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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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[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Growing up, I didn't even know how powerful unions were.

My mom worked at a factory and hurt herself when I was a kid. She couldn't work for months. The union was why I was able to still get food and do hospital visits. She healed up and went right back to work.

With my first kid, my wife's job decided her pregnancy was interfering with their need for labor so they fired her. They made it ABSOLUTELY CLEAR it wasn't a pregnancy-related firing over and over again, but that she wasn't meeting expectations... Because her body hurts from being pregnant. No legal protection either.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

What gets me is that the vast majority of Americans actually believe they still have these protections when they don't. Like, they aren't even AWARE of the problem.

Go to any work related discussion and you'll hear people going on and on about how you can't get fired for this or that or you're entitled to one thing or another and 90% if the time they are totally incorrect.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The worst thing capitalism did was convince us we didn't need unions.

[–] crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

They're close to getting reminded that unions are the compromise.