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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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[โ€“] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have close family in NYC, and visit often. I love NYC.

I know MAGAs that can't believe I go there. They literally think that there random shootings everywhere, all the time. They they think EVERY trip on the subway means getting mugged or assaulted. I've NEVER had a problem, and I'm not particularly cautious.

I try to explain to them that far worse crime happens in our area than in NYC. It seems like once a week, somebody murders a BABY in my town, but I never here about that kind of stuff in NYC. The worst in NYC tends to be some random lunatic who starts whacking random strangers with a hammer, or some such nonsense. That's the kind of shit that worries New Yorkers.

They cannot and will not understand the concept of "per capita". Only ever being in their town they have no concept of how many people live there, and then watch news that instills "it's scary" there. I've tried every way I can, both for NYC and my city, and they will not understand. I've even said "The island of Manhattan has more people than your entire state" and they still don't get it. Combine all of the people from your rural state, double it, then take all of the crime from your state and compare it against a single borough of that city. They can't comprehend it.

So one violent crime out of 10x their state's population and they shit their pants. It's insanity.