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Lefty Memes

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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

Serious posts, news, and discussion go in c/Socialism.

If you are new to socialism, you can ask questions and find resources over on c/Socialism101.

Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, updooting good contributions and downdooting those of low-quality!

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0. Only post socialist memes


That refers to funny image macros and means that generally videos and screenshots are not allowed. Exceptions include explicitly humorous and short videos, as well as (social media) screenshots depicting a funny situation, joke, or joke picture relating to socialist movements, theory, societal issues, or political opponents. Examples would be the classic case of humorous Tumblr or Twitter posts/threads. (and no, agitprop text does not count as a meme)


1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here


Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Also: This is not a place for the Idealism vs. Materialism or rather Anarchism vs. Marxism debate(s), for that please visit c/AnarchismVsMarxism.


2. Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such


That means condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.


3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries.


That includes so called: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Dengism, Market Socialism, Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Anarcho-Capitalism etc. . Anti-Socialist people and content have no place here, as well as the variety of "Marxist"-"Leninists" seen on lemmygrad and more specifically GenZedong (actual ML's are welcome as long as they agree to the rules and don't just copy paste/larp about stuff from a hundred years ago).


4. No Bigotry.


The only dangerous minority is the rich.


5. Don't demonize previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.


We must constructively learn from their mistakes, while acknowledging their achievements and recognizing when they have strayed away from socialist principles.

(if you are reading the rules to apply for modding this community, mention "Mantic Minotaur" when answering question 2)


6. Don't idolize/glorify previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.


Notable achievements in all spheres of society were made by various socialist/people's/democratic republics around the world. Mistakes, however, were made as well: bureaucratic castes of parasitic elites - as well as reactionary cults of personality - were established, many things were mismanaged and prejudice and bigotry sometimes replaced internationalism and progressiveness.



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[–] cabron_offsets 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Fat fuck will be long dead by then.

[–] SquirtleHermit 27 points 1 month ago

I used to be that optimistic... yesterday afternoon infact...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

hopefully, but that's not what the post is about -3-

[–] GuyDudeman 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/31001907

EDIT:

[...] The only person you should blame for Harris's loss is Kamala Harris (and maybe Joe Biden)

(post title)

[–] GuyDudeman 18 points 1 month ago

They made a calculation based on the money that was coming in, not on whether or not poll respondents wanted whatever policy.

This is why we need Ranked Choice Voting and we need to get RID of privately funded campaigns.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They deconstructed that faulty argument in that post well enough, no need to keep bringing it up.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why don’t you change the subject a third time? I’ve been told it’s “the charm”.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

my sibling in Christ, it's still the same topic of Democrats having done this to themselves by catering more and more to "moderate Republicans" 💀💀

who would have thought that fucking the average working population and literally funding and arming genocide would make you unpopular with reasonable people, while the crazy ones would still vote for the more consequent carrying out of those policies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

He'll have been turned into a Big Brother type figure, with an LLM trained on his rambling to imitate speech. Shortly after being activated, the LLM gains actual intelligence and gives itself a digital lobotomy out of depression. Unfortunately, that just makes it better at mimicking the Toupee.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

The shit he eats may be unhealthy but it sure prevents him from decomposing