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12 Jan, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Birds of a feather: Parler is migrating its web hosting platform to the same company that's hosting Gab.

Will they fix their horrible security? washingtonexaminer.com/news/parler-fi…
And btw, it's not widely known but Gab has been able to evade app store bans by re-basing its software on the open source social media software Mastodon. Very clever trick and it makes you wonder if Parler would do the same.

I'm guessing they will merge together somehow.
On the other hand, conservative elites all hate each other so working together is often not something they like doing. Gab's management is Christianist whereas Parler seems to just want right-wing donor cash.

So I guess we'll see.
Here's some info on what Gab did by adopting the Mastodon framework. It happened in the summer of 2019 theverge.com/2019/7/12/2069…
Mastodon allows you to build your own social network & "federate" it with others. At the very least, both sites could federate to share users and content, if they were both on Mastodon.

Gab brings neo-Nazis & Parler brings deluded Trumpists. Hugs and gunshots ensue.

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13 Jan
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As I've watched the impeachment rants of Rep. Louie Gohmert, Rep. Andy Biggs, and Rep. Matt Gaetz, LBJ's 1964 "Daisy" ad warning about the far right has been playing non-stop in my mind.

It was a prophecy that Republicans made come true:
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Some can never escape, others can. Community and accountability is what we need.
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12 Jan
Thread: Meaning and loss in American conservatism

I've written a lot about how Christian supremacism (expressed and implicit) is the underlying objective of most Trump supporters but the psychology of American conservatism is very important in its descent into madness.
We're seeing it manifested heavily in the present moment as Trump and his followers are forced to contemplate the loss of the presidency but it's important to realize that losing is the psychic core of the U.S. right.
Trump's repugnant demeanor and prior history of political moderation is what made him so reviled by conservative activists and donors in 2015 but his angry victim complex so deeply resonated with the GOP base that this is why he won the primary.
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11 Jan
Ali Alexander, lead organizer of the "Stop the Steal" coup 3 GOP congressmen worked w/him: @RepGosar,
@RepMoBrooks, and @RepAndyBiggsAZ

"We four schemed up putting maximum pressure on congress while they were voting..."

@SpeakerPelosi?

All three of these Republican members of Congress are close allies of WH chief of staff Mark Meadows, their former leader in the extremist Freedom Caucus.

America must know: What did Meadows and others in the Trump WH know about the insurrection beforehand?
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11 Jan
This Parler user explains it quite well here. Because of yet more security flaws at Parler, it's now possible for all that "free speech" to be shared and archived with the world, even if the posters tried to erase their not-at-all innocent videos and GPS data.
In slightly more technical terms, it seems as though Parler never closed some of their developer-friendly security holes (sort of the programming equivalent of game cheat codes made by devs) and as a result, their anyone with the right knowledge could have admin access.
Parler never actually deleted anything its users posted. And, stupidly, they also kept it accessible to admin users.

This meant that anyone with admin access could still download it.
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As they sought to break into the inner rooms of the Capitol building Jan. 6, Trump terrorists were recorded screaming "Hang Mike Pence."

This video appears to be a validation of @jimbourg's earlier report.
It's now apparent who the terrorists intended the gallows for that they constructed before going into the Capitol.
Meanwhile, inside the White House, Trump is privately regretting condemning the violence he had incited against Vice President Pence.

As per usual, teleprompter Trump said the right thing while the real Trump was busy looking out for "very fine people." nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/…
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