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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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[–] pop@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Freedom of speech works out when everyone's speech is equal. But in the real world, it isn't. if it were, the minority wouldn't have to fight for their rights and the laws would apply the same to the majority.

"free speech" is clickbait for the racists, created by racists to drown out the opposing voices of minority while calling it equality.

Your "freedom of speech" was added in the constitution on December 15, 1791. It took almost 200 years for the cilvil rights movement in 1950s for the black people to have equal rights.

Don't flaunt it like it has any shred of importance beyond what the majority of the US population uses it for. And it's to be racist bigots.

Keep concern trolling though

[–] tjsauce@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Didn't freedom of speech protect the civil rights movement more than if it weren't in the constitution? Just because bad people make use of this right, doesn't make it inherently bad. It's not concern trolling because we think you're overcorrecting, and any attempt to censor 4chan will lead to either "angering the wasps" or censorship of benign ideas.

Just know that I am arguing in good faith because I know that the people who decide what to censor will overcorrect, and I think that causes more harm than good.

[–] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This 100% well said.

[–] JustUseMint@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Only thing I feel like responding to:. This might be hard for you to understand but people can have differing opinions than you and not be trolling. It's not healthy to have that belief.