this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
530 points (90.9% liked)

Microblog Memes

9661 readers
2009 users here now

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. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 184 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

She could have left out the middle paragraph, and this still would have been a mature, reasonable response without the praise.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 82 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. "We're sorry for his family that he's dead, regardless of who he was as a person, that's gotta suck for them." Totally fine.

"And here this embodiment of literally everything wrong with America, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands, instrumental in weakening the norms of integrity and public interest for his own financial gain and helping in some small way to lay the foundation for our current debacle, a punchline of corruption and slaughter, infamous in the news and reviled in public life, he's got my vote though! You see I am not willing to deal in uncomfortable truths even when the public can see them unanimously" could have been omitted.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 83 points 2 weeks ago

regardless of who he was as a person, that’s gotta suck for them.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 151 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Jeez, democrats seem to really like Charlie Kirk and Dick Cheney.

I wonder why they're having trouble with Muslim voters...

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 136 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 65 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh no they can just insult, scold, and abandon their voters and they will still come home. You don't understand, Democratic politicians are entitled to the votes of minorities.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] lena 119 points 2 weeks ago (23 children)

She could've just not posted anything about his death

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 60 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Between her and Ezra Klein, I'm starting to think politicians and pundits who don't really stand for anything are afraid they'll be forgotten about if they don't chip in their two cents on anything and everything.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 weeks ago

Those two are just as dead to me as the dead villains they insisted on lionizing.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (22 replies)
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 91 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

All you had to do was say nothing, Kamala.

Why do liberals not realize that the right will NEVER vote for them no matter how much they pander, and everyone else hates them because they have no moral or ethical compass.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Because they want bribes.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 90 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

Allow me to modify an old saying:

If you can't say something nice about someone , without lying, then you shouldn't say anything at all.

You can't say anything nice about Dick Cheney without lying so just shut up.

[–] FinalRemix@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The nice thing is that he can't do any more harm now.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 28 points 2 weeks ago

So Abe Lincoln was going to put Simon Cameron in his cabinet. Cameron was kind of a piece of shit, and so Thaddeus Stevens when he heard this got alarmed. When questioned about if he was really saying that Cameron would steal, Thaddeus Stevens thought for a minute and said, well, "I don't think he would steal a red-hot stove."

So the story got around because it is funny. Abe Lincoln in particular thought it was one of the funniest things he ever heard (also while he made Cameron Secretary of War) and told many people. So eventually of course it got back to Cameron. Cameron was pissed, and angrily demanded that Stevens take back the slur on his character.

So Thaddeus Stevens after Cameron had yelled at him said, "Well, he is very mad, and he made me promise to retract. I will now do so. I believe I told you he would not steal a red-hot stove. I now take that back."

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] 58008@lemmy.world 78 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

She's still playing that "let's meet in the middle" charade that didn't do shit for her during her campaign?

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Poayjay@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago

Go away Kamala

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 52 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

If you're saying "Kamala Harris y'all" in 2025 and this response surprises you, then you need to seriously get your shit sorted out. She made it plain who she was last year. It's why she didn't get elected.

load more comments (21 replies)
[–] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 2 weeks ago
[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 49 points 2 weeks ago

It's fascinating to see her keep saying things that reveal the fatal flaw in her campaign. It's not that she listened to her advisors back then, although they did give her bad advice. Rather, she's lacking values that resonate with the majority of the American people. We all know that the old man was a terrible human being, and yeah, it is probably sad for his family that he passed away, but most of us would simply not say his name again. He earned no respect as a public figure, and we can treat ourselves with dignity by not bringing him up ever again.

Of course you also might want a trash talk him, because of all the horrible things he did, and that's okay too. I think either approach is fine, but the one approach that's not fine is whitewashing all the horrible things he did in his life.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

She was a fantastic choice when the choices were her and Trump. That time has passed, and with it her value as a lesser evil.

By more objective measures, she's just another sack of shit.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Wilco@lemmy.zip 38 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

How does this surprise you? Kamala is a Depublican. That is basically just a Republican that wears blue and has 1-2 liberal thoughts in their head.

Still big business, still preaches about "reaching across the table" (to give big biz a handy j).

Biden was just as bad if not worse ... that MFer had the house and senate 21-23. Where is Medicare for all? Federal minimum wage? Women's reproductive right protections? Oh ... well that is weird.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@quokk.au 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Biden was just as bad if not worse … that MFer had the house and senate 21-23. Where is Medicare for all? Federal minimum wage? Women’s reproductive right protections?
Oh … well that is weird.

Biden raised corporate tax by about a trillion dollars and spent it all on climate change and reducing income inequality by actually going to bat for the poorest people in this country, and y'all still spent all this time shitting on him. I get it. We needed a lot more. But this whole thing "Biden was a monster, I don't even know any good thing he did" is mostly just a creation of our media not really caring about poor people or vital issues (enough to see any of that as significant) any more than Trump does. He was way ahead of the curve in the blighted landscape of corruption and lies that is American governance.

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

It's literally just a boiler plate acknowledging a current situation post.

Fucking hell you guys.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 35 points 1 week ago

"It's one big club, and you ain't in it." - G. Carlin

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

He was the most vocal supporter of the state engaging in torture. Firstly it's an evil thing to do. But even if you don't care about that, as an American the 8th amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment, this is why they had to do it outside US soil. And if you don't love America or the rule of law either, then you should know that the experts agree it doesn't fucking help. Torture doesn't get you good information, it can be used as a population control technique, but it's a risky one that can really backfire, ask Ghaddafi.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] unabart@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

She’s totally going to make another run at it. Still playing both sides.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 28 points 2 weeks ago

I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good!

Moms Mabley

[–] mikenurre@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Polite words after someone kicks the bucket, whoever they may be, is politics, understandable.

That said, it does seem like she went out of her way to lay it on thick, didn't she? With a nasty synthetic aftertaste to it. She chose her words carefully and it looks like her kissing the boot of a fucking goddamned sick soulless monster.

Here's my obituary for cheney:
He shot a man in the face, then abused his tremendous privilege to avoid police questioning for 36 hours, after he'd had time to sober up, even as he got hundreds of thousands of people killed by kicking a hornet's nest in the Middle East, all for oil profit of his Halliburton and Clearwater buddies.

Rest not, but wallow in shit and eternal damnation,
Dick "Why Don't You Go FUCK YOURSELF?!!" Cheney

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think polite words are fine, but when she started praising him, that was simply inappropriate. Either she actually believes what she said or she was lying about the praise. Offering condolences to the family alone would have sufficed.

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And they wonder why they lost??

Praising a monster with this bullshit does not speak compassion, it speaks weakness.

It's funny how she unwittingly sealed her own fate, and she doesn't know it.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago

"Kamala Harris y'all"

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 22 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Crazy how the actual leftists keep being right about everything

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] tomiant@piefed.social 21 points 2 weeks ago

Sometimes, silence is best.

[–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago (14 children)

I think that was well crafted.

  • No mention of "good" or any other positive in connection with his work.
  • mentioned dedication to his work, which is the minimum you can say without insults
  • "thoughts" without the "prayers", that is a really nice slapp :D

I'm sure there is more in there that i missed, but this is basically a "good riddance, finally" in terms that can be understood as polite.

load more comments (14 replies)
[–] echodot@feddit.uk 21 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

That's standard politician that is.

Something in the world happens that does not involve them, or in any way require a comment from them.

Them: "oh I got to make a non statement about this".

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] turdcollector69@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Kamala is and has always been a shit tier candidate.

Can we finally admit that her entire campaign amounted to gaslighting people into thinking she's remotely leftist?

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just go back to the wine, Kamala, no one cares.

Or uh, I dunno, prosecute some criminal ICE agents or something?

load more comments
view more: next ›