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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] aski3252@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are virtually zero actually communist countries in the world. That is factually true.

I'm not a marxist, but this point doesn't make sense to me. "Communist countries" aren't called that because they have somehow managed to achieve a communist society (which would be impossible to exist in a capitalist world), but because they are ruled by a governent that is ruled by a group/party which is (or at the very least claims to be) ideologically communist..

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No, they are not ideologically communist. A ruling party is by definition not communist. They are diometrically opposed.

Even having an identifiable "owning class", let alone anything close to a "ruling class" is also definitionally not communist.

[–] aski3252@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

No, they are not ideologically communist. A ruling party is by definition not communist. They are diometrically opposed.

Being ideologically communist simply means that you believe the ideal society is a communist society. Theoretically, you could be the king of britain and still be a communist.

I'm sure there are many people who are members of communist parties who are not actual communists, but there are some true believers who think they are working towards a communist society in the far future by building up state power in order to "compete" with capitalist/imperialist forces.

Again, I doubt their methods will work. I don't think you can work towards a stateless society by strenghtening the state. But I'm not gonna deny their ideals because I don't like their approach.