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

Everyone on Lemmy who wants change, wants it from their couch with no effort. You guys complain about poor democratic candidates, but do you ever take part in the primaries, are you a registered voting member of the party? Have you contributed money and time to the campaign of your preferred candidate? Have you gonna door to door for them?

Or did you just sit back watching Netflix till the party put forward their candidate without your input, and at that point you decided to complain? At the finish line? Americans are the least politically involved people in terms of actually putting in the work. But they do love to tell the rest of the world how to live.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That’s the best part. I don’t really do a lot here in Canasa but I a) actually vote for who aligns with my beliefs and b) stay out the fucking way when positive change is mildly uncomfortable for me but someone’s doing the hard work to make it happen. Meanwhile there are people all over the internet who will actively try to dissuade people from doing thing A because it’s scary for them.

The general population barely has to do anything, and for being so conflict avoident they sure like to allow things to get so bad that much worse conflict becomes inevitable.