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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 theyβre 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.
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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
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" (read: Dengists) (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 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.
DNCs are most certainly not on the left, they never were, i dare say it they are REPUBLICAN rejects. aside from a few of them. center right is the parties main stance on most things. They are the defense while the gop is the spear. its too keep minority groups(women, pocs, lgbtq) from gaining significant support and power and overtaking the party from the status quo.
It's not all Democrats though. Unfortunately the Democrats in charge are the absolute worst of the bunch.
Former liberal here. I always felt I had a more wonkish bent, that pragmatism needs to be more front and center in politics.
But if I'm now in the leftist camp, it's not like Dems are going to go anywhere but the way of the whigs if they don't take some actual stances. They've lost all imagination. You can't win on damage control.
At this point the wonkish pragmatism is that they need to be more progressive and actually take stances on shit. It's clearly what works.
It's just that at this point the DNC doesn't care about winning anymore
And the dnc trash is also pushing moderates.
We don't want fucking moderates! We don't want more status quo losers afraid to rock the boat and gasp actually improve the citizens' lives.
moderate = centrist = corporate slave
Of course being pro genocide lost Harris votes. The DNC is fine with Republicans (including Trump) winning so long as they can preclude the left, which is the actual purpose of the Democratic party. Most of the base will happily be useful idiots and spend their energy punching left rather than allow any criticism of the party, all the while calling the left naive and blaming them for losing elections.
In a FPTP system itβs wild to me that Harris wasnβt chosen as the least of two evils for these people. Look at what Trump is going. Is that actually preferred?
Because it's a FPTP system, having Harris as their candidate made many people just not vote. They were wrong in thinking that not voting would have been a good decision.
Is that actually preferred?
I dunno, maybe we should have an election to see. Oh, wait, we did. I guess you have your answer. So what should the Democrats do about that?
DNC: Um, aktuly, the Dems are running a candidate who has repeatedly endorsed a 10-12% reduction in genocide over 30 years. What have you lefty shits ever done?
DNC: OH SO YOU HATE JEWS, DO YOU?! WELL I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR DONALD TRUMP!
Stop lying that Mamdani is anywhere remotely leftist:
who the fuck are you fascist creeps? @Postimo@lemmy.zip @Blan@sh.itjust.works @too_high_for_this@lemmy.world @Tinidril@midwest.social [not tagging StillAlive @fash.world since I know e fascist] @laurelraven@lemmy.zip
Since Mamdani got elected THREE NEW DEATHCAMPS GOT MADE. Miss me with your βnot worth readingβ bs.
Bruh, why @ me ? Yall can do whatever you want in 'merica. But it doesn't seem like yall want to do leftie things... The whole world doesn't want to, but thats another story.
βcause you downvoted my comment. I do plenty of black anarchism, twat.
The whole world doesnβt want to
Stop digressively victimizing your inaction, lib.
Dems are running a candidate who has repeatedly endorsed a 10-12% reduction in genocide over 30 years.
With absolutely no enforcement mechanism and no penalty for failing to meet that goal, naturally.
Or instead of shit posting rage bait on the fucking internet you could be out there boosting a candidate you like right now before the primaries even start. You want someone to just HAND you the ideal fucking candidate?
No, you'd rather pre-complain about a choice that you can actively influence and hasn't happened yet.
I haven't seen one yet that I really like, but it's still 3 years out. This is the best time to talk about what you do or don't like about a candidate or policy, and the worst time to settle.
Not "someone". It has to be the DNC. And it need to show me the text where it broke up with Israel. And it needs to apologize to Bernie. Also I will still not like its candidate.
If I tried to promote a candidate on my own or talked to any other org, than DNC would think I wasn't serious about how much I'm not going to vote for its candidate.
I have enough time to do both, thanks. I am not content to just sit around and do nothing but punch down until election day and happily vote for GOP-lite every fucking time.
Remembers bernie sanders. Yeah I don't believe you. Different wings of the same bird.
This response keeps killing me inside. I'm about to commit Aaron Bushnell.
