On this website, if you scroll down, there will always be the Elsewhere logo and the menus at the top of the screen, and there will always be the counter at the bottom right. Those are fixed elements, as they don’t scroll up with the rest of the page.
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Yeah. I have css to remove them here, but because each site uses its own css to define position:sticky, position:fixed, and fixed background elements, I don’t have a global solution to remove them everywhere.
With my visual issues, some fixed elements, such as Twitter’s fixed backgrounds, trigger my migraines.
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Good for them - what a crap thing to go through.
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I love this comment (a little long). I wish I could be so eloquent:
Summary
Some history:
Barry Goldwater, who once was the extreme but now would be the liberal wing of the GOP, opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That is no accident.
Neither was Nixon’s Southern Strategy, which exploited racist white grievances in the South (under the code of “law and order”) to wrest the South out of Democrats’ hands in 1968.
Nor was Reagan’s commencement of his campaign in Philadelphia Mississippi, where civil rights activists were murdered in '64, an accident. Reagan’s referring to “welfare queens” and “young bucks” exploiting food stamps was a dog whistle to white supremacists and racists.
That was followed in 1988, by Bush I, who with the help of Lee Atwater made the entire race about Willie Horton, white fear, and sexual anxiety - I will never forget 1988 simply for how grotesque it was (recall it was so bad that Atwater on his death bed sent a letter apologizing to Bush’s opponent, Michael Dukakis - let’s hope he cc’ed the NAACP).
And who can forget W. circulating rumors that McCain had a black child out of wedlock during the South Carolina primary in 2000, and that during his presidency Katrina was about the most blatant instance of institutionalized racism one can imagine.
Under Obama we had birtherism.
If you need me to recount instances of Trump’s racism then you are likely too dumb to read these comments, but I’m happy to rehearse them in another post.
It is clear to any with eyes the entire GOP platform is one intended to wage war against people of color, from the gutting of the social safety net to the EPA eliminating clean water regulations that will ultimately (like climate change) hit people of color the hardest (at this late date we may as well spell Flint Michigan w-h-i-t-e-r-e-s-e-n-t-m-e-n-t).
Racism and white supremacy is a historic feature of the GOP, not a bug.
Trust me - I’m a gizzard who has hated it since I started voting some four decades ago.
Never rewarded the party with my vote as a result, never will.
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Fuuuuck!
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Interesting to hear what the Nazi apologists have to say in that thread.
It wasn’t the US government. It was the Red Cross, or a Mexican group.
It’s better than an ID card. It won’t get lost.
It’s not a tattoo.
It was done in Berlin.
Etc.
Of course, if the US government weren’t led by such shitpiles, people wouldn’t have been treated like this in the first place.
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Except everyone’s holed up in a sports stadium with very little shelter, and it just rained for 2 1/2 days straight. Marker’s going to wear off, even “permanent” ink. Just sayin’, for the Nazis to understand.
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Why are you giving them ideas?
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important thread:
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The biggest paradox about conservatives is how the most financially secure consider themselves to be the least financially secure when it comes time to pass the hat.
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We have:
“Free” roads
“Free” military defense
“Free” public schools
“Free” police
Of course, none of these are free; we pay by taxes for them. The trouble is, this republican POS represents only the 0.1%, who don’t want to pay taxes even for roads, defense, or schools.
And of course, we could feed everyone in the world if the economic systems weren’t so fucked up and financial engineered.
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An interesting thought, that utilitarianism is seen as immoral by a large group of people.
I’ll have to think this over some more, because it seems, from my perspective, that some form of utilitarianism is the only possible basis for a self-consistent system of ethics.
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Minneapolis??!!
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Yes, of course Minneapolis.
I can’t think of many worse places to be black in America.
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You know, I live in the Deep South, but my hometown really manages to fuckin’ bring it.
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Saw this comment today:
Americans are facing the realization that 1/3 of the country would
be ok if the government killed another 1/3 while the last 1/3 of people
sat by watching.
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