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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.
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  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thank Reagan.

When he deregulated the banks he gave a blank check to a bunch of third raters who'd gone to small time banks because they knew they couldn't cut it anywhere else.

[–] bunnybunny@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank the people who vote for a piece of shit multiple times just to ‘own the libs’

I mean obviously, but they only exist because of the absolute machine of propaganda carefully designed to create exactly that deranged mindset. Chicken and egg thing.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Reagan fucked everything up, of course, but we cannot forget about Bill Clinton overseeing the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass%E2%80%93Steagall_legislation

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Clinton had a GOP Congress.

If you want a lesson, it's vote in every election and always mark your ballot to hurt the GOP worse.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and congress had numbers, overwhelming numbers. it was a bi-partisan bill that passed 362-57 & 90-8. it was gonna happen with or without his signature.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Seriously? It's about posterity. It's about this exact argument that we are having right now.

Make them work for it, and make them go on record forever that they support it. I can only assume Clinton himself supported it since he signed it into law when he could have vetoed it.

[–] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except it was passed overwhelmingly. Veto would've delayed the inevitable and been amazingly politically stupid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 week ago

Oh I guess in that case they just shouldn't bother vetoing? Yeah no fuck that.