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  • halvar@lemm.eetoProgressive Politics@lemmy.worldThis you?
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    26 days ago

    Look, centrism is a real thing. There are people who really do like to analyze each and every problem from a more or less unbiased viewpoint and form strong opinions without the influence of ideology, while being ready for a compromise. Anyone who was serious about being a centrist I ever talked to defined their ideology this way.

    With that being said there also are right-wingers who like to masquerade as centrist or sometimes moderate left just so they can use their supposed position to more effectively plant their ideas and try and normalize them.

    But the thing I’m sick and tired of is when people try and pretend that this is true for every centrist, while ignoring the real problem that there are radical elements that try to masquerade as moderate ones and in doing so are polarizing and actively destroying our society.















  • They are part right, if we really want to give them the benefit of the doubt. For the south it was absolutely about preserving slavery, but for the north abolishing it was still kind of a controversial topic.

    The decision to make it about ending slavery from Lincoln’s part was part tactical, even though he personally always wanted to do so anyway. It made a lot of former slaves and other black people available for enlistment and also secured the support of people opposing slavery.

    But initially it was more about the southern paranoia of the north forcing them to abolish slavery and since the north could not provide any security about this, they decided to quit, which lead the north to try and preserve the union.

    At least as far as I know.




  • Workarounds are generally bad in most software situations. Yes we could tile the windows instead of the tabs, but

    • We would have to put them all back in one window when exiting to get them saved
    • Alternatively we could use profiles, but that’s a hassle on startup.
    • It probably eats up more resources
    • If we wanted to relocate our “Firefox workplace” to somewhere else (let’s say another monitor) we would have to drag multiple windows.
    • On linux some window managers are just not there with tiling yet (and they might never be).
    • Also it looks bad and is a workaround to something that should just be. Hope I didn’t miss anything, and you sir have a nice day :)