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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,085 posts)
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:22 PM Nov 2020

On Parler, MAGA's post-election world view blossoms with no pushback

Since the election, President Donald Trump and his allies have faced fact-checks, condemnation and restrictions when trying to spread inconclusive evidence of voter fraud and leftist violence on social media.

But over on Parler, there’s a new, millions-strong MAGA universe where conservatives are freely spreading these claims and reinforcing their belief that Democrats have stolen the election from Trump.

Hashtags on Parler denoting Trump’s favorite conspiracy theories — #Dominion, #Sharpiegate, #QAnon — trend freely, without the restrictions Twitter and Facebook have instituted to suppress them. Stories from fringe sites pushing baseless allegations of voter fraud are not flagged as disinformation, as they often are elsewhere. Videos from the Million MAGA March depicting heated confrontations between MAGA supporters, counter-protesters and D.C. police are shared as evidence of rampant antifa violence, omitting necessary context that would show otherwise.

The set-up gives MAGA conservatives an easy way to simply dismiss the post-election beliefs of the public at large, the widely accepted reports in mainstream news outlets and the word of experts and even some government officials. There is now a robust, consequence-free echo chamber for them that confirms a worldview in which a rigged election system falsely gave Biden a victory, and leftist thugs are taking to the streets to ensure the outcome isn’t overturned. And with over 4 million new downloads since Election Day — nearly doubling the site’s user base — that echo chamber is expanding rapidly.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/on-parler-magas-post-election-world-view-blossoms-with-no-pushback/ar-BB1bfEpT?li=BBnb7Kz

Basically it's a right wing circle jerk.

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On Parler, MAGA's post-election world view blossoms with no pushback (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
We need the TikTok kids to invade Parler jmbar2 Nov 2020 #1
Shhh. I think they're already in place. C_U_L8R Nov 2020 #10
I wonder what their policy will be when liberals log on to counter Merlot Nov 2020 #2
Of course they will Leith Nov 2020 #4
Let's leave 'em be. Let 'em test out "Galt's Gulch." Grokenstein Nov 2020 #3
This!! They have to have somebody to hate..let's just stay out their way Thekaspervote Nov 2020 #15
So, there are now three? Conservative Cave and Free Republic? Three sewers of the web? NRaleighLiberal Nov 2020 #5
There's also Lucianne Goldberg's forum. kskiska Nov 2020 #16
This clown got so mad at Facebook "censorship" he recommended three: Grokenstein Nov 2020 #18
I'm sure the FBI is happy they are all in one place pretty much SheltieLover Nov 2020 #6
I am resisting the urge to wade into that particular shallow water kiddie pool..... concretebluetwo Nov 2020 #7
Totally agree. Arne Nov 2020 #9
It is tempting to go in and stir the pot judeling Nov 2020 #12
The Kraken was stillborn Gothmog Nov 2020 #8
But there is pushback! beastie boy Nov 2020 #11
The two days that BLM invaded were pure gold soothsayer Nov 2020 #13
You know ismnotwasm Nov 2020 #14
The trump legal team disavowed Sidney Powell Gothmog Nov 2020 #17
they'll get bored with it BlueNProud Nov 2020 #19
Anyone else created an account there? zackymilly Nov 2020 #20
The ultimate safety-zone for easily triggered snowflakes. No more and no less. LanternWaste Nov 2020 #21

jmbar2

(4,832 posts)
1. We need the TikTok kids to invade Parler
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:25 PM
Nov 2020

And flood it with so much hogwash that the MAGAts won't know which lies to believe.

C_U_L8R

(44,894 posts)
10. Shhh. I think they're already in place.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:58 PM
Nov 2020

Poor magats don't know what and who's real. It's just a cesspool of disinfo from every direction.

Merlot

(9,696 posts)
2. I wonder what their policy will be when liberals log on to counter
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:28 PM
Nov 2020

Will they call that "disinformation?" Will they simply delete any opinions they don't like?

Stay tuned, my guess is there will soon be opposition joining.

Leith

(7,802 posts)
4. Of course they will
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:33 PM
Nov 2020

That lesson was learned when Discussionist was still up and running. They claim to love free speech, then they swarm like murder hornets and shut down all dissenting opinions, then they continue proclaiming their love for free speech.

Typical fascist behavior.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
3. Let's leave 'em be. Let 'em test out "Galt's Gulch."
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:32 PM
Nov 2020

Without liberals to fight, these paranoiacs will turn on each other in no time if they aren't doing so already. Just let MMFA, SPLC and the FBI quietly monitor and record their self-destruction.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
18. This clown got so mad at Facebook "censorship" he recommended three:
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 06:46 PM
Nov 2020
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/opinion/columnists/hello-facebook-or-is-it-goodbye/article_248cc67c-2897-11eb-959b-f71a5bdff725.html

Keep doing what you are doing and the mass exodus of customers to other sites like Gab, Parler and MeWe will continue unabated. I’ll be one of them.


This is the last line in a huge pile of whiny arglebargle because Facebook is making him moderate his group for disinformation campaigns bew hew hewwwww. (Surprise! He's an ex-politician and active rightwanker and lying is one of his favorite hobbies!!) I'm sure he didn't mean to promote sites that cater to the alt-right...he just wuvs fwee speech sooooo much (when it's used by the "right" people of course).



concretebluetwo

(114 posts)
7. I am resisting the urge to wade into that particular shallow water kiddie pool.....
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:44 PM
Nov 2020

Let them have their safe space echo chamber. What can be done, and what should have been done years ago with AM Radio and Fox "News" Entertainment, when the cultists emerge into the real world trying to introduce issues/viewpoints/bullshit from their safe space, is universal scorn, derision, mocking, and ultimately shunning.
It is my firm belief that if this had happened the first time Newt Gingrich went on Meet the Press and castigated Bill Clinton for having an affair, we would not be experiencing the situation we currently find ourselves in.

Arne

(1,968 posts)
9. Totally agree.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:51 PM
Nov 2020

I was going to go in but they needed a cell number
for activation and I don't have a burner handy.

judeling

(1,086 posts)
12. It is tempting to go in and stir the pot
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:12 PM
Nov 2020

But I'll restrain myself.

I mean isn't Loffler's husband the chairman of the Stock Exchange and would have to be at least an agent of the deep state?

Gothmog

(143,999 posts)
8. The Kraken was stillborn
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:50 PM
Nov 2020

The concpet tht Powell has a kraken to be unleashed is silly. Accordting to the RWNJ trump supporters, an idiot and bad attorney named Sidney Powell (Michael Flynn's current attorney) has a massive amount evidence that she calls the Kraken that will be released. According to the low IQ RWNJ, the Kraken will give trump a second term with a 100 milion votes.




While appearing on Fox News, Steel was asked about claims made by Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell, who has promised a “biblical” lawsuit to challenge the outcome of the 2020 election. She has suggested that Dominion officials bribed elected Republicans in the state of Georgia in a conspiracy to make Joe Biden president.

“No, this is a non-partisan American company,” Steel told Fox News host Eric Shawn on Sunday. “It is not physically possible for our machines to switch votes from one candidate to the other.”

“There is no way such a massive fraud could have taken place,” he said. “And there are no connections between our company and Venezuela, Germany, Barcelona, Katmandu — whatever the latest conspiracy theory is.”

The Dominion official went on to explain that electronic vote tallies can be audited with a paper trail.

“If any electronic interference had taken place, the tally reportedly electronically would not match the printed ballots,” Steel said. “And in every case where we’ve looked at — in Georgia, all across the country — the printed ballots, the gold standard in election security, has matched the electronic tally.”

beastie boy

(9,060 posts)
11. But there is pushback!
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:07 PM
Nov 2020

And the pushback is as endemic to social media as one can imagine: trolling.

https://www.newsweek.com/parler-app-twitter-users-memebers-1519087

Parler is a farce. A currently trending farce, but a farce nevertheless. It is not sustainable, and cannot function as a free speech outlet, as they claim to be, lest they open themselves to ridicule. The whole premise of Parler is rotten at its core: their idea of free speech is limited to freedom to spread baseless conspiracy theories. Conspiracies, in turn are a fertile ground for ridicule and mockery. Parler a self-defeating proposition, unless they become a closed self-defining universe of losers and whiners. And there is plenty of rivals out there from a myriad of outlets catering to losers and whiners, none being taken seriously by anyone other than the aforementioned losers and whiners.

ismnotwasm

(41,921 posts)
14. You know
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 03:20 PM
Nov 2020

It’s not worth it, but there is way more pushback than I thought. They’re gonna have to start kicking people out to keep it “conservative” in a year or so.

zackymilly

(2,375 posts)
20. Anyone else created an account there?
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 07:01 PM
Nov 2020

I created one. Email, name, password, phone# required. When I sign in, I have to input a captcha line to show "I'm not a robot". Then, the site calls my phone# and gives me a 6-digit code to enter so I can log in. EVERY TIME I LOG IN I GET A PHONE CALL WITH A CODE I HAVE TO ENTER.
I logged in 3 times, and got a call every freaking time. I don't know if this is just me, or the way the site works.
I'm not going to keep my computer logged in to their site 24/7 just for curiosity.
I won't be using it anymore.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
21. The ultimate safety-zone for easily triggered snowflakes. No more and no less.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 07:04 PM
Nov 2020

Which I would call the height of irony, but then again, the past four years have been nothing but a series of Onion articles pretending to be a president.

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