Heh, I was thinking the same, didn’t know exactly when the day was. So maybe we indeed have something going on for ouselves.

The fix is not killing ICE officers.

The civil rights movements of the 60s, Jim Crow, etc, won by being willing to be beaten. By voluntarily entering a cafe and sitting there waiting to be served like a human being, meanwhile being willing to be called names, dropped food and drinks onto them, burnt with cigarettes, abused.

That willingness and perseverance in wanting to be recognised as the human beings they are awoke the rest of the population.

Pacifist demonstrations and matches are a way to achieve that. They are displays for your fellow colleagues, not for the government you want to depose. Make clear that they are pacifist. Prepare and inform the people going. Sit down if you are charged. Stop violent people there. Etc. Make obvious that the fascist are fascists that way and say and invigorate people to your side.

You are losing the class war, that’s what matters. Not you being young, or white, or a man.

If you are in Germany, the Thalia Tolinos are rebranded Kobos.

There’s a reason Digital Rights Management techonologies are loved by corpofascists; control over the full communication channel, from file source, to OS kernel (TPM modules, trusted computing, signed OS images via UEFI), to transmission protocol, to physical channel (hdmi) to screen de rendering in the final device.

Once the tooling is laid out and people are forced into not owning their devices, nor being able to copy, nor consume media that hasn’t been cryptographically signed and approved, then it’s all fair game.

There’s ways to ensure digital rights and reduce privacy that don’t need forcing people to not own any part of the communication channel whatsoever (privacy is a UX problem, give people an easy way to consume media and they will pay for it).

It’s also why they are also scared of the “analog hole” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole) that they try for people to self-censor.

Edit: I kept scrolling through Lemmy to find this thread, were Cory Doctorov explains how DMCA enables control from corporations: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/ffeed46818908c91/

that is orthogonal with packaging standards, packaging security, and packaging policy violations…

Compare this: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

With this single page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines

In case you think “but those policies are not needed, they are superfluous” (like some Arch devs). They are not. Packagers send their fixes upstream, and then, other distros, with lower standards, consume the already fixed upstream releases, and sometimes pretend that this work was not needed nor present, not realizing that all distros benefit from it even if your policies are more relaxed.

There’s a reason why the Deepin Desktop Environment was never part of Debian, and only available via their own ppa repositories, even if the Deepin distro is based in Debian.

Barring Arch, and boutique distros, other distros normally have even better packaging standards than opensuse. By far.