This minetest anti-cheat mod is an interesting case. The author licensed the mod under LGPL but kept one of the classes as a compiled binary.
There's a lot of litigation in the thread on whether the author is violating the license by doing this and whether the mod should be considered proprietary, thus disqualifying it from being published on the forum.
Seems like you are just trying to articulate your worldview, but I will add an explaination why I don't think this will be effective in persuading liberals.
rephrasing your argument:
premise: actors of the judicial system kill and rape with impunity
conclusion: freeing incarcerated killers and rapists will have minimal impact
why liberals might reject this:
rationalizing state-sanctioned forms of violence
strip searches are necessary to ensure security in prisons
murder by state actors is justified as self-defense
this does not challenge the carceral mindset* for non-state-sanctioned violence, so liberals are more likely to draw the conclusion that the judicial system should be reformed to imprison people who abuse state authority, rather than abolish incarceration
*I define carceral mindset as:
belief that imprisonment serves as a substantial deterrent to crime
The Tacoma port blockade yesterday was a beautiful show of solidarity, but a complete failure. Who even needs cops when the peace police will do their job for them for free?
At 5am in the cold and in the dark, hundreds of people wanting to blockade a shipment of weapons to Israel descended on the port of Tacoma. The way the port works is if the union declares the area is unsafe, they call off operations for the whole shift. A big enough crowd blocking the entrances is usually enough, and yesterday it worked basically immediately. Success, right?
The crowd grew and split into several pickets, marching in circles in different parts of the port, with organizers in yellow-green vests keeping people from stepping out of line. A group of riot cops was stationed inside the warehouse on the pier where the boat sat, waiting to try to stop protesters who might breach the fence and enter where boats are loaded. On the outside, the protest managers in yellow vests were constantly making sure nobody was planning to enter the pier.
The atmosphere was generally festive, powerful, and people's anger at the ongoing genocide was apparent. People came to block the port, and keep the boat from reaching it's destination. Side goals were also making it them cost more and to create an easily reproducible action.
It felt to most like it was working great, but In the middle of the afternoon, the self-declared leaders of the action made a confusing announcement: They told everyone the action was a success and everyone should go home. People were confused and deflated. Was the boat not still sitting there? Were they not trying to block the boat from being loaded?
It turns out that the military had sent in their own workers to load the boat, and the protest organizers had known about it for hours. Had people blocking the march known this, and that marching in circles was for the publicity of the organizers and for nothing more than photo op and a symbolic 'show of resistance', things could have transpired quite differently.
Organizers spread misinformation throughout the protest and most people were convinced that marching in a circle and chanting was actively stopping the ship from being loaded or having shipments delivered. When in reality the military already had the shipment in the dock and successfully loaded all 28 containers. Out of fear of police dispersal, people were greatly discouraged and directed to not breech the chain link fence that separated them from the ship. At the end of the day, organizers called the action "over" and sent everyone home despite the ship still being in the dock.
People came to the action to block the boat. People were there to prevent the flow of arms to Israel. People were there to stand up for Gaza and put their own bodies on the line to take action to attack the war machine
But the peace police took away people's agency. They did whatever they could to take away autonomy from anyone other than the big O organizers. They sabotaged the action to present a false narrative of success when in fact, they had actively prevented it.
How the fuck was that a "victory"? The people of Gaza need the bombs to stop dropping. For the arms destined for Israel to be stopped. In trying to seem respectable we are shooting ourselves in the foot and nothing more. ACAB indisputably includes the peace police.
Do what you can to stop the genocide now. If you're not willing to take action yourself, step out of the fucking way.
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Change from within
A Communique on Sabotaging Zionist Infrastructure: Shutting Down Friends of the IDF
Pro-Palestinian protesters block Port of Tacoma entrance
2elddar wrote
Reply to comment by 2elddar in Free Software vs. Open Source by plank60
I'll summarize a bit so people don't have to sift through 100 comments, but it can be pretty entertaining if you like reading internet arguments
The first comments point out the missing source for the binary
Someone claims the author would might to provide the source to comply with the license
Other users start asking to see the source 1 2 3
Others claim the author is already violating the GPL by not including the source 1 2
But
one user argues that it's not violating the GPL
link
The author eventually includes the source in the repo
but users are angry the provided source is obfuscated and that they can't prove that the obfuscated source is the original source of the binary
Then later the author posts the non-obfuscated source