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report_a_shill 2 points ago +2 / -0

I doubt if many Harris voters are on Truth Social, so the greater proportion of people who would see the message would be people more likely to vote for him.

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report_a_shill 0 points ago +1 / -1

I don't know why we get so worked up in the republic vs. democracy terminology. A republic is a type of democracy, just as a square is a type of rectangle. True, a republic isn't a direct democracy, in which all decisions are made by all voters, giving rise to the possibility of the Tyranny of the Majority. It is rather an indirect/representational democracy, in which the voters choose their representatives to govern on their behalf. A constitutional republic is an indirect democracy which is bound by constitutional laws dictating what the government can and cannot do. But it is still a democracy, and ultimately subject to the will of the people. Just read the first three words of the Preamble or the closing words of the Gettysburg Address if you have any doubts about this.

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report_a_shill 1 point ago +1 / -0

The term was used back on the r/The_Donald subreddit, well before GAW began, and it's short for "centipede". It came originally from this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/vJhoLUgeIhc. The video shows footage of Trump along with a voiceover about centipedes as "predators" and "nimble navigators".

Unfortunately, "pede" is also a slang term from French, related to the words "pederasty" and "pederast" of Greek origin.

The users of GAW, insofar as they are aware of either meaning of the word, use it almost always with the former meaning. I'm sure more than a few use the term without knowing of either origin just after observing its usage here at GAW and repeating it.

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report_a_shill 1 point ago +1 / -0

I don't see anything in the video itself to suggest what you're saying, though it does say so in the video description. I'd wait for corroborating sources before confirming this.

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report_a_shill 4 points ago +4 / -0

So, did the agency infiltrate the group in large numbers, thus giving rise to claims of entrapment and suspicions that the agents were the planners and provocateurs, or were they so incompetent at vetting their employees that they allowed high levels of infiltration? Neither scenario sounds that great for them.

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report_a_shill 1 point ago +1 / -0

This would be more like reformatting. It makes sense that they used an application that allows editing by adding images, which is why we see an overlay covering up the other user's name. It appears that the same application also allows text editing. Whether they edited the text in question is a different matter, and that would require forensic analysis.

It is interesting that they pasted the info into such an application rather than used screenshots of the original. Perhaps this suggests that this conversation was taken from a database, other messages existed between these two, or taking a screenshot would risk revealing this person's identity.

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report_a_shill 8 points ago +8 / -0

Hello, tech support? My echo chamber appears to be broken, please fix it.

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report_a_shill 8 points ago +8 / -0

Interesting that for some liberals, Twitter is a "private company" when it comes to censorship/the First Amendment, but is somehow also a "public medium" requiring government oversight.

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report_a_shill 3 points ago +3 / -0

I didn't realize that science had such a poor memory.

by Saline
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report_a_shill 5 points ago +5 / -0

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

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report_a_shill 3 points ago +3 / -0

At face value, her party lost the majority in the House, so she will lose the position of Speaker of the House, hence fired. As to any read-between-the-lines meanings, who knows.

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report_a_shill 3 points ago +3 / -0

We were told to vote, but we weren't told that it will lead to the immediate outcome we expect. Soldiers don't always get to know the full details behind their orders.

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report_a_shill 3 points ago +3 / -0

Sucks that we can clearly see the precipice but not everyone can just yet. It sounded from the speech that we can expect things will get worse before they get better. I'm sure they're not just doing it this way for kicks--"it had to be this way."

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report_a_shill 2 points ago +2 / -0

Are anons expecting Trump to be the one to announce everything? Drop #6 says that POTUS must remain neutral for optics. There are plenty of other ways things can come to light.

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report_a_shill 3 points ago +3 / -0

Unless the running is also for optics.

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report_a_shill 6 points ago +6 / -0

Forget the 72-hour rule, we can't even make it 72 minutes anymore apparently.

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report_a_shill 4 points ago +4 / -0

Too many smaller, separate outcomes, some of which have been slow-rolled with different timings. The Brazilian election had one main outcome, which was announced within a reasonable, predictable window of time.

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report_a_shill 3 points ago +3 / -0

Could some willing and able soul kindly paste the text of the post?

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