#What:
A tool to circumvent dictators and return the political power to the people.
#Why:
The problem:
Simple cause & effect and social cascade effect:
Abyssmal liberal turn out (mainly due to voter suppression laws, Covid gave a slight reprieve from said laws as people had alternative ways to vote) in the US have resulted in the US electing Trump... again.
The US is one of 3 super powers. The other two (China & Russia) are Dictatorships. The US democracy famously held the other two in check, creating kind of a global stalemate that kept the world fairly safe for decades. That is likely to change now that Trump has openly stated he wants to be a dictator.
As any coder knows, one bad bit of code can tank an otherwise stable system.
Obviously, having 3 dictatorship super powers is bad juju for the planet (especially when all 3 love climate change causing policies, love oppressing minorities like us, and much more.), and unopposed, could quickly result in all three powers sweeping the planet (and subsequently destroying it via climate change and draconian policy).
#How:
Obviously, as coders, we're the people who can make apps. From Twitter to Wikileaks to Facebook to ARPAnet to "OR 1=1;" to the code behind credit cards, nobody knows more than us that good code can change the course of the world. Being trans, we're minorities who are in the crosshairs of all 3 super powers, so we personally know what's at risk - we've got skin in the game.
And representative democracy was only instituted because large countries had difficulty getting all their people together to vote pre-internet. Now, there's no reason not to do direct democracy (with a strong bill of rights and plenty of checks & balances).
We've got the skill and the motivation. If anybody can create it, it's us. I've begun working on code (it's still fairly new), but it's just a start, I'm writing it in Rust for those interested.
So who's interested in not giving up, but instead saving the world?
