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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 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.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

*all one breath* AMERICA IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN AN EXPLICITLY CHRISTIAN NATION, YOU CAN'T JUST COME IN HERE AND ACT LIKE ANYONE NOT CHRISTIAN ISN'T JUST DOING IT WRONG (like you've always done) BUT NOW IS ESSENTIALLY GUILTY OF TREASON, THAT IS NOT OKAY! *giant Kirby-level breath*

*Clarification: Directed at MAGA, of course, not this commenter

[–] shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yes this true but I'd like to provide one example in reference to Virginia's Casual Killing act of 1669.

This exempted slavers from facing felony charges for killing their slaves if they resisted punishment.

The scriptural basis of this is Exodus 21:20-21

If a man beats his slave to death—whether the slave is male or female—that man shall surely be punished. However, if the slave does not die for a couple of days, then the man shall not be punished—for the slave is his property.

Implying that you can indeed kill your slave as long as it doesn't happen immediately.

Now this was before the declaration of independence but drafting laws after scripture has a longstanding history in the US.

America may not explicitly be a Christian nation, but implicitly, there are far too many that strongly believe it is.