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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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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


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.


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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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[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 166 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Conservapedia, like the incel wiki, are windows into parallel universes and both are proof, that ours isn’t the worst timeline after all.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 78 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It almost looks like incredibly well done satire

[–] Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 45 points 3 months ago
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[–] RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world 136 points 3 months ago (8 children)

"Hitler was a socialist! It was in the name!" "China is communist! It's in the name!" "North korea is communist! It's in the name!"

"Kamala harris is a communist! She is with the democratic party, but that does not mean she is one. 🤡" "Trumps wouldbe-assassin was not a republican. He might be registered as such, but that does not suit my agenda 🤡." "Everything i read or hear, i see as fact or not based on what helps me most 🤡"

These people are absolute fucking clowns and it's impossible to talk or argue with them because they are not grounded in reality. It is exhausting.

[–] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Cheesecake is cake! It's in the name!"

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cheesecake is not cake? Have i been living in a lie my entire life?

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 23 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's a pie and/or tart. I'm sorry to have to tell you this and strip more of your innocence away.

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[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Every word.

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah. Then why kamala be dum?

Stupid lib

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Man, I had to check your post history to know you were messin' with me. Your conservative impression is spot on.

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[–] Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 95 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Infamous liberal

Adolf Hitler

So...half the conservative base agrees with a librul?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Their opinions on reality are not consistent. They will warp their minds into whatever twisted shape is required if they get to hurt the "other" (whoever that happens to be this cycle)

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[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 76 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"everyone I don't like is a liberal"

[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder why they put Hitler on the list then.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 51 points 3 months ago (4 children)

They love pretending loke Hitler, the universal symbol for evil, was a socialist. They fuckin’ love fascism and everything he did but they have to pretend like what they’re doing is different.

They also have no idea what “liberal” means, but that’s the case with most words exceeding six letters.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

He was a filthy painter, that's why. Now, if he had painted with a gun...

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

Liberal arts?

#COMMUNIST

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[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 75 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hussein. 😪

They just love saying Obama's middle name like it's some kind of gotcha. What they don't seem to get is it doesn't mean anything unless you're a racist piece of shit.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Barack Obama is clearly the cousin of Saddam Hussein, the 20th hijacker on 9/11.

[–] carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Hahah - I thought this was a joke, I can’t believe it’s a real thing. It reads like an angry fundie 14yo wrote it.

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[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (10 children)

Every single republican is also a liberal. It's the dominant ideology of capitalism and its state.

The difference is that the liberalism of republicans is more "classic" in that it's heavily mixed with racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, classism, etc.

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[–] tranarchist@lemmy.ml 42 points 3 months ago (7 children)

even they should know the difference between librul and commie, right?

[–] Daxtron2@startrek.website 36 points 3 months ago

They literally don't

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

No, liberal, commie, fascist, are all just interchangeable terms for "people I don't like"

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Hitler was just really passionate about giving free healthcare to Jews, LGBT, intellectuals, Romani, slightly swarthy people, etc etc.

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[–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Gotta make sure to include the Hussein in Obama's name

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Have they listened to Bill Maher lately? I don't think he's liberal anymore.

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[–] Fontasia@feddit.nl 17 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere in the terms of use for that wiki that they clarify that they are not liable for any trust users put in the articles and the tagline "trustworthy encyclopedia" cannot be enforced

[–] Glytch@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is this list organized? It seems like they randomly wrote names down as it came to them.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's a Wiki, so you can just pop in and add a bullet point however you like, assuming you have an account.

This probably was crafted by a small pool of die-hards who dropped a name on the list any time they found out someone existed who made them mad.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

It's specifically Conservapedia. They once tried to make their own translation of the Bible because they thought existing ones were too liberal.

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Conservapedia:The_Conservative_Bible_Project

Edit: almost forgot. The guy who runs it is the son of anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

I can't believe they spelled his name right for once.

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Stalin was totally a lib tho

"We can't do communism, we have to keep the state and enact a series of slow reforms. Also jail all the gays"

[–] NoTagBacks@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eh, I dunno that I'd actually characterize him as a liberal so much as him being an authoritarian that just pushed whatever happened to serve him at any point. Kinda in the same vein of fascists not having any economic ideology, just whatever serves their ideal of the state at any given moment. So yeah, I certainly agree with your sentiment that Stalin certainly was not a communist, but more because he only cared about gaining/maintaining power rather than actually subscribing to any economic theory.

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[–] 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] BluesF@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Was not expecting the abrupt pivot into barely relevant bible study.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's an internet encyclopedia built for and by conservatives. Literally everything on there abruptly pivots to barely relevant Bible study.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 15 points 3 months ago (8 children)

You just gotta love how Richard Dawkins comes before Hitler, Stalin, and Mao...

"Yeah the guy brings facts to the table, can't have that, that's the worst, that's like worse than Hitler, man!"

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