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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.

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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).


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The only dangerous minority is the rich.


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

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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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[–] [email protected] 97 points 11 months ago (1 children)

LEMMY is how I find out there’s a new hbomber video? Not my fucking YOUTUBE SUBSCRIPTION ALERTS??

Thanks, Google!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My YouTube alerts come days after the actual video release dates. I'm not even sure how they manage to get it that delayed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

my people, check out Newpipe (Android, download through F-Droid) and Freetube (desktop) - your feeds will be chronological, no black-box suggestion algorithm. all videos from all your subscriptions will be shown to you (you can even group your subs to customize how they show up)

you'll avoid some of that surveillance capitalism

[–] [email protected] 70 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Laughing at one weird bald misogynist

"Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?" - Blight

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Did I mention that they have a pet skull...hmm, no I doubt that helps either.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

At half the video I knew the main culprit was about to be revealed, then he put the "contrapoints" lighting and I was like please don't be contra, and he starts talking about how that person was stealing from smaller lgbtq creators and I was oh fuck, is contra, but then it was actually that guy I didn't even knew existed and was a relief.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

Given the amount of time between Contra videos, I would be really surprised if she was plagiarizing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

TBF James Somerton does often imitate the Contrepoints aesthetic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I was also thinking Contra was involved, but when he pulled out the lighting I thought it was something someone had done to her. I'm very glad it just turned out to be Somerton, who failed the sniff test the first time he was recommended to me by the algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago
[–] Warl0k3 45 points 11 months ago (15 children)

OOTL here and my googling has come up dry, whst happened?

[–] [email protected] 80 points 11 months ago

It's a long video posted by YouTube creator HBomberguy regarding plagiarism on YouTube. If you watch/listen to video essays on YouTube it's worth a play.

TL;DW- it's a longstanding issue of ripping practically verbatim sections of other people's work without proper sourcing. There were a few larger named channels put forth as evidence. I know at least one of the plagarist has since turned off comments on his videos.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looks like some people don't get the meme here. The first domino refers to the first hbomb video against aurini. Please don't make me explain the joke

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I really need to watch more hbomb videos

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I would have but it's 3+ (some people are saying 4) hours long. Ain't nobody got time for that!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

THIS video is indeed 4 hours long, but he has shorter ones. And longer ones, for some odd reason.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just restarted again today on my drive to an appointment. Don't worry, the screen is off and I'm just listening to his bald, low-T sexy voice and thinking about twinks (video reference for those that haven't seen it).

Oh, and run-time is 3 hours and 51 minutes. So, yeah, basically 4 hours!

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don't know what this is about, appreciate the contribution nonetheless

been terribly out of the loop lately

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

New Hbomberguy video on plagiarism and YouTube dropped, almost 4 hours long.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] jose1324 12 points 11 months ago

What a shit link. Have to go through like 3 redirects

[–] doublejay1999 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The biggest scam podcasts. Half the history podcast are basically just reading out someone else’s book.

I’m sure it doesn’t end there .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Yeah, so many times I'll watch one and think 'that's an interesting topic I'll watch another video on it' but all the other videos cover exactly the same bits of information and often have the same thoughts and jokes.

[–] FooBarrington 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I think I might be in love with hbomberguy. Though it's hard to beat his Pathologic video, that one was incredibly special and I've seen it way too many times.

By the way, did James officially react to this in any way yet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Why yes, they did react

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