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[–] reddit_sux@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

Learn something from your precious Netanyahu or Donald. Yes you can.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

I don’t know anything about the account but linking the original post https://x.com/usf_army/status/2064682581057011886

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Will those idiots actually enter combat? Will they get sent there against their will? Is there some chance they'll just become more meat for the grinder?

Here's to hoping.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

What if he was just standing near someone who was a legitimate target. You know like the training officer. Or a particularly offensive piece of foliage. Something like that.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Uhhhh there is nothing worse in defensive foliage!

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My classmate got killed by Ukraine like this. My colleague was killed by a Russian drone. I know that people like to laugh and this is a soulless trashcan of the internet but you should know that you've touched something in me and I hate you.

[–] alanjaow@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I'm sorry on their behalf. Thank you for providing a viewpoint of someone who's affected by this; we all need to keep in mind that war is not a good thing.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago

That definitely looks like an invasive species of flora he's standing near...

Would be doing them a favor, really.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

I'll allow it. Carry on.

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

We shouldn't post anything from this neonazi social network.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Yes we should. And by you saying otherwise makes no better than neonazis.

Book burning is book burning.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 4 points 5 hours ago

It could an accident, just saying.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 7 hours ago

The real reason is: he is doing negative PR for the Russian aemy.

[–] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 178 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

No no. If you read between the lines, they didn't explicitly say no. They only insinuated he hasn't met the criteria under international law yet... But they do acknowledge the assholery.

[–] forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

They're basically saying we just need to find a better reason and they'll do it

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

Wouldn't the clear line be actually taking up arms against Ukraine? If he does a publicity stunt at a Russian army training base, that's an evil and stupid thing to do, but it's not actually helping the military effort against Ukraine. Now, if they trained him as a FPV attack drone pilot, and then showed on camera him piloting drones targeting Ukrainian troops? That would probably make him a legitimate target. At least that's what I would think. But my thought would be that the line would be actually taking up arms in some form against Ukrainian troops or civilians.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They only insinuated he hasn't met the criteria under international law yet

Hell, if you go COMPLETELY literal, they're not even necessarily saying THAT!

They COULD be saying that the Tates are legitimate targets for OTHER reasons (such as being in the enemy's army), just not for being assholes 😉

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 45 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Ukraine displaying the moral high ground.

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

“I’m condemned to use the tools of my enemy to defeat them. I burn my decency for someone else’s future. I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I’ll never see.”

[–] farting_gorilla@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

"I'm not going to live there. There's no place for me there, any more than there is for you. Malcolm, I'm a monster. What I do is evil. I have no illusions about it, but it must be done."

[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

My anger, my ego, my unwillingness to yield, my eagerness to fight, they’ve set me on a path from which there is no escape. I yearned to be a savior against injustice without contemplating the cost and by the time I looked down there was no longer any ground beneath my feet. What is my sacrifice?

I’m a a terrible example of what humanity could be. I live what I have to in the reality of what “humanity” is right now while recognizing what we could be. We’re an exceptional byproduct of the pressure our environment pushed us to.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] backalleycoyote@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Neo-Nazis and Confederate “Lost Cause” advocates nowadays.

Bruh, the high ground isn’t enough

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[–] Manjushri@piefed.social 38 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Wait, since when does international law matter with regard to drone strikes? I could cite dozens of drone strikes by the Trump administration that clearly violated international law and they didn't even make a ripple in any court system anywhere?

[–] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 104 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Ukraine's support from other countries relies heavily on them having and maintaining the moral high ground.

[–] M137@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

Which makes them winning (sadly slowly, but still doing it) so much more impressive. They're fighting an invasion of their country where the enemy has no moral obligations but they themselves need to be real fucking careful about what they do, even for stuff within their country. As far as I know they have only attacked Russian infrastructure and military sites with reason within Russian borders. Meanwhile Russia have bombed and shot at hospitals, apartment buildings, kindergartens, shopping malls with people standing in line to get the little produce available etc. But they're still beating them. It's slow and it fucking sucks so much how much they have lost, but they're still doing it.

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 46 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Well Ukraine ain't the US

[–] amio@lemmy.world 28 points 12 hours ago

"Less blatantly unethical than the US" is not that high a bar, to be fair.

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[–] Bohne93@feddit.org 64 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Weren't they there for military training? So after basic training they should be a legitimat target, no?

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 43 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Honestly even before finishing training. He's wearing the military uniform, training, and handling a weapon.

The US defined any male about 16 in Iraq as a combatant/legitimate target and the world didn't bat an eye. Tate exceeds this

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 28 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

He's wearing the military uniform

Any uniform is incomplete without the flag or coat of arms.

The US defined any male about 16 in Iraq as a combatant/legitimate target and the world didn't bat an eye.

That was still illegal.

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[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

The US defined

If you're using that as a justification, you're doing it wrong. Give me a quick count of their recent war crimes...?

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 hours ago

The important part was how the rest of the world didn't care

[–] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 10 hours ago

Don't strike hin. Just the legitimate members of the Russian military doing the training. With a huge bomb. And tungsten pellets. But not him.

[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 46 points 14 hours ago

Can't we make just this one exception? It would be a net good for humanity!

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh come on guys. Cant we just drone strike them a little bit.

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 20 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Just one time, as a lil treat...

[–] jim_v@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago

For ⋆˙⟡ 𝕗𝕦𝕟𝕤𝕚𝕖𝕤 ✧˖°.

[–] spacegoat@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Yes, but criminally shitty people

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