If you don't see way too many icons on the brave side and literally the same overall design between the two websites in this screenshot, I don't know how to continue this conversation. They're both 95% empty space and Brave's results are splattered with icons. I'm a fan of Brave, but the idea that their design doesn't deserve the same criticism that all bullshit corporate art styles deserve is nonsense.
He's talking about Modern Web Design and he's completely correct.
To create a "hip" website nowadays people are convinced that the majroity of the screen should be completely empty.
A perfect example is old reddit versus new reddit. Just look at it and look at how many wasted pixels there are in new reddit. How much "empty space" is between everything. (I know, sorry for recommending to load up reddit at all, but their design is explicitly relevant to this)
I actually switched to Brave because I was sick of playing the adblocker game and Brave seems to perform as well as u-block origin but I don't have to keep fucking with it, and comes with about as sane privacy defaults as hardened firefox.
Also switched to their search, they support shebangs just like DDG, so it was insanely easy to swap.
This is incredibly reminiscent of people screaming about Russia buying facebook ads.
Who cares? Advertising/Propaganda is the only way to convince idiots and spread messages, and you should be blocking all ads anyways. If our enemies will publish our ideas and spread them amongst the people unable to block them, all the better.
I mean, did we all not just have that thread where people were all butthurt over NVIDIA Shield displaying propaganda to them? Why shouldn't we co-opt this tactic and put our propaganda in every possible crevice we can find a place for it to take root?
To be honest, I was calling myself alt-right in '16 because I thought the word just made sense to describe an american right-winger outside the GOP/Cathedral. I've given up on that, but it still makes sense to me. Specifically though, I'm talking about Moldbug and his ideas.
I'll start looking for stuff on Lincoln, what I do know of him is mostly propaganda.
I had the same reaction but overall it's pressed me to re-examine American history and Democracy in a new light and from multiple sources and perspectives.
What progressive ideas since our founding increased liberty? What progressive ideas decreased liberty? If I think progressivism has gone wrong, can I point to moments or thought leaders who took us that way? Is this new progressive wave actually "new" or just history playing itself for another loop?
I don't agree with the answers I've read from the alt-right for all of these questions, but damned if I don't agree with the asking of these questions and their historical perspective.
No, because America was founded by the Dissenters, which were the Progressives of their time. They dissented against the Crown and the Church, just as our progressives enjoy rebelling against the State and all Churches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Dissenters
This could be incorrect, but after reading Moldbug I am fairly convinced by his arguments and analysis of American history.
I agree, but I don't think that's enough.
Right now we're taxing and using Fiat currency which is complete bullshit. So long as we're using Fiat it really doesn't matter whether we're taxed or not as we would still be going to pay the ultimate tax that is levied by the Federal Reserve's presses, inflation. As long as the Cathedral can just print money from nothing to further their goals, we're their slaves and playing their game.
Getting rid of Mob Rule I can certainly agree with. The question, that I have been asking myself as well, is would it be enough?
We'd still be plagued with feminists, the federal reserve, the two(one)-party system, the military industrial complex, I could go on but honestly I'm a bit of a doomer today.
But where do we stop rolling back progressivism? Was the progressivism of the 1900's okay? The 1800's? The 1700's?
That's the thing, is that the story of the success of America is the story of the success of progressives.
Only fringe nutjobs still call themselves actual communists.
Most of our rulers nowadays are Fabians anyways, not commies. They believe in gradually changing the culture and laws instead of revolution, and it's working.
They disagee with Bill Ayers' violent bombing tactics, but that disagreement is only a tactical disagreement, and these disagreements only really apply in first world countries where there are lots of camera lenses, as they are more than happy to employ violence beyond them. Why use bombs and tarnish your movement as a violent fringe group when propaganda and community organizing works so much better? Why bother with shit like the Weather Underground and Bombing when Alinsky has shown them a new way where they get what they want and can also claim the moral high ground?
Also we dont hardly watch anything in the past like 5 years cause most of it is woke trash and movies suck now.
Dude come on don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. (Or do, in fact, throw that fucker as far as you can and perhaps light the bitch on fire on the way out)
I can understand stealing media and selectively consuming it, for example I watch some Marvel movies still so I can pass among my co-workers and chat about some generic bullshit. I do not understand really giving a shit about it. I especially do not understand "reaction" videos at all, and watching "reaction" videos about Hollywood movies sounds like it amounts to self-harm.
Are you just refusing to watch the dark horse stuff? It seems like the long terms risks are with bone marrow and ovaries.
The idea that the vaccine must be X or Y because the opposite would be a gift to you and people like you has to be one of the most egotistical things I've read. The vaccine is the vaccine and it's going to do what it does regardless of any person's opinions.
It's like an anti-natalist saying "There's no way that Johnson and Johnson would put asbestos in baby powder, they make all their money from mother's and their kids!" Yet, they did just that.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=baby+powder+asbestos&t=brave&ia=web
Oh sure, It's the desire to be the other. It's the exact same reason that Indian Women purchase whitening agents. When you are a Type A swimming in a sea of Type A's, it can be advantageous marketing to become a Type B in anyway you can.
If I don't incrementally tan during spring, I will burn so badly in the summer I've had fist sized blisters and skin cancer is probably what will take me out. Tanning is a totally normal biological reaction.
Unless you're just being lazy with your words, and you mean tanning beds specifically.
So you agree but you wanna argue along the way? Whatever mate.