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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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[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Because the state has a monopoly on violence.

You are not allowed to do violence yourself, you must petition the government to do violence for you. And the government will decide how and when it is appropriate to do violence on your behalf.

So, for example, a white nationalist Nazi saying all women deserve to be raped is not a justifiable reason to do violence.

But a brown person living peacefully where oil is IS reason to do violence. Ok?

A group of people demanding that all LGBTQ+ people be sterilized or executed, no reason to do violence.

Those people defending themselves, now we need to do violence. Got it?

[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was trying to not be angry

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is why it's also perfectly legal to stand in front of a health insurance company headquarters with signs advocating for further CEO shootings.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

No see because that hurts money's feelings.

So that's gonna get some violence.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to try that, since that woman was arrested for talking to a health fund employee in a way that reminded them of the shooting

[–] Antiproton@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Society would be so much better if people exercised their grievances with vigilante violence, amirite?