Thanks for explaining why North Korea is a democracy when it does seemingly undemocratic things because they're under a constant state of emergency due to US economic blockades, military threats and media warfare.
FOSS is definitely not boycotting capitalism, but its still an objectively good thing. I see FOSS work as a way for relatively rich imperial core citizens to give back to the world.
FOSS devs can do FOSS work only because of the relative luxury conditions of their imperial core countries, which comes at the expense of global south countries.
In other words, they can do that because their countries imperialist relations with the global south, this is the reason that most FOSS projects come from the US and Europe.
In some way FOSS work is a way for these people to give back to the world, i think its fine to donate to these projects regardless of their location.
The death of an empire is the qualitative development after a huge sum of quantitative changes, but you still need something to trigger the qualitative change, it won't happen by itself.
Think of Syria, the fall of Assad happened due to the collective sum of erosion of the economy, the army, the people, etc, but still it was ultimately triggered by the terrorist HTS attack. If that event didn't happen, Assad would still be in Syria.
People need to organize to kill the empire, not pray for it to fall under its own weight.
It does weakening it temporarily, institutions take time to get properly organized and function efficiently. Think of USAID, while not perfectly efficient it already functioned like an oiled machine, dismantling it to set up a new one will require more work to get it started than just keeping USAID going, with the added risk that the newer thing is not guaranteed to succeed.
Its fairly clear to anyone following geopolitics that Trump appeasing Putin is an obvious attempt at wooing Russia away from China.
Like its not even a secret, every single conservative figure mentions it, from Tucker Carlson to Narco Rubio to Trump himself, this "oh trump is a putin puppet" rhetoric is just infantile discourse.
Blue maga likes to portray themselves as the intellectual wing of american politics but damn they so dumb too
Catholics.