It looks like Parler is going down the same road that Gab has already followed thus asking the question, what's the point of Parler?John wrote: ↑Mon Jan 11, 2021 11:40 am** 11-Jan-2021 World View: How will this end?
Will the Democrats' use of the genocidal playbook lead to actual
genocide and ethnic cleansing? No. For that they would at least need
backing from the army, which obviously they don't have.
In fact, what the Democrats are doing is so completely bizarre and
outrageous, and so un-American, that it can't possibly last long.
Still, how is this going to end?
First, Donald Trump and his 75 million supporters are not dead and
buried. Trump says that he has some major announcement coming. We'll
see what he says.
Second, parler is not dead and buried. The Democrats have gotten
parler offline for now, but parler has enough support to build its own
datacenter and cloud to replace Amazon's AWS, and it will be online
again.
In fact, if I were a business using Amazon's AWS, then I would look at
this situation in horror, knowing that Amazon could shut me down at
any time for any foolish reason. No one believes that shutting down
parler had anything to do with violence. It had everything to do with
eliminating a competitor to twitter. If they can come after parler,
they can come after anyone.
Furthermore, Twitter, Google and Facebook made huge amounts of money
because of Trump in the last few years because of Trump. With Trump
gone, and with their contemptuous treatment of Trump supporters,
they're going to lose a lot of money.
But, no worry, the execs will be ok. Many of them are taking jobs in
the Biden administration.
It's quite possible that Parler will come back with a vengeance and
become a major business threat to Twitter. If not Parler, then
another service. This is what always happens.
By the way, another conservative social media service, Gab.com, has
signed up millions of new users in the last few days. If you access
the site, the reason that it's slow is because it's being overwhelmed
by new users.
Third, and this is how it will really end.
As I've been saying for years, there will be a global financial crisis
and third world war with China, and this will unify the country, and
end all political divisiveness.
I agree that Twitter is likely to see declines since it's a stupid idea anyways. Trump boosted Twitter for years and if the leadership there had any sense they would make exceptions to every rule to keep him on it. But they've finally terminally snowflaked. I have a vengeful hope that Twitter will go bankrupt and every woke a-hole at the company have to get a new career selling each other overpriced, mediocre coffee.
To your list of incipient losers I would add the major news companies. Without a constant drip of Trump Outrage! how will they get eyeballs looking at their sites or watching their shows? I expect to see big viewership drops at CNN and MSNBC as well as ABC/CBS/NBC. The same will likely carry over to Fox since there is a lot of conservative anger at it and Murdoch's idiot sons are more interested in getting invited to the fashionable parties than providing an alternate news provider for conservatives.