thx, i hope this glorious Thanks Giving Day finds you in better health
Posted on 10/29/2016 5:55:46 AM PDT by lowbridge
Reddit users (also known as redditors) are growing increasingly angry at pro-Hillary Clinton political action committee (PAC) Correct The Record over its efforts to promote a pro-Hillary narrative on the site.
Redditors are especially concerned that Correct The Record’s paid internet commenters are suppressing revelations from WikiLeaks’ release of Clinton campaign chair John Podesta’s emails, which have produced a flood of damaging revelations about the Clinton campaign.
Reddit, which describes itself as “a source for what’s new and popular on the web” is divided into thousands of “subreddits,” which the site describes as “sub-communities, each focused on a specific topic.”
Whether or not a post does well on Reddit (and, consequently, how large of an audience it reaches) largely depends on how many “upvotes” and “downvotes” it receives.
Correct The Record is open about its efforts to combat “lies and misleading narratives about Secretary Hillary Clinton” on Reddit, to which it devoted one million dollars.
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One community where Correct The Record appears to be unpopular is the subreddit /r/WikiLeaks, which has more than 60,000 subscribers and is devoted to WikiLeaks-related news and topics.
“It looks like CTR is out in force and getting smarter. Don’t waste your time arguing, just dig!” one user posted on /r/WikiLeaks Wednesday, adding: “Don’t let them eat up your time. Get to work digging or spreading. They’re wasting cash on man hours, don’t let them eat up yours.”
The PAC is similarly unpopular on the subreddit /r/DNCLeaks, which was originally devoted to crowdsourcing findings from WikiLeaks’ release of emails from the Democratic National Committee but has since been repurposed to crowdsourcing revelations from the Podesta emails.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
'Centipede' is a term used in The_Donald subreddit by Donald Trump supporters to refer favorably to themselves. The term is unrelated to the Human Centipede from Cartoon Network's Southpark television show.
Instead, the term 'centipede' comes from Volume 4 of a YouTube series called "You Can't Stump the Trump".
The video begins with the audio track of a nature documentary describing the centipede as a 'nimble navigator' with two curved fangs that can inject venom into its prey. The video consists of Donald Trump comebacks, put-downs, and similar comments made during debates and speeches, interspersed with old memes (you try to describe it). Few paid attention until Trump re-tweeted the video.
At that point, Reddit paid attention. Trump became a centipede to his Reddit supporters, who also called themselves centipedes, able to nimbly navigate and inject venom into their prey.
The centipede theme continued in many of the following volumes of You Can't Stump the Trump.
I wasn't there, but I find the history of inside jokes and repetitive phrases on Reddit interesting.
Thanks for the background. Even if you don’t know the exact meaning of certain terms, you can still, via the context, figure it out generally. I was enjoying the threads a lot (funny, funny bunch), but now I’ll REALLY enjoy them since I’ll have a more precise idea of what various terms/phrases mean. :-)
I like reading the emails at reddit. They do the work. Post the most important ones. Zerohedge does good too. Not as good as reddit though.
interesting... also the human centipede was a movie/sequel, i didn’t know the boys did an episode too, i’ll have to look for it
About four seasons ago on SouthPark, they did a episode on centipedes and their effect on society.
*Ping* to this thread .....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3490146/posts
Looks like there is a connection to the Egyptian god after all! :-)
Or, since the admins pulled that thread (based on its stupidity), maybe not...
Darn .... but I do still have the WordPress link .... KEK! :-)
I found the information on Reddit, Trump, and Centipede by an internet search using those words and perhaps a couple of others. You can search for something found on Reddit with a little digging. I found the Reddit post from the search, which contained a link to the video.
thx, i hope this glorious Thanks Giving Day finds you in better health
Thank you. I hope you and all you love have had a blessed day of Thanksgiving.
thx... we all have a lot to be thankful for this year may God Bless
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