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AZJonnie

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9. So, the quoted article is from 2016. Thank you!

Reply to chowder66 (Reply #8)

Sun Feb 15, 2026, 12:55 PM

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In a nutshell, the tweet is clickbait featuring exaggerations extrapolated from much less incriminating core facts.

I'm shocked to hear of that happening in the establishment (formerly, loosely) known as the Twitterverse.

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