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this post was submitted on 09 May 2025
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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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Scientology has grotesque space aliens flying across the universe in jumbo jet shaped space craft and dumping millions of souls into volcanoes that later attach to your soul and hinder your life.
Mormons have dumb stories about land bridges and magic dudes doing extra magic to hide secret texts for bigamists to find.
I think Scientology has got this one.
Uh uh, I specifically said I was only talking about how each religion got started. So in Scientology we're talking about a science fiction author who had previously said the way to get rich is to start a religion. The nature of that religion is irrelevant.
For Mormonism, we've got an American treasure hunter who happened to find American-Jesus fanfiction written on some plates, translated them by looking into a hot with a rock, and then when asked to repeat it to verify it said "whoops, I lost the plates, but here's some other ones that tell the same story but slightly differently". And nobody outside his inner circle was ever allowed to actually see the plates to verify their existence.
So in one we've got a wild story full of very lucky coincidences and circumstantially-suspicious claims. And in the other we've got a much simpler story, but it's pretty explicitly telling us it's a scam.