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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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[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That’s not any different? When was the “deification” of MLK exactly? Is there a set year that happened we could look at to prove his shitty points? No, he’s just called it something vague so he can make shit up and no one can verify if he’s incorrect? Crazy.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Let me put my hazmat suit on and try to steel man Kirk's comment. Can't stress enough that this is not an endorsement.

Deification is a slow gradual process that happens in the culture so of course it can't be pinpointed. The way people quote just the "I have a dream" stuff but not the criticisms of capitalism or other more "extreme" views of MLK sort of point to a legendary development where people don't actually celebrate the real man. This is used by the ruling class (they likely helped it happen too) to prevent any meaningful change (especially considering what they did to MLK) and just apply a veneer of progress while still oppressing and sowing division in the population.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

thanks for the support

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yea like I understand if he was actually talking about those things… but I am going to guess that’s not his even close to his actual point. It’s just a way of clouding what he is saying.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

Agreed. That's why dog-whistles work so well; you can retreat to the reasonable point while also getting the unreasonable one across to those you're really talking to.