See this is what a good clapback looks like

I think this joke is only 40% true, but also still very funny.

I’m glad this meme belongs to the commons because I’m going to make extensive collective use of it.

I posted the meme as a lighthearted joke, but if I can be serious for a moment, the joke isn’t that reading isn’t useful. It’s ridiculing the practice of approaching Marxist texts in a way similar to religious or academic study. It’s also (lovingly) ridiculing mutual aid radicals with an overly simplistic worldview.

Reading is good. Although I recommend people read the things that they’re interested in and that they think would help them in their goals, and not fall into the practice of assigning other people reading or falling into a mentality of chasing after a complete understanding of subjects no one can ever understand to completion.

I don’t get this. Can you explain this?

Surprise twist: I am aware anarchists like reading; I like reading; and I’m not actually an anarchist!

It’s just a fun meme making fun of upright overly intellectual Marxist-Leninists (that part is sincere).

I think you’re taking the meme way too literally.

I’m not advocating for an illiterate revolution. Anarchists are famous for reading and writing a lot of manifestos too.

I do believe that there are a lot of overly intellectual Marxist-Leninists who need to go touch grass and actually practice more mutual aid among working class neighbors, though.

But I’m definitely not anti intellectual. (I’m also not actually an an-com. I just shared the meme because I agree with the broad sentiment).

Can I use this in Lemmy?

I don’t have the time, but someone should make a version of this where China and OP consent but Taiwan is the objector.

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Thanks for clarifying.

At a glance, I don’t see a problem. Isn’t social media already a system for rating social credit?

I think the problem with social credit scores is when they’re mandatory and can limit things like housing access. Filtering posts on opt-in social networks just sounds like a reasonable tool for moderating decentralized platforms.

Is this referencing something that happened recently? What’s the logo on the face? I don’t know it.

This got a legit chuckle out of me.

It isn’t even accurate to call it saving Israel.

They say that when you set out for revenge to dig two graves. The genocide perpetrated by Israel has been more destructive to Israel itself morally, economically, and physically than anything their adversaries have tried to inflict.

It’s not justice, though. It isn’t helping any victims. It’s just the wasting of more life, senselessly.

I’m not saying both sides are equally culpable. Obviously Trump, Biden, Obama, and all of their Sec. of State are the primary villain.

You know, I’ve been keeping my mouth shut because I don’t know that much about Venezuela…

But now that Maduro’s VP has expressed a willingness to cooperate with Trump, I think everyone who disputed the claims that Maduro and Chavismo were corrupt has some explaining to do.

I feel like the leftists who supported Chavismo and the right-wingers who backed US intervention should all go out for drinks and commiserate over their foolishness for thinking that they could overlook their allies obvious corruption. Am I wrong?

Could you throw this back in the fryer? I think I see a few uncompressed pixels.

Please desist

I feel like a lot of people are missing the obvious conclusion that everyone involved here is awful.

Maduro? Brutal dictator. His domestic opposition? Violent fascists. His international opposition? Absolute war criminals.

It’s really sad. My primary opinion is that the US needs to leave Venezuela the fuck alone. If you want democracy in Venezuela, you can’t get it through sanctioning the population into starvation if they don’t vote the way Chevron tells them to. Did Maduro steal an election? Yes! But his opposition at home and abroad isn’t mad that it wasn’t fair: they’re mad because they think it’s bullshit for him to steal it after they stole it first!

Get the fuck out and let them actually decide what they want. The US is the clearly the greatest villain in a story with no obvious good guys.