It's really shocking to me, from the US, that this is a compulsory fee and not a tax. It's like they want people to hate and resent it. I guess it hurts poor people? IDK.
My man, very very little is being asked of you and your response is to lecture about how wrong the askers are in their asking. Are you going to be an ally to people in need or are you going to be an ally to whiteness?
White people's race does play into this, same as non-white people's race does. If you're white (passing) it's unlikely the ice is gonna show up and throw you into a van.
Trying to make this about you is shit. Nobody cares.
They really want it we gotta fight them off. It's tough because they have all the resources and institutional backing, but they are particularly stupid and inept so it's not a foregone conclusion.
We need everyone, not just one person. Don't get me wrong, what he did was praxis and it did have an effect. I don't see that solving all our problems by itself, though. Diversity of tactics and all that.
Ah, okay. That makes sense. (Fwiw I've seen fascist types use 88 and 1488 outside the US, too. "88" is technically German. It can have begin meaning outside the US/The West in general, though.)
The Biden government was targeting them, though. Kind of. Various companies were facing challenges from the administration. I think the difference is: If they suck Trump's dick enough he'll leave them alone. Biden was less likely to do that. Or probably that's their view of it, anyway. Somehow big business seems to view Trump as a "rational actor" while they view Biden as the opposite.
Something something TOS Mirror Universe episode...
Doing it for personal use, without profit or gain, is supposedly illegal. Doing it for profit certainly appears to be legal.