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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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[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

because investor confidence would be lost

If investor confidence would be lost by appropriate taxes, then it must be unjust confidence. If the shares can’t be sold without impacting the stock price, then clearly they’re overvalued.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Their value is based on confidence in the current system. Change the system and the confidence is lost.

It’s like tickets to a movie. They’re valuable before the movie starts. After the movie’s over they’re worthless.

Put a total wealth tax on the stock market is like throwing sand into the gears. The whole system will fall apart. You can argue that it shouldn’t be that way but you’re currently in the system. The challenge is not to imagine how it ought to be, it’s how to get there without the whole house of cards crashing down around you.

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“People have no actual confidence in capitalism if it can’t be quite so exploitative of people”

Tell me more

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No, I’ll just block you because you’re putting words into my mouth and arguing in bad faith!

[–] Trying2KnowMyself@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry, not sure how else I was supposed to interpret that shrug-outta-hecks