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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)


0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility


We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
EDIT: For files you share in the comments, a simple summary should be enough if they’re too complex.

We are committed to social equity and to reducing barriers of entry, including (digital) communication and culture. It takes each of us only a few moments to make a whole world of content (more) accessible to a bunch of folks.

When alt text is absent, a reminder will be issued. If you don't add the missing alt text within 48 hours, the post will be removed. No hard feelings.


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] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah that's bullshit. I have said plenty of anti Putin stuff in my instance. Same for being critical of China. I just don't spew propaganda without context when I do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Cool. Check the modlogs bud. Also, I said to the admins, not just in some random shithole edgelord community. One of them even refuses to answer when asked if they support Putin.

Also, I went back 8 months of your comments. Not a single opinion that goes against the hive was posted in .ml. You brought your shit to world and posted it there where it’s allowed.

Imagine that.

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

I just checked them: you're not banned from .ml, but you are banned from several . world coms for being too right wing even for them.

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

ROFL!

I’m banned from a troll community I never even posted in, WAS briefly temp banned for arguing with some tankie kid, and “shitprop?” I’ve no fucking clue what that even is.

Nice little gotcha attempt though. It was cute. But… I’d advise you to put out the fires in your own house before lighting matches in the yards of others, because you really Shouldn’t be taking. Your modlog reads like a cautionary tale on how not to conduct yourself amongst adults.

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

You probably shouldn't have told people to check your modlog if you were going to lie about your modlog.

I'm not sure why you're trying to deflect to mine: you were the one complaining about being banned from .ml when you aren't.

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

The reason I haven’t been banned from .ml is because I don’t create content for shithole communities with authoritarian admins.

And here’s my modlog.

I’ve nothing to hide, bud. It’s all there. Want to compare? Or are you willing to admit your little distraction didn’t work.

My point is, if someone wants to talk shit about one instance, let’s balance the playing field and call into question another to compare, because it’s commonly known and widely accepted that .ml is run by authoritarian admins that constantly overstep the mod teams there.

They remove shit that provenly doesn’t break the rules- daily. This is not up for debate. Modlogs are public.

You tried to make this personal so you can report the conversion and get it removed. I know the game. I’m not playing it. I said what I felt needed to be said. And I’m done.

Enjoy the last word. Its clearly very important it is to you.

EDIT: it’s very peculiar how my comments all mysteriously get 4 downvotes almost immediately after I post. I wonder why that is…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Man, I am not reading all of that.