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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€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I've noticed even with parents to children now there is no hope for them. I'm someone who grew up in poverty, and I expect nothing from my parents at all (they have nothing). However, even affluent parents are leaving less to their kids now. Which, I'm actually okay with individually (I worked hard, I'm not going to give you a free ride and spoil you).

What makes me sad is when I see parents holding inheritance as ransom over their children. If you want to live a different life than they approve? Inheritance revoked. You want a different major than they approve of, or don't have the same political views? No inheritance. Only had 1 grandchild instead of 3? No inheritance.

That's such selfish weird behavior in my book. It's not "I earned this, I want to use it for my retirement", it's not "I don't want to spoil you" or to give it to charity, so I don't want to give that impression. It's the "I want to dangle the ladder in front of you before pulling it up". I don't know if I'm describing my feelings well but it bothers me a lot, and I think it's 1000% selfish

[โ€“] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today -1 points 3 hours ago

Yes, mist humans are MONSTERS, total monsters. There's no reason to expect anything good of them, to depend on them, to trust them.

Start working on getting away from their control, and making the little positive difference you can.

But it won't come from humans.