ProdigalFrog

For lemm.ee users who will be migrating to new instances: You can export your subscriptions and blocks to import them to your new instance! You can export that info in your profile settings panel, and import it from the same page on your new instance.

General instances:

Sopuli.xyz is a great medium sized general purpose instance. Good admins that update to the latest Lemmy release consistently.

Lemmy.cafe could be another option if you'd prefer a smaller general purpose instance (to help spread the load and prevent the burnout that lemm.ee experienced) that's also run by a solid admin.

Themed instances:

Retrolemmy.com - a cool place for retro tech/game enthusiasts

Literature.cafe - For book lovers and readers!

lemmy.dbzer0.com - fantastic instance for Anarchists and those who like to go Yarr! 🏴‍☠️

Programming.dev - For techies interested in programming and linux

Mander.xyz - Focused on Science and Nature

Lemmy.zip - PC Gaming and Tech focused

You can find more over at Lemmyverse.net

Piefed:

If you're willing to try an entirely new way to interact with Lemmy and the threadiverse, consider giving Piefed.social a try, a completely independent project from Lemmy. It's still a little behind in some ways, but also has a bunch of features that lemmy doesn't. If you're a community mod looking to migrate, Piefed apparently makes it particularly easy!

Also @1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee

And Pirates Gold on the Sega Genesis is a good option for any emulation handhelds, basically a pixel art version of the remake.

Just wanna throw it out there that Bidets are super cheap, wildly effective, and quick to install on any toilet.

You also don't need warm water, as your bunghole is actually surprisingly insensitive to temperature!

I think the modified horseshoe theory describes it best.

There's a few non-profits that accept second hand laptops, such as Computers with Causes, or the ones on this list.

It'd also be possible sell the laptop on ebay for a penny + shipping, give it away to a local habitat for humanity, or offer it up for free on craigslist or offerup, or maybe ask around your local library if there's an avenue to donate it to someone in need.

Most of the downvotes came from off-instance accounts, so perhaps drive-by downvotes?

But it's possible some of the downvotes are from people only reading the post body description "why i left the left the left the left", which makes it seem like could be a right-wing video without watching it.

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

Unfortunate :(

Thanks for the heads up!

Just be sure not to talk to them >.>