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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. Please post agitprop here)
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(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)
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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
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.
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" (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).
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 "Mantic Minotaur" when answering question 2)
6. Don't irrationally 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.
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/7760707
"Death to Germany because they say their reason for existing is to support 'Israel'^[Not a joke, they call this "Staatsräson".]? That's genocidal against Germans."
Sorry, but I don't care about your colonizer fragility.
I agree. But please add other imperial countries to your flag list, like for example russian flag and other well known capitalist state from Asia.
And where is the most imperialistic country in Europe, Russia ruled by right wing authoritarian regime.
Country well known for constant invigilation, killing opposition, journalists, activists, LGBT people and so on. Country that wants to rebuild old imperium, attacked Ukraine and want to demilitarize eaastern Europe and so on.
In a last year, how many wars was started by France? How many times France was aggressive towards neighbours? How many times wanted other independent country to cut ties to its allies and get rid of military?
But there's Africa and other parts of the world. Yes. And Russian forces are also there
https://www.dw.com/en/russia-kremlin-wagner-group-influence-in-central-african-republic-sudan-mali/a-70599853
We know that usa is the biggest imperialist, but it's not the only one.
So France bad because it's exploiting Africa, but when ruSSia is doing the same thing and way worst things in Europe "that's doesn't change the fact..."?
Noone is saying that France is good or not exploiting Africa, but one of us is pretending that Russia is not doing worst things.
So you want more?
https://africanclimatewire.org/update/russia-offers-african-countries-regime-survival-package/?hl=pl-PL
https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/09/30/russias-africa-corps-wagners-successor-in-africa-2022-2025/?hl=pl-PL
I dont understand why on one hand you're so aware about France neocolonialism, and not aware about Russian neocolonialism in Africa?
Also add to the lista Russian neocolonialism in Europe, sending Russian separatists in to many countries, add what Russia did in Chechnya, and so on.
Sounds funny from someone who don't know anything about Russian exploitation of African nations, genocides in Ukraine, and destruction of Chechnya and Belarusian culture and language. But I'm the one full of shit :)
Do you bite, the hand that feeds you? Do you stay , down on your knees?
Of course these fuckers won't unilaterally speak out against authoritarians.
EDIT : these people are the kind that will say "Down with rainbow capitalism" and if you ask them "because of the rainbows or because of the capitalism?" they will refuse to give a straight answer.
This feels like whataboutism, especially if the poster is American. I'm Canadian and I mainly criticize Canada/US/Israel, because that's the empire I'm a citizen of.
Ngl "whataboutism" has always appeared to be a pseudo intellectual criticism.
It's consistent to expect a unilateral criticism, and sometimes, people don't do that because they actually are hypocrites.
God you can just read what a word means before talking about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I know what it means, thanks. I stand by what I said.
So commenting about imperialist state under anti imperialistic meme is whataboutism?
And I'm living in Europe, and I criticize imperialism that doesn't affect me that much like usa, Israel, but also Russian imperialism and attack on independent country Ukraine, and that is showing Europe and Poland as it's enemy. I'm also criticizing Chinese exploitation of Africa, so the thing that gives us very cheap goods.
But what this have to do with the topic, I don't know.
"So commenting about imperialist state under anti imperialistic meme is whataboutism?"
Sometimes. Commenting about any topic can be whataboutism if it fits the definition.
If I was saying "death to the IDF" and the comment was "what about the Russian military???", ya, that would be whataboutism.
How in a hell you get the idea, that meme about white imperialism is about one specific country, like USA, not other imperialistic states like Russia or Israel? You know, that russia and Israel are also mostly white?
I'm talking about the post, which is primarily about Israel and it's allies. Your comment was wholly unproductive
So let's pretend, that only western imperialism is the problem, good :D
Oh so let's pretend only eastern imperialism is bad, got you!! (Now I'm doing the whataboutism)