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Conservapedia is an extremely douchey wiki that contains biased Conservative views. It was created with the sole purpose of turning people into apes. Of course it’s a huge plan to brainwash mankind and make them think the earth is flat, it could only be thought as an ill-conceived ultra-orthodox Angry Christian site started by a couple of old church ladies in apparent response to an imagined liberal bias on the part of wikipedia (The truth is that, to far-right conservatives, it is reality that has a left wing bias - not Wikipedia, which is actually Conservative or Libertarian biased.).
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A '''conservative''' adheres to principles of personal [[responsibility]], moral values, and limited government, agreeing with [[George Washington]]'s [[Farewell Address]] that "religion and morality are indispensable supports" to political prosperity.<ref>[http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/49.htm United States Department of State] George Washington, farewell address, 1796</ref><ref>Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary has the following definition of conservative: "tending or disposed to maintain existing views, conditions, or institutions : TRADITIONAL"[http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/conservative]  Therefore, a conservative Christian would be one that tends to adhere to the morally sound doctrines of the early Christianity and [[Judeo-Christian]] values.</ref>
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Former President [[Ronald Reagan]] said, "The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom."<ref>http://www.reason.com/news/show/29318.html</ref>
 
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[[Image:Aaag.jpg|thumb|Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States, is the epitome of American conservatism.]]
 
  
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The ''sine qua non'' of a conservative is someone who rises above his personal self-interest and promotes moral and economic values beneficial to all.  Alternatively, a conservative is willing to learn and advocate the insights of economics and the morality of the [[Bible]] for the benefit of all, recognizing that the Bible is the most logical book ever written.  Specifically, conservatives seek or support:
 
  
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* [[Limited government]] and balanced budgets
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Conservapedia asserts misinformed opinion as fact. They equate homosexuality with polygamy and liberals with terrorists.
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* [[Capitalism]] and [[free market|free markets]]
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* [[Classroom prayer]]
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* Prohibition of [[abortion]]
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* [[Abstinence]] education
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* Traditional marriage, not [[same-sex marriage]]
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* Respect for [[differences between men and women]], boys and girls
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* Laws against [[pornography]]
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* The [[Second Amendment]] right to keep and bear arms
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* Economic allocative efficiency (as opposed to popular equity)
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* The [[death penalty]]
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* Parental control of education
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* Private medical care and [[retirement plan]]s
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* Canceling failed social support programs
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* No [[world government]]
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* Enforcement of current laws regarding [[immigration]]
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* Respect for our military ... past and present
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* Rejection of [[junk science]] such as [[evolution]] and [[global warming]]
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* Low taxes, especially for families
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* Confederationism (less power for the federal government and more for local and state governments)
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* A strong [[national defense]]
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==Hall of Fame==
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Conservative scholar Clinton Rossiter<ref> Rossiter, "The Giants of American Conservatism," ''American Heritage'' 1955 6(6): 56-59, 94-96, online in [[EBSCO]]</ref> names [[Alexander Hamilton]], [[John Adams]], [[John Marshall]], [[Daniel Webster]], [[John C. Calhoun]], [[Elihu Root]], and [[Theodore Roosevelt]] to the "Conservative's Hall of Fame,"'' with John Adams as the greatest of American conservatives.
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===Presidents===
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A logical response to Conservapedia would sound something like this: "All hail the hypno-toad. Al Gore will lead the liberal nation to glorious empire upon the moon."
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Periodically a conservative has been elected president of the United States.  The most prominent conservative presidents include:
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*[[George Washington]] (1789-1797)
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*[[James Monroe]] (1817-1825)
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*[[Grover Cleveland]] (1885-1889, 1893-1897)
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*[[Warren G. Harding]] (1921-1923)
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*[[Calvin Coolidge]] (1923-1929)
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*[[Ronald Reagan]] (1981-1989)
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*[[George W. Bush]] (2001-2009) (with respect to taxes, Supreme Court nominations, and national security)
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The most prominent conservative Congresses have been:
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It is a fundamentalist Christian wiki encyclopedia project which promotes Biblical creation science and rejects evolution. Liberals (and any people with common sense) criticize it heavily. It is the subject of ridicule from those who are used to getting information without a heavy dose of fundamentalist hilarity. Its most heavily-viewed pages are about such topics as homosexuality, Wikipedia, and Adolf Hitler. While Liberapedia is obviously very much against the ethnocentric bias displayed in Conservapedia, we would like to make it clear that we respect their right to a free opinion, even if we do not necessarily agree with it, at least we would respect them if they respected the rights of editors who disagree with Andrew Schlafly.
  
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*The 80th Congress (elected in 1946)
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The very latest silliness at Conservapedia is recorded at Digging the Dirt on the Lunacy that is Conservapedia.
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*The 104th Congress (elected in 1994)
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===Movement===
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[[Movement conservatives]] are those who accept the logic of conservatism across-the-board, and stand up for its powerful principles despite liberal ridicule. Movement conservative activists include:
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Conservapedia was started in early 2006. At first it was mainly written by home-schooled creationist children, making it little better than ... well. Those sad little home-schooled children will suffer all their lives because of their poor education.
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*[[Phyllis Schlafly]], opposed [[ERA]]
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The site became more famous than it ever deserved to be when progressives discovered it and trolled it. Progressives began vandalizing it and linking to it from blogs urging people to vandalize or debate with them. This almost certainly accounted for better than two thirds of the hits Conservapedia got at that point.
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*[[Larry McDonald]], Congressman, on board [[KAL 007]] when shot down by the Soviets near [[Moneron Island]].
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*[[Jesse Helms]], Senator, specialist in foreign policy
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*[[Pat Buchanan]], TV commentator
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*[[Jerry Falwell]], religion
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*[[Michele Bachmann]], columnist
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*[[Ann Coulter]], columnist
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*[[Rush Limbaugh]], radio
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*[[Michelle Malkin]], commentator
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*[[Glenn Beck]], TV commentator
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===Key leaders===
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Later some scientifically minded people began to try to inject evolutionary dogma into the site - but soon ran afoul of Conservapedia's blocking policy (insert leftist bull=a block). Evolution became a battle-ground and later doughnuts. But the scientists could not hold the line. The scientists had the rational arguments but Andrew Schlafly had the computer keys. Schlafly exiled them in what became known as the "Night of the Blunt Knives". Some entered on the long trek to where they first plotted to troll Conservapedia. But later they forgot their proletariat roots and became another bourgeois wiki concerned about its own hit count.
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*[[Barry Goldwater]] - 1964 Republican candidate, lost to liberal Democrat [[Lyndon Johnson]] but revived the conservative movement inside the GOP
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*[[Russell Kirk]] - Theorist & intellectual
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*[[Irving Kristol|Irving]] and [[William Kristol]] - Notable [[neoconservatives]]
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*[[Margaret Thatcher]] - British prime minister between 1979 and 1990, held similar views as Reagan
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*[[Milton Friedman]] - Chicago-school [[libertarian]] economist, influential during Reagan administration; leader of the [[Chicago School of Economics]]
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==US Voters==
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Others founded the Almighty Liberapedia wiki you are reading now, and which is one of the sources of truth and fact on the internet.
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In America, most conservatives support the [[Republican Party]], but not exclusively so. In the 2008 election, 35% of the voters identified themselves as conservatives. Of them, 78% voted for McCain and 20% for Obama, with the 20% accounting for Obama's margin of victory. Only 22% of the voters were liberal; they favored Obama 89%-10%. In the middle were 44% who called themselves moderates. They split for Obama by 60%-39%. (Minor candidates won 2% of the vote.)<ref> See [http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1 Presidential 2008 Exit Poll]</ref>
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[[File:Conservative-republican-brain.jpg|thumb|350px]]
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===Religious differences between political conservatives and political liberals===
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The Barna poll conducted in November  2008 shows significant differences between the 32% of Americans who called themselves as “mostly conservative” on social and political matters; and the 17% who called themselves “mostly liberal” on social and political matters. The others --50%--were moderates with positions somewhere in-between.<ref> See [http://www.barna.org/barna-update/article/13-culture/258-survey-shows-how-liberals-and-conservatives-differ-on-matters-of-faith on line results] </ref>
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Some findings:
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Meanwhile, CP continues on its own path of biblical literalism and republicanism, making it a source of "truth." and hilarity.
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Political liberals are less than half as likely as political conservatives to firmly believe that the Bible is totally accurate in all of the principles it teaches (27% versus 63%, respectively); to strongly believe that Satan is real (17% versus 36%); and to firmly contend that they have a personal responsibility to share their religious beliefs with others (23% versus 48%).  
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[Note: "Liberal" and "conservative" in this survey are based on politics]
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The only people who go on conservapedia are people with NO LIFE.
  
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Liberals are also far less likely than conservatives to strongly believe each of the following:
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Educational value of Conservapedia
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*their religious faith is very important in their life (54% of liberals vs. 82% of conservatives);
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*a person cannot earn their way into Heaven by doing good deeds or being a good person (23% vs. 37%);
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*their faith is becoming an increasingly important moral guide in their life (38% vs. 70%);
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*the church they currently attend is very important in helping them find direction and fulfillment in life (37% vs. 62%);
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*their primary purpose in life is to love God with all their heart, mind, strength and soul (43% vs. 76%);
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political conservatives were more likely than liberals to:
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Conservapedia, like any encyclopedia (especially those using the open-editing wiki format), is prone to errors. There is reason to believe that Conservapedia is actually far inferior to Wikipedia and that its articles are not to be trusted. Conservapedia's math and history articles have been criticized for a plethora of errors, while a numerical comparison of Conservapedia articles with articles in Wikipedia have shown Conservapedia's articles to be lagging in quality.
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*read the Bible, other than at church events, during the past week (57% vs. 33%, respectively)
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*attend a religious service during the past week (62% vs. 35%)  
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*pray to God, other than at a religious service, during the past week (91% vs. 76%)
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*share their religious beliefs with others, during the past year (56% vs. 39%, among the born again Christians interviewed from each segment)
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*have ever participated in a short-term missions trip, either within the U.S. or in another country (12% vs. 6%)
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*2% of conservatives and 11% of liberals were atheist or agnostic
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Conservapedia folks imagine they could actually surpass the folks at Wikipedia in terms of accuracy, coverage and comprehensiveness - after all, founder Andrew Schlafly did intend it to be a home schooling tool - something which universities and schools do not view Wikipedia as being worthy of. However, it appears (from the wonderfully compact size of blurbs they steal from Conservapedia for extension on ) Conservapedia is too retardated to work for education. They mainly censor people who present evidence that is in against their views, and Schlafly fails utterly at spelling.
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*15% of conservatives and 2% of liberals were Christian evangelicals
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*conservatives were twice as likely as liberals to be categorized as born again, based on their theological views about salvation (63% vs. 32%)
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*21% of conservatives were associated with the Catholic church, compared to 30% among the liberals.
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== Barack Obama and American Conservatism Backlash ==
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Blocking Policy
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In October of 2009, Niles Gardiner reported in the [[Britain|British]] newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph'':
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On Conservapedia, you can be blocked for...
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{{cquote|This week’s striking [[Gallup]] poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under [[Barack Obama]]. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004.<ref>http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100014891/barack-obama-has-failed-to-defeat-conservatism-in-america/</ref>}}
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...using the wrong sort of English (ie using words that you learned after preschool)
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...questioning the opinions of the admins. Some of them are so stupid they can't answer questions
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...making a username which an admin disagrees with. (That used to mean anything that doesn't praise Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, God or Jesus) Now that means anything except a Christian name and the first letter of a second name.
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...trying to discuss things to improve Conservapedia
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...being a God hater
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...having a friend who is not Christian
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...admitting to using birth control or condoms
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...admitting that Fox News isn't Fair and Balanced
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...understanding that the American government was wrong about Iraq though Conservapedia pretends that's a "lie"
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...knowing that the French are not complete idiots, they are far less silly than Conservatives
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...saying that the UK was a strong nation during WWII, and that America wasn't the best of them all
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...realizing that Christianity, a religion that says you should not kill, has caused millions of people to die over the last thousand years (crusades, inquisitions, lynchings, holocausts, etc.)
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...making a typo in your edit
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...Mention FBI in anywhere (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehQD_-m40Tg&feature=related)
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Note: If you question Andy, then he will brand you as a liberal. While perfectly sane people know that isn't bad at all, as a matter of fact it's a very good thing, Andy will block you for it.
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Note: On Conservapedia it is even possible to reach a state of limbo, where you are not blocked but are not allowed to edit any pages. This will occur if you have a Conservapedia account where you don't speak your mind (which would lead to the usual block) and which you use to correct the frequent grammar/spelling errors that tend to crop up when Conservapedians spew feces from their mouths/minds/keyboards all over their beloved site and call it "trustworthy." It is possible that this will only occur if you are logged in from said valid account from an IP that has previously been banned and many important Internet Service Providers are range blocked.
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What to do if they block you
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Join Liberapedia
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Join
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Write about what's wrong with Constipedia Controlfreakapedia Conservapedia at either of the two above Wikis. They can't block you for what you write away from the Conservapedia banhammer. They can't revert it either, that's cool.
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After you have joined the two aforementioned wikis, do the following. The steps below will work provided your Internet Service Provider gives you a dynamic IP Adress:
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. Log out of Conservapedia.
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. Unplug modem from the wall and go to sleep. Alternatively switch off the modem. Wait a minute or so. Switch it back on. That changes a dynamic IP Address. Some Internet Service Providers change your IP every few hours. Others change the IP every time you switch off.
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. Wake up in morning, walk downstairs in your jammies, and drink a steamy cup of hot cocoa (include marshmallows).
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. Replug modem to the wall and look at your new IP address. Alternatively look at your new IP Adress a minute after you switched the modem back on.
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. Go back to Confarceapedia with a sockpuppet and let MAndy, Ed Poop, Bungler, and JPratt know what you think of them.
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. Repeat as needed.
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. PROFIT!!!!
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Note Conservapedia has restarted using range blocks. The above may not work as well as it used to.  
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If you have a static IP Adress or if you are range blocked, or if you don't want to be range blocked, look for proxies. However, most proxies have been blocked, so the absolute best tool is Tor. Tor is a dynamic IP that no block, range, IP, or username can stop.
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Conservapedia says:
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All of these need citations!
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All kangaroos are descended from a single pair who were on Noah's Ark.
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Gravity is an unproven theory.
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Einstein's General Relativity "has nothing to do with physics".
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Only followers of Christianity are capable of religious faith.
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Atheists are incapable of being moral.
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Jews are "touchy" about the Holocaust.
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Some of the most violent homicides seen by pathologists are among male homosexuals.
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The Beach Boys are an example of heavy metal.
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There were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark.
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The Earth is the center of the universe
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Rock music causes riots.[1]
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McCarthyism was good.
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Ann Coulter is hot and spicy.
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Belief in the Theory of Relativity leads to a belief in moral relativity (a bad thing).
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Dinosaurs are "generally believed" to be extinct.
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"God exercises eternal and righteous judgment of the wicked in hell."
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Homosexuality can cause bad smoking habits.
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Barack Hussein Obama is both a Communist, an Atheist and a Muslim. [2]
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HUSSEIN Obama has not provided a birth certificate.
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Osama Bin Laden is an Iraqi
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No one who believes in the Christian God has ever killed anyone.
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Hitler was "an evolutionary racist" [3]
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In the commandments, it explicitly forbids using BCE and CE, it wants to use BC and AD.
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It is impossible for Conservative Christians be bigoted. [4]
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JFK was a conservative.
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"Vandalism"
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Inserting irrefutable facts as facts is considered vandalism at Conservapedia, most of Conservapedia's vandalism is actually people removing blatant falsehoods and misrepresented facts.
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Censorship
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There are numbers of examples of censorship on Conservapedia.
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Mention of is strictly forbidden. On this link you can see JPatt (Conservapedia's security guard) deleting JewishConservative's (Conservapedia user) user page content which mentions RW.
  
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After that JewishConservative asks JPatt why did he delete the mention of RW on his page and are sysops allowed to do that. JPatt answers him by saying that is a rule (...Mentioning those rats is forbidden here... it is a rule.). JewishConservative asks him to post a link to the rule that forbidds the mention of RW. Then JPatt says that is an unwritten rule.
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Some of the more notable news organizations which tend to be more conservative are [[WorldNetDaily]] and [[NewsMax]]. [[Fox News]], though often called conservative, tends to be more [[neoconservative]] than [[conservative]].
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== Conservative magazines and blogs ==
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If you don't believe this occured, well... I'm going to supply you with a link.
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Well known conservative magazines in the United States include ''[[National Review]]'', ''[[Policy Review]]'', ''[[The Weekly Standard]]'' and others.
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Some notable [[Conservative blogs|conservative political blogs]] include the [[Heritage Foundation]]'s Policy Weblog, ''[[Human Events]]'', [[Michelle Malkin]], Newsbusters, Townhall.com and others.
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TK then (in order to help) tells JC to check out Conservapedia:Administrators Administrators and Bureaucrats are the Administrators of Conservapedia. Their instructions, as to Conservapedia policy and/or the appropriateness or inappropriateness of user actions, are to be followed. However, there is still nothing there that mentions anything about the sysops' right to remove the mentions of RW.
  
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== Neoconservatives ==
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Suggested Course of Action
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Note: When it's bed time in America Conservapedia disallows edits, claiming that "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, edit". You don't count as far as Andrew Schlafly cares if you're outside America and you must wait 'till someone has woken up over there and allowed edits again.
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Don't Go To Conservapedia Any More.
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Comedic relief. But even then, on any given page there is a 30% chance of headdesk from loss of faith in humanity.
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To support the Liberal Revolution against Conservapedia! If you want to join in, simply make an account. It should NOT contain the word Liberal or anything that is liberal-y, instead place words that inspire "warm fuzzies" in Conservatives, such as JesusLover4evr or ReaganResurrected. Or choose something simple that won’t attract attention. At the moment Conservapedia insists on a first name with the first letter of a second name in capitals. So just choose a nice sounding Christian first name. It can be your real sex or the other sex. That way, they won't suspect a thing, and they will be stunned when you start to VANDALIZE!! Those old church ladies will never defeat the amazing powers of mass spam, and perhaps break a hip when trying to fix it! They will be resigned when you start to VANDALIZE!! They get more vandalism than other contributions.
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You might be a diabolical reader who knows how to internet-method-act. If so, they make a perfectly innocuous username on CP, make perfectly innocuous mainspace edits, and don't put anything inflamatory on your userpage. Then IMITATE ANDY and use such methods as the Schlafly Reversal and the Schlafly Liberalator and protect the "truth" in key debates. Don't EVER question Andy. Do this for a year or so, adding content and bashing "liberals" using "logic," and perhaps Andy will make you a sysop. When he promotes you, be sure to thank Andy profusely, then send our warm fuzzy notices to the other admins. Wait one to two days doing perfectly normal CP sysop-type things, such as making full use of the Schlafly Rearguard, then--GO INSANE! PROTECT EVERYTHING! BLOCK EVERYONE! SPAM THE ADMINS! It'll be the ultimate vengeance! You'll be welcomed into Liberapedia with fanfare. will celebrate you as a hero. Start right away! But don't do anything malicious, or you might just get "refered to the authorities." DON'T EVER MENTION THE FBI INCIDENT.
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Edit some obscure articles and indirectly indicate that the Earth is older than twice the bristle cone pine tree's lifespan. NEVER question God's existence, even though we know there is no God (at least in the way as conservatives see it). You will be forming "islands of safety", places where Conservapedia is true.
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Hypocrisy
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Conservapedia is riddled with sad hypocrisy. Click here to view the ever growing article.
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Racism and sexism
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Since Blacks and females are more progressive than conservatives, Conservapedia appears racist. Their article on Barack Obama refers to him as the first "Affirmative Action" President. The article on Condoleezza Rice, however, takes an very positive view of her, with absolutely zero criticism. It appears that Conservapedia focuses more on slandering the Democrats and supporting the Republicans than being racist/sexist, as they never complain about Rice Being black.
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On the other hand, they realy can't stand Muslims, claiming that "the overwhelming majority of modern terrorists are Muslims", and include "Osama bin Laden" in the "Notable Muslim" list.
  
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American commentators who ally themselves with the conservative movement but reject its religious or moral underpinnings are generally known as [[neoconservatives]].<ref>Jonah Goldberg, [http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWMxNWNiNDJkY2JmNTExY2E1MzdkYWU3MWU1MTBiOGU= "What Is a 'Conservative'?"], [[National Review|National Review Online]], 11 May 2005</ref>
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Andrew Schlafly went to university with Obama and outsiders can only guess at what resentments have been festering for decades over that. See Barack Obama compared to Andrew Schlafly. Conservapedia was started up just about the time that people were beginning to notice that Obama might run for President.
  
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In the United States, conservatives are generally characterized by the following beliefs:
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Disdain for the letter "U"
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In England, words such as "color" and "humor" are spelt with extra u's; "colour" and "humour." While Liberapedia accepts this, as several editors here are British, "English-English" spellings on Conservapedia are classed as anti-American. As are spellings using the letter s rather than z, i.e. "organisation" rather than "organization." It is believed this stems from the editors' beliefs that the letters "U" and "S" should not be used excessively without the letter "A", thus completing the abbreviation: USA.
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Young Earth Creationist View on Conservapedia
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Young Earth Creationists believe Conservapedia is run by a coterie of ultra-liberal conservationists determined to drive conservatives away from religion with an editorial policy that insures every article on the site makes out that all Christians are irrational airheads. The YEC community also believes that the liberal deceit in every article on the site is designed to persuade conservatives that homeschooling inevitably produces illiterate fanatics. Prominent spokespeople for the YEC and Homeschooling movement have pointed to passages in Revelations that predict an evil twin will be created as a mirror image of The One True Wikipedia for the purpose of leading the faithful astray and into the clutches of the Evil One.
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Sometimes NeoconPedia isn't so obvious with it's rants. The Article on Jew has a section called "Life Cycle", as if they are talking about a species of animal. Going around calling Jews animals may be biologically true, but it still sounds racist. (But does conservapedia believe all Humans are Animals?).
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The article on ramadan states that many muslims "spend several hours praying and studying the Qur'an". Implying excessive devoutness. Now Christians that go to church several times a week aren't excessively devout are they?
  
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# Support of limited government.
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The Hitler article slanders the theory of evolution.
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== Paleoconservatives ==
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Even more faulty Conservative logic, Conservapedia blames the United States' "early" loss in the Round of 16 at the World Cup on "feminism having eliminated soccer at Division I colleges." Rather than trying to scapegoat women, we at Liberapedia know the real answer: America just does Baseball better than soccer. [4]
  
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[[Paleoconservatives]] are conservatives who are more focused on social issues and American sovereignty, and are suspicious of both big government and big business. They also lean against foreign interventionalism. Neoconservatives criticize this with the pejorative term of "isolationism," as they believe in promoting [[democracy]] worldwide, even where different religious or value systems are incompatible with democracy-induced changes in control.
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Among paleoconservatives was Democratic Congressman from Georgia, [[Larry McDonald]]. He was also second Chairman of the [[John Birch Society]], and President of Western Goals. McDonald was aboard [[Korean Airlines Flight 007]] when it was shot down by the Soviets near [[Moneron Island]] in 1983.
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== Personal conservatism ==
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Ku Klux Klan
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Because Conservatives often have strong political views, there can be a tendency to see conservatism as a purely political ideology. However, there is also a strong personal side to conservatism - being a conservative is as much about applying conservative values to one's everyday life as it is about campaigning and voting for conservative candidates. In general, conservatives can be characterized by a strong sense of personal [[morality]], a willingness to observe their culture's traditions and customs, and a desire to be respectable and to show due respect to other members of the community.
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Ridiculous quotes from Conservapedia
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The [[Loyalists]] of the [[American Revolution]] were mostly political conservatives, some of whom produced political discourse of a high order, including lawyer [[Joseph Galloway]] and governor-historian [[Thomas Hutchinson]]. However when the crisis came, they stood with the Crown as it tried to destroy American political liberties. After the war, the great majority remained in the U.S. and became citizens, but some leaders emigrated to other places in the British Empire. [[Samuel Seabury]] was a Loyalist who stayed and as the first American bishop played a major role in shaping the Episcopal religion, a stronghold of conservative social values.  While the Loyalist political tradition died out totally it the U.S., it survives in Canadian conservatism.
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C Conservapedia is an extremely douchey wiki that contains biased Conservative views. It was created with the sole purpose of turning people into apes. Of course it’s a huge plan to brainwash mankind and make them think the earth is flat, it could only be thought as an ill-conceived ultra-orthodox Angry Christian site started by a couple of old church ladies in apparent response to an imagined liberal bias on the part of wikipedia (The truth is that, to far-right conservatives, it is reality that has a left wing bias - not Wikipedia, which is actually Conservative or Libertarian biased.).


Conservapedia asserts misinformed opinion as fact. They equate homosexuality with polygamy and liberals with terrorists.

A logical response to Conservapedia would sound something like this: "All hail the hypno-toad. Al Gore will lead the liberal nation to glorious empire upon the moon."

It is a fundamentalist Christian wiki encyclopedia project which promotes Biblical creation science and rejects evolution. Liberals (and any people with common sense) criticize it heavily. It is the subject of ridicule from those who are used to getting information without a heavy dose of fundamentalist hilarity. Its most heavily-viewed pages are about such topics as homosexuality, Wikipedia, and Adolf Hitler. While Liberapedia is obviously very much against the ethnocentric bias displayed in Conservapedia, we would like to make it clear that we respect their right to a free opinion, even if we do not necessarily agree with it, at least we would respect them if they respected the rights of editors who disagree with Andrew Schlafly.

The very latest silliness at Conservapedia is recorded at Digging the Dirt on the Lunacy that is Conservapedia.

History Conservapedia was started in early 2006. At first it was mainly written by home-schooled creationist children, making it little better than ... well. Those sad little home-schooled children will suffer all their lives because of their poor education. The site became more famous than it ever deserved to be when progressives discovered it and trolled it. Progressives began vandalizing it and linking to it from blogs urging people to vandalize or debate with them. This almost certainly accounted for better than two thirds of the hits Conservapedia got at that point.

Later some scientifically minded people began to try to inject evolutionary dogma into the site - but soon ran afoul of Conservapedia's blocking policy (insert leftist bull=a block). Evolution became a battle-ground and later doughnuts. But the scientists could not hold the line. The scientists had the rational arguments but Andrew Schlafly had the computer keys. Schlafly exiled them in what became known as the "Night of the Blunt Knives". Some entered on the long trek to where they first plotted to troll Conservapedia. But later they forgot their proletariat roots and became another bourgeois wiki concerned about its own hit count.

Others founded the Almighty Liberapedia wiki you are reading now, and which is one of the sources of truth and fact on the internet.

Meanwhile, CP continues on its own path of biblical literalism and republicanism, making it a source of "truth." and hilarity.

The only people who go on conservapedia are people with NO LIFE.

Educational value of Conservapedia

Conservapedia, like any encyclopedia (especially those using the open-editing wiki format), is prone to errors. There is reason to believe that Conservapedia is actually far inferior to Wikipedia and that its articles are not to be trusted. Conservapedia's math and history articles have been criticized for a plethora of errors, while a numerical comparison of Conservapedia articles with articles in Wikipedia have shown Conservapedia's articles to be lagging in quality.

Conservapedia folks imagine they could actually surpass the folks at Wikipedia in terms of accuracy, coverage and comprehensiveness - after all, founder Andrew Schlafly did intend it to be a home schooling tool - something which universities and schools do not view Wikipedia as being worthy of. However, it appears (from the wonderfully compact size of blurbs they steal from Conservapedia for extension on ) Conservapedia is too retardated to work for education. They mainly censor people who present evidence that is in against their views, and Schlafly fails utterly at spelling.

Blocking Policy On Conservapedia, you can be blocked for... ...using the wrong sort of English (ie using words that you learned after preschool) ...questioning the opinions of the admins. Some of them are so stupid they can't answer questions ...making a username which an admin disagrees with. (That used to mean anything that doesn't praise Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, God or Jesus) Now that means anything except a Christian name and the first letter of a second name. ...trying to discuss things to improve Conservapedia ...being a God hater ...having a friend who is not Christian ...admitting to using birth control or condoms ...admitting that Fox News isn't Fair and Balanced ...understanding that the American government was wrong about Iraq though Conservapedia pretends that's a "lie" ...knowing that the French are not complete idiots, they are far less silly than Conservatives ...saying that the UK was a strong nation during WWII, and that America wasn't the best of them all ...realizing that Christianity, a religion that says you should not kill, has caused millions of people to die over the last thousand years (crusades, inquisitions, lynchings, holocausts, etc.) ...making a typo in your edit ...Mention FBI in anywhere (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehQD_-m40Tg&feature=related) Note: If you question Andy, then he will brand you as a liberal. While perfectly sane people know that isn't bad at all, as a matter of fact it's a very good thing, Andy will block you for it. Note: On Conservapedia it is even possible to reach a state of limbo, where you are not blocked but are not allowed to edit any pages. This will occur if you have a Conservapedia account where you don't speak your mind (which would lead to the usual block) and which you use to correct the frequent grammar/spelling errors that tend to crop up when Conservapedians spew feces from their mouths/minds/keyboards all over their beloved site and call it "trustworthy." It is possible that this will only occur if you are logged in from said valid account from an IP that has previously been banned and many important Internet Service Providers are range blocked. What to do if they block you Join Liberapedia Join Write about what's wrong with Constipedia Controlfreakapedia Conservapedia at either of the two above Wikis. They can't block you for what you write away from the Conservapedia banhammer. They can't revert it either, that's cool. After you have joined the two aforementioned wikis, do the following. The steps below will work provided your Internet Service Provider gives you a dynamic IP Adress: . Log out of Conservapedia. . Unplug modem from the wall and go to sleep. Alternatively switch off the modem. Wait a minute or so. Switch it back on. That changes a dynamic IP Address. Some Internet Service Providers change your IP every few hours. Others change the IP every time you switch off. . Wake up in morning, walk downstairs in your jammies, and drink a steamy cup of hot cocoa (include marshmallows). . Replug modem to the wall and look at your new IP address. Alternatively look at your new IP Adress a minute after you switched the modem back on. . Go back to Confarceapedia with a sockpuppet and let MAndy, Ed Poop, Bungler, and JPratt know what you think of them. . Wait for blocking. . Repeat as needed. . ???? . PROFIT!!!! Note Conservapedia has restarted using range blocks. The above may not work as well as it used to. If you have a static IP Adress or if you are range blocked, or if you don't want to be range blocked, look for proxies. However, most proxies have been blocked, so the absolute best tool is Tor. Tor is a dynamic IP that no block, range, IP, or username can stop. Conservapedia says: All of these need citations! All kangaroos are descended from a single pair who were on Noah's Ark. Gravity is an unproven theory. Einstein's General Relativity "has nothing to do with physics". Only followers of Christianity are capable of religious faith. Atheists are incapable of being moral. Jews are "touchy" about the Holocaust. Some of the most violent homicides seen by pathologists are among male homosexuals. The Beach Boys are an example of heavy metal. There were dinosaurs on Noah's Ark. The Earth is the center of the universe Rock music causes riots.[1] McCarthyism was good. Ann Coulter is hot and spicy. Belief in the Theory of Relativity leads to a belief in moral relativity (a bad thing). Dinosaurs are "generally believed" to be extinct. "God exercises eternal and righteous judgment of the wicked in hell." Homosexuality can cause bad smoking habits. Barack Hussein Obama is both a Communist, an Atheist and a Muslim. [2] HUSSEIN Obama has not provided a birth certificate. Osama Bin Laden is an Iraqi No one who believes in the Christian God has ever killed anyone. Hitler was "an evolutionary racist" [3] In the commandments, it explicitly forbids using BCE and CE, it wants to use BC and AD. It is impossible for Conservative Christians be bigoted. [4] JFK was a conservative. "Vandalism" Inserting irrefutable facts as facts is considered vandalism at Conservapedia, most of Conservapedia's vandalism is actually people removing blatant falsehoods and misrepresented facts. Censorship There are numbers of examples of censorship on Conservapedia. Mention of is strictly forbidden. On this link you can see JPatt (Conservapedia's security guard) deleting JewishConservative's (Conservapedia user) user page content which mentions RW.

After that JewishConservative asks JPatt why did he delete the mention of RW on his page and are sysops allowed to do that. JPatt answers him by saying that is a rule (...Mentioning those rats is forbidden here... it is a rule.). JewishConservative asks him to post a link to the rule that forbidds the mention of RW. Then JPatt says that is an unwritten rule.

If you don't believe this occured, well... I'm going to supply you with a link.

TK then (in order to help) tells JC to check out Conservapedia:Administrators Administrators and Bureaucrats are the Administrators of Conservapedia. Their instructions, as to Conservapedia policy and/or the appropriateness or inappropriateness of user actions, are to be followed. However, there is still nothing there that mentions anything about the sysops' right to remove the mentions of RW.

Suggested Course of Action Note: When it's bed time in America Conservapedia disallows edits, claiming that "The action you have requested is limited to users in one of the groups: Administrators, edit". You don't count as far as Andrew Schlafly cares if you're outside America and you must wait 'till someone has woken up over there and allowed edits again. Don't Go To Conservapedia Any More. Except for 4 things: Comedic relief. But even then, on any given page there is a 30% chance of headdesk from loss of faith in humanity. To support the Liberal Revolution against Conservapedia! If you want to join in, simply make an account. It should NOT contain the word Liberal or anything that is liberal-y, instead place words that inspire "warm fuzzies" in Conservatives, such as JesusLover4evr or ReaganResurrected. Or choose something simple that won’t attract attention. At the moment Conservapedia insists on a first name with the first letter of a second name in capitals. So just choose a nice sounding Christian first name. It can be your real sex or the other sex. That way, they won't suspect a thing, and they will be stunned when you start to VANDALIZE!! Those old church ladies will never defeat the amazing powers of mass spam, and perhaps break a hip when trying to fix it! They will be resigned when you start to VANDALIZE!! They get more vandalism than other contributions. You might be a diabolical reader who knows how to internet-method-act. If so, they make a perfectly innocuous username on CP, make perfectly innocuous mainspace edits, and don't put anything inflamatory on your userpage. Then IMITATE ANDY and use such methods as the Schlafly Reversal and the Schlafly Liberalator and protect the "truth" in key debates. Don't EVER question Andy. Do this for a year or so, adding content and bashing "liberals" using "logic," and perhaps Andy will make you a sysop. When he promotes you, be sure to thank Andy profusely, then send our warm fuzzy notices to the other admins. Wait one to two days doing perfectly normal CP sysop-type things, such as making full use of the Schlafly Rearguard, then--GO INSANE! PROTECT EVERYTHING! BLOCK EVERYONE! SPAM THE ADMINS! It'll be the ultimate vengeance! You'll be welcomed into Liberapedia with fanfare. will celebrate you as a hero. Start right away! But don't do anything malicious, or you might just get "refered to the authorities." DON'T EVER MENTION THE FBI INCIDENT. Edit some obscure articles and indirectly indicate that the Earth is older than twice the bristle cone pine tree's lifespan. NEVER question God's existence, even though we know there is no God (at least in the way as conservatives see it). You will be forming "islands of safety", places where Conservapedia is true. Hypocrisy Conservapedia is riddled with sad hypocrisy. Click here to view the ever growing article. Racism and sexism Since Blacks and females are more progressive than conservatives, Conservapedia appears racist. Their article on Barack Obama refers to him as the first "Affirmative Action" President. The article on Condoleezza Rice, however, takes an very positive view of her, with absolutely zero criticism. It appears that Conservapedia focuses more on slandering the Democrats and supporting the Republicans than being racist/sexist, as they never complain about Rice Being black. On the other hand, they realy can't stand Muslims, claiming that "the overwhelming majority of modern terrorists are Muslims", and include "Osama bin Laden" in the "Notable Muslim" list.

Andrew Schlafly went to university with Obama and outsiders can only guess at what resentments have been festering for decades over that. See Barack Obama compared to Andrew Schlafly. Conservapedia was started up just about the time that people were beginning to notice that Obama might run for President.

Disdain for the letter "U" In England, words such as "color" and "humor" are spelt with extra u's; "colour" and "humour." While Liberapedia accepts this, as several editors here are British, "English-English" spellings on Conservapedia are classed as anti-American. As are spellings using the letter s rather than z, i.e. "organisation" rather than "organization." It is believed this stems from the editors' beliefs that the letters "U" and "S" should not be used excessively without the letter "A", thus completing the abbreviation: USA. Young Earth Creationist View on Conservapedia 

Young Earth Creationists believe Conservapedia is run by a coterie of ultra-liberal conservationists determined to drive conservatives away from religion with an editorial policy that insures every article on the site makes out that all Christians are irrational airheads. The YEC community also believes that the liberal deceit in every article on the site is designed to persuade conservatives that homeschooling inevitably produces illiterate fanatics. Prominent spokespeople for the YEC and Homeschooling movement have pointed to passages in Revelations that predict an evil twin will be created as a mirror image of The One True Wikipedia for the purpose of leading the faithful astray and into the clutches of the Evil One.

Notable Subtleties Sometimes NeoconPedia isn't so obvious with it's rants. The Article on Jew has a section called "Life Cycle", as if they are talking about a species of animal. Going around calling Jews animals may be biologically true, but it still sounds racist. (But does conservapedia believe all Humans are Animals?). The article on ramadan states that many muslims "spend several hours praying and studying the Qur'an". Implying excessive devoutness. Now Christians that go to church several times a week aren't excessively devout are they?

The Hitler article slanders the theory of evolution.


Even more faulty Conservative logic, Conservapedia blames the United States' "early" loss in the Round of 16 at the World Cup on "feminism having eliminated soccer at Division I colleges." Rather than trying to scapegoat women, we at Liberapedia know the real answer: America just does Baseball better than soccer. [4]

See also Christian humility which Conservapedia lacks Conservapedia Sysops Conservatipedia Parody Web site Ku Klux Klan NAMBLA Ridiculous quotes from Conservapedia Stealth parody Why Conservapedia Sucks External links Conservapedia (Hilarious Uncyclopedia article) References

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