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Just now, conVINCEd said:

That thing is not human.

Yeah, I was waiting for him to bend his legs backward, jump into the sky to his awaiting spaceship, and say some shit, "You tell Charlie Sheen we're coming for him.  We're coming for him.  And hell's coming with us!"  

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3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

This was published the last week of October; seems that a lot of influential conservative voices sign up...and just quit using Parler:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/parler-was-pitched-as-a-conservative-twitter-its-now-a-depository-for-hunter-biden-political-porn

 

 

 

 

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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a Trumpworld star, joined Parler in June amid conservative discontent with Twitter. But he hasn’t posted on Parler since Aug. 28. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), who declared that Parler would help “end the Silicon Valley censorship” in June, hasn’t posted on the site in nearly two weeks.

Plenty of bold-faced names on the right, including Fox News host Sean Hannity and Reps. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) still do post regularly on Parler. And the site continues to attract new users. The Parler app ranked 10th in the Apple App Store on Tuesday.

But it’s hard not to see the failure of a mass movement of high-profile users to materialize as a lost opportunity for the site. Having actively tried to build itself as a free speech-loving social media mecca, Parler has instead been used as a dumping ground for some of the most lurid material the internet has to offer. With conservatives once more insistent—this time at the close of the election—that Twitter is biased against them, Parler is no longer talked about as a utopic alternative. Instead, it’s the place where people are currently swapping lewd pictures that are purportedly of Hunter Biden.

The potential problems with widespread conservative adoption of Parler were obvious even in the heady days of June, when Trump supporters were claiming the site could replace Twitter. The site was dogged by questions about its restrictive terms of service agreement, which Parler eventually changed. Before he was fired from the Trump campaign and tackled by police in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, then-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale spent much of his time on the site complaining about its lack of features, like an inability to repost comments and a requirement that people be logged into Parler before reading posts on the site.

As A-list internet conservatives lost interest in Parler, the site became a haven for conspiracy theorists. On Tuesday, a list of suggested topics on Parler included “#Pizzagate,” the conspiracy theory that has inspired two violent attacks on a Washington pizzeria. Promoters of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which imagines Donald Trump violently purging his enemies in the Democratic Party, have flocked to the site.

When the election season hit its stretch run and conservative media began pushing lewd and potentially incriminating emails from Hunter Biden, Parler became a natural repository for those doing the pushing.

GNews, a Chinese-language website tied to billionaire Chinese dissident and Steve Bannon patron Guo Wengui, has posted the images for days. But they’ve struggled to get traction with the major social media outlets, with Twitter automatically issuing temporary suspensions for accounts that link to some GNews stories, citing rules against revenge porn. So GNews urged its fans to take the images to Parler.

“Fellow fighters are switching to new battlefield (sic) of platforms like Parler and Gab,” a Tuesday article on GNews read.

The posting of the images would seem to violate Parler CEO John Matze’s insistance—back in June—that Parler’s rules included a ban on pornography of all kinds. But the lewd images, some of which depict explicit sex acts, have flourished on the site. One GNews staffer closely tied to the pictures has amassed more than 60,000 followers there, while another account devoted to posting the pictures has 12,000 followers.

Matze didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Beyond some inconsistency in the rules, though, Parler may face larger issues. After November growing its user base may prove harder when some of its most famous members appear to quickly grow bored with the site.

Trump ally Tom Fitton, the head of pro-Trump group Judicial Watch, had joined Parler in June, declaring that the site was “trying to draw a line against leftist censorship.” But Fitton posted on Parler just five times in October.

By comparison, Fitton tweeted 18 times on Tuesday alone.

 

Definitely I could see that--the stuff that I saw was out there in the realm of make-believe. Two things though: a) Marjorie Greenwood, the new Q Congresswoman seems to feel right at home there and just adds it to all of her other social media and b) if more tweets keep getting flagged, the people that want the make believe may stick with it.

The issue at the moment is that Parler isn't very responsive to any complaints by people trying to use it. I've dug around on there, and it just isn't as slick as Twitter.

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I firmly believe that, one day, Trump will grow tired of people he has absolutely no desire to associate with continuing to follow him around, and will snap on Twitter, "I'm an atheist you fucking morons."

(After he's bled them dry of money, of course)

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23 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

They're all creating a new bubble at Parler. Dana Loesch, all of the regulars. I don't think exchanging one platform for another to continue the lies is where America needs to be heading.

Yeah, since my sister became brainwashed I’ve been following a few of the Q/alt right accounts just to try to understand their world. Instagram has been nuking accounts lately so they are falling back to Parler. Don’t think they get a fraction of their former viewership over there so they keep crawling back to big tech. 

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17 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Just drove through Burnet a little while ago. This crew was out....take it all in, every fun little piece:

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The poster boards are something about “cheating democrats.”

I call this composition “Hell’s Bealls.”

Saw similar situation heading out to the lease yesterday. Fewer Trumpy flags but lots of dipshittery. 

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Some political revolution reboots begin in Bavarian beer halls.  Others begin in the Bealls "For the Husky, but Discerning Woman" section.  

To each their own I suppose. 

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3 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

The majority of the big fracking counties in PA have a blue arrow 

Fracking in Appalachia is nothing like fracking in the oil patch.  They thought fracking was going to be coal 2.0 and did a lot of speculative building of warehouses and lodging and stocked supplies and heavy equipment.  Then found out experienced oil patch crews would roll in with a couple dozen guys or so, and their RVs, and have all the supplies shipped to them from the oil patch and be gone weeks later. Plus very few still owned the mineral rights to get royalties.

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16 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

If he’s really terrified of going to prison, I would offer exile.

Would you approve this deal?   Give Trump and his family a free pass out of this country with no jail time IF they turn states evidence on McConnell, Graham, Cruz, Cornyn and all the others they seem to hold kompromat on.   

5 hours ago, elfenix said:

^^ (resp. to jimmyjazz) it's like everything they say is a lie designed to get you to ignore the increasing wealth disparity that has been ongoing in this country for the last 45 years
 

I definitely agree with this.  All the other issues that tear our country apart are simple smokescreens for continuing to fuel the  wealth and power disparity.   It boils down to greed.   I got mine, fuck you.  And as long that mindset continues (at all layers of our country), we are fucked.  

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2 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

 

Would you approve this deal?   Give Trump and his family a free pass out of this country with no jail time IF they turn states evidence on McConnell, Graham, Cruz, Cornyn and all the others they seem to hold kompromat on.    

No.  I wasn’t ralking about a country of their choosing.  I meant an island in the middle of fucking nowhere with no communication infrastructure, guarded by the military, no one enters or leaves.  Airdrop food and water once a month.

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

Just drove through Burnet a little while ago. This crew was out....take it all in, every fun little piece:

90f4681f982dbeeca0ebbfb5d42ffc28.jpg

The poster boards are something about “cheating democrats.”

I call this composition “Hell’s Bealls.”

What, Bealls is still in business? 

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12 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Yep.  They comped at least that much in addition.  People were having a hell of a time.  

I was super close to cleaning the restaurant out of Ace of Spades last night but I pulled back at the brink. Just sober enough

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Bolsonaro deve tomar no cu.

Also, as we walked from DKR back to the parking lot on Saturday, a guy flying 3 Trump flags on his truck was driving down MLK holding his horn down. Not honking, just one continuous sound. Everyone was looking at him confused and/or laughing. This was roughly 5 hours after the election had been called.

So sad.

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36 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

Fracking in Appalachia is nothing like fracking in the oil patch.  They thought fracking was going to be coal 2.0 and did a lot of speculative building of warehouses and lodging and stocked supplies and heavy equipment.  Then found out experienced oil patch crews would roll in with a couple dozen guys or so, and their RVs, and have all the supplies shipped to them from the oil patch and be gone weeks later. Plus very few still owned the mineral rights to get royalties.

Good point.  Only spent a few days here and there over the last several years in that production region.  But it did seem like they were building for something bigger that may never come.  I think somebody sold them on not just the capital and infrastructure and peripheral jobs, but that there would be massive retraining of the local populations to be able to work those jobs for years.  But the economic play was rather simple, "Uh, take six months to get the guys clean, another six months to train them, another twelve months to completion.  Or just bring in an outside quick-strike crew and just be done inside 9 months total."  

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