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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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[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, but this doesn't go far enough. The entire world no longer benefits from a strong US. As an unreliable business partner and security partner, everyone should be coordinating the disuse of American tech, abandoning dollars and disposing of debt.

Its all unbacked liabilities now. Market makers can make the numbers go up for a time to incentivise the greedy, needy and stupid, but if there has ever been a clear case of a sinking ship, it's the US. No one is free to do business anymore. This means that US tainted assets will tank and anyone left holding the bag will be sorry. Pension funds especially. The risk vs return equation just put a singularity on the risk side. No one can afford to do business under these circumstances. Radical market interventionism breaks investment, productivity and returns.

Get out while you still can. Don't be the last one left holding the bag.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The entire world no longer benefits from a strong US

Never did. We tolerate the US because of their large rich population of mindless consumers, no brand would be crazy to not pander to this market, and no executive politician would want to disrupt trade. But that's it, "the world" never truly liked the US.

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"liked" and "benefits from" are two almost completely unrelated things.

[–] kadu@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 1 month ago

Agreed. What makes you think the world at large benefited from a "strong" USA as quoted? We didn't. We benefited, as in extracted value from, a rich USA buying goods.

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

All true, but the rules based order did create a period of relative peace and prosperity.