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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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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps the 9mm pistol is the guillotine of the next American revolution.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

TBH I always wondered why people were shooting up malls and schools instead of the people who actually cause the societal conditions they're upset with

Edit: to be clear I'm not promoting this, it just never made sense to me

[–] DrDickHandler@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Billionnaires control the medias and social medias. They are purposely creating divides between the population to avoid being the target.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's called stochastic terrorism or stochastic violence. Essentially people are made increasingly angry and violence prone. Either the object of their anger is inaccessible or too diffuse to actually target.
As a result, random acts of semi-targetted violence become increasingly common. If your objective is to create an atmosphere where people have a higher baseline level of fear, which can drive irrational reactionary behavior, it does wonders. It's also great at increasing violent acts against people you dislike without explicitly calling for it.

[–] BugleFingers@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you! TIL

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people who deserve it are harder to find and rarely in the same place at once.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

CEO's? Likely at home, shareholder meetings, board meetings, on their boat, private jets (which can be tracked), at their office, speaking at corporate events (annual sales kickoffs, etc.). It would take some work, but not that hard.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe now they'll finally support remote work!

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because that gets more attention and takes less effort.