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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.

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.

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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)


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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The only dangerous minority is the rich.


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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

Yeah, and isn't the series as a whole about her trying to go from A to B?

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

To me this is the right answer. Both always exist. I think people's propensity to believe the oppressed will definitely pick up arms in the face of oppression are kidding themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (21 children)

I agree that women are not going back "into the bottle" as it were. There definitely are females out there opposed to women's rights (especially reproductive and career rights). They will be opposed by a greater number of women + the men who want women to meaningfully participate in society. A nation that refuses to take women seriously ends up cutting their potential leadership, ideas, production, and so on basically in half. Already we see women planning how they are going to resist misogynistic policies, and maybe they don't need my support as a Canadian man but they've got it.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The majority of women are libs. It was the majority of women that voted Trump. They're not going to do anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
  1. A lot of them abstained due to the dems failing to do anything on the state level.
  2. A lot of them who voted just thought the Project 2025 was there to make the libs cry, and no human would be evil enough to execute them all.

Also a lot of Trump voters in the swing states are already regretting, if it continues, it can very well lead to a civil war, especially if Project 2025 will be executed. Who knows, maybe even the military will have issues with it.

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

Once more into the breach

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Sooooo… better start learning the words to Bella Ciao huh?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (37 children)

I guess I have trouble groking the difference between "liberal" and "leftist".

Could someone summarize?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

After the French Revolution, they arranged the seats in the legislature with the most progressive on the left, and the most conservative on the right.

This left-right axis is often still used in modern politics.

On the American politics version of this spectrum, "liberal" defines those in the center who are in the middle and who accept whatever they are given. Leftist progressives fight for a better future.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Liberals die on their knees, leftists die standing.

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