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this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2026
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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.
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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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When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
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- etc.
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
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Lol. I haven't asked my comrade about it, I'll let you know what he says.
I'm not attacking your character, I'm telling you my personal observation. This is not a debate, or a logic 101 exercise. If you want to engage with the subject, you have to engage directly, through the perspectives of actual people, without immediately referring to a list of logical fallacies made up by a society based on slavery. Demonstrate you are capable of stringing two arguments together in a rational manner, instead of one dimensionally not picking the better arguments of internet strangers. Logic isnt made real by its reference to some abstract ancient category of language, it is made real in the lives of actual people. Watching you cut perspectives out of your reasoning says a lot about how serious you are.
As for acting smart I didn't pull out some ancient logical fallacies. Maybe lecture me on logos some more haha. Or maybe somebody actually knows more than you in this one little area! Is that so wrong and hard to believe? My horse ain't high buddy, my whole point is for you to get down in the muck and difficulty of real conditions, so that maybe you learn something real instead of repeating vague abstractions that, by your own admission, you dont even remotely understand. Your tone doesn't come off as someone who is looking for information.
But I'll get back to you with something, to hold up my end of the deal. I honestly dont try to make assumptions about a situation, fog of war is real and dangerous.
Edit: Here is a start. Honestly with internet shut down, we can't know what is happening. https://www.iranintl.com/en/202601137152
If someone is posting this kind of confusing meme, i think that, that person has some opinion and knowledge of what's going on. Especially, that it's not fully clear what's going on there.
That's why I'm asking. I can stay im my bubble, but i know what are opinions of people that i know.
It's not me, who is trying to ride on a high horse, and doing some weird ad personam stuff ;)
Once again, if you're trying to create more strawman arguments just to distract me from my question, it's a waste of time, I just asked author of the meme "what is your opinion on that subject". No more straw man arguments, OK?
I just asked for that argument, dude XD
Again, no more straw man arguments, OK?
Also, no off topics, OK?
Ad personam.
Ad personam
And so on and so on.
Sorry buddy, but it's a waste of time.
Good luck with your life ;)