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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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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's possible for a nation to set some valuable examples while still being a bad actor.

That's America.

That's many countries off and on throughout their histories. The thing about America is that it has so much wealth and power and with great power comes blah blah blah, right? Our good actions tend to do a lot of good, and our bad actions tend to have far reaching consequences. And right now our bad actions are outweighing the good and they're such comically bad actions that they really stand out. We're really going out of our way to be the baddies.

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

What all these tweet-historians ignore is that the wickedness they're criticizing is not unique to the USA, or even the Western world. Its also not a purely Imperialistic trait as it existed long before Roman Imperialism and it exists in the Eastern world as well.

China, India, the middle east... they all have histories filled with cruelty and evil acts that rival anything the USA has. In some ways, like when that Chinese army was trapped and had no food so the emperor offered his concubines as food and the soldiers gleefully obliged, are horrors American history lacks.

Remember; cruelty is a human trait, not an American one (or one isolated to one nation, people, culture or time period.)

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