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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Can we stop with the fucking ads please?

Trump, however, had other ideas.

That one line was sandwiched between a video ad and a box asking for my email address. I’d rather have zero access to news stories without a subscription than to have all the goddamned pop ups and online ads that break up the story. The worst are the fucking pop up videos that auto play and follow you down the screen. WHOTHEFUCKWANTSTHATSHIT?!?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How are you using the internet without uBlock Origin? o_O

(I also recommend Google Sign-in Popup Blocker on Firefox. And as others have mentioned, Reader mode is nice.)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Have you met Reader View?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Trump said he was ready for a "historic" deal with China as the leaders kicked off their meeting and Xi told him "dialogue" was better than confrontation AFP / Brendan Smialowski

Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster has written a new bookfilled with disparaging stories about his former boss, and the New York Times reports that it even features of a story of the former president being blatantly manipulated by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The incident in question came during a visit to China in November of 2017 in which McMaster tried to warn Trump against letting Xi make him stray from his prepared talking points.

Trump, however, had other ideas.

"In the Great Hall of the People, the president strayed from his talking points," according to the Times's report. "He agreed with Xi that military exercises in South Korea were 'provocative' and a 'waste of money' and suggested that China might have a legitimate claim to Japan’s Senkaku Islands. McMaster, his stomach sinking, passed a note to Gen. John Kelly, the chief of staff: Xi 'ate our lunch,' it read."

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McMaster also says that foreign leaders treated Trump like a "chump" and quickly discovered they could manipulate him by boosting his ego.

"Flattery and pomp from leaders like Xi, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and the Russian president Vladimir V. Putin seem to have been all that was required to get in Trump’s good graces," writes the Times. 

"In 2018, McMaster found Trump in the Oval Office scrawling a cheerful note to Putin across a New York Post article reporting that the Russian president had denigrated the American political system but called Trump a good listener. Like a child with his Christmas wish list, the leader of the free world asked McMaster to send it to the Kremlin."

Looking forward, writes the Times, McMaster questions whether the 78-year-old Trump is still able to "perform well the sometimes grueling job of president" and he notes that Trump seven years ago became "tired" by a 13-day trip to Asia.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

McMaster also says that foreign leaders treated Trump like a "chump" and quickly discovered they could manipulate him by boosting his ego.

The motherfucker still speaks about his "great relationship" with these leaders, completely oblivious to the fact that it was nothing more than simple flattery intended to manipulate him. I know we all know he's a moron, but sometimes you forget just how fucking simple-minded he is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Simple minded but also so desperately needy for approval. His sack of shit dad really did a number on him.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Firefox+uBlock Origin+built in simplified reader mode will net you no ads on that site. You're really doing yourself a disservice by not using those tools.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

not using ad blocker eh. thats gotta be painful

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

No, I’ve got an adblocker. Even the sites that block them still have chunks of empty boxes that break up the text.

And why is it on me to block the ads? Why can’t news organizations just not be shitty? I understand they need revenue, but that doesn’t mean I should have to comb through shit to find the story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I understand they need revenue, but that doesn’t mean I should have to comb through shit to find the story.

Thing is, how would you suggest they get their revenue without ads?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I’m not saying there should be no ads, I’m saying the site should feature the article and not the ads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rawstory has an ad-blocker blocker. So your choices are use an archive site, or find the reader view in your browser.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Clearly you need a blocker blocker blocker!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What if they start blocking the blocker blocker blocker?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess you need to find some form of psychic tech dolphin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm sure someone here will get the reference

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

If they do it doesn't work on ublock origin and firefox because I don't see ads on that site.