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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I actually hate how the trolley problem is misinterpreted. It's not a question of "will you kill one person or kill 5?". If you pull the lever, you are murdering somebody. If you do nothing, you killed no one, whoever put them on the tracks killed them. Whether it's morally acceptable to murder one person in order to save 5 is an interesting thought experiment but that's all it is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 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...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, a minority of people voted for Hitler, too.