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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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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 125 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Clinton is problematic as fuck, but holy shit the difference between reading this and the "your mom" outrageously stupid sounding bullshit the current admin puts out is so remarkable. I do so miss having smart people at the top. Say what you want about Clinton and Obama, at least both were wicked smart and able to communicate well.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

It's my job to communicate complex ideas to a general audience in clear, concise ways. I've been doing it for 30 years, and I still sometimes fuck it up. Communication is hard, and it's amazing that it ever works. But watching the general level of public discourse become a race to the bottom has felt like the worsening of an infected wound.

I usually refer to marketing/advertising as the dark arts, half-jokingly. I'm not joking here. What MAGA's done with language is a literal curse.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I take special note in Stephen Miller repeatedly calling the protestors "insurrectionists".

It's a total propaganda bitch slap to the stupid.

"Remember when lots of angry people made one side mad and you learned the word insurrectionist? That's how we use it now. Don't look back."

I don't know if this tactic has a name in rhetoric, but it is a cancer that seems to grow larger than the educated via the uneducated.

[–] Hackworth@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Clinton being all over the Epstein Files really undercuts any decorum hes got.

Idgaf how well he spoke if he was abusing underage girls.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

well, he's being compared to someone who was also abusing underage girls.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

This timeline is fucked

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago

He’s called for all the files to be released, fwiw

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 7 points 1 week ago

Clinton would be problematic even without all the nasty sexual stuff

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago

"Communication" isn't something to value itself when its being used to whitewash atrocities.