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.

RULES:

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.
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.
You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
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.
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.
Absolutely no NSFL content.
Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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submitted 22 hours ago by Warl0k3@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

It was only done in Europe to the extent it was because it was necessary for sovereignty.

It wasn’t done altruistically for the people, it was done to move armies from one side of the country to another quickly.

The USA didn’t have a couple centuries of war fought between its states to build the rail system that Europe now thumbs its nose at the USA about.

In 1800 France had roughly 27 million people. In a state about the size of Texas.

In 2026 Texas has 32 million people.

1800s France had nearly the population density of modern day Texas.

Germany 24 million or so, Austria/Hunagry another 23 million

Mind you Belgium and The Netherlands combined for nearly 6 million, which was larger than the population of the USA in 1800.

This is how Europe supported its railroads.

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