Lefty Memes
An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of "ML" (read: Dengist) influence. 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, discussion and agitprop/stuff that's better fit for a poster than a meme 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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Rules
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.
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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" (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).
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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)
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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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They're all inbred AF, no wonder they look so unevolved. Instead of killing them, Israeli women should start fucking Palestinians and get pregnant to improve their genetic pool
there is alot of genetic diseases that are mostly associated with semetic jews, because of the inbreeding of specific group of jewish people. like some wierd ones lysosomal storage disorders, cruozon disease,,,etc
Where i live, there aren't a whole lot of jews at all. Tgere is a hewish community that is quite big in the next city tho. They are pretty hardcore, with the whole outfit. I used to work for one guy there and it was so weird how all stereotypes fit. Him and his whole family and every friend i met were rude and cheap as fuck. Like it was uncomfortable for me to just be around them. I don't need anyone telling me to not touch them because i'm "dirty" because i'm not jewish. Don't tell me you don't have any money, because you own like 12 buildings with some high as fuck rent prices and you never fix anything. Every dude in that family of like 15 has some sort or mental problem, they are super slow and generally weren't allowed to decide things and they could hardly talk right. Most of them had some sort of deformity, where they couldn't really walk and move all that well. I never met a lot of women, but they seemed to me more on tge "normal" side. Still rude and pretty weird overall.
Brother. Eugenics isn't a good look
That's like the opposite of eugenics
Then let them fuck their first cousin until they all look like sloth from the goonies, like I give a shit
And don't start with eugenics, makes you look like you learned a new word yesterday and started to use it out of context
Looks better than inbreeding.
What an odd thing to say
It's not so odd when you have a degree in evolutionay biology an you can spots the effects of inbreeding from a mile
Lemmy will upvote shit like phrenology when it’s about Jews.
Pure antisemitism.
But why Israeli women and Palestinian men specifically?
a. Because the opposite is already happening (without the consent from one side)
b. Because I believe the child of a Israeli woman has more chances to succeed than the child of a Palestinian woman
Are you referring to the jaw? Since you just linked the wikipedia article of inbreeding and that was the only visible sign I could pick up from that.
'Overall simian features' and mouth gum excess.
Also the fact that they're filming a crime against humanity hints at cognitive retardation...
I didn’t find any sources for those claims, but I don’t want to waste your time. I just wish you sourced your claims better, which should be easy for someone with a degree. Unless they hand them to any simian these days (sorry I had to)
Do you see why that's not the point?
No no, I get it, let's just give credit to all the other useless bullshit that dilutes the argument and gets us nowhere.
Giving an excuse to horrible actions because of 'generational trauma' or other 'less odd things to say' wastes everybody's time and gives them another day of atrocities to commit.
Edit: also, why am I arguing my thesis on a meme page? Maybe my parents are first cousins as well...
It's more that you weren't attacking the person for the crime they're commiting, or even their personal ugliness, but seemed to be attacking an entire ethnicity based on their gene pool.
Saing they have a tendency to inbreeding isn't an attack, it's stating a fact.
Their genetic pool is, as you can figure, a direct consequence of this fact.
If I made it up, that would be an attack.
Didn't you know that stating facts is an attack?
Just for Israelis apparently, did you even read the post?
I was being sarcastic in support of you. Sorry if it came off otherwise
LoL sorry, I was in war mode
Look at your first comment. Would you say the same about any other ethnic/cultural group with low genetic diversity? Do you see why it comes across as eugenicist?
It's right to be outraged at this settler for what he's doing to people in their homes. But when people focus genes and ethnicities rather than the crimes of an individual, they dilute blame away from the individual and drag in people who had nothing to do with it.
If suggesting that maybe you should stop fucking your relatives is eugenistic then everybody is Josef Mengele except for Israel and Alabama.
Palestinians have a very high rate of inbreeding at more than 40%. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1769721214000214
That applies to Arab Muslims in the area generally. Christians Arabs have much lower rates.
I guess I have to thank you for giving my comment even more value. If it works for both sides then what are we waiting for?
Inbreeding for Jews in Israel is nowhere that high. Your source is just your antisemitic hunches.
Boohoo mommy people are trolling on meme pages
The excuse of any hateful bigot when called out is always
The excuse of any genocide apologist when called out