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Lefty Memes

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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)


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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.
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1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here


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That means condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.


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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.


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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 45 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I always wonder when you see stuff like this. Is it an email? Do they all get an email with the daily talking points? Is it a conference call? Do they go to the call, or do their assistants? Or does someone else post to all of their accounts? Like, how does this work, mechanically?

And who is doing the coordination? Seriously. I have so many questions.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You know that whole "new world order" conspiracy theory thing they keep screeching about?

Well, when folks say "it's always projection" it's 'cause it's always projection.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 days ago

"The new world order exists, is evil and wants to control your life!"

"Anyway, here's our Project 2025, where we'll bring a new order to the world"

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 22 points 4 days ago

Probably an insecure Signal chat.

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago

If I had to guess, it was pushed out by Sinclair media on their news stations, and either emailed to these representatives aides or just a press release no one reads but everyone regurgitates. This is extremely dangerous to our Democracy

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

They get told what to do from one of the conglomorated right wing funders. Koch brothers, Murdoch or someone else similar.

It's how they get the antisemites to play nice with Ben "Judeo Christian" Shapiro , because when you actually learn about how these religions are classified, they're called "Abrahamic religions" , but Islam is taking a bad rap until the cheque from the Saudi King clears, and they can say how great the arab countries are because they oppress women while letting them drive cars.

[–] Crankenstein@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

It's probably organized like any other corporate business.

These guys are nothing more than employees who work for larger media entities; simply talking heads who get their marching orders from their bosses, the same as any schmuck in a corporate office.

It's all just business.