That is my understanding, yes. However, I am not a lawyer, and even if I was, do laws/the Constitution even matter anymore?

Have I lost track of what memes are? Or is it the children who are wrong?

You were also probably electioneering, which you definitely shouldn’t do, even though I agree with your politics

To quote you Lindsey, you deserve it

Holy shit, was that a Frequency reference?

I do love German humor

Is it virtue or laziness? Asking for a friend

Seriously. He has a significant body of “work” on which to draw from. Like almost a decade of televised rambling, hip shot word salads…

That’s funny. It’s a play on an album name and motel 6

It was baby cats

the fact that admins and mods didn’t care makes me understand why they felt the need to point it out in the comments

That is EXACTLY why I did it. I thought that if I could get more users to report those accounts, and if they did, the mods and admins would do something about it.

Not coincidentally, /r/wholesomememes was the worst of all the subs. The overwhelming majority of obvious organized bot rings were operating there. The mods told me they knew and didn’t care because it was an opportunity for users to see content they hadn’t seen before (completely missing the point)

There was r/catsstandingup(?) as well that just responded “cat.” Never considered the conspiratorial angle there…

If I cared about reddit anymore, I’d dig into that

Lol. There is no way to do it efficiently. I did it in the way you described every time, and I reported literal thousands to reddit’s admins (and never got a single response) and was banned by multiple subreddits because I was “annoying” when I reported bots to sub mods. I also called bots out in comments and provided evidence when I did. Nobody cared.

When reddit killed 3rd party apps, I rolled out. I didn’t realize how bad reddit had become and how much I hated the site. I’m much happier here with less content and without a bot infestation. Additionally, I’m sure users, mods, and admins WOULD care if I reported that sort of thing on Lemmy

I was a bot hunter on reddit and was asked to mod /r/kittengifs because of my ability to find them. There were like 5 legitimate posts in 6 months

You’re correct; this isn’t news. He’s trying to cash in (same with Mary Trump), and the news outlets are too. Anything with trump in the headline generates clicks/ad revenue, so they’ll run anything regardless of its actual news value. We should all be downvoting these articles and otherwise discouraging people from posting shit like this

Haven’t read the article yet, but that’s a banger of a headline. Looking forward to reading some legit journalism

Yeah, I was astonished to not have found Metallica’s S&M as the top result here

Not that I believe this is the case AT ALL, but to further this line of thought:

If he was dropping out, it would be because he’s already got the party machine going on a new (guaranteed) nominee who would have already promised to pardon trump (and this promise would be assured by some damning fact trump could use as an assurance)

I offered to do the same and was literally scoffed at, then reprimanded for my audacity. It was a really fucking shitty experience.

While true, it definitely depends on your particular TSA team. I have flown multiple times with firearms within the US, and normally TSA follows their own rules pretty well. However, I have had TSA DEMAND my key so they could open the case outside of my presence. When I protested and gave them the handout of their own procedures, the guy said “you can give me the key, or you don’t get on your flight.”