196 came into being on reddit long ago, and that is a cute (imo) holdover from then. The original community (195 I think) had 1 rule, post before you leave, and a second “rule”, include “rule” in the title as a reference to the 1 rule.

It’s not actually enforced of course, but it’s part of the 196 culture

2032? That’s so far away :/

Locking. This meme complains about misogyny, with people immediately jumping in to imply misogyny isn’t real and start complaining about irrelevant stuff to the meme in an inflammatory manner. Please behave in the future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Winnie-the-Pooh_in_China

As you ought to

Source for that claim please ?

Noooo please stooop

It certainly did a bunch of imperialism, yeah

You are using the term technically incorrectly :P

I’ve had piles of tankies try to convince me that the workers in China are in fact the ones in control of the government (no mention of the means of production though 🤔),

I was referring to this. If the workers in china were actually in control of the government (which they aren’t), and the businesses were controlled by the state (which quite a few of them are, but not all), then that would be a form of socialism.

As it stands however it’s a capitalist oligarchy.

I would also like to say that I’m not arguing for this specific implementation of socialism, I’m elaborating on what is required for socialism in reference to how a tankie might deluded themselves into thinking that china is communist.

Technically, a sufficiently democratic state would make the workers indirectly in control (or directly in a direct democracy) if the businesses are state owned. Would make them socialist however and not communist, but that might be a bit pedantic.

The soviet union had unions or just the one involuntary one if I remember correctly, but since it was essentially controlled by the state it wasn’t all that powerful. Cuba today does the same thing.

Should be noted that the soviet union was neither fascist nor communist. Fascism is a form of capitalism, and while many “communist states” (such as china) are capitalist, the SU had a planned economy.

I had one tankie try to convince me that since there was some limited workplace democracy in the SU this meant that workplaces were democratic, but if that is all that is required then I’m happy to announce that plenty of liberal democracies today are socialist.

Edit: oh woops the fascism vs planned economy thing was intended for another comment

amen. Socialism by definition requires the workers to own the means of production, and yet all the states they support again and again suppress unions and democracy. Rather tired of being associated with them just because people are confused about most political terms

Not quite right. Some other people cover the definition properly in this post.

Edit: Your comment is very wrong to be clear. Read this comment instead: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21148571/12557557 and this one: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/21148571/12560912

It sounds like it would be popular with the people in this post at least, and I wouldn’t mind it being turned on myself!

It’s an edit

Plenty of good isms out there!

haha, love that picture!

Edit: Also I think hexbear and lemmygrad can’t downvote due to being defederated from blåhaj.

The last time we had a post like this it was filled with a bunch of sealioning from tankies (authoritarian socialists). Be aware that we will be banning any such behavior.

I would also like to know how to see what mod did what. I just assumed it wasn’t possible. Hope it isn’t just what writteninred described.

The updated version in the sidebar has gotten rid of the ableist language.

Neutral language is to deescalate. It’s for the community and the mods as well as for the offending user.

Edit: Oh I see the moderator guidelines haven’t been added to the sidebar yet! my bad