Lefty Memes
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
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.
- Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Rape or assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
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Love your moral high ground here by voting for genocide instead of a real candidate
Joe kicks your ass every day before breakfast
So now you're actively praising a guy who's helping assisting in genocide.... Take a good, long hard look in the mirror buddy. Why should I respect you anymore than I respect dumb ass fascist Republicans? You're just a dick Rider for the less funny fascist. ๐
Joe is doing the best job any man can in this situation, and that scares you.. so you whine like a little baby, and try to make it all his fault.. baby.. you have no solution, you just want to bitch at somebody..
send a letter to Hamas if you're sad.. tell them all about your feelings..
You sound exactly like a trump supporter. Crazy how you don't even realize you're the same thing as them. ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
Have fun licking the boot dude.
yeah, you go ahead and pack your shit and head to Palestine if you care that much, brave guy.. tell Hamas i said hi.. there are more bombs on the way.. somebody as busy as you are protecting Palestine i don't know how you have time to internet..
How dumb are you that you think the only two options are to either to go to Palestine and stop the genocide myself or support genocide? A guy who is taking like 3 million in bribes directly from the Israeli government.
Fuck Joe Biden and fuck you
that's right, you're an internet warrior, brother
Do you think youre an "internet warrior" for arguing with me and OP ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐คฃ
You're a pathetic waste of space.
i hate to see you cry like that.. can i get you a juicy box or something..
You're basically a trump supporter. Anytime you think you're better than any of those hogs I want you to remember that you suck the dick of a fascist named Joe Biden and then you are you by name calling. I won't be wasting my time with a response after this, so have a nice life loser.
you're so dramatic, i think you're about to have a seizure
watchout.. Big Bad Joe is coming to get you..