I misunderstood what you were after, since I consider neo-nazi’s to be neo-fascists. If you wanted examples of people resisting fascist or tyrannical governments only, there’s not many examples of that happening in the US specifically since those movements would be almost immediately and harshly quashed. I don’t know if you’d consider the Battle of Athens to count since it was only against a corrupt local town government. And the Battle of Blair Mountain, I assume, doesn’t really count either.

For larger scale conflicts, we’d have to go abroad and often farther back in history, which may disqualify it from what you’re looking for.

Examples:

• Rojava using weapons to protect against tyrannical and oppressive neighbor states

• The Spanish Civil War, which was leftists (even George Orwell joined in!) vs. the fascist army of Francisco Franco (plus Documentary with more detail)

• Nestor Makhno’s Black Army during the Russian Revolution (plus short historical video)

• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

• Polish Resistance during WW2

Conceal carry restrictions have a long history of being created and selectively enforced against the black population.

Example:

During Reconstruction, several states, especially Southern states, passed laws banning concealed carry. These laws were often aimed at disarming African-Americans, and though they did not explicitly say so because of the 14th Amendment, were not to be >enforced against whites.

Rivers H. Buford, associate justice of the Florida Supreme Court, said that the Florida law banning concealed carry, “[t]he original Act of 1893 … was passed for the purpose of disarming the negro laborers … and to give the white citizens in sparsely settled areas a better feeling of security. The statute was never intended to be applied to the white population and in practice has never been so applied. … [I]t is a safe guess to assume that more than 80% of the white men living in the rural sections of Florida have violated this statute. It is also a safe guess to say that not more than 5% of the men in Florida who own pistols and repeating rifles have ever applied to the Board of County Commissioners for a permit to have the same in their possession and there has never been, within my knowledge, any effort to enforce the provisions of this statute as to white people, because it >has been generally conceded to be in contravention to the Constitution and non-enforceable if contested.”[11]

In fact, Florida was not the only such state to ban the carriage of arms by blacks, nor was it the most explicit. The 1834 Tennessee Constitution, 1836 Arkansas Constitution, as well as the 1838 Florida constitution, stated “That the free white men of this State shall have a right to keep and to bear arms for their common defence.”

This continued into the modern day, with Ronald Reagan and the NRA supporting and implementing the Mulford Act specifically to illegalize and target the Black Panthers and other black communities, who were exercising their rights to arm themselves to protect against police brutality and racists. Unfortunately the arming and legal targeting of the Black Panthers for that arming was very likely an FBI operation.

There were some concealed gun control laws in old west towns that were implemented against whites as well, but even then, only selectively against those the local Law Enforcement didn’t like.

Here’s a few examples:

Black community in Ohio forms safety program after neo-Nazi rally

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0ndPOs8Q1c

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U8xXOwcW7O4

Historical examples:

Lumbee tribe vs KKK

Abolitionists & the 1860 “Race Riots” in Grinnell, Iowa

It’s thankfully far easier and less dangerous than the limewire days of yore, and no VPN required as long as you stream it instead of plundering the booty to your cargo hold ^^

Yar harr fiddeldy dee, matey 🏴‍☠️

On a completely unrelated note, have you ever looked at the communities on https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/ ?

Perhaps Wallabag, a self-hostable service to save and categorize articles?

Also @[email protected] and @[email protected]

And Isaac Asimov’s The Feeling of Power, a short story about a man who can do mathematics in his head, a skill long forgotten after computers do all calculations for humanity.

Forgotten Weapons put out an interesting theory of Stacked Tolerances being the culprit.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWVs2uD1XY

They only liked state’s rights when it enabled them to hurt others and line their pockets.

Now that the fed is letting them do that, state’s rights can be tossed aside until they need it again.

They’re really not. I’d recommend reading the Dawn if Everything by anthropologist David Graeber and Archeologist David We grow, which reveals that our true ‘human nature’ is actually egalitarianism and cooperation, and that our current modes of existence are an oddly different blip on the timeline of humanity.

OP, as someone who has a very similarly specced laptop:

Install Linux Mint, do a one click install of the Nvidia driver with the mint GUI driver installer, and then open the application that’s stuttering from your start menu by right clicking on it, and select ‘run with discrete GPU’, which will force it to use your Nvidia card.

Mint has access to newer nvidia drivers than mint, and Cinnamon let’s you open programs with exclusively the Nvidia GPU instead of integrated graphics from the start menu.

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I have a funny story about a Sony Mavica.

My family bought one when it was becoming obsolete on deep discount, I forget from where. We used the crap outta that thing, and when we became internet savvy, used it as a way to upload pictures to the computer for eBay listings. Eventually, around 2006 or so, we replaced it with a digital camera that used an SD card, and in its little protective case the mavica went, to rest.

2 decades later, I rediscovered it while cleaning out old boxes, found that it still worked perfectly (thanks to using standard AA’s), and decided to sell it on eBay.

It sits up there for a while at $20, until one day I get a message about it, asking if the screen was okay or sum such. I tell them it is and shortly after, they buy it.

Out of mild curiosity, I click on the buyer’s profile, and see that he sells stuff as well, and it’s a very old account, about as old as mine. The pictures for the items he currently had for sale are pretty grainy, and I thought… Surely not…

I download a picture of one of his items, and sure enough; it’s the same resolution as the mavica takes, 640 by something.

That crazy bastard had been steadily using his Sony Mavica floppy disk camera for over 20 years for his little eBay business.

I suspected that his camera must’ve finally given up the ghost, and he spotted my prime example and bought it so he could continue his well worn routine.

He left me positive feedback for the Mavica, and I suppose he’s still using it to this day, keeping that old equipment alive and useful.

As a fan of the brave little toaster, it nearly brings a tear to the eye… I just really hope he switched to rechargeable batteries at some point, the little floppy drive on it chewed through AA’s quicker than a terrier on a kilo of cocaine.

Perhaps an ideal time to reintroduce community run/funded Ferrer Schools to combat it.

Both are excellent :)

Laws obv vary by country, but in the US, a corporation is legally required to recognize and bargain with a union if over 30% of their employees choose to unionize.

Publicily advocate their base join grassroots and decentralized movements that enact direct action since the courts and political system are completely captured by fascists and time is of the essence?

Seems like that’d be a bit more useful than what they’re doing now, which is effectively nothing.

At least here we have Fediseer to vet instances, and the ability to vet each sign-ups.

I think eventually when we’re more targeted, we’ll have to circle the wagons so to speak, and only limit communications to more carefully moderated instances that root out the bots.

Solid post from Drew, agree with everything there.

He mentions doing your best to join in your local communities with like minded folk. Here’s a good guide on how and where those folk might be to join up with.

And if you follow his advice to unionize, I highly recommend the IWW. They’ll help you form a grassroots union that’s directly controlled by you and your coworkers. And they’ll help you no matter what kind of job you have! Beefing it up is one of the best things we can do to resist.