I’m sorry, what? Why have I never heard of this?
I’m sorry, what? Why have I never heard of this?
Huh! My perception has always been the opposite, but that Wikipedia article appears soundly sourced. Don’t I feel silly?!
It appears I have been shown who is the boss.
Anyhow, I hope it’s agreed that the general point I had that there’s historically two different uses of that term and it’s not unreasonable to be confused about them still stands.
I’ll leave my comment up as-is for context.
They are, or rather were. For most of the world, especially in Europe, liberalism means/meant socially liberal, i.e. left wing - based on personal freedom from imposition of others’ values on their personal and social lives. However, in America liberal has (relatively recently, as in 2000’s) become synonymous with neoliberal ideology, which is absolutely not left wing in any traditional sense, focusing on ‘small government’ and freedom of the markets—I guess because pronouncing two extra syllables is too much effort? Idk.
With the internet this peculiar usage has recently (as in the last 5-10 years) started leaking out of America and is being used in this confusing and ambiguous manner.
To be fair though, the Overton window has shifted so far right now that liberal (i.e. left of the nominal centre) shares much of the same space as neoliberal. See New Labour, and the current Labour government.
Edit: Deleted a paragraph that in retrospect was unnecessarily negative.
Heh, so now I know. Charlie Kirk’s face is exactly 5% too small.
Oh, of course! I think I was trying to overthink it.
Yeah, beards have been common since at least the ‘hipster/lumbersexual’ memes which were about 2008 or so. There’s not been any particular drop off since then. It’s just accepted that some people prefer or look better with a beard.
This is peak Torment Nexus energy.
Thanks, I really needed this.
As a Wipeout fan, no it isn’t.
Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.
Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).
True true, I just specifically took issue with it always having been run by bastards. (I know it’s a meme template, but I just wanted to point to evidence that there is hope that not everything we use has always been yoked with pure greed. Call it a cope, IDC.)
Which Aaron are you referring to?
I wouldn’t say Reddit always has been owned by a malicious entity, Aaron Swartz was a cool guy. And if you’re telling me a man who freely distributed thousands of needlessly paywalled research papers is a some kind of arch capitalist, then there’s no helping you.
I hear it more as “Let them eat cock”, there’s no implication of naiveté in his statement, just malice.
I will say that as someone with sensitive teeth, Sensodyne actually is legit though.
To be fair, I’d rather always be asked for cookie consent than the websites hoover up every last bit of information about me without my knowledge or consent.
Totally agree with the rest of your points though. Like, why do I need an nVidia account to download fucking drivers?
Oh my god. This is delicious.