No, republic just means that the role of head of state isn't hereditary. Lots of dictatorships are republics, some democracies are as well. The actual political system of the USA is representative democracy (in theory at least).
The fact that these terms are so muddled in the minds of the average American is completely deliberate, because it makes it so much easier for them to subvert US democracy when people have been told that the US is not one.
I’m pretty sure he has a dedicated lawyer checking his statements for gag order violations and if the lawyer can’t directly say if it’s a gag order he goes ahead with it.
I don't share your certainty on that at all. Trump doesn't exactly employ the most qualified lawyers anymore, especially since he has a long history of not paying them and being complicit in sending them to jail. Also he would never let a lawyer hinder his impulse shitposting.
They would be a joke if they weren't such a serious threat.
It isn't necessarily wrong, it's just two different metrics meant to measure two different concepts.
Don’t worry we’re in the process of defederating from you.
The only good thing I have ever heard coming from hexbear.
Tankie trolls. The equivalent of The_Donald in behaviour and toxicity, with an MO of deliberate brigading and trolling, especially on smaller instances.
They are a net negative to the entire concept of lemmy.
views that we disagree with
a few bad actors
Please stop with all those disingenous takes. OP makes it quite clear that it was not based on differences in viewpoint but toxic and trolling behaviour. And it is not "a few bad actors" from that instance behaving in such a way, it is everyone, since that is their publicly stated main purpose for existing.
Seems like this community is now living rent free in their heads.
They most definitely are tankies. That is their cardinal trait.
I guess he needs to go back to his crypt and cast another necromancing spell.
He doesn't though. It is all culture war posturing: