Posted on 04/08/2014 7:40:23 AM PDT by SJackson
In 31 years of broadcasting, and 40 years of writing, I have never advocated a boycott of a product.
Quite the opposite, in fact.
During the 2012 presidential campaign, when the left attempted to destroy Chick-Fil-A for its owner’s views on same-sex marriage, I suggested on my radio show that the Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, stand in front of a Chick-Fil-A restaurant while enjoying some Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. In that way, I argued, he could show one of the great moral differences between the right and the left. Though Ben and Jerry are leftists, we conservatives do not believe that company owners’ views should matter to consumers. We believe that products should speak for themselves. If the ice cream is good, despite whatever repugnance we might feel regarding the views of the makers of that ice cream, we will still purchase it.
The left does not see things that way. The left is out to crush individuals and companies with whom it differs. This is especially so today on the issue of same-sex marriage.
Perhaps the most dramatic example of this took place last week. The governing board of the widely used browser, Firefox, forced the company’s CEO, Brendan Eich, to resign. The Firefox board had learned that in 2008, Eich donated $1,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign in California. Proposition 8 amended the California Constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman. In classic Communist fashion, gay rights organizations demanded that Eich publicly recant. When Eich did not, gay rights and other leftist organizations called for a boycott of Firefox. Firefox immediately forced Eich out.
All these years, the left, after coining the term “McCarthyism” in order to disparage the right, had fooled most people into believing that it is the right that suppresses liberty. The truth, of course, has been the opposite. Worldwide, with the exception of Nazi Germany (which was a uniquely race-based totalitarianism, neither left nor right — while it rejected Marxist class-based struggle, it supported socialism (“Nazism” was short for National Socialism), every genocidal totalitarian regime of the 20th century was leftist. And domestically, too, the left has much less interest in liberty than in forcing people to act in accord with its values. A totalitarian streak is part of the left’s DNA. How you think matters and what you do away outside of work matters: More than 20 states prohibit judges from being leaders in the Boy Scouts — because the left deems the Boy Scouts homophobic.
During the McCarthy era, the left (and not only the left) screamed when people were falsely charged with supporting Stalin and Communism, one of the greatest evils in human history. But the left also screamed when people who really did aid and abet Stalin were dismissed from their jobs. In other words, for those on the left who celebrate Eich’s ouster, it was evil to deprive a man who supported Stalin of a job, but it is right to fire a man who supports the man-woman definition of marriage. Such is the left’s moral compass.
It is important to further note that gay employees at Firefox acknowledge that Eich never discriminated against gays, whether in employment, benefits or any other way. But that doesn’t matter to the left because a totalitarian streak is part of the left’s DNA.
As Princeton Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George warned on my radio show, today the left fires employees for opposition to same-sex marriage. Tomorrow it will fire employees who are pro-life (“anti-woman”). And next it will be employees who support Israel (an “apartheid state”).
The reason to boycott Firefox is not that it is run by leftists. Nor is the reason to support the man-woman definition of marriage. It is solely in order to preserve liberty in the land of liberty. If Firefox doesn’t recant and rehire Eich as CEO, McCarthyism will have returned far more pervasively and perniciously than in its first incarnation. The message the gay left (such as the Orwellian-named Human Rights Campaign) and the left in general wish to send is that Americans who are in positions of power at any company should be forced to resign if they hold a position that the left strongly opposes.
And right now that position is opposition to same-sex marriage.
Think about that. In the United States of America today, the belief that marriage should remain defined as the union of a man and woman is portrayed as so vile by the left that anyone who holds it is unfit for employment.
A handful of those on the gay (and straight) left have spoken out against the forced resignation of Eich. If their words are to mean anything, they must join in the call to boycott Firefox. Otherwise, their protestations are meaningless, made solely to preserve their moral credibility.
The battle over Firefox is the most important battle in America at this particular moment. If you use Firefox, uninstall it. Instead use Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, or try Pale Moon for Windows, which is based on the Firefox engine and will import all of your bookmarks. For mobile devices, you can try Puffin.
America can have liberty or it can have Firefox. Right now, it cannot have both.
First they don’t let you go out at night, then they don’t let you associate, then they brand you, then they don’t let you sell or buy freely, then they put you in a designated area, then they put you on a train for “to have sandwiches for lunch” for the greater good.
If I can find the Remove It Permanently or YARIP extension for Opera, I’d have a much better time of converting. As it is, I use those to clean up a bunch of regular web pages I visit. Without that extension, the web just isn’t the same.
A pdf taken directly from the source is a document I cannot alter. It freezes the source in time and is proof that I did not alter its content. An html cannot do that.
Small point, late in the thread. The Nazis were leftists. I've been seeing this thought more and more lately. The predecessor party to the Nazi Socialists were the NSDAP, National Socialist Democratic Arbeiter (Worker's) Party. Go to Wikipedia, or better yet Jonah Goldberg's book "Liberal Fascism", and look at the 1924 Nazi Party electoral platform.
They WERE leftists, just of a different stripe.
I’ve downloaded Pale Moon and it uses firefox everything
right, I should have added, I don’t exactly think Samsung is like Republicans, but it is more correct than saying Apple is like Republicans.
Neither, technically.
Could I use it with XP and still find some protection?
What are you attempting to remove? Ads or popups? AdBlocker and Ghostery work on Opera. Cookies or History? Look under the Preferences settings and set to either block or remove-after-exiting-Opera. Or perhaps the Readability addon might help.
You *can* install it alongside of XP, in some spare disk space you are not using, or you can boot a LiveCD, which means the OS would run from the CD/DVD rather than your hard drive. This prevents any damage to your hard drive, but also makes the machine seem slower.
Uninstalled this morning.
I use AdBlock Plus for ads, and NoScript for cookies/scripts in general.
Hmmm. Guess I must have missed something in the past. I know that not too long ago I was running a program to edit pdf files, but I am pretty sure that was a linux thing so perhaps not everyone could do it. Even if the file was set as Not Changeable (or whatever it was called) I could just take a screenshot then OCR the text and copy out the pics. Save it to an rtf file and set it up as I wished then re-save it in any other format I chose -even a pdf.
Probably why I disliked working with pdf files so much. Too much effort to work with the files.
I edit pdf files too, but they are text. These are image files and not text. If I changed them, the metadata would indicate that.
I’m going to pose a question, in response to this “burn the books” hysteria.
Everybody is screaming, “Dump Firefox!”
Has it occured to you, that might be what is really desired?
To have everybody, by choice, run to one of those other browsers, to beef up their own business?
WHAT ARE —THEIR— POLITICS?
Someone this week had written that Firefox cannot get completely separate from Google, or did you catch that? So, if you run to Google Chrome, you are just choosing another Google product. Is that a win for you?
Someone this week has written that there is hypocrisy among other Mozilla execs, as well, or did you catch THAT?
As for me, queers have NO other “special rights”, than those already laid out in The Bill of Rights. This “being offended” crap, is just that. They can’t accept that, they can come and find me!
In closing, I am not going to be jumping all over the software boards, to get “the one that the rest of you approve”, just because of some uppity queers. I’ve got better things to do with my life.
Ping for later.
Perhaps some kind soul could take the time to look at how to create an Opera app with a bit more of the functionality you are looking for. The one I mentioned works well enough on this end, at least as much as I use it for.
Replaced FagFox with Pale Moon on two machines now, used the migration tool successfully both times, liking it so far.
But OK. I understand your preferences and thanks for the clarification. :)
IE works fine for me. Your choice.
I have used mozilla all these years because I was loyal to what they stood for. Doing good as part of our code?
Now that they’ve shown themselves to be a bunch of douches, I have no reason to be loyal and will just focus on the technology. Since Pale Moon is 64 bit and firefox only 32, I can switch based on that.
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