
*The [http://www.ology.org/principia/ Principia Discordia], the chief holy book of Discordianism, was in fact written by Gregory Hill, a noted time traveler.3
*It has been claimed that the Principia Discordia was actually written in 1812, despite the fact that it was not published until the late 1960s.4 This may lend credence to the above time-travelling rumor. (It should be noted that the trustworthiness of the source for this rumor is extremely suspect. However, to a Discordian's way of thinking, this makes it the ideal place to hide true information.)

==History (official)==
Per the Principia Discordia, the birth of the Erisian Movement occurred when Omar Ravenhurst and Malaclypse the Younger received a vision of a chimpanzee while drinking coffee in an all-night bowling alley, followed by a dream of the Goddess Eris Herself a few nights later.5

The beginning of the story of Eris should be familiar to anyone who's studied their Homer. As the Greek myth has it, the gods and goddesses of Olympus had a party. Not wanting too much disorder at this party, they did not invite Eris. (Discordians refer to this as "The Original Snub.") Hurt, she showed up anyway, and threw into the crowd a golden apple with the word "kallisti" (roughly translated as "for the prettiest") upon it. The story of how the scuffle over the apple turned into the [[Trojan War]] is well-documented elsewhere; the story of how Eris then partook of a hot dog bun alone to console herself6 is perhaps a bit more apocryphal, but the Discordians seem to consider it true - in some sense.

==Philosophy==
Discordianism explains the metaphysical reality as a morass of chaos overlaid with varying reality grids, consisting of the illusions of order and disorder. Learning to change grids is the first step towards discarding them altogether and achieving [[Illuminati]]on.

According to Discordians, to believe that order (the [[Aneristic principle]]) is inherently better than disorder (the [[Eristic principle]]) is the ''Aneristic Illusion''. The opposite belief is the ''Eristic Illusion.'' The mingling of the Aneristic and Eristic principles is illustrated in the Hodge Podge, or [http://discordiansociety.org/ Sacred Chao] (a ''chao'' being defined as a single unit of chaos.)7

''To choose order over disorder, or disorder over order, is to accept a trip composed of both the creative and the destructive. But to choose the creative over the destructive is an all-creative trip composed of both order and disorder. To accomplish this, one need only accept creative disorder along with, and equal to, creative order, and also willing to reject destructive order as an undesirable equal to destructive disorder.''8

===The Curse of Greyface===

''In the year 1166 B.C., a malcontented hunchbrain by the name of Greyface, got it into his head that the universe was as humorless as he, and he began to teach that play was sinful because it contradicted the ways of Serious Order. "Look at all the order around you," he said. And from that, he deluded honest men to believe that reality was a straightjacket affair and not the happy romance as men had known it.''

''It is not presently understood why men were so gullible at that particular time, for absolutely no one thought to observe all the disorder around them and conclude just the opposite. But anyway, Greyface and his followers took the game of playing at life more seriously than they took life itself and were known even to destroy other living beings whose ways of life differed from their own.''

''The unfortunate result of this is that mankind has since been suffering from a psychological and spiritual imbalance. Imbalance causes frustration, and frustration causes fear. And fear makes for a bad trip. Man has been on a bad trip for a long time now.''

''It is called THE CURSE OF GREYFACE.''9

===The Law of Fives===
''The Law of Fives states simply that: ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN FIVES, OR ARE DIVISIBLE BY OR ARE MULTIPLES OF FIVE, OR ARE SOMEHOW DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY APPROPRIATE TO 5.''

''The Law of Fives is never wrong.''10

===Discordian Quotes===
The [http://www.kbuxton.com/discordia/discordianquotes.html Discordian Quotes] are a 40+ page collection of quotations — some funny, some thought-provoking, some simply random. Some are obviously connected to Discordianism; others function more like a [[Zen]] [[koan]]. None of the quotes are attributed; tracking down the sources of the more obscure quotes is a popular pastime amongst Discordians. (Hint: try [[Mystery Science Theater 3000]], [[Calvin and Hobbes]], and [[Moby Dick]], for starters.) Others maintain that if you read the entire list from beginning to end without going insane, you will achieve enlightenment.

According to [http://discordianquotes.com discordianquotes.com], the Discordian Quotes are closely tied to a [http://lostsouls.org MUD, Lost Souls], though it hints nebulously that they originate elsewhere.

===[[Fnord]]===
[http://www.kbuxton.com/discordia/fnord.html You're not cleared for this.]

==Rituals==
Discordian rites, rituals and observances differ with the times, the cabal, and even with the Discordian. One common observance, listed in the [http://principiadiscordia.com/book/11.php Pentabarf] (The Discordian Five Commandments) goes as follows:

''A Discordian is Required during his early Illumination to Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog on a Friday; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns).''

Other popular Discordian practices include [http://principiadiscordia.com/book/71.php The Turkey Curse], [http://principiadiscordia.com/book/36.php The Baptismal Rite],
[http://www.fools-errant.com/~ebeth/deck/ Tarot], [http://www.sacredhearth.com/funnystuff/erisiancreme The Sacred Erisian High Mass of the Krispy Kreme Kabal], [http://www.23ae.com/format/pdorig/pdorigsj5.htm Gourdfest], and many others.

==(Dis)Organization==
Ironically, Discordian groups, or [[Cabals]], tend to be extremely [[hierarchical]], with members having elaborate titles and degrees, similar to the [[Masons]] or the [[Catholic]] Church. Typical titles include things like "The Omnibenevolent Polyfather of Virginity in Gold", "Archbeacon of the Blind", or "Keeper of the Notary Sojak". The commonest rank among Discordians is [[Pope]].

Do You Believe That?

==Relations with Outsiders==
Discordianism is about as anti-establishment as they come. It is cheerfully disrespectful of authority, organized religion, the mainstream, and really just about everything and everyone else, including itself. It is accordingly quite popular with [[Hippies]] (and their modern-day equivalent) and other members of the [[counterculture]].

''see also:'' [[Robert Anton Wilson]], [[Illuminatus!]], [[Church of the SubGenius]], [[Emperor Norton]]

1. http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/46.php

2. http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/11.php

3. http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/2.php

4. http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Discordianism

5. http://principiadiscordia.com/book/14.php

6. http://principiadiscordia.com/book/24.php

7. http://principiadiscordia.com/book/56.php

8. http://principiadiscordia.com/book/70.php

9. http://principiadiscordia.com/book/49.php

10. http://principiadiscordia.com/book/23.php

==External links==

* [http://www.principiadiscordia.com/ The Principia Discordia, or ''How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her'']
* [http://www.kbuxton.com/discordia/ Kristin Buxton's Discordianism page]

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'''Uncyclopedia''' is a parody encyclopedia project created in January 2005<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20110108053209/http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-interview/the-brains-behind-uncyclopedia</ref> to lampoon [[Wikipedia®]]'s extensive coverage, by mirroring their style of articles. As of July 2019, it has over 32,000 articles.<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> Popular topics parodied include [[Global warming]], [[Evolution]] and [[Creation]], the [[Bush]] administration, [[Conservapedia]], and popular culture. A recurring old joke on the site is making up [[Oscar Wilde]] quotes as well as quotes by [[Chuck Norris]], Captain Obvious, [[Kanye West]], and Russian Reversals.

Uncyclopedia's userbase, despite being a parody of [[Wikipedia]], supports much of the same liberal material that Wikipedia does. It was hosted by [[Wikia]], [[Jimbo Wales]]' for-profit webhost, until 14 May 2019. Its lack of standards results in an obviously liberal stance, and much of their satire is directed at Christian and Conservative values. In particular, their article on Conservapedia is composed mostly of hate speech, blatant lies, and labeling Conservatives as "retards". In addition, they attack creationism using a "pro-creationist" article, which mocks creationism by phrases like "evolution will get you sent straight to hell" and "Darwin was a **** Satanist". As 2011, very few pages are in their "Liberal" category.

On January 5, 2013, the majority of Uncyclopedia's userbase migrated to an independent fork located at en.uncyclopedia.co after a long history of disputes with Wikia. A significant number of users remained with the original Wikia site, however. On 14 May 2019, Wikia shut down uncyclopedia.wikia.com due to violations of their content policy, and it was moved to independent hosting and the domain uncyclopedia.ca.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20190512232714/http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Uncyclopedia_is_moving#mw-content-text</ref><ref>https://risteq.net/wikis/2019-eviction-uncyclopedia.php</ref>

Uncyclopedia is far from family friendly; it contains many offensive words and images in its articles. Shortly after [[Jerry Falwell]] died (15 May 2007), Uncyclopedia presented an article with the following highly offensive statements:

{{QuoteBox|'''BREAKING NEWS!''' 
'''Jerry Falwell has died.''' 
'''DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE MEAN OL' WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!'''}}

{{QuoteBox|Dr. (it is a little known fact that he earned six PhDs) Jerry Fartwell (born: Breadline Era, died: Nappy Headed Imus Era) was a fat [obscenity deleted] bastard and famous mongoloid who re-instituted the hangman's noose in Lynchburg, Virginia (1956).}}

'''''Update'':''' Uncyclopedia finally deleted the Jerry Falwell article on 10 November 2007.<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Jerry_Falwell</ref>

Uncyclopedia also has an article labeled "Bad Right Wing Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense".<ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Bad_Right_Wing_Jokes_and_Other_Deleted_Nonsense</ref> This is an example of Uncyclopedian censorship. Material that is considered serious is generally deleted because it isn't considered humorous.

Articles at Uncyclopedia may also be deleted by being placed on QVFD (Quick Votes For Deletion)<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/QVFD</ref><ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/QVFD</ref> or VFD (Votes For Deletion).<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/VFD</ref><ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/VFD</ref> The difference between the two pages is that only new pages may be put on QVFD and it only takes one administrator vote to delete the page on QVFD, whereas older pages that are not featured may be put on VFD, and it takes 4 or 5 votes net in favor of deletion to delete a page on VFD. Only registered users are permitted to vote on VFD.

==References==
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[[Category:Liberalism]]

Uncyclopedia

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[[File:Wiki.png|right]]
'''Uncyclopedia''' is a parody encyclopedia project created in January 2005<ref>http://www.netmag.co.uk/zine/discover-interview/the-brains-behind-uncyclopedia</ref> to lampoon [[Wikipedia®]]'s extensive coverage, by mirroring their style of articles. As of July 2019, it has over 32,000 articles.<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/Special:Statistics</ref> Popular topics parodied include [[Global warming]], [[Evolution]] and [[Creation]], the [[Bush]] administration, [[Conservapedia]], and popular culture. A recurring old joke on the site is making up [[Oscar Wilde]] quotes as well as quotes by [[Chuck Norris]], Captain Obvious, [[Kanye West]], and Russian Reversals.

Uncyclopedia's userbase, despite being a parody of [[Wikipedia]], supports much of the same liberal material that Wikipedia does. It was hosted by [[Wikia]], [[Jimbo Wales]]' for-profit webhost, until 14 May 2019. Its lack of standards results in an obviously liberal stance, and much of their satire is directed at Christian and Conservative values. In particular, their article on Conservapedia is composed mostly of hate speech, blatant lies, and labeling Conservatives as "retards". In addition, they attack creationism using a "pro-creationist" article, which mocks creationism by phrases like "evolution will get you sent straight to hell" and "Darwin was a **** Satanist". As 2011, very few pages are in their "Liberal" category.

On January 5, 2013, the majority of Uncyclopedia's userbase migrated to an independent fork located at en.uncyclopedia.co after a long history of disputes with Wikia. A significant number of users remained with the original Wikia site, however. On 14 May 2019, Wikia shut down uncyclopedia.wikia.com due to violations of their content policy, and it was moved to independent hosting and the domain uncyclopedia.ca.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20190512232714/http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Uncyclopedia_is_moving#mw-content-text</ref><ref>https://risteq.net/wikis/2019-eviction-uncyclopedia.php</ref>

Uncyclopedia is far from family friendly; it contains many offensive words and images in its articles. Shortly after [[Jerry Falwell]] died (15 May 2007), Uncyclopedia presented an article with the following highly offensive statements:

{{QuoteBox|'''BREAKING NEWS!''' 
'''Jerry Falwell has died.''' 
'''DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE WITCH IS DEAD, DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD, THE MEAN OL' WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!'''}}

{{QuoteBox|Dr. (it is a little known fact that he earned six PhDs) Jerry Fartwell (born: Breadline Era, died: Nappy Headed Imus Era) was a fat [obscenity deleted] bastard and famous mongoloid who re-instituted the hangman's noose in Lynchburg, Virginia (1956).}}

'''''Update'':''' Uncyclopedia finally deleted the Jerry Falwell article on 10 November 2007.<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=delete&user=&page=Jerry_Falwell</ref>

Uncyclopedia also has an article labeled "Bad Right Wing Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense".<ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Uncyclopedia:Bad_Right_Wing_Jokes_and_Other_Deleted_Nonsense</ref> This is an example of Uncyclopedian censorship. Material that is considered serious is generally deleted because it isn't considered humorous.

Articles at Uncyclopedia may also be deleted by being placed on QVFD (Quick Votes For Deletion)<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/QVFD</ref><ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/QVFD</ref> or VFD (Votes For Deletion).<ref>http://uncyclopedia.ca/wiki/VFD</ref><ref>http://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/VFD</ref> The difference between the two pages is that only new pages may be put on QVFD and it only takes one administrator vote to delete the page on QVFD, whereas older pages that are not featured may be put on VFD, and it takes 4 or 5 votes net in favor of deletion to delete a page on VFD. Only registered users are permitted to vote on VFD.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Wikis]]
[[Category:Liberalism]]

Guardian (UK)

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'''''The Guardian''''' (Sunday edition: '''''The Observer''''')<ref>''The Observer'' began as a separate Sunday newspaper in 1791 and predates the ''Manchester Guardian'' by 30 years. Guardian Media Group acquired ''The Observer'' in 1993.</ref> is a [[UK]] national daily [[newspaper]] known for its very [[liberal|left-wing]] stance. Originally known as the ''[[Manchester]] Guardian'', since it was originally published there, it is owned by a charitable organization, the Scott Trust.

''The Guardian'' is dominated by [[atheist]] and [[homosexual rights]] viewpoints. Regular contributors include atheist Charlie Brooker, LGBT campaigners Peter Tatchell, Rev. Richard Coles, Julie Bindel, [[Owen Jones]], Patrick Strudwick and transgenders Jack Monroe (born a woman), [[Paris Lees]] (born a man) and [[Jane Francesca Fae]] (born a man).

In 2017 the total circulation of ''The Guardian'' had dropped to 149,000, making it number 19 among British newspapers.

==Examples of inaccuracy and bias==
In 2016, when the UK magistrate Richard Page was dismissed from his post in the judiciary for merely saying he believed children were better off with a mother and father, ''The Guardian'' reported the case as "Magistrate sacked over religious opposition to same-sex couples adopting". This was not true. Page's opinion was based on the best interests of the children and their welfare, not on a mere religious prohibition. Page's view is supported by the best available scientific evidence i.e. the Regnerus Report. Within a few months of Page's dismissal, in 2017, a pair of lesbians, Deborah and “wife” Jennifer Harrison, were convicted of starving a child and hitting her with a hammer. Very soon afterward, a baby girl named Elsie was murdered by her homosexual adoptive "father" Matthew Scully-Hicks. ''The Guardian'' did not connect the three cases.<ref>theguardian.com, 10 March 2016</ref><ref>https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3660471/mum-lover-jailed-abuse-starving-daughter/</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/06/matthew-scully-hicks-guilty-of-murdering-adopted-daughter</ref><ref>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/nov/07/matthew-scully-hicks-jailed-for-life-daughter-elsie</ref>

In September 2016, ''The Guardian'' reported that there had been a huge "spike" in hate-crimes against Eastern Europeans in Britain since the Brexit vote, and highlighted the death of Arkadiusz Jóźwik, who died in a late-night fight in Harlow, Essex, which they called a "suspected hate-crime".<ref>
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/28/hate-crime-horrible-spike-brexit-vote-metropolitan-police</ref> They repeated these allegations in a series of articles.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/13/hate-crimes-eu-referendum-home-office-figures-confirm</ref>
But when the case eventually came to court, the verdict was that Jóźwik's death was the result of a drunken brawl, not a "hate crime attack".<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-41202493</ref>
The source of the figures about a so-called "spike in hate-crime" was just a single police statement taking figures from a website called True Vision where anonymous reports can be made without proof. Many complaints are of a petty nature e.g. verbal disagreement. The police noted that over a four-day period, the previous figure of 54 had risen to 85. So 31
allegations made without proof were reported as a national "spike" in hate-crime.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/13/hate-crimes-eu-referendum-home-office-figures-confirm</ref><ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3805008/The-great-Brexit-hate-crime-myth-claims-epidemic-race-crimes-referendum-simply-false.html</ref>

On 14 June 2018 ''The Guardian'' published an article by Claude Moraes entitled "The far right is organised and growing. Those Nazi salutes are serious". It referred to a demonstration held on 9 June in London in protest at the imprisonment of campaigner Tommy Robinson. The only evidence the article brings of "Nazi salutes" is a photograph in which one man is holding up both arms with fingers splayed, and another behind him is holding up a placard.<ref>
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jun/14/far-right-nazi-tommy-robinson-racist-movements-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw</ref>
The article alleged that the demonstrators had been violent and aggressive and had attacked the police. This was untrue. No arrests were made at the demonstration despite the fact, reported by many who attended and shown on video coverage, that the Metropolitan police went to great lengths to try to provoke a violent incident. <ref>
http://www.a1r.tv/videos/view/18414 </ref>

Nowhere does the article admit the real cause for Robinson's arrest and the demonstration, which is the gigantic [[grooming gang]] scandal. For at least twenty years, organized Muslim gangs in England and the Netherlands have exploited very young British girls from vulnerable backgrounds, who have been terrorized, drugged, prostituted and gang-raped. It is reliably estimated that there have been 50,000 victims in 73 towns and the problem still persists. <ref>
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Easy-Meat-Britains-Grooming-Scandal/dp/1943003068 </ref> The authorities continue to turn a blind eye or minimize the problem. Robinson and others have been whistle-blowers, and the government was intent on silencing him but the article presents the protesters as merely "racists" who have no genuine grievance, which is a grave misrepresentation.

In May 2019, the newspaper announced it would use the terms "climate emergency, crisis or breakdown" rather than "climate change,"<ref>Frazin, Rachel (May 17, 2019). [https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/444327-guardian-updates-style-climate-change-now-climate-emergency-crisis Guardian updates style: Climate change now 'climate emergency, crisis or breakdown']. ''The Hill''. Retrieved May 17, 2019.</ref><ref>Chasmar, Jessica (May 18, 2019). [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/17/guardian-issues-new-style-guidelines-climate-chang/ Guardian issues new style guidelines: 'Climate change' is now 'climate emergency']. ''The Washington Times''. Retrieved May 18, 2019.</ref> and that it would describe "climate skeptics" as "climate deniers."<ref>Williams, Thomas D. (May 20, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/environment/2019/05/20/guardian-no-climate-skeptics-only-deniers/ Guardian: No Climate Skeptics, Only ‘Deniers’]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 13, 2019.</ref> It has also adopted extreme pro-abortion language, including using the terms "anti-abortion" and "pro-choice" rather than "pro-life" and "pro-abortion," and it has banned the term "[[Heartbeat Bill]]."<ref>Williams, Thomas D. (June 13, 2019). [https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2019/06/13/the-guardian-to-enforce-pro-abortion-language/ The Guardian to Enforce Pro-Abortion Language]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved June 13, 2019. See also:
*Van Maren, Jonathon (June 14, 2019). [https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/mainstream-medias-ban-on-heartbeat-language-to-describe-pro-life-bills-is-simply-unscientific Mainstream media’s ban on ‘heartbeat’ language to describe pro-life bills is simply unscientific]. ''LifeSiteNews''. Retrieved June 14, 2019.</ref>

==Conspiracy theories About Brexit==
Following the [[Brexit|referendum on European Union membership]], which the Leave faction narrowly won, ''The Guardian'' ran a series of articles attributing the outcome to sinister foreign influences or illegal funding, attempting to prove that the result was invalid. One of these, by Carole Cadwalla, claimed that UK's Information Commissioner's Office had launched legal proceedings against Arron Banks and the LEAVE.EU campaign. This was not true.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy</ref>

==Misleading statistics about transgenderism==
''The Guardian'' regularly publishes articles claiming that half of the children diagnosed as so-called "[[transgender]]" in the UK have attempted suicide. But these figures are dubious as they do not come from an objective source, only from LGBT campaigning groups such Stonewall which use online surveys, very small sample spaces, and have no proof that the answers correspond to fact. These organisations get more and more funding according to the size of the problem they claim exists.
<ref> https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/nov/19/young-transgender-suicide-attempts-survey</ref>
<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jun/27/half-of-trans-pupils-in-the-uk-tried-to-take-their-own-lives-survey-finds</ref>
<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2017/nov/17/trans-people-children-suicide-bullying-rightwing-media</ref>
<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/mar/28/trans-young-people-suicide-support-mental-health</ref>
When checked objectively by FullFact.com, there was a lot of doubt about the accuracy of the figures.<ref>https://fullfact.org/health/young-trans-people/</ref> There are no statistics that prove transgender people become any less likely to commit suicide in later life if their delusion is affirmed and made official. Moreover, what such alarmist reports do not mention is that the actual number of children classified as "trans" in the UK has rocketed by 2,000% in eight years, in response to LGBT ideas being taught in schools. So if the problem exists it is being created by the LGBTs.
<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/GenderCritical/comments/7xhanp/schools_resource_pack_transgender_trend/</ref>
GID specialists are warning that hasty treatment or premature treatment is not in the interest of the children.<ref>https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/schools-rushing-on-whisper-to-label-pupils-as-transgender-0d8zm53qs</ref>

==Notable employees==
[[Paris Lees]] and [[Jane Francesca Fae]], two of ''The Guardian'''s transgender journalists, both have unusual backgrounds. Lees has served prison time for the crime of violent assault, while Fae, whose previous name was John Ozimek, campaigned for ten years for the legalisation of extreme and hard-core pornography. He is currently suspended from the UK [[Labour Party]] for repeatedly inciting violent attacks on women.<ref>https://twitter.com/CorrectMorally/status/1003555983308673024</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/fakerikiw/status/972797636481871872</ref>

==Campaign against UKIP==
''The Guardian'' newspaper conducted a fierce campaign against the UK Independence Party (UKIP) a political party formed in 1992 with the aim of withdrawing the UK from the European Union. ''The Guardian'' branded UKIP a "far-right" and "neo-fascist" party without any evidence either from its manifesto or anywhere else, and printed smear articles about virtually every prominent member of UKIP on a regular basis, claiming they were racist, guilty of financial misconduct etc. An example of how they distorted the facts is a story they printed on 13 June 2017 with the headline "MEP resigns amid investigation into alleged misuse of funds".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/13/ukip-mep-resigns-amid-investigation-into-alleged-misuse-of-funds</ref> The article reported that Roger Helmer, a UKIP member of the [[European Parliament]], was going to resign while undergoing investigation for alleged misuse of funds. The implication was that his resignation was triggered by the investigation, and was an admission of guilt.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/13/ukip-mep-resigns-amid-investigation-into-alleged-misuse-of-funds</ref> That was highly misleading. In fact, Helmer who was aged 73, had decided to retire because after the Leave vote in the EU Referendum held in May 2016, he regarded his work as done and was looking forward to retirement. Some months previously, EU officials had challenged two of his staff, Nick Tite and Paul Oakden, to prove that they had done the work for which they were claiming payment through EU expenses. That is a routine gambit used by the EU to harass and make life difficult for all MEPs who campaign against their country's membership. All UKIP MEPS are regularly subjected to this sort of inspection, while MEPS of other parties are not. Just before the ''Guardian'' story appeared, Nick Tite had been cleared, and no evidence of misconduct was ever found against the other staffer either. No money ever had to be paid back, and there was no connection between either case and Helmer's retirement.<ref>https://rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/the-european-parliament-an-apology/</ref> Nevertheless, despite a refutation by Helmer on his personal blog, ''The Guardian'' never withdrew its slanderous allegations, and still has the story on its website. The story was copied from ''The Guardian'' to other sources where the allegations were made even more explicitly. Free newspaper ''The Metro'' ran a story with the headline "UKIP MEP quits over “misuse of £100,000 of EU money”. False allegations of disgrace were then spread widely, and never retracted. Helmer commented that ''The Guardian'' was motivated by "malice". Their story described him as having "controversial views on homosexuality". What they deemed "controversial views" was his defence of man-woman marriage and objection to threats and menace against those who wished to uphold it.<ref>https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/02/20/ukip-mep-who-said-homophobia-doesnt-exist-complains-about-ukip-phobia/</ref>

==Website==
{{cquote|The [[Richard Dawkins|Dawkins]] inspired "atheist ranters" come out in force on ''Guardian'' pages. They hate organised religion with a zeal, they deride the faithful as mentally retarded, they gibber on about [[Flying Spaghetti Monster|spaghetti monsters]] and sky pixies, as if such talk actually added anything meaningful to the debate. ... It is easy to picture these sycophantic drones smugly typing their intolerant bile, glowing with inner pride at their own rebellious contrariness.|||''Another Angry Voice'', a [[socialist]] internet blogger.<ref>[http://anotherangryvoice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/richard-dawkins-slave-ancestor.html Richard Dawkins and the slave trade], ''Another Angry Voice''.</ref>}}
''The Guardian'' has recently set up versions of its website in Australia and the United States; its website in the [[United Kingdom]] is one of the most popular in the country, and the majority of the site's views come from the [[United States]].<ref>However, despite being a UK-based website, ''guardian.co.uk'' is a more popular in the United States and multiculturalist [[Sweden]] than in the UK. [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/guardian.co.uk Statistics Summary for guardian.co.uk]</ref> ''The Guardian'' also runs the largest internet forum of any British newspaper in the form of Guardian Unlimited Talk.

The comments on their internet opinion blog, ''Comment is Free'', are filtered by a moderator.

==Political stance==
The paper was described in the 1930s as "the Communist paper, The ''Manchester Guardian''" by Lord Beaverbrook,<ref>Crozier, W.P., edited by A.J.P.Taylor, ''Off The Record'', London, 1973, p.259. ISBN 0-09-116250-5 "''I found Beaverbrook with Walter Citrine, General Secretary of the TUC. He presented me to him (Citrine) as 'The Editor of the Communist paper, The ''Manchester Guardian''.<nowiki>'</nowiki>''"</ref> and even earlier in Victorian times by the [[communist]] [[Friedrich Engels]] as "an organ of the middle class",<ref>[[Friedrich Engels|Engels, Friedrich]], ''The Condition of the Working Class in England'', Progress, 1973, p. 109.</ref> and by Ted Scott as "a paper that will remain [[bourgeois]] to the last".<ref>Ayerst, ''The Guardian'', 1971, p. 471.</ref>

Today in 2018, the Guardian is regarded as a far-left [[liberal]] paper, as well as being pro-[[abortion]] on demand, anti-[[Bush]] and anti-[[American]], pro-[[Obama]] and critical of [[Tony Blair]]'s support for the war in [[Iraq]] (and of New Labour in general). The newspaper's reputation as a platform for [[liberal]] and left-wing opinions has led to the use of the epithets "''Guardian'' reader" and "Guardianista" for people holding such views,<ref>{{cite web|author=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons, Westminster |url=http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmhansrd/vo011119/debtext/11119-08.htm#11119-08_spnew3 |title=Hansard 374:54 19 November 2001 |publisher=Publications.parliament.uk |date=19 November 2001 |accessdate=28 July 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/4348620.stm|title=What the papers say|work=BBC News|date=17 October 2005}}</ref> or as a negative stereotype of such people as middle class, and [[politically correct]].

===Clark County fiasco===
On October 13, 2004, the Guardian paper attempted to influence the election between [[George W. Bush]] and [[John Kerry]] in one particular Ohio county, Clark County.<ref>[http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=10846 Euro-Socialists Say: Assassinate Bush], Operation Clark County, post-mortem, [[FrontPage Magazine]]</ref><ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/13/uselections2004.usa11 My fellow non-Americans ... ]</ref> They called it "''Operation Clark County''",<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/oct/18/uselections2004.usa2 Dear Limey assholes]</ref> and the effort is generally regarded to have been a failure and a fiasco for the paper.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1474828/Guardian-calls-it-quits-in-Clark-County-fiasco.html Guardian calls it quits in Clark County fiasco], [[Daily Telegraph]]</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3981823.stm Did Guardian turn Ohio to Bush?], [[BBC]]</ref><ref>[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/lady-antonia-of-clark-county-532409.html Lady Antonia of Clark County], Why 'The Guardian' and its readers are still feeling the wrath of Ohio , [[The Independent]]</ref><ref>[http://mammon.typepad.com/root_of_all_evil/2008/11/us-election-2008-remembering-guardians-operation-clark-county.html US election 2008: remembering Guardian's Operation Clark County]</ref><ref>[http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/2004-11-04-brits-letters_x.htm Brits' campaign backfires in Ohio], [[USA Today]]</ref>

===Bloggers===
Its columnists include the irritated [[atheist]] and [[agnostic]] comedians Charlie Brooker<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker The Guardian - Charlie Brooker]</ref> and [[David Mitchell]],<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/davidmitchell The Guardian - David Mitchell]</ref><ref>See: [[Atheism and depression]]</ref> as well as Ariane Sherine,<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/arianesherine The Guardian - Ariane Sherine]</ref> who was responsible for setting up the atheist bus campaign, which propagated anti-Christian and pro-atheist slogans on buses in the United Kingdom, on behalf of the so-called British Humanist Association.

Given its openly left-wing stance, a blogger whose article appeared in ''The Guardian'' stated that the movie ''[[An American Carol]]'' was "propaganda masquerading as entertainment."<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2008/oct/01/1 Does An American Carol signal the rise of the Hollywood right?] Guardian, October 1, 2008</ref>

==Typographical errors==
The paper's nickname '''''The Grauniad''''' (sometimes abbreviated as "Graun") originated with the satirical magazine ''[[Private Eye]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/dec/16/society|title=Surely shome mishtake?|work=The Guardian|date=16 December 2000| location=London|last=Sherrin|first=Ned}}</ref> This [[anagram]] played on ''The Guardian's'' early reputation for frequent typographical errors, including misspelling its own name as ''The Gaurdian''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_oO5fWi6dikC&pg=PA26 |pages=26–27 |title=Porcupine, Picayune, & Post: how newspapers get their names |first=Jim|last=Bernhard|publisher=University of Missouri Press|year=2007|isbn=0-8262-1748-6|accessdate=11 August 2013}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[Polly Toynbee]]

==References==
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