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.
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" 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 "Mantic Minotaur" 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.
A 1ft^3 solid block of stainless steel is 500lbs. (227kg)
That looks a bit bigger than that, and weight will go up exponentially with increased perimeters.
If the sides are 16in we're looking at 1,200lbs (544kg)
Edit: it clearly says the weight on the pic.... Guess I still need to wake up. And it's not solid, but the thought of it being solid was funny to me.
Weight wouldn't go up exponentially, but cubically. x^3 vs x^x
Hollow
That’s literally an Onion article
You... thought this wasn't satire? I'm so confused.
Repackaging thonion content with their name removed is low quality.
The cube did not had a bitten apple symbol on it, that's how I knew it was fake.
Bold move, intentionally eating the onion.
Eating stainless steel block.
yes
WiFi enabled
Requires paid subscription
Install app for updates
AI Premium model coming in 6months
Just got a bird feeder that requires a paid subscription.
Return it
Honestly tho, that is a nice looking block.
Does it come in the classic red? Because I might consider it.
I know this sounds stupid, but I bought a nice white painted wooden block to prop up one of my flower pots that the roomba would otherwise knock over. OPs block seriously looks like an upgrade.
I have a plethora of inherited bullshit tiny tables to serve largely the same function, none of which is particularly stable at this point, so I’m with you.
Does it weigh 80 pounds or cost 80 pounds? Because if it's the former, it may make for a nice anvil 😄
Nice to meet you, Wile E. Coyote
Is this a reference to the Cybertruck?
Can it run Doom?
What a stupid question. It's a solid block of metal. Of course it can.
Time to get the trebuchet ready so we can fling it at their headquarters.
At least you can still use it as a trivot, which makes it more functional than most counter appliances.