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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
Imagine putting Drake on there but "forget" Putin
It's almost like OP has a hidden agenda!
Go check their post history, they post pretty much any anti-Biden anything that they can find every day.
I've asked them several times before who they support instead, never gotten an answer.
And Xi Jinping... And kim jong-un... And a bunch more...
To be fair, I don't think Kim has done WAR crimes.
How could our beloved leader engage in war crimes if we do not see war as a crime?
Checkmate, Westerners.
The Korean war never officially ended, so
I thought it ended in the 50's and a quick search says it ended in '53. Also Un only took power after the turn of the century.
I'm not saying he wouldn't do war crimes, he absolutely would. I'm saying he hasn't had the opportunity.
Fighting stopped in 53 but there was never an official end to the war
Aren't Russia and Japan also still technically at war?
Yes I believe so, they never signed a peace treaty after ww2.
Why is agent 47 in there 🤔
I think his suit jacket says Boeing lol
Not to be "that guy" but you forgot to include Obama. As well as every US president since Washington.
.ml is leaking
They just migrate and create new accounts when they've destroyed the reputation of their previous instance.
This community is wild. Any time you criticize Biden, all of the leftists suddenly turn into liberals. The meme is funny as long as you don’t take it too serious. I mean, it has Netanyahu as the Kevin James meme lmao.
I post the memes in the politicalmemes channel too so I think a bunch come over to make the same comments on this channel too
That probably explains it. The same old knives come out whenever you criticize the shitty D candidate every 4 years.
"Everyone I don't like is a war criminal"
"all my exes are war criminals"
100 upvotes yet all the upvoted comments are trashing the post... huh.
Bieber I understand, but how is 47 a war criminal?
Maybe the meme was made by a dog, who smells war criminal on 47, but that's just because 47 assassinates so many war criminals.
Drake?
Has Russia starting sending their shills to the front line as well...
2/10 for effort here lads.
Where's big bird?
No you don't have to say "China & Russia bad too!1!1!!!1" every time you criticize the west lmao
Liberals absolutely cannot accept criticism for their favorite strongman in a vacuum, it's absolutely painful to see.
Time to whip out this classic:
"I was suggesting we bomb Belgrade!
I was suggesting we send american pilots in and blow up all the bridges on the Drina!"
- Genocide Joe in 1999