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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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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Study after study has been done on every election looking for people who publicly say they are moving if their party lost. They found consistently that the number of people who follow through are in the single digits.

Trump famously said he was going to leave the US when he lost to Biden. We all begged him to go but nope.

MAGAs have repeatedly said they are going to move to Russia or Argentina or other conservative places only to realize they wouldn't be in the ruling class.

[–] nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago

Oh I remember this one. And it was 🤌

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 months ago

I did this myself, when Connecticut rejected a constitutional convention in 2008. I believe that representatives are generally for sale and a direct initiative is absolutely necessary. So I moved somewhere where I have more of a voice.

If CA didn't ask my permission to redistrict, I would've been mad about it. But the additional oversight makes a huge difference to me and I'm quite happy with today's result.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not everybody has the conviction of flying squids!

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I hope he and his family are doing okay. The UK is certainly better than the US, but it's increasingly becoming less appealing as an alternative.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Me too! I'd love to hear that they're all doing well, and that they are & will stay safe.