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  • 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:

  • 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.

  • Based on what I know of him, I think he really is bewildered. He was so stupid and enamored by Putin he couldn't anticipate that he would do something that makes him look like an idiot holding a sagging bag of dog shit.

  • 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/ ?

  • I understand, but I'm not really sure why you're pointing out the exact problem that this campaign is actively trying to solve.

  • MS-DOS games are pretty much what GOG built their business on, they still sell quite well. 50's music is still listened by many (over 57 million views on that one song alone), and often used in movies, though that's a bit of an odd comparison, almost as if old things aren't worth keeping around. I mean, people still listen to classical music that's hundreds of years old at this point, read ancient stories, and look at art from artists long dead. I consider games to be an art form like any other, and worth preserving.

  • As the graph breaks down, some games are patched by companies to allow them to function offline or to enable self-hosted servers. Mostly its fan efforts to reverse engineer the server code, though.

    The point of the stop killing games campaign is to legislate by law that going forward, developers/publishers would have to account for a way to allow the player to host a server or patch the game to run offline when they become unprofitable and are shut down.

  • That does seem to be an influence, though oddly there are some modern wildly popular games, Minecraft being a prime example, that still allow you to self host your own server, so it shouldn't really be as foreign of a concept as it appears to be to some younger folk.

  • I think the issue is that, as with reddit, a lot of people are only reading the headline and commenting.

  • AFAIK, most PS3 (and even PS4) / Xbox 360 games will play and function with just the disc, an internet connection will just let them download updates to the game.

    It was PS5 and Xbox One where the discs became glorified physical download codes, and did not actually contain the entire game.

  • It doesn’t sound like it was as of 2020 in the US, at least on the good/service distinction:

    The creator of the Stop Killing Games campaign did a segment about the viability of fighting it in the US in a segment here: https://youtu.be/DAD5iMe0Xj4?t=1097

    tl:dr, the motivated lawyer he talked with on it eventually found a court case that set a precedent that would be extremely difficult to fight in such a pro-corporate court system without extreme amounts of legal funds. This is why the Stop Killing Games campaign is focusing on implementing laws in the EU and other non-US countries.

  • 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.

  • Unfortunately, I think it was just a lack of awareness that the petition in existed in certain countries where Ross just didn't have enough reach, possibly due to language barriers. A big push from native speakers of those countries with large audiences, like streamers, could've pushed it over the edge.

  • 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.

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