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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submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You might not be familiar with it but "people under 18" is a long standing propaganda trope.

What Reuters could have said is "Children, defined as people under 18". But they hit the "people under 18" keyphrase.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago

It's because they want people to mentally subtract "military-age males" from the figures.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"Children, defined as people under 18"

People under 18 whom it defines as children

Aside from including your 'meme phrase', I don't see the difference

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Women and children are usually two subsequent words which imply innocent people not involved in any combat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Oh, didn't know about the meme, thanks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

"meme"