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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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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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[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Private policing has been done.

You had to pay a fee to have them attempt to solve whatever crime you wanted investigated.

Too bad if you’re poor.

If you’re rich the crime will be solved. Doesn’t matter if they got the right person.

Police take bribes, so they can find the other “right person”.

They were used to force workers back to work when they rebelled over poor pay and working conditions.

They were used to hunt down escaped slaves.

Want to know why people didn’t want state-funded cops? Because those police would be used to limit their freedoms. Anyone participated in a protest lately? How about being pulled over because of your color? Assets seized? Not that you would have avoided these things with private police, though. Modern police still protect the capital of the wealthy, just on the taxpayer dime now, the rich don’t have to pay them directly.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Yeah now we pay them to oppress us lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah that one's great. I remember running into a bunch more like it somewhere, but no clue where or by who.

The beginning of that story is just 🤌

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Man, it’s pretty sad my first thought was “did I miss an article about this?”

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

"We Will also sell you out for Slave Labor".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You forgot the "we're also seizing everything you own"