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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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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I'm not sure I understand what he's complaining about, don't we constantly talk about how these people are fascists? Like isn't that the lens through which we view this?

[–] Impassionata@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

I suspect that this is a person who believes Trump is rude, racist, violent, a threat to Democracy, but that they might linger against calling it nazi-style fascism for technical reasons they think they understand; then they encounter the fascism-shaped hole in discourse and go "why is it this way?"

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

That is downstream of corporate takeover of media, is what he's trying to say. Something that is indeed rarely discussed, but I wouldn't say never

[–] CannedYeet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who do you mean when you say "these people"? Are you saying the 40% of the population that voted for Trump have always been fascist? If not you need to explain how conservative voters voted in fascism.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 21 hours ago

Conservatism has always been fascism adjacent. It's just a cover for selfishness it's not actually a political belief. Especially in the US especially in the last decade or so. Trump didn't come out of a vacuum, the conditions had to be right for someone like him to be able to be appealing.

[–] MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I don't think everyone connects the dots