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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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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

She lost because more people wanted Trump and it was never about age or policy or leadership. Mindless people got swept up in the right wing hype because every single right winger was shouting from the roof tops about how great Trump was while lefties were attacking their candiates.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Leftists were telling their candidate what they needed to do to win. Instead of promising immediate improvements in peoples material conditions, they gave us genocide and Trump's 2020 platform.

[–] Auth@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Was the leftist vote what lost the election? I dont think it was. So I dont think it matters what lefitst wanted or thought, they had no choice but to vote "the lesser of two evils" or shoot themself in the foot. Idc what option they choose, the vote was decided by middle ground voters who were influenced by online discourse.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The leftists are simple prescribing popular policy.

There is no such thing as a middle voter who likes "subsidies for insurance companies where you buy health insurance through 1 of 50 websites and have no idea what it will cost or what it will cover or where you can even get it" but doesnt like free healthcare.

There is no such thing as a middle voter who likes "40k towards a down-payment for first generation home-buyers who haven't made a late payment in 5 years" who doesnt like public housing and rent control.

Triangulation was always just a pretense for the dems to push policy that is good for the donors but unpopular with the base. Your moderate republican is never going to vote for fascist-lite when the real thing is right there. They might vote for someone credibly promising to help them afford housing, college, and healthcare.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 months ago

Source: it came to me in a dream.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

it was never about age or policy or leadership.

You're projecting. Just because you think of elections as a team sport with no connection to policy, doesn't mean everyone else does.