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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.
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

Middle aged American here, and when I was a kid the culture around me regarding france was basically “lol they surrender.”

Copied from my earlier comment elsewhere:

Have an extensive history of military might, from rampaging barbarian hordes, to a continent-conquering emperor, to a foreign legion famed as being one of the most badass fighting forces in the world, and nobody bats an eye. But get embarrassingly outflanked one time, and you never hear the end of it!

explanation since the comm isn't History Memes this time


  • "rampaging barbarian hordes" -- the Gauls
  • "continent-conquering emperor" -- Napoleon
  • "foreign legion" -- the French Foreign Legion
  • "embarrasingly outflanked" -- the failure of the Maginot Line in WWII
[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 minutes ago

There was the loss in WWII, but there was also the loss of all their colonies after WWII. Some of them they fought for and lost like Vietnam and Algeria. The reputation of the French for losing wasn't accurate, but it also wasn't based on nothing.

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 5 hours ago

One post that I read somewhere else on fedi was in the lines of, you can't reasonably think French are cowards, they made snails into fine cuisine.