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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.
  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.
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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You didn’t, but this is the sort of sentiment that aligns:

Everyone I know has been roasting the patriot games, but... it sounds sort of fun???

It might, if it was anything other than a spectacle in service of dear leader. They do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So... why didnt you just say "I fear this is just a front to instill reactionary patriotism for the greater purpose of ushering in American fascism - akin to the Hitler youth"

And instead smugly claimed I was ushering in fascism??

It's a fair point, and I'd have conceded it to you...

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because whitewashing fascism is supporting it and I'm tired of giving people who are part of the problem grace.

[–] Ferrous@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because whitewashing fascism is supporting it and I’m tired

[https://lemmy.ml/post/39531321/22458346](Dis u?)

we don’t have capitalism. But fuck any ism, just find the broken shit and fix it.

On a crusade against whitewashing and fascism, yet cannot confront capitalism..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems -1 points 2 months ago