From tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors:
To be called ‘Parler’
The Mercers seem to have enough money to burn, so why not tax them. But I digest…
I’m old enough to remember Reaganbook, which was the Right’s answer to the CENSORSHIP!!1! they felt that Facebook was showing them when it didn’t let them promote Nazi merde. It was a simpler time, before they realized that Faceberg hisself was one of their greatest enablers. Reaganbook, as I recall, didn’t do too well as I recall.
Also, anyone else recall ConservapediaYou know, the Right’s attempt to challenge Wikipedia because actual facts were too damn liberal.
The Right tries to create an online alternate reality to mimic the success they’ve had with Fox News, but the web is more porous than the walled gardens of cable teevee. I suspect Parler eventually will suffer the same fate, and in fact each time one of ’em announces that they are leaving Twitter forever to go to Parler, they almost always show up the next day on Twitter, begging people to go there. Twitter is like the restaurant that no one goes to because it’s too crowded. (H/T Yogi Berra)