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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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[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

One of the reasons we don’t often see rich people in the United States do this is that we have incredibly low taxes compared to the rest of the world

The much, much bigger reason we don't see that in the US is that the US is the only country in the world that can, and does, tax citizens living abroad. Anyone trying to avoid US taxes would have to renounce US citizenship

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anyone trying to avoid US taxes would have to renounce US citizenship

... and would then pay a hefty exit tax.

I'm not convinced on the "only country that can" part though.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Huh, TIL. Didn't realize the US had an exit tax. Sounds like it forces a sale of US based assets when you renounce citizenship, then you have to pay taxes on that

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

The US only taxes the difference between the country's tax amount and the US tax amount, at least. Someone living in Sweden may not have to pay anything while someone in Thailand may owe most of their taxes to the US. It still is wild that they demand tax money from citizens all over the world though.

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

That is true, although I doubt many rich people care where the tax money goes. They just care about the amount they get taxed