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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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[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The rich capitalists sure, but there are plenty of poor capitalists being fed misinformation, in order to maintain the status quo. And when it is the many vs the powerful few, then the more we have on our side the better

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Capitalist generally refers to people who own and control capital, not to fans of the system. One cannot be a poor capitalist, it's a contradiction.

I used to use the term the same way as you, but I think using it the way it's meant is better.

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That seems an odd definition to me, to my knowledge all other definitions of ideologies depend only on ones own beliefs or values, not upon ones physical possessions or life situation. What else would you call a poor person who fervently believes that capitalism is the best system for the world? If Bezos suffered some catastrophic business collapse and went broke, would he suddenly no longer be a capitalist?

Edit: also I thought the traditional name for those who own capital is "bourgeoisie"?

[–] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

If Bezos suffered some catastrophic business collapse and went broke, would he suddenly no longer be a capitalist?

Depends, if that collapse meant that he can't live from his ownership of capital anymore, he would not be a capitalist.

[–] Wrrzag@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Of course you can be a poor capitalist.