I don’t understand why you think “avoiding prison” equals free work for companies. The individuals contributing to open source are subject to the same laws we’re discussing in this thread, and are the ones that would actually be getting consequences.

No one exists without a government, and that’s not even a pipe dream, it’d be societal collapse.

The usual consequences to not following the law are not in your favor.

If your goal in contributing to FOSS is to go to prison, there are a lot better avenues to achieve that.

What’s worse is it’s also usually more expensive than just doing it at the moment

Some call it hypocrisy, others call it “survival instinct”

That’s your prerogative, just recognize that if both options support genocide and block strikes, so you chose to vote for a non viable candidate, or to not vote, you’re effectively disenfranchising yourself.

Your last point is very valid though. The DNC is very good at shooting themselves in the foot because they should know very well that people do get demotivated and just stop voting, yet continue to distance themselves from their voter base, resting on their laurels as “the only sane choice out of the two”.

Supporting local candidates, where your vote also is more heavily weighted, is one of the ways to shift policy - the US govt isnt just the president, it’s representatives and senators and state governments.

Voting for someone in an election in the US is not an endorsement of that person. You have effectively two choices in many of the elections due to how the system is designed. You vote for the best choice of those two.

Not voting, or voting for a non viable candidate, is a signal that you Do Not Care who is in power.

Voting is a tool, and a civic duty. It’s one of the few ways US society allows direct input from citizens.

If you actually are against facism, don’t use misguided idealism to encourage people to throw away the little political power they have.

that doesn’t matter when they roll the national guard and start dropping bombs (which, btw, has happened before)

Lookup the history of gun control in the US. Now look at how cops react to white people with guns vs black people with guns. The cops would happily use the presence of guns as an excuse to commit massacres.