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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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[–] LogicalFallacy@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Trans athletes should not compete in competitive sports."

"Palestine is a terrorist state."

"Israel is committing genocide."

These aren't really said by any one right wing taking head, in fact they work better if a "left wing" person says it; think Bill Mahr.

[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

I see him more of a self defined ‘centrist’ that is fully on the right but just disguises himself when it suits the argument he’s having

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It seems terribly dismissive to frame these as a result of right wing (or other) agitation. There are significant differences between people who want to throw trans people under the bus and those who don't, etc.

Sure, it must be nice for the right to be able to rally around whatever false talking points they gin up for the day. But when you have people who care about the truth, they will disagree sometimes.

[–] LogicalFallacy@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The divisions aren't a result of right wing bigotry, but they are exploited by right wing propagandists.

What they actually do is frame all of these arguments without nuance. Then when corporate media goes with that framing you have reductivist talking points that bully out any reasonable debate.

This is a superpower that the GOP has and the DNC cannot replicate with the current level of public discourse.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 1 points 9 months ago

I just want to point out what you're saying now directly contradicts the original comment I replied to.

I don't think we disagree very much. My point was and still is that divisions in the left come from policy disputes, not the nonsense that the base comment still hasn't supported.