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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!

Rules

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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.



  1. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 29 minutes ago

Always enjoy your posts, ozma.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

California is the USA in a bottle. You got progressive cities, conservative suburbs, rural areas and industrial hotspots, poor folks as well as the obscenely rich. Ronald Reagan was Governor in California for 8 years before becoming the blueprint of conservative candidates for the presidency.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

This. Larger population than all of Canada = smorgasbord of different ideologies and classes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

Land of the ~~free~~

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I thought the bear in their logo had two heads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I bet the mutated Canada Geese look the same, they couldn't get any fiercer

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

That comes after 2077

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Why that bear don't have 2 heads?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

Because it isn't 2189 yet.

Also, please use the spoiler tag.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The urge to re-install New Vegas grows...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Crazy that you uninstalled it in the first place tbh

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

If I don't, I can't remod it fresh and new after seeing all of the wonderful mods coming out all the time these days. Plus, I'd never play anything else!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The American prison system is designed to make money. Prisons get paid based on how many people they house. Making sure people don't wind up in prison is literally the last thing the warden wants to do. Anybody thinking America is gonna change it's ways out of the goodness of its heart is fucking delusional.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I watched a video of a random streamer who ranted a bit about the elections. He had some great points, and he was basically saying what most people are thinking. He talked about voting and the people that refused to vote. He then added: how can you become president as a criminal but you are not able to vote as a criminal. And then continues with, he agrees that criminals shouldn't be able to vote, because they are criminals with bad intentions. Fucker, the system is designed that most people ARE criminals. You can go to jail because a copper doesn't like your face.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago

Literally every single person is one police encounter away from being a criminal, unless you're rich that is.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 13 hours ago

Oh it's worse than that. California voted to make more homeless people, expand the three strikes system by turning some misdemeanors into felonies, and voted itself a slave state to take advantage of all that new prison population.

All that's left is to privatize the pipeline.

But it's okay, they removed the defunct ban on same sex marriage so they're still progressive! Yay!

[–] [email protected] 85 points 17 hours ago (7 children)

One person was arguing that they shouldn’t be able to refuse to do “chores” in prison, but the things they do there are things like making license plates, furniture, and fighting wildfires. A bit far from mopping up and taking out the garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 15 hours ago (8 children)

Don’t blame me! I voted Yes!

The baffling thing is that the other side didn’t even file an argument against the measure in the voter guide… and it still lost!

Like, if your side can’t even be bothered to come up with an argument for or against particular legislation, I’m voting with the other side, full stop.

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