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.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

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I will judge, and I will not forget (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by compostgoblin@slrpnk.net to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

I talked with my wife about this a few days ago. Education and economic issues have a huge influence on this.

If you have issues with the huge complexity of the world around you (because of functional illiteracy) or cannot spend some time to form your own opinions (because of economical insecurity and long hours, kids make it even harder), you don't have the capacity to engage with messsages more complex than "immigrants bad" or "Eggs expensive" - stuff that you process emotionally, not intellectually.

I think that's what made Obama's campaign so powerful - everything boiled down to the simple one word message "Change".