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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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[–] krisevol@lemmus.org 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We have been going on this line for 40 years. Credit cards used to be rare you limits were low. Houses were bought on 10-15 ye loans. Car loans were 3 yrs. College loans were crazy hard to get.

That isn't a new thing, America is addicted to debt, and has been for a few decades.

[–] ellieficent@reddthat.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My parents had a house with a 30 year loan in the 80's... at 16%. That said, it was also only like $25k.

Credit cards in the 90's had low limits but people would just get a bunch of them. I remember hearing the average person had 14.1 cards in the late 90's.

This has been going on forever. I feel like it's an integral part of American society since at least the 50's. Deregulation has increased the speed, the disconnect between wage growth and inflation/buying power, etc.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

The 80s spike in interest was due to feds trying to reign in inflation. My parents had to renew their 7% mortgage at 21%. Crazy times.