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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.

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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


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Or they'll blame you for roping them into this exploitative shitshow with a side of climate apocalypse, and they'll be correct.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Buddhists hate this one weird trick.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There was a christian sect that managed to be so sucessful at this, it went extinct.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Better than the enthusiastic nihilism in this thread, tbh.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You mind expanding a bit more on that? Not trying to take a jab at you. I really want to understand.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Just a joke about practicing what you preach, I suppose.

I think we all write our own stories, for ourselves and humanity at large. If we're able to turn this ship around, it won't be because of the attitudes in this thread. It will be in spite of them.

Kids are great. Life is challenging but worth living and worth fighting for.

Positive perspective is valuable, and cynicism is just lazy counterproductive nonsense without it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I believe you used Nihilism wrong in your previous comment based on what you've written here. I think more fitting words are hopelessness, pessimism, or defeatism.

Nihilism is simply refutation of meaning within the world. You can still think kids are great and that life is worth living while believing that there is no meaning to life or any of the other nihilistic assertions. You can even choose to attribute new meaning to your life, as Nietzsche's Übermensch does. See also Absurdism.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I understand. And I agree with those words.