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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 a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
  7. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If only there was a way to make sure the tax isn't levied on normal people... Oh well.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The problem with taxing unrealized gains is that the value is always changing. It's not real money.

You'd have to pick a point in time to capture the stock/asset value, and the wealthy would just tank the value right before.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 day ago

How about the moment they use it as collateral for personal loans they use as income?

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

You’d have to pick a point in time to capture the stock/asset value

You mean like the bank does when they loan the money?

The loan shouldn't be able to be disbursed without realized gains/capital behind it, and they can't tank the value without impacting their loan.