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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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Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Toussaint Louverture had the same core failing as Viscout de Blanchelande and Léger-Félicité Sonthonax: they could only see Haiti through the lens of Saint-Domingue. Hispaniola was, to all of these men, a place where coffee and sugar grew. lost to them was its pre-colonial history as a self sustaining island of life beloved by the indigenous Taino people. Dessalines and Louverture were probably right that they would have to grow sugar and coffee to sell to the rest of the world in order to arm themselves strongly enough to enforce their peace with the colonial powers that had forcefully made them grow sugar and coffee. but the small farmers who rejected this notion entirely and cut down trees high in the hills to make their own farms to self sustain were probably onto something as well: Hispaniola needed to be something other than what the colonial powers saw it as. the lack of coordination between the under-imaginitive, these independent farmers, and indigenous populations who had maintained the fragile ecosystem of Hispaniola for millennia is how you get to the Haiti of today, one with frequent issues with mudslides and low quality soil.