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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.
Agitprop (I.E. everything that would be more fitting on a poster than a meme) goes here.
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!
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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. Please post agitprop here)
0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility
(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)
We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
EDIT: For files you share in the comments, a simple summary should be enough if they’re too complex.
We are committed to social equity and to reducing barriers of entry, including (digital) communication and culture. It takes each of us only a few moments to make a whole world of content (more) accessible to a bunch of folks.
When alt text is absent, a reminder will be issued. If you don't add the missing alt text within 48 hours, the post will be removed. No hard feelings.
0.5.1 Style tip about abbreviations and short forms
When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
- ofc => OFC
- af = AF
- ok => OK
- lol => LOL
- bc => BC
- bs => BS
- iirc => IIRC
- cia => CIA
- nato => Nato (you don't spell it when talking, right?)
- usa => USA
- prc => PRC
- etc.
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
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).
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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 irrationally 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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I don't find this to be true. There are real activist groups that meet and have actual plans to support parties, policies etc with door to door campaigning and more. You have none of that on Lemmy. Just people making guillotine memes.
I have not seen a singular person who that description fits my entire time being on Lemmy.
This seems really dismissive without any actionable examples.
I actually disagree tremendously, because something that has actually bothered me was seeing that reddit has more communities with people who actually plan protests, campaigns, user action, etc.
I imagine part of that is due to the much smaller lemmy user numbers, but I haven't seen any actual events result from lemmy.
Interesting!
We really have very different experiences it seems. And honestly, I think that's for the best! A big strength of federation-style tech.
Some responses:
I intentionally stopped short of pointing you toward the parts of Lemmy I was talking about. I don't know you - if you're curious, you'll find em; but I don't know you and they aren't "my" spaces, I'm not going to inflict you on them just to make a point, know what I mean?
if you're willing (feel free to tell me to fuck myself lol, given my statement above), where are you finding these "real activist groups"? I can't say I've ever once seen the like online. To be fair, I tuned out of "social media" (the big platforms) more than 10 years ago and spent a considerable amount of that time jaded and uninvolved on that level.
I really can't understand any defence of modern Reddit whatsoever (assuming you're defending modern Reddit, you didn't indicate otherwise). For a long time now it's been hilariously controlled, are you talking about subreddits that have managed to fly under the radar or something?
completely agree that we got a whoooole lotta thoughtless meme'ing here. Pretty much comes with the territory though...
Oh, edit to add - I also haven't seen IRL events organized on Lemmy, agree with you there. That's not at all what I was saying, my bad - I meant that I run into folks who do IRL organizing, and happen to chime in about things online. The opposite of "online -> IRL" you're describing.
Very cool of you with the measured response.
Thanks! It's going great lol
That seems weirdly hostile
Groups looking to take action should be trying to be seen, not acting like a secret society. This alone means they're almost certainly failing in their duties, if they exist at all.
Reddit often has location specific subreddits. Often times a cities subreddit for instance might organize a protest, rally, transport for voting, etc.
What a crazy logical leap this whole bit is. "You didn't say something completely unrelated so therefore you must have opinion I made up".
There is obviously a lot wrong with modern reddit, but that's about management and ownership of the site, and therefore the enshitification and control.
What I was discussing is the people using said site. Two obviously separate concepts.
Not every bit of positive action is so brazen and offensive that it would violate TOS.
The signal to noise ratio is veeeery low here though. There are also a shit ton of weirdly pro russia/pro CCP noise with people who seem to trying to be impossible to talk to on purpose for some reason. Like they aren't trying to actually effectively convince anyone of anything, just circle jerk in a weird cult like atmosphere where they just vaguely bust out stalinisms.
You don't seem to really even be trying to read my comments charitably, a courtesy I've been extending to you. That's not a discussion, it's just trying to score points on someone.
You do you, but I'm all done.
What a weird bout of projection. Your weaponized civility was not well camoflauged at all. It was right out there in the open, especially given you started with "I’m not going to inflict you on them"
You baited out a comment with effort just to put out a comment with no effort accusing me of what you're doing when literally all of your queries were answered. Troll behaviour.
You couldn't be more wrong dude. I was sincerely interested in what you had to say. My "not going to inflict you on them" was entirely couched in an explanation most people would consider reasonable, and phrased in a way that I tried to make clear wasn't an attack - it was only unfamiliarity. What I said is I don't know you, not that I dislike you. And ya know what? Turns out I was right lol, you're impossible to talk to!
You're doing the thing right now. You've made up your mind completely about who I am and what I'm up to, and anything I say, you interpret through that lens.
I can't help you with that. And sheesh, even speaking politely is interpreted by you as a trolling tactic? Get a fucking grip, you sound like an asshole and a moron. Why would anyone who disagrees with you bother to go through this? Besides which, you're just wrong. You don't have to go far through my comment history to find an instance of me strongly disagreeing with someone (re: recent comments by Obama). At the end of it, I realized they were right, I was the one misreading, and I apologized. But hey, maybe that's another one of my sophisticated troll techniques!
I don't hate you, I'm not mad at you, I don't wish you ill will. I just don't want to talk to you, and wish I hadn't bothered.
Go ahead and spin this comment into whatever weird shit, too, should be entertaining.
Ah look, another big toxic comment not even passive aggressively hurling insults.
Not even worth the time to read it all. Apparently your "You do you, but I’m all done." was indeed an obvious lie. (Double downvoting me with an alt is hillarious shit too)
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