Nick @ The Linux Experiment
« But, Nick, you’re not a US Citizen, this election doesn’t affect you ».
Do you know how shit the internet has become since Trump was elected the first time? Do you know how fast and far the quality of online interactions has dropped since that orange fascist opened the gates to let all the trolls from under the bridge?
Anyone who makes content that has even 2% of political notions (and FOSS is definitely political) will be confronted to more brainwashed maniacs and bigots.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
That’s not even talking about how the US tends to reflect what happens in the rest of the world. All the crazy conspiracies and imbecilic notions that Trumpists have?
They also arrive in Europe about 3 to 5 years later. We have people fighting against « woke » in France now, even though it was never a real thing in the US, and even less so in France.
We are already going down, fast. This will harm the entire world by ricochet. This election is a blow for humanity as a whole.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
And if someone says « but he won the popular vote », I will scream.
Yes, that’s the problem. The problem isn’t that this fringe dictator spewing conspiracies and lies every single time he speaks has SOME supporters.
The problem is that regular, normal people also were convinced by his crazy shit. That’s the problem. Normal people are now falling for this scam, again. More people now think this shit is fine. Preferable, even. That’s what difficult to swallow. Humanity is moronic.
Robert Link
@thelinuxEXP Lots of his voters, I think it's safe to assume, saw re-runs of the golden escalator while we here saw him fumble to open the door to the garbage truck. Part of the problem remains anti-intellectualism and the primacy of television as a means of acculturation.
Hugo 雨果
@thelinuxEXP The US has toppled my home country’s government at least once. It’s also done massive economic damage to my partner’s country in recent years. It’s been at war with *some other country* almost continuously for over a century.
It doesn’t matter if we don’t live in the US, whatever president they pick will definitely affect us.
Or, as someone eloquently put it “we care about US leadership for the same reason that hostages care about their kidnapper’s mental health”.
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