I’ve seen many threads suggesting products but they often don’t mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn’t be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
    93·
    6 hours ago

    a minority of the population voted for trump though, it’s not like 50+% of the total population voted for him, it’s 50+% of the voters, a lot of people just didn’t vote.

    • Grippler@feddit.dk
      174·
      4 hours ago

      a lot of people just didn’t vote.

      So they decided that it was just fine if he won and saw no reason to oppose what he stands for…

      Yeah, that’s some good people right there I can see that /s

      • bramkaandorp@lemmy.world
        7·
        4 hours ago

        Voter ID, gerrymandering, not allowing absentee voting, no day off.

        Not everyone was able to vote, and that disproportionately affected Democratic voters.

        • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
          51·
          3 hours ago

          All true. But the world also watched a huge amount of voters rejects dems over gaza. While trump had no better plans on gaxa.

          Much like Ukraine his only argument is “i am better and every one else was stupid”

          The argument often heard. “Voting the lesser of 2 evils is still voting evil”.

          So yes these folks very much voted the greater of 2 evils by refusing to vote the lesser option. And much of the rest of the world is rightfully sorta pissed at the evil they allowed in.

          • the_crotch@sh.itjust.works
            31·
            2 hours ago

            Maybe a system that regularly gives us “evil vs lesser evil but still evil” as our only options isn’t worth saving

            • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
              1·
              3 minutes ago

              Sorta like the trolly problem.

              You can flip the lever to kill 5 or 1. But if you choose not to and also don’t fucking bother to hit the breaks. Your still responsible for killing 5 instead of 1.

              If you are not willing to actually stop the evil fai.ing to selects make you the bigger evil.

      • haverholm@kbin.earth
        21·
        4 hours ago

        “Great people on both sides,” as a very stable genius put it 🙄

        Either way, this is probably OT for an open source thread…

    • haverholm@kbin.earth
      71·
      6 hours ago

      Fair enough. I’m still smarting from that election result, all the way across the pond.

      On the other side, I don’t count people as “great” who can’t be bothered voting against bigoted authoritarianism. But different strokes, I’m sure.