Thank you so much for everything you do! I understand not all Democrats are perfect either but we have chances to make change there too including using the primary process to remove corrupt politicians.

That’s a tough situation, I really hope things get better for you there!

I agree, we really need to course correct now or it will be terrible!

About nations not having a choice there is truth to that but I want to focus on something nations can do to. Study in particular which companies support Trump the most and work to find replacements for those. For example the fossil fuel industry is a significant backer of Trump and Republicans. This means countries who are rightfully upset about Trump and buy fossil fuels from the US should make switching to renewable energy a huge priority maybe even do it at cost or subsidize the transition. This means fossil fuel companies will have less money and less to give to Republicans.

Also for people who live in blue states contact your state politicians and demand a faster transition to renewables too.

I take it seriously and I encourage anyone to know they have the power to make a difference. If you can find who’s encouraging people to stay out of the way please let everyone here know so we can fight against those people.

Also you’re right if Trump stays in power longer it will be very grim not just for the people in the US but also for the entire world because look at how Trump is terrorizing other countries. Look at how he’s basically a slave to Putin and abandoning Ukraine. Look at how he’s grabbing people on the streets. If we don’t fight this will get worse.

It could come to your country too unless you take action. I see so many other countries making the same mistakes we do here and it makes me so sad knowing that this could be their fate too unless they make different decisions.

The truth is I notice in Europe they too in my opinion haven’t done enough to combat disinformation for sure they’re better than we are but it’s not enough.

What we need is for every child to be taught as much as possible about critical thinking, propaganda and disinformation. The quality of education children get is super important. In addition I believe emotional resilience must be taught in schools somehow.

Please for everyone reading this contact your politicians or your school board and demand more done to combat disinformation.

Also remember we are all in this together. Look at all the Trump copycats there are in the world. Look at how Trump learned from Hungary and Russia. Because they were not stopped in one country they feel safe doing it in another. We as people must support each other and stand up for each other when bad things are happening somewhere because when something bad happens to someone else it could one day be you it happens to.

You say you don’t believe it will ever happen. I know things can feel tough and discouraging sometimes but I learned that if I take action each day I feel a lot better and it gives me hope that things will get better. Each day you make choices and those choices determine what kind of country you want to live in. If you want to live in a country that never recovers from this, that oppresses people, violates human rights and causes untold global suffering you can choose to do nothing or leave comments on social media saying that things won’t change or there’s nothing that we can do.

Or you can choose to make a difference. How you make a difference will depend on the person. But here’s what I can suggest: try to make your daily actions support moving the country into the right direction by having conversations with people, education others how to make a difference and boycott Trump-aligned companies and put pressure on and encourage organizations, institutions, companies and people to stand up to Trump.

Ceasing using Twitter can make a difference. Telling someone who says he/she might buy a Tesla not to do it makes a difference.

Asking a restaurant showing Fox News on their TV to change the channel can help.

Joining a protest can help.

Volunteering to knock on doors for your local Democrats can make a huge difference!

Even choosing to exercise more and sleep well can help because it will help you fight what’s going on better.

Whatever you do no matter how small it adds up. Courage is contagious.

Also super important you vote in every election and primary and make sure you’re registered to vote. Urge likeminded friends and family to do likewise. Offer them a ride if transportation is an issue.

Now I ask you: Which one will it be for you? Will you choose to make a difference or will you not?

Same here, born here too. We have to keep fighting and make the best of things. I don’t blame people for saying these things but I wish people would take real actions instead of just talking among themselves and saying “it can’t be fixed” or “it won’t change”.

What’s at stake is if we don’t fight we’ll risk turning into the next Nazi regime and cause untold suffering all around the world. So for those people who sit in the comfort of their homes in a another country they may not realize that one day the repression advocated by the Trump regime may come to them personally so everyone in the world must do all they can to put a stop to this now.

There’s a lot we can do. The solution is to identify what pillars of support are holding up Trump and what can be removed the easiest. One part of the solution is boycotting companies that donate a lot to Republican campaigns. For example boycotting Twitter and Tesla can make a big impact on this and boycotting right-wing media like Fox “News”, CBS etc. Urge people to exclude right-wing websites from their Google Adwords account.

No matter what we will not tolerate this. I urge everyone to stop “tolerating” meta and boycott their products like Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Also install uBlock Origin and block all the ads.

Well then, time to shut down your Meta account if you still have one. Also do likewise for TikTok and Twitter.

I’ve been sending emails to hotel companies and urging them to oppose this. I urge you to contact your congresspeople and also companies in the travel, hospitality and tourism industry and demand they oppose this policy and more broadly ask them to stand up to Trump because he’s causing people to rightfully boycott the US.

Also to everyone who is boycotting the US thank you so so much, I’m really grateful and as are so many Americans who also hate what the Trump regime is doing. The more people who boycott the more pressure it will put on companies to finally stand up against the Trump regime.

Thank you so much for clarifying! Yes, now I understand it’s a powerful thought like they can’t stop me because I live in Sweden, I will keep protesting.

It reminds me of how many countries boycotted South Africa which helped end apartheid.

You got to vote and be active in politics and encourage as many people to do likewise. If more people did that the sum of our power would be far greater than the power of billionaires. We can then have reforms like regulating campaign contributions and lobbying and passing more regulations that protect the people.

For some countries there are things working against us. For example in the US billionaires have a lot of power and contribute heavily to politics in part due to the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC which opened the floodgates for unlimited political spending and has really harmed our country. My solution to this is to encourage people to boycott companies that donate heavily to Republicans and most importantly encourage people to vote for people who will help stop all the corruption.

Bill Gates was ruthless during the 90s. Just as a random example he tried to make ACPI only work with Windows saying “It seems unfortunate if we do this work and get our partners to do the work and the result is that Linux works great without having to do the work” just as a random example.

Maybe he’s making up for it now but still it’s more complex than him just always being a good person.

I posted it there! Before I was worried to post there because I didn’t see any recent posts.

I was just thinking, one way to start adding Oracle might be to create a Database section and mention Oracle’s database and perhaps other closed source/bad solutions like Access and suggest open source alternatives like PostgreSQL and MariaDB.

I don’t know where this would fit in on the website but one company that is really important to boycott is Oracle. Larry Ellison is a mega right-wing donor and his son is buying up media companies for the purposes of turning them into right-wing propaganda machines.

One way everyone can make a difference is by uninstalling any Oracle software on your computer. You might have the Oracle JRE installed or if you’re into virtualization you may be using Virtualbox. It’s especially important to avoid Oracle software in a corporate setting because their lawyers may come after you. If you work for a company and you’re either involved in purchasing software or a software developer I would strongly recommend avoiding Oracle not just because of ethical reasons but also because typically they have their products are not as good from a technical standpoint as well.

For the Oracle JRE or JDK you can replace it with Adoptium. Adoptium is run by the Eclipse Foundation which is based in the EU.

For Virtualbox you can replace it with QEMU or Xen. For QEMU there are a lot of good GUI or CLI front-ends that make using it easy. See this article: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/QEMU/Front-ends note that some of the front-ends listing in that article also support Xen.

For Oracle’s database some say that PostgreSQL is a good competitor. For this one I acknowledge the topic is more complex. I’m just going to leave it at for new designs please consider avoiding Oracle’s database if you can. Oracle has a bad reputation among programmers for a reason.

Safari isn’t open source. They could in theory add a backdoor anytime and it would be more difficult to audit.

Right, I better not tell him about chat control.

We’re all in this together in a way, what becomes normalized in one country risks coming for you one day. Do you notice how other countries have Trump copycats? In fact Trump has learned a lot from Hungary. So when something bad happens in one country we must stand against it no matter where we are because sooner or later if we don’t it will come for us.