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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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[–] Bohne93@feddit.org 67 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Weren't they there for military training? So after basic training they should be a legitimat target, no?

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 45 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly even before finishing training. He's wearing the military uniform, training, and handling a weapon.

The US defined any male about 16 in Iraq as a combatant/legitimate target and the world didn't bat an eye. Tate exceeds this

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 30 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

He's wearing the military uniform

Any uniform is incomplete without the flag or coat of arms.

The US defined any male about 16 in Iraq as a combatant/legitimate target and the world didn't bat an eye.

That was still illegal.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 12 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

So wait he's training with the enemy, holding a weapon, and not wearing a proper uniform?

That would classify him as a spy and subject him to prompt execution if captured wouldn't it?

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The US defined

If you're using that as a justification, you're doing it wrong. Give me a quick count of their recent war crimes...?

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

The important part was how the rest of the world didn't care

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 12 hours ago

Don't strike hin. Just the legitimate members of the Russian military doing the training. With a huge bomb. And tungsten pellets. But not him.