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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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[โ€“] fishos@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

People hate it when you say this. But it's legit. If people actually were genuinely good and wanted to be good, then would we really have all the problems we do? If one person(sleezy billionaire) can completely wreck society, then was society that strong to begin with? People point out that there are more of us than them, yet the minority them manages to keep the rest of us in line pretty well.... Yet we have the power? Well what are we doing with it then?

The biggest flaw of humanity is we think we are way better than we actually are. But the sad truth is we all are affected by biases, unconscious beliefs, flaws in our reasoning, flaws in our character, flaws in our perception, flaws in our memory, etc. This, in itself, is not a bad thing. It's pretending like we're above all of that and that it doesn't affect us that leads to our downfall and is a bad thing.

Hubris, made popular in every societies storytelling going back millenia, is our greatest flaw. We think ourselves way better than we truly are.

[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

People hate it when you say this. But it's legit.

Yeah, I knew that was gonna get downvotes.

You put it far more eloquently.
We all combine together to achieve/do what humanity does.

Additionally we also tend to romanticise horrible things (rich ppl, warmongering & wars, empires doing horrible things, even ~~lapdogs~~ ~~professional middleman~~ agents like CEOs and generals get fame during and long after their deaths). Which ofc tends to reward, or I should say, we reward ppl that behave as such.