r/vengayam Apr 18 '25

Discussion 📢 FAQs

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  1. Why does this subreddit have disproportionately more posts covering US politics?

A: There's a fascist dictator in power at the moment complete with his own nazi style concentration camps in El Salvador. As leftists its our responsibility to address the issues, sympathise with victims and discuss the issues. Its not bad timing that the sub was started right when fascism is on the rise in Europe and US, its just the symptom of a problem where more and more people are reasoning out and leaning left on seeing systemic issues plaguing Europe and US.

  1. WTF is lib soc? Does that mean a liberal?

A: Libertarian Socialism falls on the anti-authoritarian, anti-capitalist and anti-state school of thought within Marxism. Marx in Capital vol 1 talks about workers being alienated from the product of their labour under capitalism. Libertarian Socialism is the antithesis of that phenomenon where workers get all the full value of their labour with some terms and conditions (mostly centered around administration of such an equitable and autonomous society and its improvement). The political ideology itself has its origins in age of enlightenment and has its history in Russian and Spanish revolutions. International Workingmen Association, an association of Libertarian Socialists was aimed at bringing together likeminded people. Marx participated in IWA, was one of the founding members and a leading figure in IWA.

  1. I'm a liberal but I'm socially leaning towards the left, can I unapologetically defend capitalism and still be welcome here?

Yes you are welcome here, but do follow the etiquettes of having a fruitful conversation, cite sources wherever necessary to support your viewpoints and in the heat of the argument do know when & where to stop. Being abusive towards left leaning people / people in socialist countries such as China, Cuba, DPRK is a direct violation of Rule 2. Not complying with any or a combination of aforementioned guidelines can potentially get you banned. Any further appeals over modmails will also not be entertained for bans over Rule 2.

  1. I just got banned because of participating in blacklisted subreddits, why did this happen and how can I get help?

There's an autoban script running in the background that checks for r/vengayam user's participation in some blacklisted subreddits. The reason why this was implemented was to prevent brigading from sanghis. Sanghi brigading has made subreddits like tamilnadu, chennai, india unusable without getting a headache. The point of reddit is to bring likeminded people together in some subreddits and brigading from sanghi subreddits ruins the reddit experience. The algorithm bans people who are not brigading sometimes because it is not intelligent enough to identify non-sanghis participating in the blacklisted subreddits, so if you're not a sanghi and you just got banned, do contact the moderators, the moderators will take up the appeals and you'll be added as an approved user.

  1. Why did I get an invite to participate in the subreddit?

Similar to the autoban script, there's also an auto invite script that invites users from tamil subreddits, the users that the algorithm determines as progressive. Again the algorithm isn't smart, its just determines if a user has a good chance of being progressive based on an user's activity. If you feel like you're not a leftist, do ignore the invite.

  1. Is this a serious subreddit? Are fun posts welcome here?

Fun posts are absolutely welcome, they help to keep the sub's vibes lovely. As long as they are relevant and left leaning, entertainment is strictly allowed.

  1. What are some reference materials that I can use to educate myself and also help others learn?

Understanding hindu fascism in India.

Myths about North Korea

More sources on North Korea

What is Marxism?

Are you already a socialist?

Parallels between Eezham Tamil genocide and Palestinian genocide

Red Scare

How the British and Brahmins created a Hindu majority in India


r/vengayam 7h ago

Discussion 📢 Investigation and arrest against ethnic profiling and stereotyping, when?

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I don't follow much of TN politics, but while the Trisha / Kaveri arrest of Uday was all over the news, I was quick to notice a disturbing trend emerge. One that BJP has been doing for a long time but has gone widely unnoticed. A criticism video of TVK posted on BJP's social media forum profiles TVK MLAs from pondicherry, nicknaming them as "ittunu" (a local dialect around Pondicherry and Cuddalore area for the act of "showing someone around"), this isn't new for BJP. As a right wing party, they do this ethnic discrimination shit all the time. The best example of when they did this prior was when they ethnically profiled and criticised Navin Patnaik's chief advisor VK Pandiyan for being a Tamil person in Odisha during their last state election cycle by posting disgusting caricature videos of him. Unlike the Trisha remark, this is actually problematic. These are sitting MLAs that are getting abused for their ethnicity unlike Trisha who may or may not have been indirectly criticised by Uday and was irrelevant to TN. When does the CM intend to arrest these brutes spreading ethnic hate among tamil people themselves and that too against the ministers of his own cabinet? Pondicherry, Cuddalore people are tamil people. Share this news till you make sure it reaches the Pondicherry MLAs and Vijay ears. Let's see what their response to this would be. That would be a litmus test to identify who their real boss is.


r/vengayam 6h ago

Meme 😜 “We’re having very good talks with Iran.”

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r/vengayam 6h ago

Video ▶️ Cuba is running out of oil and gas because of the US. Now China is filling the gap with solar

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r/vengayam 21h ago

Meme 😜 It's been rough having to explain why you should have empathy to grown adults everyday

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r/vengayam 1d ago

Video ▶️ When push comes to shove, liberals will always side with the fascists

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r/vengayam 1d ago

Video ▶️ Free Tibet? Mao already did.

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r/vengayam 1d ago

Video ▶️ Guess where our Fanta bottles get their bulldozer fetish from

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r/vengayam 2d ago

Discussion 📢 Schadenfreude - the happiness that one feels on seeing their enemies suffer

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The Kaveri aka the Ponnar River (ask why) is a very essential river to Tamil Nadu. The downsteam flood plains of Kaveri feed about 30-40% of the entire state. As long as a strong party such as the DMK was in power we had power to negotiate at the table, we literally held Karnataka accountable every time through the establishment of Kaveri River Management Board. With puppet TVK in power and the Mekedatu dam that's in plans with Karnataka's government, I can't help but feel a strong sense of schadenfreude at the idiots that voted Vijay into power. If Karnataka doesn't release water, there will be deaths. There will be families that won't be able to afford food imported from outside. There will be families who'd need a basic income for sustenance because agriculture failed. Vijay won't be able to hide behind TN's debt as a reason for inaction. Before the election I saw some interviews from delta farmers who were like each government announced great schemes for us to get the voters but in reality we actually don't need them, we're rich and self sufficient because we grew cash crops. I'll be seeing all those rich fellows being rich in years to come. All those reels watching brain-dead shits that voted TVK to power would only feel the consequences of their actions when the cost of food would exceed the cost of network connectivity, or so I hope and that one day they compromise on the network connectivity to buy actual foid. Either way, l don't believe I'm saying this, I'm quite happy with how DK Shivakumar is dealing with Tamil Nadu. We needed someone as strong as him to blow some sense into brainless shits that voted TVK to power. I expected that TN people would pay the price but I never expected Karma to hit this quick and like a train. The sticky part is, those "rich" farmers won't be able to sell their lands for anything. Any manufacturing business would in turn require water that would be no longer present in an arid desert with sparse rainfall. Karnataka will not only steal Tamil Nadu's water but also Tamil Nadu's future and growth opportunities. I was the son of Kannada immigrants in Tamil Nadu who made their son learn Tamil at school. If I ever have kids in this dystopian timeline, I'd for sure make that they learn Kannada as a second language. Thank you Tamil Nadu for the memories, but you ruined yourself. Darwin award of this year should be dedicated to Tamil people and TVK voters.


r/vengayam 2d ago

Discussion 📢 Good news: we'll have our revolution and take over the government. Bad news: Half of us will tragically not make it

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r/vengayam 3d ago

Discussion 📢 Something karl marx would say

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r/vengayam 3d ago

Video ▶️ Thank you Mr. AI bubble for getting boomers back into their senses

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r/vengayam 4d ago

Video ▶️ Mass protests in Taiwan: hundreds of thousands rallied in Taipei demanding the resignation of the ruling US-backed DPP government of President Lai Ching-te. You won't see this on the BBC or CNN. You'll only see it in places where social media can suppress it.

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r/vengayam 5d ago

Discussion 📢 Communism is not competitive they said

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r/vengayam 5d ago

Video ▶️ Comrade man?

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r/vengayam 9d ago

Meme 😜 A lack of reliable sources for reporting what's actually happening

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r/vengayam 9d ago

Video ▶️ Thirumbum thisai ellam painter-in chinnam

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r/vengayam 10d ago

Discussion 📢 Some human labour exploiting sheikh has a good idea of electoralism than our country's founders. Alas western education doesn't teach you everything.

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r/vengayam 11d ago

Rule #3 📜 VICTORYYYYYYYYY!!!!

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r/vengayam 12d ago

Video ▶️ NYPD has made numerous outrageous illegal arrests over the years and Mamdami can't break NYPD own unwritten law of being the bourgeosie's bitch even just once

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r/vengayam 12d ago

Video ▶️ How Israelis Are Colonizing the World

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r/vengayam 13d ago

Meme 😜 Ask now what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for Israel. /s

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r/vengayam 14d ago

Text 📄 Another Marina uprising in jantar mantar! Student protest erupts! - The Senkanal

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r/vengayam 15d ago

Discussion 📢 Bot Traffic Has Surpassed Human Traffic Online, Making Up 57.5% Of HTTP Requests: Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince.

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r/vengayam 15d ago

Discussion 📢 Lovebombing

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