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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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (2 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.

[–] Grippler@feddit.dk 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 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

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 1 day 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 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

the us electoral system is designed around preventing BIPOCs from voting especially in the southern states. You have to do a lot of paperwork to get into the system and sometimes you get kicked out of the system by arbitrary rules without being notified. You also have to vote at the place assigned to your part of town, or in some cases miles away, The place often is systematically understaffed in poor neighborhoods which means huge lines, also the vote is held during work hours and many more things.