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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You have to be pretty skilled to mess up that badly (chaosfemtw.files.fedi.monster)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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tweet by Melanie Balke: If you're having a bad day just remember that the Salzburg airport has a counter for people who flew to Austria instead of Australia

Edit: Dang it's fake

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[–] Masimatutu@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stereotypes not applying to everyone does not mean they apply to no one.

Check this out, for instance: https://www.cfr.org/news-releases/americans-lack-knowledge-international-issues-yet-consider-them-important-finds-new

“Less than half of the respondents were able to identify Afghanistan as the country that provided al-Qaeda with safe haven prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, despite America having waged a war in Afghanistan due to this fact for nearly two decades.”

“Just over half could identify Iraq on a map, even though one hundred thousand American soldiers were in the country just a decade ago.”