feel free to remove if it’s too low quality. Just wanted to post somewhere nice for a change.

3 points

Lefty memes is too visible to the “VOTE” liberals of lemmy world so they downvote any such opinion or meme without a second thought.

Anyway don’t worry about the votes they don’t matter.

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Liberals think that the only way to protect people and get change is to vote. They refuse to comprehend that there are other options, because they are too scared to do anything that actually matters. Voting is the easy way to feel like a good person and feel like you make a difference. Know that your efforts to ACTUALLY help people are recognized and appreciated. By me, other anarchists, and the people you directly impact with your actions. Don’t let liberals make you feel bad for not falling for their pyramid scheme of a system

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looks at +5-20 votes Is there an actual reason this comm’s full of fools? Everything actually leftish in “Lefty Memes” gets downvoted. It’s kindof a bad joke at this point.

Imean, for one thing there’s the issue of “why are you here if the actual topic of this place disgusts you?” but then there’s the fact that so many people are eager to jump on and fight over things that aren’t even being said. It’s like a big pack of trolls but I don’t think they even know it.

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This is probably a hot take (apparently my previous one was also a hot take so who cares), I blame Hasan. He is no more than a spicy liberal, basically a social democrat. But he calls himself a socialist. So people watch him, feel radical and call themselves socialist when all they really want is a welfare state.

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I don’t know who that is; I’m guessing some popular(ish?) streamer or YouTuber or something. Makes sense that people like that could popularize some undercooked ideas or ideologies.

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I never even said to not vote. They probably thought “fuck the state” means “don’t vote”. And they are connected but not the same.

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You’re right, I was putting words in your mouth. Sorry. I do feel my comment is more or less still relevant

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No you weren’t. At least not in my opinion. I was just continuing the thought not refuting anything you said.

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9 points

Can you define what you mean by “liberals”?

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Democrats, people who aren’t leftist. And as another person said, leftists would be communists, revolutionary socialists, and anarchists.

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I think it’s non-leftists. As that is the standard in this sub.

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Can you say what you mean by “leftist” then?

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Why?

Because human society is based on rationalisation of the unacceptable as being tolerable. If we could strip such delusions away, society would go mad.

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karmas a bitch

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what did I do wrong?

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people are fickle beasts who like to use votes to express their opinion rather than relevancy

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This is why I would disable them. Or call them dislikes and make them add to the score. as it’s still an opinion.

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Low effort posts? Those sounds like shit post or circle jerk level memes.

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If you want I’ll remove it.

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If everywhere you go smells like shit, check your shoe.

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