ProdigalFrog

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[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 13 points 2 weeks ago

There's slowly more evidence coming out to suggest the elections may have been rigged in some states.

So maybe we did vote for kamala. Either way, we need to dig ourselves out of this hole.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's pretty all encompassing, and can't be shortened. I only found it a short while ago, otherwise I'd have posted it sooner.

It basically covers:

  1. What to wear, what to bring
  2. Various tactics for different situations
  3. Quick medical aid primer
  4. How to organize

and more.

You can quickly skim the document itself here: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/bfc-revolt-guide

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Their military is in shambles. Satellite photos show their armored vehicle stockpiles are virtually empty, to the point where they're sending some troops on suicide runs using ATV's, golf carts, and motorcycles because they don't have enough APC's to spare.

They are in no shape to invade anyone besides ukraine.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

After checking just now, it appears that it does! :D

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

Lemmy.world is already the largest instance, recommending it to more people seems like it'd just speedrun burnout like what happened to lemm.ee, not to mention centralization around .world goes against the philosophy of the fediverse.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's a good point. On a similar note, Programming.dev had pretty severe database breakage that took quite some time to fix, but thankfully both instances seem to be healthy and working well nowadays. :)

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 72 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (13 children)

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.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

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

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago

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!

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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:

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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.

 
 
 
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