It's certainly not my fault that people here are so illiterate in regard to Marxism and Lenin that they thought this quote was real.

Posting phrenology memes is good practice... if we want to lock in support from Gamers.

What's the point of your comment?

And I defend my rights outside lemmygrad/the internet as well. You claim that this is my "method of self defense and resistance against the fascists" as if it is the only I use.

You are very correct. I am fortunate enough to have one family member help me financially alongside the financial aid the social program i am in allows me to have. That said, I am painfully aware that most don’t even have that extra help I happen to have.

I was heavily bullied in high school and i am neurodivergent myself...

I am aware that imperialism funds those programs. Imperialism also funds the high salary of doctors, lawyers, or software engineers etc, and it basically assists everyone in all imperial nations in this way. Of course, I am against exploitation of the Global South. The point however is to eliminate this exploitation and keeping these programs that assists those that are disabled and unemployed.

did the mamdani thing set you off ? genuinely because youre my comrade and i want to understand

I am on welfare and disabled. Every day i fear that the fascists will kick down my door and kill me. Where i live, the fascists are setting up people like me as a scapegoat and i just cant allow that to happen..

I apologize if you are not against welfare programs, but when people talk about the "welfare state" they are indeed talking about those programs.

An example, when reactionaries complain about the "welfare state" they are complaining about social assistance given to the poor and to those disabled and unemployed.

What we call welfare are various government programs where disabled people and/or people who are unemployed can have money and access to affordable housing in order to live and participate in society.

The last line claims that “israel” occupies the country of Palestine. I disagree with that line and I would replace the term country with land. The first line is “’Israel’ isn’t a country?” is likewise wrong. In this case, I would replace country with state. That’s all I have to say about your pedantry.

Actually, no you kinda have a point. I can see how the meme is wrong even when I change it with my own terms and using Lenin’s definition of the state. Ehh whatever I guess

This does not however mean voting for bourgeois parties just because they promise welfare state concessions. Building an independent socialist political movement that does not subordinate itself to bourgeois liberalism is not mutually exclusive with continuing to advocate for the protection and expansion of worker rights and social welfare.

Yeah I understand that. But groups such as the American Communist Party and the Swedish Örebro Party are both pretending to be revolutionary and left-wing, but they also advocate for a conflict between workers and people who happens to be on welfare. My fear is that this crap will mix with a genuine critique of how the welfare system and these benefits are maintained largely through imperialism. So we are witnessing a growing trend here whereby Western workers are told that both “welfarism” and imperialism are bad for them. But this is petty bourgeois consciousness, not proletariat consciousness. These false (read fascist) revolutionary parties will gain momentum as the workers’ cost of living worsen. That’s why I believe all real revolutionaries must explicitly advocate for social benefits and a complete stop to the military industrial complex, and protecting the former and attacking the latter by means of violence.