Camille d'Ockham

A boycott is all about seeking specific consequences. If you turn it into a rigid, simplistic stance you fail to grasp what it is. Here my point is that boycotting even powerless Americans in need of support and who are even targeted by their government does nothing to achieve the goals of a boycott, or very little, and even help with Trump’s plans. I attribute the failure to understand that to nationalistic thinking, because it’s such a simple argument. At no point have I equated a boycott to nationalistic hate. You are confusing everything with everything.

You can chose to consider that someone represents a group or not, by informing yourself and thinking critically. Moreover, refusing the principle that Trump represents all American contributes to undermining his power. Saying “the real world” means nothing, you could retort that to support any idea, it’s vacuous.

It’s owned by a French Christian fascist billionaire, Vincent Bolloré, that is building a media empire to push his views and make Le Pen elected. He also turned a normal 24/7 news channel into Fox News lite(-ish). Here’s an overview of his deeds: https://desarmerbollore.net/appel#call-to-disarm-the-bolloré-empire

I don’t remember Macron doing any of that, tonight he talked about the nuclear umbrella and holding some meeting about European defense.

I do agree our Les Républicains are assholes, but the main issue is the Rassemblement National.

Indeed reality is complex, and a single act has several consequences the moral value of which may be contradictory. Good judgements involves understanding how they balance out. In that case, I believe supporting struggling americans, who didn’t want any kind of trumpism, is better than attempting total attrition on every level.

What about donating to the development of libre software? I regularly see “buy me a coffee” badge on github repos for programs by a single person.

Thanks, it does often boil down to having or not having money, to move out, get basic treatment, sleep somewhere, eat… What Trump is doing is hugely favoring the very rich, and seriously affecting the already poor. And if people can put their energy into something else than the absolute basics, then they can focus on protests and such. For example 50501 is named so because it’s 50 protests in 50 states on a given day, and so those living far away from a state’s capital city would need to have a car or enough money for a uber or train to get there and back or sleep there for a night. If the american economy further deprives them, and potential support from abroad also dries up for them, it won’t help displace Trump, on the contrary. You can follow tags like #mutualaid on the fediverse, or look into what small time creators do and ask for in terms of donation, like on ko-fi.

Since you link to wikipedia, I assume you treat it as a reliable enough source. It lists that many votes for Harris: 75,017,613. That’s 75 millions persons. There is also the phenomenon of voter suppression (wikipedia), which means there are people who would have liked to vote, but couldn’t. Should they also be treated the same as those who supported Trump?

If you were right then Trump should have had 100% of the registered votes. Which isn’t the case. Therefore, your reasoning is incorrect. It is so obviously incorrect that I can hardly believe it is a lack of intelligence on your part; this is a clear sign of nationalistic thinking, which makes people quite unwise and unable to reason logically.

Some dude just says “i represent you”, and even if you don’t agree, you have to live with that? That sucks. But would you at least give a pass to american anarchists then? They don’t even want a president at all, so… ?

For example, what about my friend who can’t go to the 50501 protests because no one will drive them there, but is seeing their opportunities to live somewhat well (ex medicare) shrink? Should they just die? Their being trans, non-white, and disabled, would actually make it so Trump and republican be happy about their death.

Has Trump gotten 100% of the votes? I don’t think so. The kind of thinking you exhibit is precisely nationalistic thinking, which reduces peoples to a nation-state and its government.

Do you also believe the other posts about America-based FOSS were also illegitimate? Did you go in them and used sophistry to tell the OPs off?

Doesn’t sound too different. For a frightful hobgoblin, you don’t seem too well versed in the concept of international class solidarity.

If you just want to share your code, discuss it, and have a simple bug tracker, all self hosted, there’s fossil. Just one binary, already packaged in distros, and used by the sqlite project.