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Microblog Memes

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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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[–] adam_y@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I see an awful lot of people post-justifying doing nothing as some form of radical resistance.

Well, sure, maybe it is resistance, and maybe they have a clear conscience... But it didn't do a fucking thing, did it?

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

I see it this way. They want to stop the atrocities in Gaza by any means possible. I can't blame them for that, but I can blame them for how they went about doing it.

Let's boil it down to playing a simple game. You can play by the rules, and play smart, and win. Or, if you don't like the game, you can play a different game and win that one.

By voting for someone other than Kamala (or not voting) they are inherently playing the game, and playing to lose.

If you want to play a different game, then you need to do some Luigi shit instead of sitting on your thumbs bitching about things.

So in the end, they played the game, and they played to lose, and now we're all fucked because of it, and I don't respect that decision at all.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, abstaining from voting accomplishes nothing. They should've voted for an anti-genocide candidate like Jill Stein or Cornel West.