Amoxtli

Populism is democracy.

You make a false equivalency that FOSS is tolerance of varying political views.

Apparently, work protections are not good enough, because they're leaving blue states.

TikTok ban is a political move. TikTok sends a message to China and protects Israel in one swoop. It has nothing to do with security or privacy of the American people. Biden thought TikTok was disposable collateral. They provided not one ounce of evidence that TikTok is used by the CCP to collect information on Americans. Much less the logic or evidence as to the value to the Chinese having American data when they got 1.4 billion people of their own. You need to learn politics. Biden got cold feet because he is worried about his legacy.

She is not one of the good guys.

Great taxpayer money going to luxury cars for rich people. The party of the rich and upper middle class.

They live in their own little bubble. It is best to ignore them and communicate with serious people.

Doesn't matter if you disagree. Marxism, like The Reformation, was based on a Christian understanding of how the world should be. Christian interpretation of the good life was what made peasants confront the feudal system. It pitted the nobles against the peasants, because the peasants were asking for equity or egalitarian treatment. Luther himself only wanted to reform the Church, but ordinary Christians had a much deeper idea of reform that was beyond what Martin Luther advocated. Christianity is subversion of hierarchy and dominance. Marxism, therefore the Bolshevik Revolution, is the same pattern. There is no similar historical pattern between Europe, which was dominated by Christianity, and that of non-Christian lands. There was no revolution against any class of people in Asia or Africa. They were simply anti-colonialist and nationalist. It is a false equivalency to equate communism with liberation from colonialist who were capitalist. Capitalism itself isn't a state. You can't call it communism by having billionaires and millionaires permitted to exist, and nurtured, in a totalitarian system that claims it is communism. It simply isn't communism. Nationalism isn't universal. That is why communism was said to fail, and created off-shoots like fascism, a socialist variant that was anti-communist, and nationalist. Even the original concept of socialism was a universal cause, not based on nation states. The US thought that the communist ideology would coalesce into a unified alliance, but nothing of the sort happened. Communist Vietnamese fought the Communist Chinese. Even US and the USSR division is argued as something based on security competition, not ideology. The USSR itself was under the control of Russia over nations of people such as Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, etc. The USSR had to control rancorous peoples who did not identify as communist, even less, Russian.