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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Parler feels like a Trump rally' -- and MAGA world says that's a problem
PoliticoRepublican lawmakers and President Donald Trumps high-profile Fox News allies are flocking to Parler, the purported unbiased alternative to Twitter and the MAGA internet isnt crazy about it.
Over the past few weeks, spurred by Twitters attempts to moderate Trumps tweets, Reddits decision to ban a massive pro-Trump subreddit, and the bans coming down on figures like meme creator Logan Carpe Donktum Cook, several high-profile conservatives and Trump allies have created accounts on Parler, assured that they can basically say whatever they would like without being booted off the platform. Even better, they were joining a large community of MAGA influencers who have been on Parler since its launch in December 2018, from the mainstream Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens, for instance to the fringe figures whod been banned from Twitter, such as Jacob Wohl, Laura Loomer and Milo Yiannopoulos.
But to these early adopters many of whom still have their social media accounts on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook, with massive followings on each the sudden presence of GOP figures has caused concern that the social media platform may just become a right-wing version of the safe space culture they widely mock, with plenty of MAGA stars but few big names from across the ideological spectrum.
The MAGAfication problem is so bad that CEO and founder John Matze has openly begged progressive pundits to join the platform, offering a progressive bounty of $20,000 to any left-wing influencer with a following of 50,000 or more users on Twitter who makes an account. And with even establishment conservatives like Sens. Lindsey Graham and Mitt Romney eschewing Parler for now, Trump supporters worry that Parlers influencers will be preaching to a MAGA choir forever.
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'Parler feels like a Trump rally' -- and MAGA world says that's a problem (Original Post)
brooklynite
Jul 2020
OP
WOMP WOMP Parler and Conservatwats and Dump et al. Tots and Pears, assholes.
CurtEastPoint
Jul 2020
#1
Same thing happened to Gab, which today has devolved into a mouthpiece for Stormfront
Tarc
Jul 2020
#4
Obviously it's going to be a right-wing only platform soon enough. Sorry Parler but no
lettucebe
Jul 2020
#7
"Parler" is FRENCH for "to talk". Want some Freedom Fries with that?
Bernardo de La Paz
Jul 2020
#10
CurtEastPoint
(18,685 posts)1. WOMP WOMP Parler and Conservatwats and Dump et al. Tots and Pears, assholes.
LakeArenal
(28,889 posts)2. Works for me. No advertising should sink them.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)3. IOW they can smell their own shit
And they don't enjoy stewing in it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)9. Main reason they don't like masks
They smell their own swill they spew.
Tarc
(10,478 posts)4. Same thing happened to Gab, which today has devolved into a mouthpiece for Stormfront
Thoughts & Prayers, motherfuckers.
catrose
(5,079 posts)5. $20K isn't nearly enough to put up with all MAGA, all the time
I hope they do all go over there, but I can't see the motivation for any non-MAGAt to do so, even with $20K.
kimbutgar
(21,285 posts)6. It would be awful if something happened to the company hosting that site !
lettucebe
(2,337 posts)7. Obviously it's going to be a right-wing only platform soon enough. Sorry Parler but no
It's a really dumb name too. Parler? What the actual heck?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,075 posts)10. "Parler" is FRENCH for "to talk". Want some Freedom Fries with that?
ProfessorGAC
(65,427 posts)8. And, The Downside?
Not seeing one!