if only ublock could stop these Firefox ads

I swear every space game is described like this

I use brave and think it’s the best browser available, so I’m not arguing against it or anything, but technically it just supports use of the onion protocol, it does not provide the same full suite of protections that the tor browser does

As Brave says themselves:

For users who currently require leakproof privacy, we recommend using the Tor Browser, which provides much stronger and well-tested protection against websites or eavesdroppers using advanced techniques to uncover a true IP address.

https://brave.com/tor-tabs-beta/

yeah I’m using Voyager, but it turns out I had my feed set to top posts from the last 12 hours so none were showing up

I guess beehaw has dbzer0 defederated because those links don’t work for me

There is no agreed way to pronounce it.

so you agree then that one person doesn’t get to decide what the pronunciation is, and there is no “official” way to say it (although, the majority of people use the hard g - source)

I can absolutely understand that point of view and even agree to an extent.

However, as a counterpoint: creative people being able to support themselves with their work means they can focus on their art instead of it just being a side hobby to their money making job

I missed it tbh

The inventor can call it whatever he wants, but it’s not going to change the pronunciation that has stuck with the general public. Language isn’t some decided upon thing that one person gets to control, it is a tool that naturally evolves and changes over time as it spreads from person to person

Firefox? dead?! you mean the browser that peaked in user share in 2009 and has even declining ever since?? no! say it ain’t so! surely if I post a few more memes to lemmy it will turn things around

omg it’s network chuck!

people usually look where they are going

Agreed. clearly there is no getting through that thick liberal skull of yours

Fucking hell, can you possibly be more patronizing? Maybe you should read a book. Because nothing I’m saying is false or misleading. Meanwhile you’ve flip flopped all over the place and have no real point and have contributed no sources to back up any of your claims.

I have not “just discovered political science and ideologies”. I simply am versed in the actual meanings of words, instead of just loosely using words like “progressive” to mean whatever I want.

Wikipedia is simply a good way to introduce political concepts to people who obviously have no idea what the terms like liberalism, conservatism, progressivism actually mean. Like most of the people replying to me in this thread.

You say you understand where I’m coming from, yet don’t even have a consistent point that you’re working with here. You’re just arguing for the sake of it so you can be patronizing.

You liberals are just pissed because I had the gall to criticize Obama from the left. I have backed up everything I’ve posted with sources (some directly from Obama himself) that confirm everything I’ve said.

Everyone responding to me, including you, are just finding some random nonsense to strawman me with so you can pretend to have an argument.

Being a progressive does not have a different meaning in contemporary discussion. Progressivism doesn’t mean something different in the US. The US has leftist progressives like Bernie Sanders.

You are all strawmanning me and trying to make it seem like I’m saying Obama made no progress, when I’m saying Obama wasn’t a progressive.

We are talking about politics. Political ideologies are obviously going to be a part of the conversation. Quit acting like bringing them up is “viewing events from the lens of classical ideologies”. You just aren’t versed in political science.

Here is a page about progressivism specifically in the US if you want to learn more:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States

I’m an American lmao. But sure man, whatever argument you can come up with am I right?

No. You just have absolutely no knowledge of political science or what ideologies like progressivism or neoliberalism are.

Also funny how you completely ignore my point about how even focusing just on America, Obama is still not progressive. You seem to not have any idea what we’re even discussing

Are you even clicking on my sources? Or just picking the first tiny thing you can find a critique for and pulling a response out of your ass? The thing about “global standards” was a small aside that while true was not the point of the conversation.

Here’s a bunch of more sources you probably won’t read if you want to educate yourself on what political terms mean:

https://www.vox.com/polyarchy/2019/6/11/18660240/democrats-neoliberalism

https://progressive.org/op-eds/barack-obama-not-my-hero-pitchford-201214/

https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A356354197&v=2.1&it=r&sid=LitRC&asid=6e89d156

The conversation is centered around whether Obama was a progressive. He was not.

Progressivism isn’t just confined to the US, so yes people are talking about progressivism with the full context of the global political spectrum in mind.

But even within the US, Obama is nowhere close to a real progressive like Bernie Sanders, who has been consistently fighting for leftist values for decades.

I’m talking about progressivism as a defined political ideology, not a vauge statement of making progress.

Obamas healthcare plan was inherently neoliberal, which is a centrist, or even center-right ideology. The market exchange is a capitalist solution to the problem that the health care companies can profit from

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

It’s no secret the Democrats aren’t exactly left leaning by global standards, in reality they are a center-right party that mainly still practices Neoliberalism

Obama has said it himself on multiple occasions

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2010/apr/01/barack-obama/obama-says-heritage-foundation-source-health-excha/

Was it terrible? No. But it was a half measure, already a compromise and the watered down more by Republicans. it was absolutely not progressive, it was liberal/centrist at best.

A progressive health care plan would be a single payer universal healthcare system