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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 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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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No! Bad! No hitting children!

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Punishing is much more than violence against children, and hitting them is one of the worst ways to punish for many reasons.

[–] seerdomin1983@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How about threaten to hit them with gestures?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Or maybe you talk to the kid and take away a privilege they have temporarily that is (at least close to) a natural consequence of behavior? But then again, I'm just a parent of a relatively well adjusted kid who isn't violent and talks to me about their problems, so what the fuck do I know?

Man, the amount of people who default "punishment" to "violence against kids" is fucking stupid.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

But it'll get you upvotes on Lemmy apparently.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Show us on the thread where anyone advocated for hitting the kid? All I see is people assuming parents are going to hit the kid.