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    1 month ago

    I’m never going to be one to dog on something before I try it. If it’s good and can offer the same or better experience as Firefox then sign me up. The biggest sticking point for me, though, is potentially losing Firefox’s massive add-in library. I really like my uBlock Origin and Restore YouTube Dislike and my VPN extension and Metamask and all the other crap I’ve got there.






  • This comment is concerning. People believe things for a reason and to dismiss them as “cockamamie nonsense” is beyond useless; it’s damaging.

    For one, to believe that is to close one’s eyes to the reasons that people are behaving in this way. They’re not insane and if you want to simply assume that they behave this way because they are insane then you will make no progress at all in stopping the far-right from seizing more and more power while you’re left wondering why a greater and greater number of your countrymen are acting “insane”.

    Venezuelan immigrants in the US are sympathetic to the rhetoric of Trump and other right-wing figures because the authoritarian Maduro regime in Venezuela is strongly associated with socialism. It is under the banner of socialism that Maduro has destroyed Venezuela’s democracy and economy, so the strong dislike of anything even slightly resembling what was presented as “socialism” to them in Venezuela is a reactionary one.

    There is a reason for people voting the way they do. And if you can understand the reason that things are the way they are, you can work to change them.