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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com -3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is the future of US politics.

2024 - vote Democrat or the Republicans will end democracy.

2028 - vote Democrat or the Republicans will end democracy.

2032 - vote Democrat or the Republicans will end democracy.

2036 - vote Democrat or the Republicans will end democracy.

2040 - vote Democrat or the Republicans will end democracy.

And so on.

At some point, people will have to start voting third party because the two major parties will never give up the status quo.

[–] LaLuzDelSol@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The trick is to support ranked-choice voting in the meantime

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And primaries are the "real" elections to get us there. General elections will continue to be major party A vs. major party B, with a "this is the most important election ever" backdrop, while primaries are where we have to try to get our important issues (like election reform) carried by generally electable candidates to get those issues injected into the parties.

And the amount of money spent on primaries confirms how influential they are capable of being.

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Given that the previous one actually did try to steal an election it actually has merit. I wasn't worried about republicans before Trump. I just thought they were dicks.