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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] franklin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Imagine thinking democracy is only your duty if you feel energized by the candidate.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Imagine being a Democracy and deliberately running an unpopular campaign so the financiers keep the money spigot on.

[–] Draegur@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

Actually I'm starting to feel convinced the Democrats saw "The Producers" as inspiration.

"You can make more money with a ~~flop~~loss than a ~~hit~~win!"

As long as they keep losing elections, they can keep making money disappear (via laundering it). They sop up all the donations and laugh all the way to the bank, burning LITERAL BILLIONS OF DOLLARS on their cousin-in-law's "strategy consulting firm" and tons of completely ineffectual "vote blue" spam, and pay themselves six-figure "speaking fees".

The solution isn't to just stop voting, though. Voting is merely the least inconvenient, easiest to access tool in the toolbox and the people who left it unused are morons no matter how much ELSE they are doing ABOVE AND BEYOND that. Voting is the bare minimum; you have to do that AND local party organizing, civics, community engagement, nominating candidates for local races.

But if you don't vote TOO, it's like you neglected to wipe your ass. The stink follows you and embarrasses everyone with you.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Completely irrelevant because

  1. This is what "forcing" the democrats to make a change looks like, all it will ever do is shift the overton window to the right and make things even worse.
  2. What really lost the democrats the election was years of gerrymandering, voter suppression and making it just difficult as fuck to vote in Dem areas.