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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€“] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ok.

Love your optimism about rich nations not disintegrating. The way I see climate change happening, there's soon major changes in weather/ rainfall. Also some ecological collapse (eg bees, other pollinators, ocean acidification), with knock on effects to agriculture. Even problems in other parts of the world create pressure for resources, wars, increased migration.... Too much to detail, but many things that come to a breaking point in the next decades.

I'd love to hear why you think this seems unlikely. Look at the end of the roman empire. Or any empire. Things don't stay the same just because.

[โ€“] nesc@lemmy.cafe 1 points 10 hours ago

US empire is dying, but it's not even close to instability that plagued rome for centuries. Part of roman empire ended due to many factors (including climate change) but they were pretty powerless by the end, where rich nations now aren't and have resources to enforce their position. I'm not saying that they won't feel the pressure and their living standards won't suffer at least temporarily. Everything else is reversible or can be mitigated.