Ask HN: As a software engineer, what's the best way to push back against Trump?
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> So where can writing code be used to increase leverage when it comes to pushing back against a potentially dangerous government, within legal bounds obviously.
Make services and products that help people. Seriously, that's it. Anything else could possibly be illegal or harm your fellow Americans.
Make services and products that help people. Seriously, that's it. Anything else could possibly be illegal or harm your fellow Americans.
Headline should be changed from "Trump" to "the national security state" in my opinion. Let's not forget that we need to push back against the Corporate Dems selling us out just as much as we need to push back against the GOP/Trump.
The entire establishment really, and foreign countries like China, that continues to buy US companies (yahoo, riotgames, and plenty of others)
My question is how should we actually do this? I agree that it feels like a waste of a skillset to settle for going to marches or calling senators, since those seem like distinctly low leverage activities. So where can writing code be used to increase leverage when it comes to pushing back against a potentially dangerous government, within legal bounds obviously.