snail_stampede

@snail_stampede@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually prefer a mostly text web. If the trade off for ditching JavaScript is not getting hovering pop ups, I’m fine with that. I think that while JavaScript can help with usability, it’s main use right now is being a pain in the ass. Sometimes I just want to go on the Internet and read cool shit without fifty different corporations trying to fuck me over with the promise of “enhanced usability”. Like a link has to have some floating bullshit for me to click it. Absolute madness.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hexbear federation megathread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Leftist and liberal are separate ideologies. Leftists like to criticize liberal policies because those policies tend to try and prop up/fix existing systems where leftists try to change the system itself. Some people hear any critique of America’s Democratic party (ie liberals, in broad strokes) and assume it’s coming from a right winger but that’s not always the case, sometimes it’s coming from those to the left of the party. In most other Western countries the US Democratic party would actually be a centrist party based on it’s platforms and there would be a leftist political party to represent those left of the Democrats. The two party system prevents this so leftists and liberals get lumped together, with much consternation from both sides. This is, however, painting with a very broad brush and if you’re interested in the topic I’d give it a google. There’s lots of interesting reading out there.