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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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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)
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I’m sure genuine non-performative empathy does come off as somewhat peculiar to you
So you haven't talked to anyone about your mental health and misplaced anger then.
Any anger I have towards you is very well placed. lol. You’re a louse. I encounter five people like you a month. People who actually help people make jokes about people like you.
Nice to hear. Keep up your good work. Make sure to keep a good eye out for those louses. You're so good at helping people by letting them know how helpless they are and how there's nothing they can do.
No, I just help in meaningful ways instead of sending links and trying to get them to switch to AT&T. It’s very funny that you genuinely cannot picture actually helping people past “sending links”, lmfao.
Like even in the links you don’t understand inside works lmfao.
Happy to see you're laughing
https://psychcentral.com/bipolar/manic-laughter
How quickly you’ve broken down completely onto saying “LMAO, YOURE MENTALLY ILL!” Ad nauseam When pressed on your practices as briefly as I have.
Sensitive.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/practical-mindfulness/202103/3-ways-stop-angry-rants-in-1-minute
The breakdown is complete.
Have you ever actually helped anyone? Or has it always been links?
I don't roleplay as a case worker online.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9599-delusional-disorder
I’ll cut you a buck, I don’t actually live in Dunkirk New York. I am, however, actually a caseworker. And the size of the office is actually accurate to mine. Why do you think I’m so annoyed with dolts like you? I get five cranks a month who call me saying “hey uhm actually I figured out how you can help the homeless… just get em unionized!” And I’ll say “okay, do you know how to do that?” And they bat their eyelashes and say “well, uh, no, but you could probably, like, do it”.
That or they have a cabin that they want to donate to the homeless, but aw shit it turns out it was actually their brothers and they were just hoping it would work out. Or they call and they tell me that a bake sale would raise money and I say “great, I’d be happy to attend” and they say “oh uhm no I don’t actually bake… I was just hoping you guys would do it and I would just have, like, the idea”.
Most of them are well-meaning. But they’re also mostly just kind of sad, single people who want to feel useful but don’t have the capacity or the will to actually help anyone.
I think the community you're actually looking for is here.
https://www.rolechat.org/
A sad life to live in denial that other people are better than you for doing the bare minimum.
You really are obsessed with links.
And you seem to be obsessed with me.
https://www.howtogeek.com/465416/what-is-an-internet-troll-and-how-to-handle-trolls/
I think you’re a very funny, very sad guy. It’s fun to really explore a type of person I see so much but can rarely grill like this. You’re all the same, really. All fluff, no will, no actual want to help people if it doesn’t jerk yourself off.
It’s like throwing peanuts at a monkey. Go ahead! Another link! 🥜 another link! 🥜
https://www.healthline.com/health/mental-health/delusions-of-grandeur
More links! 🥜 more links! 🥜 it’s all you can do after all - more links! 🥜
http://i0.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/019/304/old.jpg
More links please! 🥜
Help! I’m homeless and I need help! Oh god, if only some adult virgin could send me a link!!
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senator-chris-murphy-loneliness-crisis_n_64406a5de4b0d84038863ae4
Quick, I’m an elderly lady experiencing racism in my apartment complex, god if only a nice young man could send me a link to the ACLU’s website! 🥜
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-we-identified-white-supremacists-after-charlottesville/
You know, that minotaur username...not as anonymous as you think.
Hey, aren’t you the guy who sends me links? 🥜