Unfortunately most lemmy "leftists" continue to uncritically believe NATO propaganda about AES countries, which is why you have a bunch of losers in this thread whining about "tankies." If you want an actual, non-anti-communist leftist comm, try .ml, lemmygrad, or hexbear.
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I fully support the OP posting their memes in those instances.
Your great man post (the "history is made by great men" and then the Marx/Engels/Lenin/Stalin/Mao line) doesn't fit the instance and also wasn't a meme and would have been deleted by me anyway, but I wouldn't have banned you for it.
Your other posting was quite good, so imma reverse the community ban; if db0 feels like crashing out over this and banning you instance-wide, I'm sorry, that's outside my control
Your comm is starting to attract too many red fash who take it as a useful propaganda platform.
I dunno db0, publicly calling out at Alsaas like this when she had nothing to do with it is out of line imo. It would have been removed by one of the lefty meme mods before long anyway. I see you kind of apologized to her but honestly I'm a bit annoyed on her behalf.
And as Alsaas said, currently the biggest moderation problem is not MLs, who are usually well informed at least, but the brain-dead "reds-under-the-bed" turbolibs in the comments, who've never even heard of Joe McCarthy.
I agree with Alsaas that content removal would have sufficed, so PTB in this case. And no hard feelings I hope.
Two things can be a problem at once. These double standards we have recently where we keep tolerating ml rhetoric in our comms is why hardcore tankies like this person and dogbert and others are emboldened to outright propagandize in our comms. It's why we keep seeing actual anarchists refusing to associate with us out of disgust with how many tankies are here. And when we get straight up propaganda like this from people with a clear anarchist-hating history, we give a slap on the wrist. Enabling further propaganda.
No lib gets anywhere that amount of leeway in here.
First of all, I would firmly disagree with calling genuine ML(M)s "red fascists", which is historically disingenuous and, in the present, dangerously inaccurate, especially regarding today's global political climate.
I believe the rules of c/leftymemes are already expansive to prevent irrational idolization/glorification (i.e. exaggerating positive aspects or denying mistakes to the point of lying). However, stating historical fact, or using historical figures to subvert expectations, does not violate that.
Genuinely socialist memes of all stripes (!) have a place there as long as they adhere to the rules, which most do IMO. I admit that moderation could be more proactive and rules better enforced, but we don't get don't get a lot of reports either and currently the largest problem IMHO is the lib infestation in the comments...
When the proposed "solution" of the ML(M) would be to place me in a fascist regime with a red coat of paint and oppress me (if not outright murder me in the name of the revolution), I will fucking call them red fash.
or using historical figures to subvert expectations,
There's a fine line between subverting expectations and glorifying authoritarian leaders, and the new crop of posts are hell bent on crossing over it just enough to not get caught.
When the proposed “solution” of the ML(M) would be to place me in a fascist regime with a red coat of paint and oppress me (if not outright murder me in the name of the revolution), I will fucking call them red fash.
Just feel that this needs addressing:
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Socialism and communism aren't fascism. Fascism is inherently a violent protection of the bourgeoisie, not a collectivized system of production and distribution.
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There are no real examples of communists issuing blanket "kill all the anarchists for thought crimes!" orders. Fighting has existed, sure, but never a one-sided affair.
Essentially, this isn't a "solution" posited by anybody.
No, the "evil commies" don't want to oppress you. We disagree on how society should be organized, but that doesn't make communists anywhere close to fascists. Where anarchists seek communalized and decentralized production and distribution, communists seek collectivized production and distribution, and both of these are entirely different from fascism and the system of private ownership that oppresses us today.
When the proposed "solution" of the ML(M) would be to place me in a fascist regime with a red coat of paint and oppress me (if not outright murder me in the name of the revolution)
Just an FYI that this is a massive "[citation needed]" moment, literally no-one advocates for anything like that or even just reimplementing past socialist experiments (which happened under wildly different material conditions), 1:1 today. I believe you are building strawmen...
There's a fine line between subverting expectations and glorifying authoritarian leaders, and the new crop of posts are hell bent on crossing over it just enough to not get caught.
Just showing them as characters in a meme != glorification IMHO (which is what has been happening in the posts that are still up, as far as I can tell).
Just an FYI that this is a massive "[citation needed]" moment, literally no-one advocates for anything like tha
How can you say that with a straight face, when there's a whole-ass instance glorifying North Korea?
Not to mention that nobody outright says that they're going to be oppressive. Lenin sounded great in ~~2017~~ 1917 when he was writing effectively anarchist praxis. We just know that the creation of a new state is going to inevitably end up oppressing and killing those who oppose creating a state.
Apologies for the wording, I meant that in the "genuine ML(M)" context
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whole-ass instance glorifying North Korea
Also I don't believe that to be unnuanced uncritical support that wants to blindly copy everything about it either, but largely geopolitical and critical support
I meant that in the "genuine ML(M)" context
Isn't that a No True Scotsman?
No? I'm writing from an anti-revisionist, revolutionary Marxist position.
Please also take this into account:
[...] I don’t believe that to be unnuanced uncritical support that wants to blindly copy everything about it either, but largely geopolitical and critical support
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Lenin sounded great in 2017
Wrong timeline champ. He's still dead in this one 😜
That's what they want you to think!
Dogbert. Your most active user who got instance banned. They do that all the time and you gas them up.
Thank you. I will post funny meme only.
Interestingly, you have previously posted here because you were banned for posting pure propaganda to a meme community. And it was, in fact, tankie shite.
Yep, gross instance rules violation. Fuck outa here with the "great men" tankie shite.
This great man okay
But ban me?
First one was funny. But trying to make light of Stalinism and gulags where millions were imprisoned and died, just because USA are terrible about imprisoning people is awful. Shame on you.
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