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.
Agitprop (I.E. everything that would be more fitting on a poster than a meme) goes here.
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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. Please post agitprop here)
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(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)
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.
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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.
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0.5.1 Style tip about abbreviations and short forms
When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
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 irrationally 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.
There was this one rich guy that tried starting from 0 and making his money back to show other people it can be done. He had to give up eventually and he only made 65 000$ in 10 months.
Coffeezilla made a video about him on his second channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9AnLnleoE
And he went "Yeah but this technically doesn't count, I had to quit because someone got sick." and he still didn't seem to realize that that's exactly what happens to poor people too except they have no way to hit the "stop being poor until conditions improve" -panic button.
He also kind of cheated didn't he?
Love that guy. [edit: Coffeezilla!]
More glorious because it has that PoS Seinfeld saying something he never would
Wait, I forget what horrible rich piece of shit thing he's known for... is it wanting the legal space to fuck children, or was it his utter contempt of people trying to earn a living wage? Or something I'm totally forgetting?
I know he's a massive utterly vile piece of shit. I just forget which flavor of piece of shit.
Those and the Palestine thing
Ahhhhh right, I totally forgot the absolute worst flavor of "Jew". lol
Gotcha covered.
It’s all of this: https://www.distractify.com/p/why-do-people-hate-jerry-seinfeld
Thanks, I threw up a little
I believe he had a 15 year old girlfriend when he was on seinfeld the tv show.
edit: she was 17
i just don't understand why the pursuit of even more wealth is important. They have more money than ANYONE could possibly spend in multiple lifetimes, so what's the fucking point?
The point, unfortunately, is that incremental games are fun.
Because money is an "universal equivalent" commodity that can be exchanged for essentially anything, ranging from food, housing and other essentials to personal political power. If you're a capitalist and can get this powerful commodity passively without doing any labor of your own, it wouldn't make sense not to go for more.
That, and also just how capitalism works in general - capital tends to accumulate in the hands of the few given how easy it is, often even without doing anything, to monopolize industries, drive smaller competitors out of business or even absorb them.
Add in the very basics too like how the main driving force behind companies is profit accumulation, and you start noticing that it's not necessarily a moral failure, but a system being one of capital accumulation - it's the game that everyone is heavily encouraged and told to play.
so what's the fucking point?
I've heard that covering up abhorrent crimes takes special amounts of money.
But maybe they'll release the Epstein files any day now to prove that rumor wrong, and we can all relax.
do remember schroedinger's trumpstein files though. They both don't exist AND are irrelevant.
Kind of interesting that Seinfeld is the subject of the meme, since he is now a billionaire.
It’s called a double back meme craptacular. Jerry S invented this in the 90s but he pulled back when the NSA said no no no. Documented in the knowledge fight podcast
(That was a lie)
Liberals: I feel bad about them losing their toys.
Literal lawls. 🤣