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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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[–] MarcomachtKuchen@feddit.org 192 points 3 days ago (21 children)

Don't shame people for how long it took them. Be grateful for the insight they now show. Shaming them online makes it scarier for people to change their world view

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 85 points 3 days ago (11 children)

I think it is mainly the fact that we have been shouting this from the rooftops for years, and all we got was ridicule.

And now, suddenly, when they realise they are also fucked, we are expected to be the bigger person.

These are the same people who always had a “what about...” ready. The same people who never wanted to sacrifice anything or make hard choices. No, they needed the bigger car, the cheap flights, the endless convenience, and they laughed while others tried to go net zero.

“It is pointless anyway, because big industry are the real polluters,” they said, as if that excused doing absolutely nothing.

I do not fear what is coming for me. I fear what is coming for my children because of years of selfish, egocentric people refusing to think about what they were doing to everything around them.

So yes, I understand the point about not making it scarier for people to change their worldview. But I am not going to pretend it does not matter how much damage was done while they mocked the people who saw it coming.

[–] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This guy is pretty explicitl that he believed in it, he just didnt feel it yet. It was an abstract, far-off issue in his mind until it was palpable, which I don't think is unreasonable, thats kinda just how our brains work

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 2 points 2 days ago

And when you see fuck all done by the people sitting in office, being guided by the smartest professors in the country, you're naturally going to think media is mostly just selling fear as they always do - Because if it was that dangerous, surely we'd do more large scale changes

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