Socialism
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 and constructive discussion from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.
A certain knowledge of socialism is expected, if you are new to/interested in socialism, please visit c/Socialism101 before participating here. Socialism101 will gladly help you by answering questions, providing resources etc.
Memes go in c/Lefty Memes
Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, upvoting good contributions and downvoting those of low-quality!
Rules
1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith discussion 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,
as well as condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavour.
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" 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).
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 "Xenial Xerus" when answering question 2)
6. Don't 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.
7. Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Rape or assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
(This is not a definitive list, the spirit of the other rules still counts! Eventual duplicates with other rules are for emphasis.)
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What are you here to do then?
... and?
Kind of a weird threat.
To post articles I find interesting. Like everyone else does.
Wasn't a threat at all. I was saying as a point of pride. What's weird is that you would see that as a threat. Why? Because you are afraid that the corrupt capitalist duopoly that you worship is being questioned? So you wanna keep that confusion going, don't ya?
I have never seen another user "post articles [they] find interesting", get a constant stream of hate all day, and just pretend that isn't happening. It's not normal behavior. Humans want to be accepted. Most people are on Lemmy because they find something in common with others here, not because they want to draw hatred.
Yeah buddy, you're so right. The fact that I think it's weird you're telling me you're going to screenshot my messages means something something duopoly. You're not really the best at coherent points, are you?
When have I ever pretended that it isn't happening? I know it's happening. I just choose to not let it affect me. At all.
I'm accepted by plenty. Lemmy haters and downvoters have zero impact on my real life.
Thank you! Keep trying to sow doubt and confusion, friend. It's not working. We can see what you're doing.
Do you feel good that you downvoted an article about overworked nurses demanding better working conditions?
That's the bizarre part.
But spending hours a day doing what you do here absolutely does. A normal person would only ever spend the time if they didn't get constant hate in exchange.
So you've tried to slither out of it but it didn't work. You explained nothing whatsoever about your motives. Which require explanation unless your goal is for people to assume they are bad.
No, it's bizarre that you seem to care about upvotes and downvotes so much that you think it's strange that others do not. You need to get out more, friend.
Hours?! How long do you think it takes to post an article? Have you ever posted one? dude, it's cut and paste a title. Then the link. Takes 5 seconds. And replying to trolls takes even less time.
I mean, maybe YOU spend hours doing that kind of stuff, but not me.
I don't owe you any explanation at all. I say what I feel like saying, when I feel like saying it. I am under no obligation to do anything for you. The duopoly really has you under their thumb I guess. Not me. I know what freedom is.
Oh and by the way, I posted another couple of articles, so update the stats you keep about me. lmao
Lol way to dodge again. You talk about downvotes as if the hundreds of negative comments are meaningless. Neither are, for a mentally healthy person, hate is hate.
You have spent a fuck load of time, stop pretending. Dozens of comments an hour, many posts a day. No one is fooled.
I just plainly said you only owe an explanation if you want your motivation to make sense. Apparently your wish is for everyone to assume you're up to something sinister.
This is going to shock you, but copying and pasting text from a web page is not the same thing as keeping a diary about disingenuous terminally online trolls who suddenly post even more after the presidential debate.
They are to me. But seems like you put lots of weight into online opinions. Ok, have fun with that. lol
Apparently you are fooled. Because I don't spend that much time. How much do you think it takes to post an article? I laid it out for you. Is it that hard to understand for you? You know what? Maybe it would take you hours and hours to do it, I guess.
I don't owe you an explanation for anything. I can do what I want and post what I want.
What?! You keep a fucking diary about me?! Ewwwww. Dude! That's gross. Seek help. Yuck.
Amen bruther! When 99.99% of people hate you, that makes you RITE. Awoooo!
Based on very conservative estimates, you've spent almost a full 8 hour work day in a month. Posting more than 3 times every waking hour. Yeah, no biggie. Very normal to do that and be hated for it by nearly everyone.
Again, even though YOU seemed to be really concerned what Lemmy posters think of you, I do not. lmao
And be sure to smile to yourself that you downvoted an article about overworked nurses demanding better working conditions!
You’ve spent almost a full 8 hour work day in a month. What happened to denying you spent much time? Gish-fucking-gallop.
So 8 hours out of a month. And you think that’s a lot? I don’t understand what you are saying. That’s 2 hours a week. So you think that is way too much time or way too little time? I’m not sure what you mean.
But hey, doesn’t really matter, because I can do whatever I want. Tho I’m not a creeper like you. I mean, dude, you keep diaries about me. That’s so weird. I guess I have to keep all these posts for the FBI now?!
Of course it is a lot. So is posting/commenting every 20 minutes you're awake. But sure let's just pretend it's not.
But you are doing that right now. And you also keep a diary on me. Ewwwww. So are you a full on stalker, or do I take up thoughts in your mind just part of the day?
Hey, so what's it like being a stalker that keeps diaries about a total stranger that they only know through Lemmy?
LIke do you think about me all the time, or just when you sit down to add to your little diary. Do you have weird fantasies about me that you put in there? i mean, I guess you are incel and that's what you decided to do because you couldn't find a guy or girl to date you?
How many other people do you keep a diary on? Please please please tell us!
What's it like to use a website to post content 3 times per waking hour per month? I think this is clearly an addiction at that point. Addiction to criticism?
I don't know what you mean? So in the diary you keep about me, does this conversation get added to it, or is it like your own made up conversations? What's it like being sooo weird?
Real hard to click a link: https://lemmy.ml/u/UniversalMonk@lemmy.world
Should be easy for someone posting content 3 times an hour for every hour they aren't sleeping.
We know that's not the diary you are keeping on me. Seriously dude, go out and get a life.
You're just a creepy incel on here, but you can actually have a real life outside of Lemmy. Try it.
So do you think if you keep raving about a diary, it becomes true? lol
Same way it becomes true that voting against Democrats won't result in death and destruction around the globe if you say it 3 times per hour your whole life?
I don't have to explain anything to you. Be sure to write that down in your diary about me! Thank you!
Says the person who literally worked a part time job posting bullshit that gets nothing but hate in response.
Riiighht. lmao
Strong defense
Thank you!
My totally creepy diary on you is located here: https://lemmy.ml/u/UniversalMonk@lemmy.world
If it took only 10 seconds to post each time, and 20 seconds to make a comment, that means you have spent:
Or, 7.44 hours, in one month. That's almost 5% the amount of time people spend working full time. Almost a full work day. And these are extremely generous estimates that assume you are very fast. I have no doubt you have spent minutes responding to some of the comments calling you out.
To calculate the number of times you submitted content per waking hour:
Or once every 20 minutes on average, assuming you sleep. But again, yeah it fully makes sense that you would work nearly an entire work day per month, getting nothing but bile in return, because you "find articles interesting". Almost every single one promoting third party candidates. Yep you've convinced me. Totally and completely not sus, at all. Not even a little bit.
Hmmm, so how do you think I would make a living then? I mean, since you know so much and all.
And dude, you admitted to keeping a diary about me. Do you realize how weird you are being?! Ewwww...
You’ve spent almost a full 8 hour work day in a month. Suddenly now that's not important. Hmmm.
So 8 hours out of a month. And you think that's a lot? I don't understand what you are saying. That's 2 hours a week. So you think that is way too much time or way too little time? I'm not sure what you mean.
But hey, doesn't really matter, because I can do whatever I want. Tho I'm not a creeper like you. I mean, dude, you keep diaries about me. That's so weird. I guess I have to keep all these posts for the FBI now?!
Three times per waking hour. Totally healthy and nothing to even notice.
You keep a diary on me. Do you think I am going to take anything you say seriously?! You are a weird obsessed stalker. LMAO You're a joke, man. Like literally a joke. And incel who keeps a diary on a person you don't even know. Do you know how weird you are?
Like seriously, I wanna know. Do you think to yourself about how weird you are, or is just the other people that tell you that? I mean, you admitted you keep a diary about me. Do you know how weird that is?! lol
This is all what a toddler would do.
Better to be a toddler than a stalker, dude. Log off and go get a girlfriend or a boyfriend or something. Cuz man, you have issues.
You are taking this online stuff WAY too seriously and getting way too worked up about it.
Dude I posted a socialist article to a socialist community. Why are even here if you are not a socialist?
Did you even realize what community you are posting in or were you too blinded by just following me around and tracking down my posts?!
And dude, don't go around stalking and doing stats on a poster on Lemmy. It's weird, man.
I don't know you. You don't know me. You have fucking zero effect on my life. I have fucking zero effect on your life.
You need to go outside and get a social life. Seriously.
Says the person posting three times every hour
Oh another statistic! Keep going. Hey I'm posting some more article. Put it in your diary!