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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.

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  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.
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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 44 points 8 months ago (3 children)

because it turned out Americans are too meek or too ignorant to act

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

People need to miss at least three meals in a row before they start getting serious. We don't have the material conditions yet to act.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's like trying to put on the seatbelt after the crash

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 6 points 8 months ago

Humans are dumb at the macro scale

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -5 points 8 months ago
[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

How are you gonna act with an empty stomach tho?

[–] deaf_fish@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago
[–] FilthyHookerSpit@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Without an alternative. People get very unhappy when they're starving.

On fat reserves.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml -1 points 8 months ago
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

It also doesn't help that all of the people with guns, like the current situation. They may subsequently change their mind when the realities of the situation start to hit in a few years, but currently they're alright with it.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Not all gun owners like the current situation.

Source: Gun Owner, do not like current situation. There's a vast difference between a responsible gun owner and those ammosexuals who just want to be given an excuse to open fire at anything.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The rampant delusion that right-wing conservatives are the only Americans with guns lol. Possibly they're just the only ones dumb enough to believe their guns and weekend target shooting would enable them to win against the US military. That would kind of make sense, cuz they'd assume Jeezus would be on their side.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Like the idea of a bunch of cave dwelling zealots beating three empires in a row, absurd

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

I guess Jesus was on Vietnam and Afghanistan's side

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I definitely wouldn't say "all". There's plenty of us with guns that do not like the situation. What exactly do you expect everyone to do, go outside and shoot their Republican neighbor? Someone tried shooting Trump, and most leftists with >2 brain cells would agree that it would've been an absolute shit show if he'd succeeded in killing him.

I don't disagree that the group of people that like the situation are more heavily armed than the group of people that dislike it, but the same thing has been said for a decade now... Why not start changing that situation?

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I’m glad people keep thinking like you do.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

Thinking that you can just shoot your way out of your problems? Yeah, that mindset has been great for the USA! Definitely let's have more people like that!

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

"Cowardly" is the word you're looking for.