Image transcription: A GIF image of sad spunch bob with random PowerPoint-esque transitions. The caption reads: “LGBTQ+ tankies when the dictator they installed throws them in a gulag for ‘sexual deviancy’ rather than rewarding them for their efforts in the revolution”. End transcription.

  • gabe [he/him]
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    591 year ago

    Very much unrelated but thank you so much for putting an image transcription :)

    • Unmarketable PlushieOP
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      251 year ago

      No problem! I hope the way I formated it works with screen readers, I’m not sure if there are any conventions on how to do it or not.

      • @Cypher
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        521 year ago

        For blind users who also enjoy memes

        • @[email protected]
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          281 year ago

          They are also useful for people who still have sight when Lemmy is buggy and refuses to load images

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          Because blind people use software that reads the text of a webpage out to them audibly (or less commonly, through an RBD) but it can’t read the text in an image, because it’s not really “text” at all-- It’s just pixels. So it’ll just be like “uhh and there’s a picture here, that’s all I know.”

          So blind people would not be able to enjoy the meme, which tbh is mostly text-based anyway.

  • @[email protected]
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    591 year ago

    Internet communists when there is never any revolution so all their obnoxious internet arguments were for naught.

    This shit is so boring.

  • @SuddenDownpour
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    301 year ago

    But you don’t see, comrade!!! We must tactically support the weaker evil that is defending values even more contrary to our own in this conjuncture where they’re provoking perfectly avoidable, immense human suffering!!! If we didn’t, perhaps I’d have to question if my previously held positions were actually the rational conclusion to my core philosophical values, rather than contrarian posturing!!!1!!

    spoiler

    (Also I’m scared that everyone else might look at me funny for saying something that the libs say or that the mods might remove me, but do not say this aloud)

    • @EndlessApollo
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      61 year ago

      You can never sling too much shit at people who worship totalitarian dictators :3

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    This is so true. Not a single one of those authoritarian countries is good to LGBTQ people. Not one.

  • archomrade [he/him]
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    81 year ago

    Could just as easily be:

    “LGBTQ+ libs when the democratically elected neoliberal they campaigned for sends “thoughts and prayers” when a fascist nutjob opens fire at their parade rather than rewarding them for their votes by doing anything meaningful to protect them from the next one.”

    Jesus these “dunks” are ridiculous.

    • Unmarketable PlushieOP
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      1 year ago

      First, I’m not a liberal.

      Second, it’s fucking shitty that liberal politicians only really give a shit about queer people when it’s convenient. Though your version literally makes no sense because the neoliberal isn’t throwing them in a gulag like, say, Stalin did. Their inaction towards injustice is bad but you’re saying it’s as bad as perpetrating the injustice itself which is just stupid.

      Third, this is a tankie-free subreddit, so fuck off.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    Hmm, I seem to remember that it was BRD and not the DDR that decided that Gay and Trans people in Nazi concentration camps had to stay there. And it was the DDR that created state ran gay bars. But no, we will continue to only compare the homophobia and transphobia of 1950’s second world nations with post-2013/2017 reductions in homophobia and transphobia first world nations. It’s not like Cuba is one of the most progressive nations in the world on LGBTQ rights post Family Code changes.

    • Unmarketable PlushieOP
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      1 year ago

      I’ve heard a lot of conflicting stuff about Cuba. I’ve heard it’s a good place to live in but a one-party system is kinda sus.

      The USSR was dogshit though.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      It is almost like Left and Right have different beliefs about LGBTQ people. Even if there is progress over time on both sides.

    • TheBlue22
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      121 year ago

      Mfer has Marxist in his name, yet they support tottalian regimes

      Bro…