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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.

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  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.
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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They all first purged the federal government, then replaced them with loyalist extremists, then the military and brown shirts killed millions of people....

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does that sound familiar? What does that remind me of?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

History rhymes.

It's really the same shit over and over again because people can't be assed to pick up a history book

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

What a dumb fucking thought.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hitler probably personally murdered his niece, Geli Raubal

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And he murdered many a canvas.

[–] 4oreman@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago

and that style of mousetash

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's a bit of a weird take.

They wouldn't really public sector workers they were goons who were loyal/prepared to follow orders put in governmental positions.

The brown shirts weren't even that they were just convenient thugs.

[–] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

As someone else pointed out, I think the point of the person who originally posted it may have essentially been your point, with parallels of course to today's situation.

But the Elon retweet only makes sense with a nearly opposite twist, that this somehow justifies what Doge is doing right now and all the firings coming from that, or that he's acknowledging that he's building such a cadre of empowered goons.

It's weird, there's no doubt, but that retweet sits somewhere on the spectrum between creepy and terrifying.