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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.
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[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can anyone contextualise this for outsiders? I know trump used to talk about draining the swamp, but who is she hinting at throwing to the gators?

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 43 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I assume it is a reference to the idea of holding immigrants in swamp based concentration camps and pretending that the local wildlife will eat anyone who tries to escape. It is even dumber and more malicious than it sounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alligator_Alcatraz

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It is even dumber and more malicious than it sounds.

It's like the Republican Party got taken over by incompetent James Bond villains. However, despite what's portrayed in Live and Let Die, alligators don't normally prey on humans.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But alligators with frickin lasers on their head…

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, but are they Jewish space lasers on their heads?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, they’re Jewish alligators.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Duh, if they ate pork then the ICE agents running the camps would be in extreme danger.

[–] Allemaniac@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

as an inlooking european I gotta say, the republican party always seemed very whack to me, ngl. But then again I would have voted for Bernie, so I am a incorrigable ~~democratic socialist~~ scary communist

[–] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. Just what I was looking for. I should have known "immigrants" would be involved, I think i just got thrown off by memories of "Drain the swamp" and thought this was about rival politicians.

Good luck with everything. Let me know if there's any way we can help 🫠

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Get the EU to invade and help us out?

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

The opposition.

You may notice that is vague and open ended. That's the point.