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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.

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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.



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[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Technically billionaire meat has a massively negative CO2 impact

[–] groet@feddit.org 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But only if they are artificially bred. If hunted wild, it has an incredibly positive impact. They are a invasive species and are harmful to any ecosystem they were introduced to.

[–] zcd@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hmm maybe I got positive and negative mixed up, eating just one billionaire will lower Atmospheric CO2 more than any other activity

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is there a place where one could offer suggestions for appropriate natural source materials?

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No idea if its ethical, but its super easy to buy real bones, but I can't guarantee they were rich either....

[–] SolarMonkey 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’m slightly upset the person is not named Joan. Joan’s bones sounds a lot better than Jon’s bones.

[–] burgersc12@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago
[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Absolutely not. Halloween is meant to be spooky and dark, not uplifting and life-affirming

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Alternatively you can put their heads on pikes to send a message

[–] akincisor@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Bonus: they're more scary. (HOA might complain, add their heads to the display)

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Didn't some older movies as well certain rides at theme parks in the past featuring skeletons at one point use real bones instead of fake ones.

[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I like how in the second image she just looks like she's upset