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>>nickpa+(OP)
It’s not just they are flush with cash. It’s they are funding and fanning the culture war despite claiming to be a neutral party. Some of their funds are being routed to political entities that are not neutral.

Edit: here’s a link to a thread about what I mean:

https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579776106034757633?s=46&...

>>mgamac+ya
Free access to knowledge isn't a neutral position.

But I gather you think wmf is doing something beyond this? Which side, of which culture war do they support, in your view?

>>e12e+cb
They clearly support a left ideology by the editors, but I’m not even talking about that. I mean they send money to support far left anti-science groups.

https://twitter.com/echetus/status/1579779097278181378?s=46&...

>>mgamac+me
You have a strange definition of far-left, didn't see a single Maoist insurrection in that Twitter link.

Curse of American politics, I guess, when one considers the Democrats to be "left leaning", then your whole political perception is skewed.

(The Democrats are significantly to the right of our centre-right party. People who call them lefties or socialists or commies amuse, confuse, and bemuse me.)

>>Edward+nh
They are leftists. The woke ideology has a clear geneaology to Marx. Of course, they are not economic class focused leftists by any stretch of the imagination - bourgeoisie champagne socialists who've re-engineered the Marxian thinking style to focus on social identities, which makes it really easy to purport to care for the oppressed. It's very high quality champagne socialism.

But it's still leftist in origin and in ideology. Saying the modern wokified U.S. Left isn't leftist is just a No True Scotsman argument. Leftism and rightism are not narrow, specific things, they're more like inchoate moral intuitions that are given more concrete form by ideology and realpolitik. Individual leftist or rightist ideologies are often contradictory with each other. But the underlying sentiment is usually still recognizable as one or the other.

>>soundn+Mt
Democrats are not a left party. They are squarely center, maybe even center right.

As someone who is a communist, the Dems have nothing to do with Marx, and they are about as capitalist as they come.

>>social+NB
Even the formally communist country of china semes to be capitalist in truth. To the point where they will likely overtake the US as the richest country in the world.

>>Cthulh+FG
I think that's widely accepted, yeah. Deng Xiaoping changed a bunch of stuff that kept a lot of the authoritarianism but added capitalism.