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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.

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  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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cross-posted from: https://kbin.earth/m/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/818591

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It’s a money-sink and local governments don’t like that. The first things financially cut when I worked for a city of 170,000 were always services that didn’t make money. That’s just how it works.

The whole point of government is to collect taxes to pay for stuff that isn't revenue generating to spread out the costs!

[–] AdamBomb@lemmy.sdf.org 57 points 1 year ago

Seriously, this. Government is supposed to fund services, not profitable businesses

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that's socialism, noooooo \s

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meanwhile the government running businesses for profit is essentially the definition of socialism lol

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In what definition or context is this true?

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

All of them? I'm not sure I understand the question.

First result on google for "socialism definition" as an example

a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

Governments running businesses is what "owning the means of production" means, in every context, by every definition.

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I think we think of "profit" differently, but sure.